MOURNING GLORY

Rumours of the aboutnow ten year anniversary reunion and/or reissue remaster activity of old band THE PADRES have been greatly exaggerated. By me.

A decade ago was the day the lipstick-applying grrl-covered, five-or-six track, Peel-played "What's Your Story" CD /cassette / debatably e-bayable item by THE PADRES was launched -- the Saturday day that Kurt Cobain's suicide was the tabloid cover story. There was a shoddy acoustic gig in a dusty Pacific Plaza - which stank thanks to a crap artists impression of artistic expression and had left the remains of dead chickens as part of an instillation in the unit next door. I was not amused. Instigated a dead slow cover of "Territorial Pissings" somewhere but I might have been the only Padre present at the time. Nigel Hogan - a Madre at that time - did join in though. He became a Padre later, after he'd ceased operations with another band: The Mother. Only just realised that might amount to a sex change.

Don't know if Odessey -the defunct record company that put out the Padres EP- considered suing Oasis for their later use of "What's The Story". Perhaps if my "Mourning Glory" backing vocals were kept...