The Secret Goldfish Explained

The Secret Goldfish
Background:group_or_band
Genre:Alternative rock
Years Active:1994 - 1999
Label:Creeping Bent
Associated Acts:The Mackenzies
Mongoose
The Fizzbombs
Past Members:Katy McCullars
John Morose
Graham Lironi
Paul Turnbull
Steven McSeveney

The Secret Goldfish are a band from Glasgow, Scotland. The group was formed by ex-Fizzbombs singer Katy McCullars, guitarist John Morose, and the rhythm section from The Mackenzies, Graham Lironi and Paul Turnbull.

History

The band took their name from an imaginary book mentioned in the novel The Catcher in the Rye.[1] They released three albums and several singles in the 1990s, on the Glasgow-based Creeping Bent record label. Their first album, 1996's Aqua Pet...You Make Me, was produced by Stephen Lironi. Their sound has been described as "sounding much like The Jesus and Mary Chain locked in a public toilet with Jefferson Airplane and The New York Dolls". An album of B-sides and outtakes, Jet Streams, was released in 1997, and in 1999 they issued the Somewhere in the World EP, the lead track of which was co-written by Vic Godard and featured Francis MacDonald and Stevie Jackson. A second album, Mink Riots followed in 1999. After a lengthy hiatus, The Secret Goldfish returned to live performance in 2016 with a second guitarist (former Orange Juice guitarist James Kirk), with a third album (Petal Split) being released on Creeping Bent in April 2017.

Final line-up:

Releases

Albums

E.P.'s and singles

Album track listings

Aqua Pet... You Make Me

  1. "Come Undone" (3:01)
  2. "Tartan Envy" (3:09)
  3. "The Boy Who Left Home To Learn Fear" (5:52)
  4. "Pet Thang" (1:56)
  5. "Dandelion Milk Summer" (3:43)
  6. "Venus Bonding : Erotic Mars" (2:08)
  7. "I Will See You Through" (4:52)
  8. "I Left One Out, Where Did It Go" (2:23)
  9. "Seasick" (2:51)
  10. "Glass Mountain" (2:09)
  11. "The Catalyst" (2:20)
  12. "Strawberry St." (2:35)
  13. "Another Short Song About Love And Loss" (2:35)
  14. "Bandovian Curve" (2:43)

Jet Streams

The album includes covers of The Fire Engines, Shangri-Las, Orange Juice, The Velvet Underground and Nirvana songs.

  1. "This Arsehole's Been Burned Too Many Times Before" (2:42)
  2. "Casanova Killer" (4:40)
  3. "Ambulance" (0:43)
  4. "Give Him A Great Big Kiss" (2:45)
  5. "Wasted In Carluke" (1:53)
  6. "Blue Sky Yesterday" (1:23)
  7. "Sunless" (3:36)
  8. "Tartan Envy (Luv n Haight Version)" (3:23)
  9. "Allegro" (0:42)
  10. "Come as You Are" (3:12)
  11. "Rude Awakening" (3:51)
  12. "Everywhere That You Go" (3:49)
  13. "Pink Drone" (5:07)
  14. "Afterhours/Intuition Told Me" (3:02)

Mink Riots

  1. "You're Funny 'Bout That, Aren't You?" (4:37)
  2. "Somewhere in the World" (3:45)
  3. "Laughing Inside" (6:13)
  4. "Scenecruiser" (4:09)
  5. "Honestly, It Was Nothing" (3:16)
  6. "4 Excited People" (2:41)
  7. "Take My Hand" (2:39)
  8. "Hey! Mr. Fox" (2:48)
  9. "Elevate #2" (3:10)
  10. "Pink Drone" (9:18)

Petal Split

  1. "O. Pioneers" (3:14)
  2. "Amelia Star" (3:48)
  3. "Phonecall" (2:52)
  4. "X" (3:00)
  5. "Winter Tears # 2" (1:49)
  6. "Outrageous Things" (3:56)
  7. "Good Kissers" (2:49)
  8. "El Capitan Y Mi" (3:01)
  9. "A Different Game" (2:14)
  10. "Ain't That Always The Way" (3:00)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Strong, Martin C. (2003) "Secret Goldfish", in The Great Indie Discography, Canongate,

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