Post by dobbin on Apr 29, 2006 20:50:19 GMT
Hi - I've just discovered this site after doing track down 'A Human Sound'. I had it on cassette when I were nobbut a lad and it got lost between school/college/marriage/moving/babies etc. I bought Eventide on cassette (still got it, although the sound quality isn't what it was!) after seeing the Faith Brothers supporting The Alarm at Leeds Uni in 1985, which was the first gig I ever attended (my sister took me!)
I thought all gigs were that good, but I've been mostly disappointed from then on (The Alarm & The Silencers in Bradford in 1988 came close).
'The Trademans Entrance' and 'Easter Parade' were the first songs I heard which made me think and moved me. When I hear them now, I'm sixteen and angry and want to change the world again. I never had the bottle - Billy never had the breaks, although I was delighted to see that he's still plying his trade.
I never saw the Faith Brothers again after that, either in the flesh or in print, and I certainly never heard them on what passed for radio back then - there were a lot of people wearing black around these parts then! - and I often wondered what had happened to them. I saw 'A Human Sound' in a record shop in Cardiff and bought it having not heard anything on it, about a year after it was released. Again, there were songs there that affected something deep within me. "You Can'y Go Home Again" deserved a larger audience, and "The Boy and the River" still causes the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up.
Love to see Billy up in'tnorth !
I thought all gigs were that good, but I've been mostly disappointed from then on (The Alarm & The Silencers in Bradford in 1988 came close).
'The Trademans Entrance' and 'Easter Parade' were the first songs I heard which made me think and moved me. When I hear them now, I'm sixteen and angry and want to change the world again. I never had the bottle - Billy never had the breaks, although I was delighted to see that he's still plying his trade.
I never saw the Faith Brothers again after that, either in the flesh or in print, and I certainly never heard them on what passed for radio back then - there were a lot of people wearing black around these parts then! - and I often wondered what had happened to them. I saw 'A Human Sound' in a record shop in Cardiff and bought it having not heard anything on it, about a year after it was released. Again, there were songs there that affected something deep within me. "You Can'y Go Home Again" deserved a larger audience, and "The Boy and the River" still causes the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up.
Love to see Billy up in'tnorth !