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.
(photo by Michael Laing)
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.
Darlingheart got their big break as a
result of the above demo tape, recorded in Dave Arcari's
Abracadabra Studios in Kirkcaldy.
The songs from this demo
have been available on this site for a while, but they suffered
from originally from a pretty bad, transfer to MP3. Here
they are again now, enhanced by Audacity:
3.
Darlingheart
- Short Stories
Darlingheart
Demo
- Ogg and Flac formats
The toured with some big name bands, such as Blur and Radiohead.
(photo by Michael Laing)
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:
They had one album ("Serendipity")
out on Phonogram. They were sadly dropped by the label after this,
but now possibly for the first item ever, below is a collection of
material they were rehearsing for what would have been their
second album. Thanks to Clark Thomson from the band for the DAT
transfer and the audio files.
Darlingheart
- For the Love of Mr Tom
Darlingheart
- Hessianskin
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- Cars
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- Gold Brick Calgary
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Jar
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- Cutlery
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- You and the Tree
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- High Heeled Horse
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- Toilet Paper Crown
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- Madame Butterfly
Thanks to Cameron Campbell of the band for the new pictures and press cuttings.
