I like finding old, and obscure music. It’s always fun! Recently I was reading something about the band Vertical Horizon. It seems that some time ago they used to do work with two other guys called Jack O’neil and Cary Pierce, who had a band oddly enough called Jackopierce. I say band, but it was more an acoutic duo, much like Vertical Horizon was at the time (we’re talking early nineties here).
I decided to go off and do a little investigating, and found they released a few albums, then split up and went to do other things. My product-locator sixth sense went into overdrive and I found myself ordering a live CD from Amazon through the Amazon Marketplace (such a cool thing!).
Having just typed that last sentence, I went to look on Amazon for a CD by a band called The Lilac Time, which is fronted by Stephen ‘Tin-Tin’ Duffy. He had a hit in the eighties with a song called ‘Kiss Me’, and tends to write with a lot of people, notably Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies and Robbie Williams. His Lilac Time band is very good, kind of alt-folk-rock thing. Anyway, they opened for Barenaked Ladies in 2001 at the London Albert Hall, and some of the songs from their set ended up on a special edition version of the album Lilac6. Unfortunately this was a Japanese-only version. I’ve been desperately trying to find it for ages, and to no avail; even if I did find it, it was ludicrously expensive. Until now! I just looked, and there it was, just under a tenner.
I love the intarweb!