{"id":469,"date":"2010-03-16T00:32:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/songwriter\/?page_id=469"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:40:13","slug":"garage-rock-the-high-priests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?page_id=469","title":{"rendered":"THE HIGH PRIESTS 1990-93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sleeveHP.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/autosmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/autosmall.jpg\" alt=\"autosmall\" width=\"627\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/autosmall.jpg 627w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/autosmall-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A STORY OF KNACKERED ROCK AND ROLL IN THE DINGIEST CLUBS OF NORTH LONDON&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the whole sad and sorry saga on BANDCAMP or below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehighpriests.bandcamp.com\/\">https:\/\/thehighpriests.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3485314160\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/thehighpriests.bandcamp.com\/album\/by-bye-double-decker\">By Bye Double Decker by Thehighpriests<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1990 and hitting the shambling but right track soon after &#8216;The High Priests&#8217; took their name from a Alex Chilton record. Looking for the missing link between Garage Punk, \u00a0Power Pop and Sun-era Rock n, Roll they avoided rehearsing and playing live until 1993 when two sessions of live first-take recordings were laid down at London&#8217;s infamous Toerag Studios under the genius care of one Liam Watson (more famous recently for his work with The White Stripes amongst others).<\/p>\n<p>Thinking they&#8217;d made the greatest wigout garage classic ever the bass-less trio span wildly out of control at a succession of dingy North London pub venues before exploding in a bewildering cacophany of feedback mid song at a Piao Festival in Hammersmith London where the head honcho of Rough Trade was seen to physically grimace and walk away in despair&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All in all a thoroughly glorious failure as befits a drunken blues bunch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A 7&#8243; was released through Southern Distribution in 1993 featuring &#8216;Ice Cream Town&#8217; b\/w &#8216;Black Swans Sink&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-448 \" title=\"highp7\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/highp7.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/highp7.jpg 183w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/highp7-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a bloody racket according to noted noise merchant Billy Childish and graced a sleeve by the designer of Stereolab Sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>As only 1000 were pressed and most disappeared along with guitarist Tim Featherstone who went AWOL for 15 years but recently turned up in Cumbria again!<\/p>\n<p>It could be a collector&#8217;s item or it could be crap&#8230;who knows&#8230;. the band members are still searching for that rare single and the master tape of the High Priests session recorded at Toe-Rag Studios London with Liam&#8230; a mix of punk and blues with heavy Moe Tucker like drumming and no bass player&#8230;.hmmm&#8230;a full ten years before the White Stripes and the Black Keys&#8230;maybe if we&#8217;d had a colour in our name &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;AUTO GRAVEYARD&#8217; The High Priests &#8216;complete&#8217; works is to be released on Tstar Records sometime soon&#8230;&#8230;you have been warned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Band Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaun Belcher<\/strong> &#8211; wailing and stroking that Harmony H-60<br \/>\n<strong>Tim Featherstone<\/strong> &#8211; drinking and moaning and telecaster mayhemm&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Mike Arnold<\/strong> &#8211; sticks and tub thumper, once got a xmas-card from Moe Tucker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>where are they now???&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shaun Belcher died and came back as Trailer Star and is now himself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Arnold got smart and did a M.A. in Creative Writing at Bath University.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Featherstone disappeared for a while and now living happily ever after back in Cumbria with family..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Influences <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>sonic youth, velvet underground, stooges, nirvana, nick cave, pre-war blues and english folk&#8230;&#8230;.and johnny cash<br \/>\nSounds Like white stripes, johnny cash, nirvana, velvet underground, sonic youth, buffalo tom, nick cave, beck and richard thompson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-469 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?attachment_id=514'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sleeveHP-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sleeveHP-150x150.jpg 150w, 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Listen to the whole sad and sorry saga on BANDCAMP or below https:\/\/thehighpriests.bandcamp.com\/ &nbsp; By Bye Double Decker by Thehighpriests Formed in 1990 and hitting the shambling but right track soon after &#8216;The High Priests&#8217; took their name from a Alex&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?page_id=469\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE HIGH PRIESTS 1990-93<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":655,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/revisions\/1059"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}