Darlingheart
Don't call me Smarthead - Kirkcaldy's Fairy Story
Darlingheart was formed as a result of the breakup of The Amused. Cameron Campbell (guitar for the Amused, All Days Fade and one of the original members of the Crucified Brains) and Clark Thomson (bass player for the Amused and All Days Fade) advertised for a new drummer and singer. Cora Bissett, pictured above, joined as a singer. They had a tougher time finding a drummer and Colin Livingston (singer of the Twist and drummer of Who Cares?) sat in on drums initially. Carthryn Stirling, who was a school friend of Cora's eventually joined on drums.
Darlingheart, alone of any of the Kirkcaldy bands of the '80's and early '90's, were signed to a major label, Phonogram. We were briefly in dreamland as Darlingheart gained national attention and toured as a support act to Blur.
They even had a video which was played on STV's NB programme, the above screen grabs and the ones below are from the video.
The NB Appearance and a clip from the video is available below in iPod /iTunes friendly MP4v format. It is 45Mb to download:
The files below are from the original demo tape. This is the tape that resulted in the band getting signed. I think it's Colin who is on drums on this recording:
I'm working with Clark Thomson to bring much more Darlingheart material to this page, please check back in a few weeks.........
