Photo Credit: by Brian Marks CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Having fallen out of touch with much of the UK music scene in the mid 90′s, (during the period I shudderingly refer to as “Clubbing and Remix Hell”) I’m enormously pleased to see the return of a growing number of original new bands emerging in a renaissance of the UK music industry.
Chief among my favourites has to be the Cornwall-based Wire Daisies. Their debut album “Just another Day” is a milestone in Indie music and rightly went straight into the iTunes charts in September 2004 when it was launched.
Wire Daisies consists of Treana Morris (lead vocals), Ol Beach (keyboards), Steve Jackson (drums) and Alden Evans (lead guitar) and all members make a distinct and significant contribution to the bands’ unique sound and style. The band typifies much of what is best in the new millennium UK music scene; strong, sensual female vocals, signature lead guitar riffs (the popular “Everyman” is a superb example of this), catchy toe-tapping rhythms and original scores and lyrics.
With the assistance of producer John Cornfield (best known for his work with Oasis, Supergrass and Muse), the band cut their first master demos at his sawmill studios in April 2003. Their potential must have been pretty obvious because the demo sessions led to the recording of their debut album just 2 months later. Subsequent appearances at the international Montreux Jazz and Womad festivals in 2004 were undoubted milestones.
Much of the album (to me at least) is a little like Cornwall itself; bright and richly textured tracks such as “Truth that hurts” are mixed with slightly raw-edged tracks such “Make Everything Change” and “Come Winter Time”. Ballad-like numbers such as “Billy Boy” are beautifully crafted and I found myself hunting for the guitar tab on the net almost before the last bars had faded away (sadly without success!)
If you haven’t yet bought a copy of this terrific album, then make sure you add it to the top of your “must buy” music list. As for me, I’m hoping to see the Daisies play somewhere in the south of England in the not-too-distant future.
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