i've been listening to a lot of folk and kiddie music lately, so naturally i thought it would be something of one of those genres that i'd write about next. this morning i received a message from a friend on myspace which changed that. he informed me that keith girdler of blueboy had passed away. i wept as i read the eulogy. being more of a lilith fair/lollapalooza/80s new wave girl in high school, i only became a fan of blueboy about 4 years ago. when i first was introduced to them, i would lie in bed listening to keith's soft, beautiful voice for hours on end. i'd become lost in my own little kennie world, thinking of the great teen novel i'd write someday and how i was going to incorporate the music of blueboy into it somehow. keith's lyrics moved me. i empathised with his feelings of heartbreak and loneliness. i knew absolutely nothing about his real life prior to reading his eulogy, but i felt absolutely certain that i could be friends with the person who penned "boys don't matter" and "so catch him", both of which can still cause me to shed a tear or two in my more emotional moments. since i believe that the aforementioned songs show keith at his best, i'll share them here with you. also, i post "answered prayer" from a band called feverfew that keith girdler was in prior to blueboy.
~kennie
So obviously no surprise here, but I do have a few stuff from Keith Girdler, which I'll include here. He's been in such bands as the Snowdrops, Lovejoy, Arabesque, and Beaumont. He's still probably most known and admired for being a "Sarah Records" band when he was in Blueboy.
Sarah Records, as you may or may not know is the definitive tweepop record company. They were established in 1987 by Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes. Their last release was SARAH359 in July 1995 for Battery Point LP, a compilation of Blueboy, Ivy (the Sarah band), Aberdeen, Boyracer, etc. For trivia's sake, the first Sarah number is SARAH1 for The Sea Urchins' Pristine Christine 7", released in January 1998.
Before you weep, Sarah Records went on to become Matt Haynes' Shinkansen Records. Some Sarah Records artists went on to Shinkansen, including Trembling Blue Stars, Blueboy, Cody, and Field Mice.
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Links: clara.net/koogy/sarah | www.shink.dircon.co.uk
