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The Wolfhounds Forever looking up as the waves reach our chins. The gospel according to Google Translate:

CHAPTER 1: Wolfhounds, the dogs are released ("Louhou!"). Too bad.

Later found an album ("Unseen Ripples from the Pebble" - 1987) and Midnight Music takes the subject. Inrockuptibles good time and cheer the compilation "The Essential" knows a little critical success in France. But the mute group. Gives concerts acids and wicked. "Bright & Guilty" (1989) is a long collection of tracks scraped alternating twisted pop and rock scabby not without panache ("Rent Act")

. The ambition of these young people is therefore not reproducing the same pattern twice. Thus, the wah-wah ("Son Of nothing" / "Second Son") struggle with frail arpeggios, slow songs and threatening alternate with bouncy pop songs with 2 minutes 30 seconds. A mini-masterpiece in short, a little disjointed and inaugurating a series of pockets rather ugly. But the pop huh, okay 5 minutes. It may also be tempted by experimentation or by noise. This is the second choice being adopted Golding, Stebbing and other Clark for "Blown Away" (1989 ditto), a short and intense album dominated by the monstrous "Burning Dead Sea" and "Skyscrapers". A concentration of rage and overcoming distortions in the voice of loving myself hyper Callahan. People - idiots - riled also this song hilltop, derailing, sometimes twangy. But it is in motion, only 7 tracks (the) competition Wolfhounds murder of noise end of this decade. Only Sonic Youth or Dinosaur Jr on the other side of the Atlantic and My Bloody Valentine two firecrackers can match (or even surpass, OK, the fan is sometimes deaf but not blind). Problem, everyone seems to beat copiously balls. These boys are badly dressed, probably ugly and therefore limit cocos eaters and children coprophilous. Callahan seems interested only in the working class is not the first to file every morning imagining the face of Thatcher in the bezel. No hype, no buzz, no sensational statements in the tabloids and not excessive consumption of pills at a time when the UK has their eye on Manchester and chitterlings of consanguineous Happy Mondays or Stone Roses. The pretty faces, the saps and cunning they wank in the Wolfhounds. Wrong choice? No, it attracted the respect and credibility badly divided and are not there to do the boogie pissing. They are not cold, not always dark, they do absolutely not the fart, they do their thing. That's enough right? But it does not lead far, alas. Out in 1990 in a confidential shameful "Attitude". We almost hear the skin of a crack junkie. My son is black, but black! Claustrophobic, desperate, tense like a cock before row. "Celeste" has some melodic tendencies, some vaguely baggy beats trying to stir well derches here and there, but the general atmosphere is rather good old 9mm bullet in the mouth. And that's it. We find some musicians in other projects, there will be - shocked - the net has a scenic reformation which is useless in the 2000s and deplore the lack of interest that the group will lead to younger generations (one page Myspace which would shame even Herbert Leonard). This group was great, proud, inventive, sharp but too small to attract the attention of makers trajectory. The end product by Ian Caple soon to explode alongside Tindersticks, Tricky and other Bashung but not mastered yet clear the table ... Small aside: I see that bastard also worked with Simple Minds, the lose too, is part of the team KPM, too class and worked with a lot of French sidekick. What was missing, like Jacques? Nothing, except a bit of interest and a bit of normalcy. Being a bastard child of The Fall and Kinks ("I'm not like everyboy else" - always the same concerns, echoed by the group elsewhere as "Pushing too hard" for Seeds) does not predispose to success. Remain great songs ("The Anti-Midas Touch" of course, but also "Blown Away" to name but two) and borrows indelible rock fans sincere, raw and personal. See more ...

My next London show is a benefit for Resonance 104.4fm in the company of Luke Haines and Jowe Head. Save money on the do...
21/08/2025

My next London show is a benefit for Resonance 104.4fm in the company of Luke Haines and Jowe Head. Save money on the door by getting your tickets here or via Dice:

From DLC: Thanks to everyone who came to my series of gigs over the last few weeks. There's a gap and then a few more co...
17/08/2025

From DLC: Thanks to everyone who came to my series of gigs over the last few weeks. There's a gap and then a few more coming up, including a long weekend that starts at the wonderful JT Soar in Nottingham on 19 September (check the comment thread for other shows):

JT Soar and Coffee Beat Presents... DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN (London) Callahan has been a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist with The Wolfhounds, Moonshake, The Changelings, and The $urp!u$. He is considered a significant figure in British alternative rock due to The Wolfhounds' contribution to the....

"... the best song of the entire weekend!"
16/08/2025

"... the best song of the entire weekend!"

Day 2 at Preston Pop Fest with Karen, DLC plus plenty more bands a record shop and a noisy pizza!

Lovely blog review of my Kirkcaldy show last Sunday. Come and see if they're right in Preston on Saturday and Newcastle ...
05/08/2025

Lovely blog review of my Kirkcaldy show last Sunday. Come and see if they're right in Preston on Saturday and Newcastle on Sunday:

The alternative view - live reviews and musical meanderings

While I look like I'm about to check your ID in the photo, it's lovely to get a solid preview of my Newcastle gig on Sun...
04/08/2025

While I look like I'm about to check your ID in the photo, it's lovely to get a solid preview of my Newcastle gig on Sunday night as part of some kind of middle-aged man spread in NARC. Magazine. Obviously, you should come if you're anywhere nearby. Full issue here: https://narcmagazine.com/magazine/

Just remembered it's Bandcamp Friday, when the host website doesn't take any fees off my sales. Merch is very much avail...
01/08/2025

Just remembered it's Bandcamp Friday, when the host website doesn't take any fees off my sales. Merch is very much available:

Always looking up as the waves lap our chins. Been going forever but no one can stop us. Go on. Try.

Tonight!, as they once sang in West Side Story. Get down to Edinburgh, and check out the ace support, Dragged Up, too!
01/08/2025

Tonight!, as they once sang in West Side Story. Get down to Edinburgh, and check out the ace support, Dragged Up, too!

MPT Gets evangelical about the Wolfhounds’ frontman’s solo albums ahead of Scottish dates in Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy.

A lovely preview of my Scottish dates this coming weekend, starting Friday in Edinburgh, and the next day in Kirkcaldy:
29/07/2025

A lovely preview of my Scottish dates this coming weekend, starting Friday in Edinburgh, and the next day in Kirkcaldy:

MPT Gets evangelical about the Wolfhounds’ frontman’s solo albums ahead of Scottish dates in Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy.

Often, one pauses for reflection at my time in life. Listening to this at quite some remove, I'm not so sure I've evolve...
28/07/2025

Often, one pauses for reflection at my time in life. Listening to this at quite some remove, I'm not so sure I've evolved as an artist much further than this first record (apart from being able to do most of it myself now:

Album/Single/EP : EP Cut The Cake The Wolfhounds are an indie pop/noise pop band formed in Romford, UK in 1985 by Dave Callahan, Paul Cl...

A big up from our C86 contemporaries – thank you, Soupies!
25/07/2025

A big up from our C86 contemporaries – thank you, Soupies!

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