Lyres

Lyres (sometimes miscredited as The Lyres) are a Boston-area alternative rock musical group led by Jeff "Monoman" Conolly. Lyres were founded in 1979 following the breakup of DMZ. Their most popular songs included "What A Girl Can't Do" and "Help You Ann". The original lineup of the band featured Rick Coraccio (bass), Ricky Carmel (guitar), and Paul Murphy (drums). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lyres)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 00:30 - 01:15

Line up
Jeff Connolly – vocals, organ; Dan McCormack – guitar; Rick Coraccio – bass; Paul Murphy – drums

Set list
01 Unknown track

02 Stacey

03 Stop, take a look at me

04 Help you Ann

05 Soapy

06 Nobody but me

Recording
I have a lossless (flac) recording of the above 6 tracks, taken from a radio broadcast, about 23 minutes in total.

The Orson Family

Short-lived gothic rock band featuring sibling vocalists Vernon, Ruby and John Orson, who also played guitars and were backed by Vincent (bass) and David O. (drums).
(...) The Orson Family wasn't really a family. They were formed around 1982 in England. Vernon and Ruby lived together (they were engaged but never married). Brewster and David O. are actually the same person. They soon added a trumpet player called Kevin but nicknamed Elmer. They quoted Hank Williams, Link Wray, Bunker Hill, Vincent, Cochran, Lou Reed, The Jam as influences.
They records a self released 3 track EP, a six track mini LP The River of Desire, the 12" No-one Waits Forever, a live LP Bugles, Guitars & Amphetamine and another single The Sweetest Embrace but with another singer as Skully left/was fired soon before. (http://rideyourpony-twighlightzone.blogspot.com/2006_09_03_rideyourpony-twighlightzone_archive.html)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 23:15 - 00:00

Line up
Probably: Skully - vocals; Vernon - guitar; Ruby - guitar; Brewster - drums. Possibly with Kevin (aka Elmer) - trumpet

Set list
00 No-one waits forever

Recording
Unknown

Garage box

The first night of Pandora's 1984 had a room reserved for garage rock.

Line up
21:15 - 21:45 Claw Boys Claw
22:45 - 23:30 Scientists
23:15 - 00:00 Orson Family
00:30 - 01:15 Lyres
01:45 - 02:30 The Nomads
03:00 - 03:45 Dream Syndicate

Other info
Bij de 2e editie, ter gelegenheid van de garagebox, verscheen er bij de Oor (?) een bijlage over garage muziek toen en nu, met een uitputtende opsomming en beschrijving van bandjes. Deze bijlage werd al gauw 'de garagebijbel' genoemd, en was de bron van vele ontdekkingen qua sixties garagerock. (Gerdou, http://www.wiels.nl/blog/comments.php?y=07&m=10&entry=entry071025-001000)


Review Garage Box (Oor, 1984/20)

Garage listening test with Claw Boys Claw, from festival booklet

The Dream Syndicate

Dream Syndicate was an early alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California that was active from 1981 to 1989. The band was associated with the Paisley Underground music movement. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Syndicate)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 03:00 - 03:45

Line up
Steve Wynn – vocals; Karl Precoda – guitar; Mark Walton – bass, vocals; Dennis Duck – drums

Set list
01 Halloween
02 Daddy's girl
03 Burn
04 Sure thing
05 When you smile
06 The medicine show
07 J.C. Stereo blues
08 Still holding on to you
09 Sweet home Alabama

Recordings
According to the Steve Wynn Archive, the whole set was recorded from the audience, and tracks 03 - 06 and 09 (cut) were professionally recorded and broadcast on radio. I have both recordings in lossless (flac) quality. Get them in any file format you can imagine here: http://www.archive.org/details/ds1984-09-21.flac16

The Nomads

"Kings of garage"... "Modern acid-drenched psychotic r&b"... "Amphetamined r&b hellfire fusion" ... "What the Heartbreakers might've sounded like as acidheads instead of heroin addicts"... Just a few selected quotes to describe the sound of Sweden's The Nomads. (http://web.comhem.se/nomads/storysofar.htm)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 01:45 - 02:30

Line up
Hans Östlund – guitar; Nick Vahlberg – guitar & vocals; Tony Carlsson – bass; Ed Johnson – drums

Set list
01 I'm not like everybody else (Kinks cover)

02 Rockin' all thru the night

03 I have always been here before (Roky Erickson cover)

04 I'm five years ahead of my time

05 Lowdown shakin' chills

06 Milk cow blues (traditional)

Opening song of the Nomads set was "Have love will travel".

