Hello, We Love You! The Big Beat Eps

' The tracks from the group's two 1984 EPs together on a swanky 10-inch vinyl LP. Inner bag features liner notes by Kris Needs incorporating new interviews with all three Delmonas and a series of great photos by Eugene Doyen. ' Sarah Crouch, Hilary Wilkins and Louise Baker started singing together as a unique spark of spontaneous magic inextricably linked to their boyfriends in the Milkshakes, then rocking a garage-punk antidote to shiny synth-pop and brash chart stars with a direct lifeline back to rock'n'roll's original simplicity and wildness. After Billy Childish and Bruce Brand formed the Pop Rivets in 1978, the guys hooked up with Micky Hampshire and Russell Wilkins to found the Milkshakes. Sarah shared a student house with boyfriend Micky plus Billy. After she and Hilary, then dating Russell, sang backing vocals on the Milkshakes' rollicking Beatles-translated take on the Shirelles' 'Boys', Louise's arrival turned them into a girl group pretty much by accident. ' 'I loved the music the Milkshakes were playing,' Louise recalls. 'Loved the small, intimate venues and most of the bands that played with them, especially the Prisoners. I'd gone with the Milkshakes to Belgium and was somehow persuaded to get up on stage and sing something. Next thing I knew, there was some kind of plan to get the three of us in the studio.' At first the three girls were called the Milk-boilers, renaming themselves the Delmonas by the time Ace Records' Roger Armstrong and Ted Carrol

Tracks

1~1~Comin' Home Baby
1~2~Chains
1~3~Woa' Now
1~4~He Tells Me He Loves Me
1~5~Hello, I Love You
1~6~I'm The One For You
1~7~Peter Gunn Locomotion
1~8~I Want You

Details

Format: Vinyl 10"
Artist: The Delmonas
Release Date: 25 June 2021
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: BIG BEAT
Distributor: Rocket Group