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Get Hip!
Get Hip! with The Mourning After
Price
£5 ADV
This event is at
The Green Room
A passion for 60’s Garage/Beat/R n B was the catalyst that bonded The Mourning After in 1987.
This passion was evident at their debut gig at The Take Two club in Sheffield after which they were offered a residency playing with all the charting indie bands of the time….. Primal Scream, Psychic TV, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, etc.
As reputation of their frenzied gigs spread Captain Sensible came to see for himself. As the band staggered off stage he immediately asked them to record an LP for his Deltic record label.
The band hit Wemeenit Studios in Barnet. The session produced by Captain Sensible and engineered by Steve Broughton (The Edgar Broughton Band) resulted in 14 tracks being recorded in a day. All seemed to be going great for the band until a phone call outlining Deltic had gone bankrupt brought them back to earth.
Mystic Beat Records heard of their plight and started a 2 year battle to get back the tapes from the Wemeenit session as the band continued to gig up and down the UK. Upon aquiring the tapes it was found most of the guitar and vocal tracks had been wiped off and had to be recorded again. This was done in Sheffield at Ian Burdons (The Human League) home. Photo’s and artwork were sorted and the record pressed. Then for reasons that remain a mystery to this day, the owner of Mystic Beat shelved the LP. Apart from a handful of promo copies it still sits in boxes above a record shop in Sheffield.
Undefeated The Mourning After bounced back releasing 10 singles over the next 5 years and continuing to perform their wild shows until 1999 when after the closure of most of the great live
venues in the UK they called it a day.
THE END……………..or maybe not?
Out of the blue in 2008 Tryptic Records contacted the band and asked if they had any material for a single. The band who had remained friends recorded 3 tunes and followed it up with tours of France and Spain. Enjoying being back together they returned to Purple Pit Studios record their 2nd LP.
‘Tall Dark & Gruesome’ ’ which came out on the Screaming Apple label
The band have continued to play gigs and recording new material putting out singles in the UK on Crocodile Records, Heavy Soul Records, Do It Thissen Records as well as Chaputa Records in Portugal and Lost In Tyme Records in Greece. The bands 3rd album ‘The 10th Century’ was released in 2018 on Heavy Soul Records. The Mourning After are currently recording their 4th LP in the
studio.
Always popular at Get Hip this will be The Mourning After’s 5th appearance at the club night since 2016. The Get Hip! dj crew will also be spinning the vinyl before & after the band so expect a mix of Soul, R&B, Latin, Hammond Grooves, Garage & Psych, 60s Ska & other cool sounds on 45.
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