Palace of Swords

Strawberry Wine are delighted to present an evening of Psychedelic Confessions with legendary Primal Scream tambourine player Martin St John. 

Psychedelic Confessions is Martin St John's memoir of his time as Ace Face in the jingle-jangle morning of Primal Scream. Evoking the mid-80s psychedelic punk rock vibe in all its technicolour glory, the show includes a maelstrom of film clips, lights, sounds and readings of far-out tales from the tongues of truth!

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1511210388922792/

Best (by some distance): 

Kitchen Cynics

Seas, Starry

Godzilla Blues

Worst:

Certain mediocre indie bands. (Not naming any names - sorry.) 

This is tonight, folks.

Nice review from the states:

http://mratavist.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/palace-of-swordsseas-starry/

Montibus Communitas. (Palace of Swords' label-mates)

http://youtu.be/oIywcepUtc8

The Liminanas.

http://youtu.be/qQKN1Ye2bVk

We've managed to obtain a few copies of 'The Pastels Are Dead', a fanzine from 1988. Free to the first 10 or so people through the door.

I would say that Aberdeen is actually quite healthy in that regard. There seems to be quite a lot of people putting on their own gigs/club nights, and releasing their own records - which can only be a good thing. 

Thanks Flights.

Here's the disc itself. Clear polycarbonate plastic as opposed to vinyl. A little bit on the lo-fi side, to be honest. It looks great, though.

We've been lucky enough to have had our track 'Echoes From A Distant Star' re-mixed by the wonderful Joe Foster.

Joe is something of a hero of mine, having been a founding member of the legendary Television Personalities. He has also produced The Jesus and Mary Chain, Felt, My Bloody Valentine, The Pastels, and lots of the early Creation stuff.

Anyway, here's a link: http://youtu.be/mIUdVzkmF5A

This week's quota of Strange Fish reviews:

http://www.jerrylucky.com/

http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/various-artists-strange-fish-one-6

http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/strange-fish-vols-1-5

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-barton/strange-fish-volume-iii/634936753207982

Some more reviews:

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/141340-various---strange-fish

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=993063&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+progarchives%2Freviews+%28Reviews+%28all%29+-+Progarchives.com%29

Palace of Swords were also played on BBC Radio 6 Music this week, courtesy of Gideon Coe. Here's a link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036l0cg

Looking forward to hearing this - downloading as we speak.

This is available now (from all good record shops, as they say).

Here's some more reviews:

http://writingaboutmusic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/strange-fish-fruits-de-mer-records.html

http://aboxofdreams.com/music/

http://www.unimeri.com/PsychotropicZone/reviews.en.php?subaction=showfull&id=1371451151&archive&start_from&ucat=3

Here's a few reviews. All very positive so far.

http://mratavist.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/strange-fish/

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_June_13.htm#StrangeFish

http://active-listener.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/strange-fish-1-4-reviewed.html

http://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2013/Various-Artists/Strange-Fish/

The album, which is a vinyl only release, should be available from 17th June. 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strawberry-Wine/219642591474608

Some more extracts:

Palace of Swords will have three new tracks on the album: 'Live at the Aberdeen Witch Trials 1597'; 'Vicus Lemurum', and 'The Temple of Golden Rays'. Here's the full track-listing:

http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com/strangefishthree.html