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We need your help here!!! We know that lots of bands did a version of "You
Must Be A Witch" and other Dead Moon/Fred Cole songs. There is of course the Dead Moon tribute comp (order your copy today!), see the track list of that great effort on Last Chance Records... but it didn't start there! Like years and years ago De Effenaar (a club in Eindhoven, Holland) organized a "Dead
Moon contest", for bands to play their favourite Dead Moon song. The three
bands that made it to the finals formed a very special 'support act' for a Dead
Moon show and of course Fred, Toody and Andrew had to decide who was the
winner... Can't remember who that was actually, but it was fun, especially the
band De Bossen , from
Antwerp, Belgium - who are known to play "Dagger Moon" regularly. They also
opened for Dead Moon at the 10th Anniversary Bash in Haarlem, Oct 7th 1997,
toured with them, and have a song that refers to them (see below), they are on the Dead Moon tribute comp of course... check them
out!
Bottom line here: please let us know if you find a version of any Fred Cole song on
any 7", LP, CD or whatever!
THE
FUZZTONES: "You Must Be A Witch" (b-side of re-recorded version of
"Nine Months Later", 7" and 12", Situation Two Records SIT
61 and SIT61T.)
The b-side of their 1998 "One Girl Man" single also has a version of "You Must Be A Witch" on it: a whole new recording, although from the same 'old' Fuzztones line up as the above, who apparently are back on board again. Peculiar! (Sundazed Records SEP139)
THE
DROOGS: "You Must Be A Witch" (on "Heads Examined" 12",
Plug 'n Socket Records 006+101/Closer Records CL007, re-released on "Anthology"
CD (not on the LP version), Music Maniac MMCD005.)
THE NOMADS: "Graveyard" (b-side of "Pack
Of Lies" 7", Estrus ES7104) By the way: on the sleeve photo inside the
Nomads CD "Powerstrip", their (now ex-) drummer Ed is wearing a cool
self-made Dead Moon shirt...!
THE MONO MEN: "You
Must Be A Witch" (b-side of "Monster" 7", Man's Ruin
Records MR 013)
THE MONO
MEN: "54/40 Or Fight" (on "10 Cool Ones" LP/CD, Scat
Records, SCAT54)
LINK
WRAY: in a bass solo in "Born To Be Wild", Link's bassplayer Eric
'Danno' Geevers (who happens to be the maniac maintaining these pages) proudly quotes the
opening riff from "Walking On My Grave". (CD "Walking Down A
Street Called Love", Visionary Records VICD 010)
JOLLY JUMPERS: band
from Finland; do "Dagger Moon" on their album "Rurality"
released by Gaga Goodies in 1993 (thanks Jude for the information - and this version is definitely Fred Cole-approved!).
THE
CYNICS: "You Must Be A Witch" (on "Learn to Lose" album, Get
Hip records, GH1008)
THE PHILISTEINS: "You Must Be A Witch" - this
Australian band released their version on their mini-album "Bloody Convicts"
(Cynics and Philisteins info supplied by Marko - thanks!)
ANGEL' IN HEAVY
SYRUP: this Japanes all-girl band do Fred's song "Underground Railroad"
on their self-titled 1st cd. It was released in 1991 by Alchemy Records in Japan
and licensed in the US by Subterranean Records (we heard this one from Toody who
tracked down a copy of the album as a birthday present for Fred...) Strange
little record.
CAT POWER (an alias of Chan Marshall, sometimes accompanied
by some friends) does "Johnny's Got A Gun" on a 7" on Undercover
Records (information provided by Amy, thanks!) The catalog number is UNCV003,
it's from 1996, and the EPs title is "Undercover".
ANTIETAM do a
version of "Graveyard" on their much praised "Rope-A-Dope"
album (Homestead
records HMS 218-2)
(Thanks Jim!)
THE BIRDMEN OF ALKATRAZ from Italy did "You Must Be A Witch" on the rather obscure "Exploding Underground Compilation" LP (Direct Hit Records DHLP 1001), brought to you by Kaleidoscope magazine about 10 years ago.
MENSEN do a version of "Clouds Of Dawn" on Hey You 2x7" (Bang! Records, 1999, bang!-3), something I found out through Grunnen Rocks, who also list:
POWDERMONKEYS doing "Destination X" on a split 7" with The Hellacopters (Butcher's Hook, 1999, HOOK 004).
From Gregor in Croatia I got some cool stuff too:
THE SPOONS do "Poor Born" on their "Supervoxin'" CD (NIKA CD 014) - and that's a mighty cool Phantom IV there, too, Suzie!
DICKY B. HARDY do "Black September" on their '95 CD "Why Aren't You Screaming" (FV Music 004, and hey... it was recorded in Holland - at Klank Studio! Great place! Great cafe within crawling distance, too :-)
MINUSI, a now defunct band (whose drummer currently plays in a band with an ex-member of Dicky B. Hardy), did "Clouds of Dawn" on their 1996 demo-CD. (This sounds like I'm an expert on the Croatia/Slovenia garage scene, but hey I'm not - I got the info from Gregor... thanks a lot!)
BABY WOODROSE from Denmark let me know they do Freds "Don't Look Back" on a split 7" with The Defectors (Ewing Records OIL 002). Cool!
Something we hadn't thought of until now:
Bands
can have songs about Dead Moon, too - like the band
LOVE KILLS, who
mailed us - and whose cool-named song "A Shot Of Dead Moon" is
certainly worth a place here. It can be heard on their demo tape "Alive at
Tivoli" along with 8 more "sex punk and roll" songs (as they
describe their music)...
I believe it's now on the set list of The Bips, whose band member Jozzy started a cool Dead Moon photo site under the same title: Shot Of Dead Moon!
DE BOSSEN , mentioned
before, have a song called "Dead Moon Head Coat" which can be found on
a bonus 7" EP free with the vinyl version of their album "The Girl
Collection" (Kinky Star Records KSLP003+KS45000, not sold seperately).
Recommended...
THE KWYET KINGS, an excellent band from Norway, have
released something really extraordinary: a song called Dead Moon Night which is
NOT in a strict sense a Dead Moon cover; the music is written by lead singer
Arne Thelin who uses Dead Moon song titles ONLY as lyrics! Click
here for the actual lyrics, check out
their album "Been Where? Done What?" for the song (Screaming Apple
Records, SCALP120).
And finally there was a Dead Moon cover band...
We mentioned them here before as well. They were called Dagger Moon, hailed from Holland, but after a year or so they split up because they couldn't find the right people... however, before the split, Dagger Moon also made it to the Tribute Comp!
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