Sad Lovers & Giants - Things We Never Did

Last week I’ve read that classic new-wave Watford based band Sad Lovers & Giants are working on new material for planning soon-to-release album. This information focused my mind on that band recorded several musically interesting albums during their career which was however periodically broken up and reformed. Their last album „Melting In The Fullness Of Time” (Voight-Kampff Records VKR 002CD ) was released in 2002, their last single „Himalaya/Happiness Is Fragile” (Voight-Kampff Records VKR004 ) is coming from 2010 and since then the band only occasionally play gigs both in England and continental Europe. Their sound merged new-wave rhythms, nostalgic psychedelia and melancholic electronica so even they once were described as „pastoral Pink Floyd”. A classic example of their early productions is song „Things We Never Did” originally B-side of 7”single „Colourless Dream” (Last Movement, LM005) from 1981. Today’s band line-up consists of Garce Allard (vocals), Tony McGuinness (guitars), Ian Gibson (bass), Nigel Pollard (drums) and Will Hicks (keyboards).