A Head Full of Wishes is a site for Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi, Dean & Britta and Dean Wareham. With news, articles and lists of releases and past and future shows.
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A Head Full of Wishes newsletter #28
Angel Corpus Christi - Louie Louie (CD)
Louie Louie is Angel Corpus Christi’s album of songs “by, for, and about Lou Reed” and includes her duet with Dean Wareham on I Want to Boogie With You/Je t’aime that was previously released on a couple of 7” singles.
It also has Dean and Britta guesting on a cover of Femme Fatale, a song that Angel seems to visit at regular intervals (I wrote about Femme Fatale in a recent Substack post), having been on her excellent I♡NY album in 1985, and a solo accordion version on 2003’s Accordion Pop Volume 1. The version on Louie Louie also has Sonic Boom performing and producing and is lovely… as is the whole album and it, like a lot of Angel’s catalogue, can be bought for peanuts on her Bandcamp.
After that Substack post I got an email from Angel giving a little insight into the version of Femme Fatale that appears on Louie Louie:
I dont always love every song I have recorded but I DO love FF… a lot! Best of all was the surprise of D and B contributing, I had only asked Sonic Boom to mix, I was swept off my feet when this version showed up!
Email from Angel Corpus Christi, 1st October 2025
It is a very, very beautiful version… prepare to be swept off your feet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrRmdB_5Uk
I bought this CD, along with Accordion Pop, via mail order from Glasgow shop Volcanic Tongue in 2005. Volcanic Tongue was run by David Keenan and his wife Heather Leigh and when I bought the CDs Heather wrote “these CDs are so great, we’re big Angel fans here”.
I have recently been reading my way through a collection of David Keenan’s writings, also called Volcanic Tongue, which is a really good read, I’ve not read any of his fiction but do also own the soundtrack to the play of his novel Memorial Device which was by Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thompson. I’ll get round to reading Memorial Device some time!
This is Angel’s fourth entry in this series, and there is (currently) still one to come… although I’m still looking to fill a gap so hopefully two more to come!
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/145
- Artist: Angel Corpus Christi
- Title: Louie Louie
- Packaging: Card sleeve
- Format: CD
- Bought from Volcanic Toungue with Accordion Pop for £15.98 (incl postage).
- Buy ‘Louie Louie’ on Bandcamp
Previously in my record collection:
- [006] Angel Corpus Christi with Dean Wareham - Je t’aime / I Wanna Boogie With You (7”)
- [042] Angel Corpus Christi - Bewitched: A Tribute to Luna
- [087] therealangelcorpuschristi
Damon & Naomi + Ghost - Hallowe’‘en 2000 (MC)
This is a recording of Damon & Naomi with Ghost from Hallowe’en 2000 that someone (possibly Bob) sent me way back when we used to share cassettes rather than CDs! The sleeve is a photocopy of the appropriately seasonal poster from the show.
I was never a particularly good tape trader, and as soon as I could digitised all my cassettes and disposed of a lot of them. This one likely survived because of the sleeve.
It’s a nice recording of Damon & Naomi playing with Ghost-ly augmentations - there are some lovely wind additions, most notably during Eye of The Storm.
The left-over space at the end of the side 2 is filled with four and a half songs of Luna live in Chicago in April 2000.
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/016
- Artist: Damon & Naomi with Ghost
- Title: Hallowe’en - Tuesday 31st October 2000
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Format: MC
Luna Bandbox orders being honoured for a shipping and handling charge
If you placed an order for the Luna live albums that Bandbox put up for sale a couple of years back, you can now, finally, get some resolution.
Vinylbox are honouring the orders if you’re happy to pay a shipping and handling charge.
The fulfillment company are based in the UK and the charge is în GBP and is £11.29 although I believe the US orders will be shipped from the US.
To make a claim you will need to fill in an online form and will need your Bandbox order number and the last four digits of the card you used (PayPal orders are also accommodated).
I filled in the form and got an invoice within an hour and it all seemed to go smoothly, although I’ll confirm that when I have the records!
Hopefully this frustrating debacle is finally coming to an end.
Next week in history
Galaxie 500’s last UK tour
This week 35 years ago Galaxie 500 set out on their last UK tour starting on the 1st November in Newcastle and ending at ULU in London - I collected as much as I could find about the tour in a Substack post earlier this week:
https://aheadfullofwishes.substack.com/p/galaxie-500s-last-uk-tour
Video of Luna in San Juan Capistrano opening for The Screaming Trees in 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R7yfWu3GWA
This week’s discoveries and rediscoveries
- Luna played a house show in Baltimore last night, and a few fab videos have turned up on Instagram… here they are playing I Want Everything
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQdS2OxDi1D/
You can find a couple more clips here … and keep an eye out because they’re playing another show tonight