6/8/09

The Stairs - Mexican R'n'B

The Stairs were an English rock band formed in Liverpool during the early 1990's by vocalist and bassist Edgar Summertyme, and included Ged Lynn on guitar, Paul Maguire on drums, and Jason Otty on harmonica. Together they released one full-length album and a clutch of ep's and singles. Their influences were Beat music, Blues Rock, Psychedelia, and Garage Rock.
In spring 2008, it was rumoured that The Stairs were on the verge of reforming but when frontman and founding member Edgar Jones was approached, his only response was 'Teradactil Rovers'. It was released in 1992 on Go! Discs in the United Kingdom and, in a shorter format, on London in the United States. The album was issued in the following formats: 12" vinyl LP, cd, and cassette. It is now long-deleted.

2 words on GO Disc label. Go! Discs Records was a Hammersmith, London based record label, launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley Symons. With artists like Billy Bragg, The Housemartins and later The Beautiful South, it became a prominent label. Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for dance artists like Beats International, Gabrielle and Portishead. In 1992 Paul Weller signed for the label.
In 1996 MacDonald resigned when PolyGram acquired a majority stake in the label, and the label folded not too long afterwards. However, Go! Discs' dance offshoot Go! Beat Records, continued and became a unit in the Universal Records group.
Go! Discs had the dubious honour of sponsoring the Fulchester United team, club of Billy the Fish in Viz comic. Various blatant plugs for Go! artists were often spoken by characters in the strip and Fulchester's home ground carried adverts for Go! and various releases from them. Equally dubiously in the late 80s the label employed Essex comedian Phill Jupitus as head of publicity.

2 comments:

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Ann Polla said...

Grazie France.
Un disco alla vecchia.
Bellissimo!!!!