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
Get it here, or the usual, streaming/downloady places!!! https://gurgles.bandcamp.com/track/lesprit-du-clocher
Get it here for nothing or pwyw – https://gurgles.bandcamp.com/track/buck-stops-here
Watch the video here –
Out today – 4monica -dld/casssingle. Produced again by @familyscraps – https://gurgles.bandcamp.com/track/4monica and https://gurgles.bandcamp.com/merch/4monica-limited-edition-cass-single-inc-download
Also on the usual Itunes/Amazon/Spotify and all that…….
New Gurgles single out 20th Feb
Gurgles new single ‘4monica’ released Monday 20th February on Digital Download and Limited Edition Brown and Cream cassette single. Saltaire Recordings 005
4Monica is the latest chunk of beat-prog Electric Piano bleep-pop from Bradford’s Gurgles. Once again produced by MJ from Hookworms and recorded at Suburban Home Studios.