The Primrose League

COVER: Dear Prudence

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Mon, 15 June 2009 14:23:08 -0000

Wasn't intending to do this but started playing it, it sounded okay so I got distracted and ended up overcooking my rice.

COVER: Do You Remember Walter/Spring Heeled Jim

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:41:29 -0000

Combination of 'Do You Remember Walter' by The Kinks and 'Spring Heeled Jim' by Morrissey. From the albums 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' and 'Vauxhall & I' respectively.

COVER: Stevie Wonder - Superstition

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:48:00 -0000

Stevie Wonder tells it like it is...

The Primrose League - Stealing All Those Cars

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:45:00 -0000

Astonishingly brilliant fourth track from the emerging 2009 album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'.

COVER: The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Stereo)

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:01:00 -0000

Same recording as the mono version but remixed, and in stereo.

COVER: Lush - Breeze

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:05:36 -0000

From 19 years ago, a B-side of the 'Sweetness and Light' EP (which got to number 47 in the UK charts) and which I probably purchased from Our Price Records. Lush always made good use of Rickenbackers as rhythm guitars. Also I think the chords in this are great, moving around in an instinctive way and the bass does something interesting and strange in the chorus, quite Brian Wilson-ish if you ask me, which you didn't, but there we are. Lush = the Beach Boys of Camden in the 90s.

COVER: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:01:00 -0000

A couple of minutes of the title track.

The Primrose League - Who's Controlling the World

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:40:00 -0000

Really rather good third track from the emerging 2009 album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'.

The Primrose League - A Better Personality

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:56:00 -0000

Groovy second track from the emerging 2009 album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'.

Edward Corcoran (Irish folk tune)

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:06:00 -0000

On the mandolin and 12 string acoustic. I wasn't sure what chords to play so I chose some that sounded nice.

The Primrose League - We Do These Things

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:05:00 -0000

First recording from what will eventually be an album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'.

COVER: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:10:00 -0000

Warning: may contain traces of banjo.

COVER: The Byrds - It Won't Be Wrong

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:10:00 -0000

COVER: The Smiths - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:20:00 -0000

New Smiths instrumental cover. I fixed the intro since doing the video - can you spot the difference?

The Primrose League - Whitewash

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:01:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Disaster

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:02:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Hammer

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:03:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - A Kind Of Therapy

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:04:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Long Way Down

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:05:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - The World Is Waiting For Your Invention

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:06:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Hypochondria

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:07:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Wedding Of The Future

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:08:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Twenty Easy Payments

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:09:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - Guerrilla Warfare

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:10:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

The Primrose League - What's It Like To Always Be Wrong

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:11:00 -0000

Stigmata Playing Up Again

COVER: The Beach Boys - Feel Flows

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Wed, 30 Dec 2007 14:18:00 -0000

This is a very different mix to what is on the soundtrack of the video. The guitars build up gradually during the instrumental section, and are quiet in the verses. What you hear in the video is just taken directly from the Roland VS2480CD, and I wasn't touching the faders, so it isn't really how I wanted it to sound. Also the stereo makes a lot of difference.

COVER: The Smiths - Handsome Devil

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:51:00 -0000

Not in the same key as the 'Hatful...' session version - a tone lower, like some live versions. there are actually four guitar tracks all playing the same thing to beef it up, two on the Ric (as seen in the video) and two on the Tele custom '72

COVER: The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:51:00 -0000

I've always really liked the sound of this record. And why use one guitar when you can use five? It certainly helps to flesh out the sound. This is simple to play so it's more of an enjoyable production exercise, like How Soon Is Now.

COVER: Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette (Shirley)

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 08 July 2007 17:00:00 -0000

The lead guitar on the record sounds like it's played on electric (probably telecaster) and accoustic guitars, but the credits say Marr only did "electric guitar". So did Billy Bragg play the accoustic track? It seems about ten times as complicated as the stuff he normally plays and is very much in Johnny's style. Anyway, it's quite hard to hear but I've played what I imagine it to be and made it more prominent in the mix.

COVER: The Smiths - Barbarism Begins At Home

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 06 May 2007 15:28:00 -0000

Capo on the 2nd fret on the bass, because it's much easier to hit the low F# smoothly. And same on the guitar - Marr appears to tune his guitar up a tone instead, which must make the strings more tense so they slice your fingers up. Sod that.

COVER: The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:28:00 -0000

Introducing the Rickenbacker 660/12.

COVER: Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Sat, 23 May 2007 15:28:00 -0000

A Syd Barrett song from 1967's 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'.

COVER: The Smiths - Nowhere Fast

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000

This was a lot of fun to work out and a lot of fun to play, which is why I couldn't resist doing the whole song (it's pretty short anyway), and I hope it's fun to sing along too, it's a bloody great song. Probably my favourite of these Smiths things I've done so far! So thanks for the suggestion, those people who suggested it. EVERY SENSIBLE CHILD WILL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS.

COVER: The Smiths - Paint a Vulgar Picture

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000

You can see three different guitar parts being recorded here: rhythm, bass and lead. It took a long time for this song to grow on me. It seemed quite a boring, overly long song about the hard life of a pop star. But it has two things going for it: 1. the way it winds back and forth between the keys of D and B (by playing the C/A shapes with capo on 2nd fret). 2. the solo is one of the few guitar solos I enjoy - a carefully phrased melody with no disgusting unnecessary jazz twiddling. Lean and economical. On a par with 'Stairway to Heaven' and Hendrix's 'All Along the Watchtower'. And, er... Eddie Van Halen in Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'. (That last one was a joke.)

COVER: The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000

Playing all these parts, building them up layer by layer, has made me appreciate this song properly for the first time. It's wonderful how the music stands on its own (no slight to Moz - his contribution to the track was among his best).

COVER: The Smiths - Wonderful Woman

inquiries@primroseleague.co.uk (Daniel Earwicker) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000

The 12-inch b-side of This Charming Man, and also appeared in a Radio 1 session that has yet to be commercially released. Sounds better without the vocals (there, I've said it). Video features critically acclaimed trousers.