WHISPERING BOB
DONT BRING ME DOWN
Release Date: 26th Apr, 1999Cat No: DISCO9904
Format: CDS
The April release in the 99 Singles Club series comes from Oxford five-piece, Whispering Bob, based around brothers Robin and Joe Truck.
There are two things you can
do if you're a teenager in Steventon. You can hang around the
bus stop or work in the local Spar shop. People from Steventon
think Didcot is a metropolis, it's that kind of place. ROBIN
BENNETT chose to work in Spar. Here he would sell soft drinks
to a strange, mumbling old man.
One night he was watching a T-REX documentary when he spotted
that old man. It was DJ-ing legend 'WHISPERING' BOB HARRIS. By
pure coincidence, Robin had just started a band with his brother
Joe, and now they had a name. And so, with their one-way ticket
out of convenience store hell in hand, WHISPERING BOB are going
to start the Summer early. Ramshackle early gigs, a ramshackle
self-promoted festival appearance and one ramshackle home recording
session later here's their debut single: 'Don't Bring Me Down'.
And it's on SHIFTY DISCO, forerunners of the 80s revival according
to the Melody Maker. Yeah, cheers.
Oh, but it's a sweet spangly pop thing with a ghostly slide guitar
twang (not a real one, just a cheap Casio copy). And people say
Robin sounds a wee bit like NEIL YOUNG who's old enough to be
his granddad. Doubtless 'Don't Bring Me Down' is about Werther's
Originals and powdered egg.
Hey, we just put out stuff we like. It's
that simple. Can't think why more record labels don't do it.
It's going to be a fine old Summer innit?
Have a look at their own Whispering Bob site .