The ones you left, our friends deserted…
You’ve hopefully had a chance to have a good listen to David Bowie’s iPod playlist as published in The Observer a couple of weeks back. (01.24.2010 NEWS: DB REVEALS HIS CURRENT iPOD PLAYLIST IN THE OBSERVER)
The tracks were available either via Spotify or iTunes, though both versions of their playlists omitted a couple of tunes.
Sadly, one of the tracks missing from both was
I got in touch with Scott and Wendy, (Boxharp essentially) and explained that there was nowhere for people to hear All These Deserters aside from on their long out of print first album, The Tailored Soldier.
They kindly responded by making All These Deserters available on
I also asked them how they felt at learning DB had singled them out for inclusion on his playlist…this was their response:
?To have David Bowie?s ear, and be sitting next to Gavin Bryars, Godspeed, and Scritti Politti has quite taken our breath away.?
As if their generosity with All These Deserters wasn’t enough, they’ve also made their wonderful new single, Rainbirds, available as a