Comet Gain - Indietracks Fest UK 2016 (aud)

Indietracks Festival 

Midland Railway Centre

Swanwick Junction, UK

July 31, 2016

audience recording (sound quality: VG- to VG)

00 stage entrance

01 My Defiance

02 Saturday Night Facts of Life

03 David, banging on about something 

04 Love Without Lies

05 An Arcade from the Warm 

     Rain That Falls

06 Why I Try to Look So Bad

07 The Fists In the Pocket

08 Fingernailed for You

09 I Never Happened

10 Working Circle Explosive!

11 You Can Hide 

     Your Love Forever

12 Herbert Huncke Pt. 2

13 Herbert Huncke Pt. 2 (cont'd)

David Christian (aka David Feck), banging on his geetar (fab photo by Greg Neate)

ROB SEZ: My last post was also by Comet Gain. By request, here's another one. Soundwise, this one's a bit muddier, but it's perfectly enjoyable — especially when you remember just how darn rare these things are.

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Comet Gain - Buffalo Bar, London 2014

Buffalo Bar 

London, UK
April 24, 2014

audience recording (sound quality: VG)

sample a track from the show

00 stage entrance, song intro

01 'Sad Love' and Other Short Stories

02 The Fists In the Pocket

03 rambling song intro

04 Behind the House She Lived In

05 David's shambolic song intro

06 An Arcade from the Warm Rain That Falls

07 Candles

08 Working Circle Explosive

09 These Are the Dreams of the Working Girl

10 'I broke my plectrum' + other BS 

     by David

11 Breaking Open

12 Say Yes

13 Love Without Lies

14 David's rambling BS + song intro

15 Confessions of a Daydream

ROB SEZ: For a good while now, I've been looking for recordings to share by the stupendously talented and hugely entertaining Comet Gain. If you've never heard of them, I bet I know why. Over the band's two and a half decades, David Christian (aka David Feck) and company have guaranteed their cult status by accentuating their punk-inspired amateurism, frequently switching record labels, taking long breaks between album releases, and touring only sporadically — all while apparently enjoying the adulation of the few who tune in. Yet Comet Gain deserve a much wider hearing. Trouser Press describes their early sound thusly: "The soul bus let off the pop children in Oxford, England, and what sprouted was Comet Gain, a thoroughly enticing bedsit quintet." Beside the music, there's an understated, brainy charm to David's between-song rambles. I am indebted here to Andunemir for sharing (and presumably also recording) this great show, which anticipates the band's excellent 2014 album Paperback Ghosts. If I receive any encouragement via comments, I have more I can share.

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