{"id":20445,"date":"2022-11-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20445"},"modified":"2022-11-13T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T17:28:22","slug":"sister-morphine-ghosts-of-heartbreak-city-released-on-14th-february-2023-via-big-egg-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20445","title":{"rendered":"SISTER MORPHINE \u2013 \u2018GHOSTS OF HEARTBREAK CITY\u2019 Released on 14th February, 2023 via BIG EGG RECORDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With a fevered local following, a slew of memorable shows with cult bands including Last of the Teenage Idols, Gunfire Dance, and Red Dogs, in much-missed U.K. venues like Cardiff Bogiez, Doncaster Jug, and Birmingham\u2019s Edwards No. 8, and a deal agreed with South Bank Studio (who released the debut Manic Street Preachers single, \u2018Suicide Alley\u2019) for a four-track 12-inch single, South Wales lowslung rock \u2018n\u2019 rollers, SISTER MORPHINE, appeared to be about to climb onto the next rung on the ladder to success. As a song once told us, however, it\u2019s a long way to the top (if you wanna rock \u2018n\u2019 roll) and, after operating from 1989 to 1991, the planets failed to align and the band members went their separate ways… until now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things got weird for everyone during the pandemic, so much so that the rediscovery of a bunch of three-decade-old audio cassettes didn\u2019t seem that much of a big deal; but for the former members of Sister Morphine this find provided the catalyst for a most unlikely of reunions. The tapes contained long-lost songs – some only existing in rough rehearsal form – that the band members (guitarists, Jamesy and Jonesy \u2013 later of experimental collective, The Friday Night Sound System; drummer, Denley Slade \u2013 who has shared stages with everyone from Blondie\u2019s Clem Burke to Cherie Currie of The Runaways, via Jetboy, The Quireboys, and Dan Baird, as a member of Sal and Last Great Dreamers; vocalist, Gaz Tidey \u2013 a founder of the Uber Rock website and co-author of \u2018Til the Death of Rock and Roll\u2019, the tie-in novel for The Loyalties album of the same name; and bassist, Mike DeSouza \u2013 now working in the film industry with credits including The Mummy, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Men In Black: International on his IMDB profile) barely remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An agreement was quickly put into place that the band would reunite to record the best ever versions of these songs, and that the recording would take place at RedRock Studios and be produced by Lyndon Price, a former member of Welsh metal legends, Wild Pussy; the first band that Sister Morphine ever supported! The planning, however, had to be done over a messaging app as the country was awash with regional lockdowns. The frustration felt at having to rein in the excitement resulted in not one, but three brand new songs being written over the same messaging app, ready to be fleshed out once the band members could hit the rehearsal room. Then, those three new songs quickly became four and a fifteen-track album tracklisting was fashioned, consisting of those four new songs alongside five never-before-heard songs from the tape archive, and six \u201cclassics\u201d from the band\u2019s vintage live setlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those new songs (the high octane garage rock of album opener, \u2018Holy City Zoo\u2019, and \u2018Nothing Dirty in the Truth\u2019; the melodious melancholy of \u201890s hit that never was, \u20188-Tracks & Zodiacs\u2019; the \u201870s glam stomp of title track, \u2018Ghosts of Heartbreak City\u2019) blend perfectly with the vintage tunes (including the punk \u2018n\u2019 roll banger that is \u2018Red-Eye Juice\u2019 and the horns-heavy \u2018Seven Long Years\u2019) with those previously unheard songs (including the irony-smeared \u2018Do You Wanna Get Wasted?\u2019 and the outlaw country tearjerker with a twist, \u2018Get Back Home\u2019) no doubt having you ask yourself why they were hidden away for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those fifteen gutter-dirty, lowslung rock \u2018n\u2019 roll songs now exist as the band\u2019s long-threatened debut album, \u2018Ghosts of Heartbreak City\u2019; set to be released on digital platforms and digipak CD on 14th<\/sup> February, 2023 via Big Egg Records. Yes, there is going to be another St. Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Ghosts of Heartbreak City\u2019 tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.) \u2018Holy City Zoo\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.) \u2018Do You Wanna Get Wasted?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.) \u2018Ghosts of Heartbreak City\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.) \u2018Cry the Rain\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.) \u2018Nothing Dirty in the Truth\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.) \u2018Waiting on Salvation\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.) \u20188-Tracks & Zodiacs\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.) \u2018Red-Eye Juice\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.) \u2018Ain\u2019t No Love Song\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.) \u2018Living With Snakes\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.) \u2018Sea of Love\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.) \u2018Black Hearts & Bruised Egos\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.) \u2018Days of Wine & Roses\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.) \u2018Get Back Home\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15.) \u2018Seven Long Years\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Fans Of: Dead Boys; New York Dolls; D Generation; Heartbreakers; Faces; The Dogs D\u2019Amour; Radio Birdman; Hanoi Rocks; The Clash; The Damned; Gluecifer; Alice Cooper Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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