Ryan's Gig Guide - June 2019

www.ryansgigguide.com CONTINUES ON PAGE 32 SATURDAYS CONTINUED mighty mighty Ahead of their gig at Hare & Hounds on 12th June, we spoke to 80s indie heroes and John Peel favourites Mighty Mighty... Mick Geoghegan told us about the early days of the band: "We had a bit of a career in the late 80s. We sent John Peel our first single self-financed on our own label – and he played it and booked us for a session and that helped us get a track on the “legendary” NME C86 cassette. We went on to release six singles and an album, Sharks. Since then we have released several compi- lations (including BBC sessions) and, a few years ago, an album of unreleased demos (The Betamax Tapes on Firestation Records)". Of the new album "Misheard Love Songs" (their first new re- cordings in over thirty years) set to be released in July, Mick said: "We made the decision that if we wanted to carry on as a band we were not satisfied playing the occasional gig doing the old songs like being your own tribute band. Some of the songs are ones that we never got round to recording before our initial split at the tail end of 1988, but the majority are new, written over the last three years. I suppose when you have families, full time jobs and live in different parts of the country it's inevitable that it takes a bit longer than it did back in our younger days. And then of course it’s that time of our lives when you tend to lose parents - a total of three during the process. Long periods of limbo for illness, loss and mourning. First mine and Pete’s mom, then both H and Russell lost their dad's. Weirdly me and Pete also lost our dad during the recording of Sharks back in 1987. If you get to hear the album, you'll spot the not-so-subtle reference to Hor- ace Silver's Song For My Father on the intro to The Invention Of Love (OK - it sounds like Steely Dan as well)." So, why Misheard Love Songs? "the lyric appears in two songs - Weather Girl and The Invention Of Love. A consequence of my writing process - piles of note books with ideas and songs at various stages of completion. An overlap was inevitable at some stage. It is an album of love songs of one type or another, perhaps with the exception of The Profit And Loss Blues. The album title refers to how little we really understand each other and how everyone hears and interprets things differently. The actually meaning of a song is less important than what it is taken to mean by the listener and how it makes them feel. To quote the greats - "Words are trains for moving past what really has no name " (Paddy McAloon) and "It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away" (The Bee Gees)".  www.facebook.com/mightymightyofficial Check them out in our Spotify playlist www.ryansgigguide.com/audio  Wednesday 12th June Hare & Hounds, Kngs Heath  + The Humdrum Express Hop Pole Inn Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove 1st Skrood 8th The Quo 15th Planet Rock 22nd black sheep 29th Kick The Fridge The Jam House 1 St Pauls Square, Birmingham 1st Red Lemons 8th Urban Intro 15th Rocket 22nd Nanna Radleys 29th Solid Soul Joe Joe Jims Bar 444 Lickey Rd, Cofton Hackett, Birmingham 1st BurtonFest - Benefit Event for Trevor Burton 8th The Frenzies 15th Ceri Justice &The Jury Katie Fitzgerald’s 187 Enville Street,Wollaston, Stourbridge 1st Jess Silk 8th Steve Ajao Blues Giants 15th Maz Mitrenko Band 29th Straight Aces Land Rover Sports And Social Club Billsmore Green, Solihull 22nd The Simmertones The Lounge At Boldmere 110-116 Boldmere Rd, Sutton Coldfield 8th The Jents 29th Mr President MAC Midlands Art Centre Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham 22nd L’Orchestre Afrisa International Malthouse Ironbridge TheWharfage, Ironbridge,Telford 1st The Usual Suspects 8thWorst Kept Secret 15th Dirty Rockin Scoundrels 22nd The Jents Marrs Bar 12 Pierpoint Street,Worcester 8th Moretallica 15th Mused NewAlexandraTheatre Suffolk Queensway, Birmingham 22ndWannabe New Inns Erdington 75 Summer Road, Erdington, Birmingham 8th Fran the Man 15th SueWallace The NewWellington 383 Brettel Lane, Brierley Hill 8th The Usual Suspects Night Owl 17-18 LowerTrinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham 1st JrWalker All Star Band 8th Flamingo Flame 15th LetItBeatles 22nd Heavy Sol O2 Academy 16-18 Horsefair, Birmingham 29th Gojira O2 Academy 3 15th CityLightz O2 Institute 2 78 High Street, Digbeth, Birmingham 1st Brass Against O2 Institute 3 1st Megan McKenna Oak Apple Spetchley Road,Worcester 8th FIFTY4 O’Neills 212 High St, Harborne, Birmingham 1st Deckchair Circus rgg Jun 2019 31 www.ryansgigguide.com 30 rgg Jun 2019