The Loves - December Boy / Bubblegum

Limited Edition (500) Double A-sided 7” Single on Bubblegum coloured vinyl. For Fans Of: The School, The Monkees, The Velvet Underground, Pocketbooks, Tender Trap. The new single by The Loves, "December Boy", is the first to be taken from their fourth and final album “…Love You”, and the first on which Jenna Love (The Loves' J-Lo) takes lead vocals. Recorded live at Soup Studios in London's glittering East End, it turns the chorus for "September Gurls" by Big Star into a Spector-esque girl group pop number, with help from Liz Hunt from The School and Emma Hall from Pocketbooks on backing vocals, as well as Rob Jones (AKA The Voluntary Butler Scheme) on organ. Real life violins also make an appearance. Flip-side "Bubblegum" is equally upbeat, but with more of a 60s garage Nuggets feel. Formed in Cardiff in 2000, The Loves released their debut single on Radio One DJ Huw Stephens’ Boobytrap Singles Club in May 2001. Their second album on Technicolor was made Album Of The Week in The Sunday Times. The band have recorded four Peel sessions and nearly as many again for Marc Riley on BBC 6music. Since beginning The Loves have had approximately 34 members come and go, making band leader/dictator Simon Love the Welsh Mark E Smith. The current line up of the band is Simon on lead voice and guitar, Alice on keyboards and voice, Dan on bass, Jonny on drums, Jenna on lead voice and percussion and Ed on keyboards/guitar. The album “…Love You” will be released in January before The Loves call time on the whole tawdry ten years by imploding in a mess of badly drawn paper hearts, cheap alcohol and bodily fluids on Valentine’s Day 2011. 'A wide-eyed retro-chic indie-pop sextet that sound like The Monkees playing at being The Velvet Underground.' – NME.

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