When Indie meant genuinely independent, ‘jangly guitars’ and heroic outsiderdom the bands which get namechecked as being the originals and the archetype tend to be the TV Personalities, The June Brides and the Wedding Present. In fact, in retrospect, says Ged Babey (a goth at the time), one of the best, were The Loft. A band who brought a CBGB’s influence to Creation and who still sound magnificent all these years later.
Nearly 40 years on from their debut, the Creation Records pioneers The Loft went back into the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios to record a four-track session for Marc Riley & Gideon Coe. And guess what? We’re releasing it on vinyl and it’s utterly brilliant – three Loft originals (‘Beware’, ‘Ride’ and ‘Worm In My Brain’) and their classic cover version of Richard Hell’s ‘Time’.
Released on Ten-inch vinyl with sleeve notes from all four band members plus download codes and photos from the session by Ken Copsey.
The Loft notched up an impressive list of firsts for Creation Records artists back in the mid-1980s. First Creation band on TV, first to hit the top of the indie chart, first to be invited on to a major UK tour and, not least, first Creation band to record a coveted BBC radio session – for Janice Long’s Radio One show in 1984. Then they split up.
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