The Workhouse's excellent debut album "The End of the Pier".
It was given to me by a member of the band several years back, and if I hadn't known him this probably would have passed me by as I can't say that I'd ever searched for bands in the genre of "Shoegaze" or "Ethereal".
So glad he did as this is a terrific album despite some of the odd song titles, Ricketts, Gudni and Stoichkov are all footballers :) My favourite track is "Trading Estate".
Mostly instrumentals, although the lack of vocals isn't a drawback.
At one time they were getting really good reviews and did sessions on the John Peel show and London's XFM, a bit of bad luck as they were possibly the last band to be booked by Peel before his untimely death, he really liked them.
Gave me an insight into how near and far fame can be as bands like "the Editors" were gigging around with them a few years back and they've gone on to international success while the Workhouse guys still have to work for a living.
Hopefully they'll make it big one day? a third album is being worked on but still a little way off.
Posted now as I guess anyone who was going to buy the album has already bought it, and if I can do anything to help bring the name back to people's attention it might get them a few more bums on seats :)
01 Steelworks Sea And Sky
02 Peacon
03 Ice Cream Van
04 The Ship
05 John Noakes
06 Mouse
07 Stoichkov
08 Paper Plane
09 Never Kill Your Dreams
10 Ricketts
11 Trading Estate
12 Vienetta
13 Goodbye Gudni
14 The End Of The Pier
15 Trading Estate (Alternate Version) (Bonus Track)
