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From a 1986 flexi that was available with Too Much Hanky Pantry fanzine issue 2 and also distributed with The Hip Priest and Escape From Bereznik fanzines

#The McTells #Virginia MC #Bi-Joopiter Expression #Bi-Joopiter #1986 #Too Much Hanky Pantry #The Hip Priest #Escape From Bereznik

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Train Ride by The Twins & Rig Veeda (1987, Twee, Slacker Rock)

this track is from a band that had a small universe orbiting it which i cherish. Both The Twins and Rig Veeda were "bands" from Hertford in the UK; the airquotes are because both bands had Gillian Elam & Paul Rixon in them, but Rig Veeda also had 2 extra people involved. in the mid 80s they started making weird, limpwristed, fey as hell, lo-fi shambolic twee music that sounds like a bunch of people fucking around with a 4-track in a loft. everything they did was released on the "Bi-Joopiter" label, that had a real solid visual identity, these covers for example:

eventually these two projects merged to become the McTells, who continued this sound and fine-tuned it.

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Villier Street by The McTells (1987, Twee, Slacker Rock)

the McTells did eventually reach K Records in america, and for sure inspired a bunch of 90s lo-fi bands in some obscure way, but by the mid 90s the band & Bi-Joopiter had all but died. hence everything relating to them now becoming very difficult to find. I'd expect them to have had a cult-classic revival by now, but the only thing that happened was Captured Tracks reissuing two McTells tapes early in CT's existence in 2011. No one's really caught on proper! But here you are.