One of the tracks
on the Sugar Rae 12”,The
Cradle Born, has become a cult classic and is now selling
on eBay for £50 a turn. Unfortunately, we do
not have many left, only a few personal copies, but
we are trying to secure more copies and will let people
know if we get them.
If you are interested in the original single please email
us and we will let you know if any surface. The track
has also been released on a German CD compilation album, ‘The
Sound of Leamington Spa – Volume 5’ available
from Firestation Records, www.firestation-records.de.
Sons of Art are planning to reissue
all the Kid Sinister studio recordings on one album
soon. It will include the original version of The Cradle
Born recorded at the famous Sam Studios with producer
Steve Street.
Formed in Bristol,
UK, in the mid 1980’s, Kid Sinister
were based around the classic song writing of John Douglass & the
passionate vocals of Steve Hogg.
The band played regularly around the South West and eventually their popularity
spread around the southern UK in cities such as Oxford and London.
Despite courting from the major labels they released their debut single ‘Sugar
Rae’, on the independent Sons of Art Records and were described as ‘the
thinking persons pop band’. However, despite continued interest the band
called it a day in 1990. ‘It was the end of an era and a good time to stop’,
says John Douglass now, ‘commercially we may have had further to go but
musically it was time to move on’.
The band are going
through something of a mini revival at present thanks to
our German & Japanese
friends.
mp3 samples
the cradle born
feel my pulse
line-up core line-up;
John Douglass – Songs, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Steve Hogg – Lead Vocals
Phil Rice – Drums
Mike Rogers – Bass,
also featured;
guitarists - Kit Morgan, Stewart Watkins, Paul Berrington, Rob
Allen
keyboards - matt porter, Tim Walter, Andy Price, Mike Oxenham
bass - Rich Wilson
sax - al walker
