It's Th' Rewster! Dept.

New cover by Dave @ Th' Copy Shop©!

Here's a super-swell bumper xmas package of toe-tapping tuneage to see you thru th' "holidays"! Oboy! Why not download multiple copies to give to your loved ones on the mostest special day o' th' year? Because they'd see you as th' cheap, griftin' tightwad which you is, that's why not. Get your fat ass over to Target and treat them to some dump-bin pool shoes instead.

Kimberley Rew might have been a Posh Boy, but he's also a damned Good Egg. A gent, a decent cove, and a genuine below-the-radar talent. He can write songs, dammit. Play geetar. Can't sing much, though, but that matters aught when you have a hurricane of a singer in the line-up, with an unpronounceable name that begins with Katrina - hurricane? Katrina? Too soon?

Kimbers started out, more or less, as a Soft Boy, hiding his light under Robyn's bushel, and their story is here (really, take a hinge if you haven't - it's a typically insightful piece shot through with my trademark wacky humor).

His first as-a-solo-artist release was the undernourished Bible Of Bop [left - Ed.] comp, crippled by a wretchedly lousy cover design and a dumb title. In case you're wondering, which you ain't, the bishop figure on the cover refers to the owner of the record label, whose name was Bishop. Hence bible. You're right, it makes no sense, and the artwork is shit on a skewer. So I retitled it How Do You Do?, shuffled the tracks for a smoother listening experience, gave it a spiffy new cover, and upgraded the whole thing to @193. You don't care and you damn well should, you ingrate, because it's preternaturally swell and clocks in at an IoF©-approved thirty minutes.

Th' Rewster's big break came after years of paying dues on the prestigious UK army base circuit. Read their story in the enclosed notes - you'll get a picture of a bunch of great people having a great grimy time and finally nailing the Big Hit.

The Waves' first waxing [left - Ed.], featured eight raw Rew originals, including original Walkin' On Sunshine and Goin' Down To Liverpool - Bangles heard it here first. Power-punk-jangle-pop overdose!

First album proper [left - Ed.] picked up by savvy Canuck label Attic, included HIT title song and nine other rockin' Rew originals.

Confused yet? That's okay. Second album [left, ffs - Ed.] on Attic released after Walkin' bcame a hit. from '84. 

First major label release, all their hits re-recorded with beefed-up, chart-friendly sound. One of the best pop albums of the year, and a contender for ever. After this, other band members started grabbing song royalties, weren't up to Rew's standard, band faded from charts but kept gigging.

Th' Rewd Boy hisself, yestiddy, still walking on sunshine. He should form a power trio with Lee Sklar and Silver Fox, you ax me!