A Head Full of Wishes

Luna stopped off in Manchester for this session on Mark Radcliffe’s BBC Radio 1 show on the 13th December 1995. I remember staying up to record this. I went through my box of cassettes a while ago to try and find it but couldn’t track it down, which is a shame as I remember the [...]

Guitrarrorists was a compilation of solo guitar pieces curated by Kramer and released on No.6 Records in 1991. Contributions came from such indie lumninaries as Thurston Moore, Steve Albini and J Mascis. I listened to the whole album a few weeks back and must admit I found it mostly heavy going.
Dean Wareham’s contribution is this [...]

OK – a ridiculously long post so skip to the end if you’re just here to leech a couple of Luna rarities!
In Summer 1997 I had this half-baked idea to release a kind of Beatles Fan Club single only with Galaxie 500 rather than The Beatles. I had no idea, when I kicked off, just [...]

In March 1997 Damon & Naomi played their first London show at the tiny 12 Bar Club. I still remember that show with a mixture of bliss and discomfort but the most enduring of the blissful memories is the instrument that Naomi used. A sruti box is a simple one pitch harmonium that produces a [...]

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Cagney & Lacee was Dean Wareham and his (then) wife Claudia Silver. They released an album and a couple of singles between 1996 and 1998. The album, Six Feet of Chain was described on the sleeve as “[an] album of cover versions lovingly performed by Dean Wareham and Claudia Silver” and featured [...]

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It’s Bringing You Down was released on an EP on No.6 Records which was the label run by Terry Tolkin who features in depth in Black Postcards and got a name-check in justin’s fake-telegram at the last Luna shows. As far as I’m aware the EP has never been released digitally and the [...]

originally uploaded by davidkha
This lovely cover of the beautiful Beach Boys track Forever was released in 2005 on a compilation CD sold through branches of Starbucks.
The song was originally written and sung by Dennis Wilson and originally appeared on the Beach Boys 1970 album Sunflower.

Mp3: Forvever by Dean & Britta (via Box.net).
Video: The Beach Boys [...]

Baking. Blistering. Boiling…originally uploaded by megankills
I came across a podcast named after and featuring this “lost” luna track. Sucking Ice Cubes had its only official release as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Bewithced and in my opinion deserved a wider audience than that. Not a throwaway, a demo or an instrumental, Sucking [...]