Train Driver In Eyeliner – Nick Sanderson Revisited – The Earl Brutus Cover Versions

“Looking out the window of a train is the only time I feel really relaxed.” 
Nick Sanderson
Nick Sanderson was a train driver. He wore eyeliner. On April 22nd 2021 he should have been 60 years old.
A lighting conductor of creative disturbance, as frontman of the legendary Earl Brutus, Nick knew all about the strange and inescapable ambiguities of the British condition.
Train Driver in Eyeliner is a Memorial Device that remembers him in all his genius and life-force, a collection of 19 Earl Brutus Greats, specially recorded by friends, family and fanatics including Saint Etienne, the Jesus & Mary Chain’s Jim Reid, Luke Haines’ Surrey Wrecking Crew, plus Nick’s wife and son Romi and Syd, Earl Brutus bandmates and spiritual glam rock peers Giuda.
It’s all available as a limited-edition cassette, a medium that is both retrospective and incredible futuristic – like the life and times of Nick himself.

Cassettes can be pre-ordered (see link) for delivery on Nick’s 60th Birthday, 22nd April 2021.
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All profits for this release will be donated to Cancer Research UK.

The full track listing is as follows:

Dark5 (ft.Syd Sanderson) – Bonjour Monsieur
Jim Reid – Motarola                                                                
Saint Etienne – Midland Red 
Giuda – Life’s Too Long                                                                             
Gurgles – Second Class War                                                                          
Sim Sanderson – Universal Plan 
Quatermass III – Navy Head / England Sandwich 2021
Soft Rock Forever – East
Alien (ft.The Daryl Easley Orchestra) – God, Let Me Be Kind                           
The Million – Come Taste My Mind (ft.Fiona Allen)                                                 DJ Murdadawg – Life’s Too Long (Destructo Mixx)
The Surrey Wrecking Crew (ft.Luke Haines) – On Me Not In Me 
Alan Vega – On Me Not In Me                                                                      
Zach Rowden – Nice Times Are Here Again                                                                
Laudanum – Black Speedway                                                                  
Old Grime White Label – Come Taste My Mind                                            
Leo From Vermont – Curtsy                                    
Sara Ohm – Black Speedway                                                                       
Steve Strongbow The Boy from Japan – Don’t Leave Me Behind Mate

About

Gurgles are a three piece (Bass, Keys, Drums) brother-and-sister plus Bradley Cunningham Bradfordprogpopband. Songwriter and Fender Rhodesman is Augustin Bousfield of Mucky Sailor and ex of Nope. Also promoter of Saltaire’s Pleasure Grounds night, synthpop bon viveur Lord Adonis and writer of TV music

• In the Freakzone’s Best of 2015 on BBC6music
• Multiple plays of tracks from new album on BBC6Music, including on Radcliffe and Maconie
• “I absolutely love that” Mark Radcliffe – Radcliffe and Maconie BBC6Music
• “I absolutely love it, you are going to hear a lot more of this lot. A brilliant album that Iam really enjoying.
  Stuart Maconie – Freak Zone BBC Radio 6 Music October 2015

