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POPTONES REJECTS RESCUED BY WARNERS
Three years back, the Cosmic Rought Riders were dropped by Alan Mcgee and Poptones - "despite four Top 40 singles and single-handedly helping keep Poptones label afloat with 50,000 sales of their album Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine", observes an outraged Daily Record, although we're not quite sure how you can do something "single-handedly" if you're simply "helping" do something.
Anyway, the band scraped together the cash for a self-released album, and now have been granted a second chance with their signing to Korova. They're very excited that it's Nick Stewart who's picked them up, because he signed U2 to Island. (Interestingly, nobody seems able to cite something he might have done since then, but it was only twenty-odd years ago.) Stephen Rough Rider is especially excited:
"If we could have anything like the success U2 have had we wouldn't say no."
It'll only be a matter of months, then, before they're wading in to the Canadian elections.
3 comments:
the daily record seem to think that the cosmic rough riders are the best band ever. in fact i'm pretty certain that the only reason the band ever charted is dumb daily record readers doing what they were told.
Looking at the likes of The Others and The Paddingtons, all bands on Poptones have three or four top forty singles and sell about fifty thousand copies of their album and then get dropped.
Bit silly really.
Surely the Hives did more to, ahem, keep Poptones afloat? (Actually, has Poptones released anything notable for about a year now?)
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