Big thanks to Jez and Kev for responding to my plea for help a couple of days ago:-
mp3 : Anna – Masonic Youth
I was looking for the song on behalf of S-WC who has been asked to put together music for an upcoming wedding and Anna was the first band that the groom ever saw live back in 1993. It’s a bit rocky and lengthy (nearly nine minutes)….and I don’t think somehow think it will be the bridal waltz. But you never know….
According to info on last fm, Anna were a four piece group from Croydon in London, consisting of Pete Uglow (guitar /vocals), Darren Lynch (guitar), Philip Lynch (bass guitar) and Cormac on drums & percussion which emerged from an earlier band called Electric MotherFucker Brothers who were totally against the then fashionable baggy beats and floppy fringes. Discogs reveals there were four singles and one album between 1992 and 1994, all on either Go! Discs or its offshoot, Free Records.
Talking of S-WC, as many of you know he, together with his sidekick Tim Badger, have a wonderfully entertaining blog called When You Can’t Remember Anything which specialises in featuring one song plucked from random shuffle in i-pods. They’ve got some guest contributors this week, starting with yours truly, and out of more than 25,000 songs available (including around 250 of Mrs VV’s selection which are horrific – e.g. Niki Minaj) I was lucky enough for a classic by The Fall to rumble its way through. Pay a visit to their place and see for yourself.
Another guest ICA tomorrow. I think most of you will enjoy it.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Saw Anna four or five times in a short space of time at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town. They would have been supporting initially then headlining. Shame they didn’t go on to bigger things.
Nothing wrong with Nicki Minaj JC
“Apart from her entire back catalogue, dress sense, political views and muffin recipes there’s nothing wrong with Nicki Minaj JC” – corrected that for you