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Hellfire Sermons

Too Weird To Woo

About Me

Indie-folk-pop band from Liverpool, UK. Hellfire Sermons released a string of 7-inch vinyl singles in the 1980s and 1990s to critical approval, selling out of their limited presssings all too quickly.

The songs deal with everyday life in Liverpool - drunks, liars, poll tax bailiffs, girls and Trotskyists.

These are now collected together on the CD 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' on the excellent BusStop label of Milwaukee, USA. We continue to write, rehearse and gig and are looking for an outlet for another twenty or thirty unreleased indie-pop gems.

The two Esurient singles, 'Honey/Moon' and 'Best Laugh I Ever Had'; and the two Dishy singles 'Covered In Love' and 'Sarasine' are now available for free on download.com .


The Bus Stop album 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' which collects together all the singles, flexi-discs and cassette only releases - 19 songs - is now available from Amazon UK , Amazon US , CDBaby and now iTunes .
Here's a snippet from the upcoming album... still in progress

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2006
Band Website: hellfiresermons.fsnet.co.uk
Band Members: alan - drums, b.vox;
andy - bass;
neal - guitar, vox.

Influences: The Breeders, early but not late James, The Damned, Belle and Sebastian, Sidi Bou Said, Pixies, Pavement, The Velvet Underground, The Jam, Sonic Youth, Northern Soul, Wire, Captain Beefheart, delgados, The Creation, The Misunderstood, The Dismemberment Plan, Sebadoh, Flaming Lips, Love, Huggy Bear, The Beat, Sleater-Kinney, Tamla Motown, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Wedding Present, Arcade Fire, Ash, Divine Comedy, The Room, Benny Profane, The Slits, Brendan Benson, Swell, when House met Pop, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, B-52's, A House, JG Ballard, Bobok.
Sounds Like: Throwing Muses, Josef K, Go-Betweens, The Fall, Divine Comedy, The Jactars, The Claim, Emily.
Record Label: BusStop Label, previously Esurient Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Andys Christmas Compilation 2007

Andy is true to form, and Easter sees him come up with... Andy’s Christmas Compilation 2007 The Isley Brothers - It’s Your Thing Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter - You Might Walk Aw...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:35:00 PST

The unified theory of Scottish pop

What a weird programme that Caledonia Dreaming was (BBC 4). It was really a clip show, but for some reason the writer decided to postulate some daft musings on the wider context of the music. So Postc...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:23:00 PST

Subject

Last week at Crash we played back the recordings of Gone To Ground and 100 Flowers we did the previous week. Once we had tweaked the mix a bit so the drums weren't blowing holes in our skulls, it soun...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:24:00 PST

Neal’s Xmas CD

Here is Neal's Xmas CD tracklisting - hey Andy, where's yours? More info about why we do this can be found on our web site, and more track lists will be posted later. Neal's Christmas Compilati...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:16:00 PST

Alans Xmas CD

Here at last is the first of the Christmas compilations. I've been messing about with MySpace a bit this evening, but it's being temperamental, so the blog I was going to post of lost forever... In th...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

Annoyed at Orange

Once upon a time, we had a website on Freeserve - you can still see it here. Then Freeserve was swallowed whole by Wanadoo - which in turn was gobbled up by Orange - still paying attention? When we st...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:06:00 PST

Gone To Ground

Spent a while trying to whip Gone To Ground into shape for recording last week. It's weird the way playing these songs without vocals works... me and Alan both feel liberated cos we don't have to sing...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:12:00 PST

Mixing

Been working on mixes recently... it's a kind of love/hate thing. I enjoy doing it, but at the same time you do worry whether you're cocking it up. Came up with a mix for Uncle Sam with a strange chor...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:56:00 PST

Sorry for the lack of posts

I do get into moods with computers - get sick of the things cos I work with them. So I've been a bit lazy - not as lazy as the other two though! At the end of the year we finished off Journey End To E...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:32:00 PST

You-oo-oo and ter-er

Time to concentrate on backing vox for Journey End To End this week. Alan already had some, but we all felt we could make a bit more of some bits of the song. So, we made him work pretty hard, and the...
Posted by Hellfire Sermons on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:25:00 PST