The Close Lobsters
Indie pop band, The Close Lobsters, hailed from Paisley in
Scotland and first came to prominence with the track Fire Station
Towers which was included on the NME's famed C86 compilation.
Signing to Fire Records they released their debut single, Going To
Heaven To See If It Rains , in October 1986.
After landing a
support slot with The Jesus and Mary Chain on their tour, they
released their second single, Never Seen Before , in April 1987
(with a superior re-recorded version of Fire Station Towers and a
cover of The Only Ones' Wide Waterways on the B-side).
They
released two albums, Foxheads Stalk This Land (1987) and Headache
Rhetoric (1989), and an EP, Nature Thing (1989) - with covers of
Neil Young's Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) and Leonard
Cohen's
Paper Thin Hotel - but eventually broke up over a combination of
creative differences and financial difficulties.
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