red guitars? any good?

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just spotted 2 red guitars lps for 50p. are they any good? who do they sound like? amg not very helpful - they give one of the lps four 1/2 stars but have no review!

― le glinka (glinka), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Fairly lugubrious early '80s Northern indie guitar types with added politics. "Good Technology" was a major indie hit in 1983 and the second single "Fact" wasn't too bad either but I went off them after that. Worth 50p, though.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Steeltown, the one after that, was quite good as well. "Steeltown; Is closing down..." i could sing it... yes, worth 50p. worth quite a bit more if http://www.musicstack.com/search/red+guitars is anything to go by.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

One of Hull's better bands! Worth a spin - get them.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Always quite liked Tales Of the Expected, although I haven't heard it for 10 years, by that album they had mutated and gone a little bit Prefab Sprout-ish. Could be horribly dated now.

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

The fourth single Marimba Jive was a curious indie goes south african thing (pre Paul Simon?) that sounded like it had been dreamt up over a few joints and one of those NME African music compilation tapes that all of us into freeing Nelson Mandela used to listen to.

Agree with Marcello - Good Technology was the highlight (musically anyway - all the lyrics were ponderous) - if a bit of a Television rip off.

― Guy Beckett (guy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

This thread is some bullshit.

This track isn't. http://www.zshare.net/audio/6131155284d6f639/

― Calling from a Balti Hotel (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2009 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Yeah, where's the love for these guys? Get the Peel sessions comp, "Seven Types Of Ambiguity" if possible. The odd guitar tone pulled me in, Kidd's voice kept me fascinated. Whatever happened to him?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 14 September 2009 03:28 (sixteen years ago)

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