• Single You Send Me Up was placed at number 8 in the 7”s of the year by Finest Kiss
• Played shows across country including supporting Cantaloupe, Sauna Youth, Snack Family, Barringtone and a Resonance FM session plus plays on WFMU New York amongst others
• NME Bandcrush of the Week by MJ of Hookworms, “Pretty far out, but at the heart of it there’s some really great pop songs” – MJ, Hookworms
• “I absolutely love it, you are going to hear a lot more of this lot. A brilliant album that I’m really enjoying. Reminds me of everything from Seventh Wave to Prefab Sprout and Emerson Lake and Palmer.” – (on ‘Gurglefirst’) Stuart Maconie BBC 6Music
• Gurglefirst? is their first Long Player
  The album was lovingly recorded by MJ from Hookworms and features artwork of the destruction of Shipley Clock by famed illustrator Kenn Goodall.
• Gurglefirst? is a multi-hued Fender Rhodes driven pop-trip whose influences include Jim O’Rourke, Steely Dan, High Lamas, Deerhoof Prefab Sprout, Cardiacs, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Robert Wyatt, Chicago, Pink Floyd and Van der Graaf Generator.
• Press about ‘Gurglefirst?’
• “Gurgles still aren’t afraid to swirl their myriad influences together in odd and sometimes incongruous ways to produce something that’s quite a headtrip. If progressive pop doesn’t yet exist as a concept, then Gurgles will surely be hailed at some point in the future as its exemplars. Twittery analogue synths float around shimmering pop
  harmonies, and there are some insistent grooves too” – Whisperin’ and Hollerin’
• ‘Fantastic band…Prog elements like Yes and Nice, dare I say it AOR elements, which are a really nice move like the McCartney 2 album, plus proggy math-rock mayhem. But it all fitstogether and its all really clever. Interesting poetic lyrics. Really impressed’ – Postmusic
• “These songs are clever – that is musically clever and lyrically clever – and make from their influences some poppy melodies driven by some frankly wonderful keyboard playing. This stuffis groovy” – Local Sound Focus
• “…the power of prog, the drama of opera and the AOR grooves of the 70’s and turns them on their head with a kind of left of field madness that Zappa would be proud of…Add to that poetic moments ala Terry Durham and free-jazz ala Nice…Well this is a bit special!” – Jumbo
  Records
• “simultaneously enraging and brilliant” – Norman Records
• “I absolutely love that” – Mark Radcliffe – Radcliffe and Maconie BBC6Music
• “I absolutely love it, you are going to hear a lot more of this lot. A brilliant album that I am really enjoying. Reminds me of everything from Seventh Wave to Prefab Sprout and Emerson Lake and
  Palmer.” – Stuart Maconie – Freak Zone BBC Radio 6 Music October 2015
• And about other releases…….
• “Gurgles construct multi-coloured song-structures soaked in psychedelic flavours. At the heart of both songs here are muscular pop melodies that combine with an almost Steely Dan-esque
  proficiency” – Rough Trade
• “Gurgles have just released their first single and it’s quite a delight. It’s light and airy and full of life. Think High Llamas, Steely Dan, Jim O’Rourke, Prefab Sprout and Chicago. The keyboards pump
  sound out like they’re powered by a steam engine while the singing verges on new age gospel. I know. When I first heard it I wasn’t sure, but I found myself hitting play again and again, and the next thing I know I find myself buying the single. Recorded by MJ of Hookworms, so the sound is raw and bleeds a little to make this otherwise slick sounding record oscillate with just enough grime.
  What an opening salvo for this brand new band!” – The Finest Kiss

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Stuart Maconie ‏@StuartMaconie Oct 3

And good in a different way, music from my two new fave bands @gurglesband and @KJGrobe. Playing them too next Sun.-

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Yorkshire Post Music Blog Gurglefirst Review (Listen 52min 20s +

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“Gurgles still aren’t afraid to swirl their myriad influences together in odd and sometimes incongruous ways to produce something that’s quite a headtrip. If progressive pop doesn’t yet exist as a concept, then Gurgles will surely be hailed at some point in the future as its exemplars. Twittery analogue synths float around shimmering pop harmonies, and there are some insistent grooves too”
Whisperin’ and Hollerin’

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NME

“These songs are clever – that is musically clever and lyrically clever – and make from their influences some poppy melodies driven by some frankly wonderful keyboard playing. This stuff is groovy”

Local Sound Focus

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“…the power of prog, the drama of opera and the AOR grooves of the 70’s and turns them on their head with a kind of left of field madness that Zappa would be proud of…Add to that poetic moments ala Terry Durham and free-jazz ala Nice…Well this is a bit special!” –
Jumbo Records

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“simultaneously enraging and brilliant” –
Norman Records

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‘Quirky music with quality swears’

Earlydoorsdisco

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‘Gurglefirst? is a record that begs to be blasted, but don’t worry if you don’t have one of those expensive hi-fi’s it sounds just as good bleeding into your ears from a pair of cheap ear buds.’
Finest Kiss, Seattle

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“Gurgles construct multi-coloured song-structures soaked in psychedelic flavours. At the heart of both songs here are muscular pop melodies that combine with an almost Steely Dan-esque
proficiency” – Rough Trade

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“Gurgles have just released their first single and it’s quite a delight. It’s light and airy and full of life.Think High Llamas, Steely Dan, Jim O’Rourke, Prefab Sprout and Chicago. The keyboards pump sound out like they’re powered by a steam engine while the singing verges on new age gospel. I know. When I first heard it I wasn’t sure, but I found myself hitting play again and again, and the next thing I know I find myself buying the single. Recorded by MJ of Hookworms, so the sound is raw and bleeds a little to make this otherwise slick sounding record oscillate with just enough grime.What an opening salvo for this brand new band!” –

The Finest Kiss

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