Recording
I have a lossless (flac) recording of tracks 01-06, taken from a radio broadcast, total time just under 20 minutes. Have Love Will Travel was not broadcast.

Claw Boys Claw

Guitar band from Amsterdam fronted by charismatic singer Peter te Bos that is influenced by garage punk of bands like Gun Club and the Stooges. Gradually, the band's musical style develops into the direction of melodic swamp rock. (http://www.hollandrocks.nl/bio/bz344.html)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 21:15 - 21:45

Line up
Peter te Bos – vocals; John Cameron – guitar; Bobbie Rossini – bass; Allard Jolles – drums

Set list
01 Shake it on the rocks
02 Cosmic blue
03 Venus

Recording
I have a radio recording of tracks 01 - 03

Other info
Jolles played Pandora's 1985 as singer/guitarist for L'Attentat.

De band is in 1984 één van de hoogtepunten tijdens de tweede editie van het vooruitstrevende festival Pandora’s Music Box in Rotterdam. (http://www.50jaarnederpop.nl/canon.php?id=35)

Scientists

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 22:15 - 22:45

Line up
Kim Salmon – vocals, guitar; Tony Thewlis – guitar; Boris Sujdovic – bass; Brett Rixon – drums

Set list
00 Backward man

Recording
Unknown

Other info
At the time, it seemed as if none of us did anything for the first year in the UK but stand in queues and pay exorbitant VAT- inflated prices when we got to the end of them. In retrospect, and at the risk of boasting, I can only be amazed at how far we got in that small amount of time. Firstly, we had a local release for Blood Red River on Rough Trade. Next we virtually walked into All Trade Booking Agency and got a whole stack of shows at places like Dingwalls, The Electric Ballroom, The Lyceum and The Clarendon Garage. As well, Tony and I rather cheekily wrote Kid Congo a letter telling him we were going to support the Gun Club on their UK tour. There was no talk of this with the agency - we just did it 'off the bat' and that seemed to clinch it taking care of exposure over the rest of England for us. The next step was for the Dutch fellow previously mentioned [Willem Venema – P@ndora] to walk in to All Trade and see our photo and then book us into Futurama in Belgium and the Pandora's Box festival in Rotterdam. At Pandora's Box we found ourselves in front of a huge jampacked room which moved back a full metre the moment we launched into our set. After that we got our picture taken a lot and I ended up having to do loads of interviews for foreign mags that I would never be able to read unless they were in the three sentences of Deutsche that I know. As Boris pointed out to me, this gig set us up for Holland and Belgium over the next couple of years. It wasn't long after these festivals that we made it to Paris and then Hamburg.
Back in the UK, our audience at this stage was comprised partly from the network of Cramps and Gun Club fans who had been alerted to our existence by the tireless efforts of Scotsman and Next Big Thing writer Lindsay Hutton and partly from a curiosity amongst punters as to what kind of act could draw the particular kind of adjective from the ink of the three British trade papers, NME, Sounds and Melody Maker, that we did. I was quite happy at that stage of my life to be referred to as the "lowest form of uncaring anti-social filth" in what amounted to a music tabloid with a circulation of hundreds of thousands so long as they meant we were great. We got quite a bit of coverage and most of it was positive in that kind of way. At Pandora's Box a Belgian chap called Paul Delnoy asked if he could make a record with us on his label. He did not seem to have enough English to understand 'no' (we were tied up contractually) which is why we ended up in Brussels at the end of the year trying to make up another record from scratch that didn't overlap with the material we were working on for our next proper album. (http://www.citadel-records.com/mailorder/600/discs/scient.html)