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Smudge Manilow 20th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

On the 20th birthday of Smudge's debut album, we are releasing a strictly limited edition run of vinyl to celebrate.

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Smudge Manilow 20th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

Smudge Manilow 20th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

Smudge Manilow 20th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

Smudge Manilow 20th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

Smudge Manilow 20th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

On the 20th birthday of Smudge's debut album, we are releasing a strictly limited edition run of vinyl to celebrate.

On the 20th birthday of Smudge's debut album, we are releasing a strictly limited edition run of vinyl to celebrate.

On the 20th birthday of Smudge's debut album, we are releasing a strictly limited edition run of vinyl to celebrate.

On the 20th birthday of Smudge's debut album, we are releasing a strictly limited edition run of vinyl to celebrate.

Adam Yee
Adam Yee
Adam Yee
Adam Yee
2 Campaigns |
Sydney, Australia
$1,356 USD $1,356 USD 66 backers
42% of $3,161 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Smudge has been around since 1991 when Tom Morgan (guitar, vocals), Alison Galloway (drums) and Paul "Duncs" Duncan (bass) got together to contribute a song to the Half A Cow 7 inch called Slice (along with Swirl, Jupiter and Studley Lush). There's only so much room for two songs on one side of a 7 inch so Tom was asked by the label to write a song "around a minute in length". He came up with 'Tea, Toast & Turmoil' - a short, melodic pop song with colourful lyrics which set the blueprint for the future output of Smudge.

Tom and Alison used to hang out at the Lansdowne Hotel and talk about the "pop-punk" band they were going to form - inspired by their heroes at the time Dinosaur Jr and Descendents. The newly-formed Half A Cow label offered to put out a seven inch. Don't Want To Be Grant McLennan soon followed. So did a review from NME which gave the slab 'single of the week'. Whilst on tour in Australia in the middle of 1991, Evan Dando from The Lemonheads met up with Tom (recording two songs for Tom's other band Sneeze) and a song-writing friendship was struck up and they co-wrote songs for It's A Shame About Ray including the title track.

Two more releases followed for this lineup of Smudge - the Love, Lust & Lemonjuice and Superhero EPs before Duncs left and was replaced by Adam Yee (formerly of noise-merchants Headache). This lineup still rocks to this day and have been responsible for 1994's Manilow album, the Hot Smoke & Sassafras mini-LP, 1996'sYou, Me, Carpark...Now, 1998's Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra and many other releases.

Releases around the globe followed in Japan, Canada, USA and the UK with three northern hemisphere tours including 1994's Reading Festival coupled with a session for John Peel making that a memorable year for the band.

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2014. Smudge has been working feverishly; retweaking bits and pieces for the 20th anniversary release of Manilow. Having seen reissues in both Europe (Fire) and Australia (Half A Cow), the trio has launched its own label (Smudge) to unleash a remastered, 180 gram virgin-vinyl longplayer. Smudge001. Manilow.

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