GRIMPEN MIRE

FORTUNES SUNG (1990)

Tracks

1. Puddletown (2:38) 
2. Another Wall (3:36) 
3. She Said Don't Imagine (3:26) 
4. Her Summer's Gone (3:33) 

Credits

Produced by Peter Koppes
Melvin Stewart - Vocals/Guitar
Andrej Simec - Keyboard/Vocals (Incorrectly listed as "Andrew" in the liner notes.)
Charlie Maysfield - Bass/Vocals
Andy Smith - Drums

Releases

• LP - Virgin Records Australia VOZT-075 (Australia)
• CD - Virgin Records Australia VOZCD 075 (Australia)

Notes

Grimpen Mire broke up before the release of this very obscure album. Singer/guitarist Melvin Stewart then disappeared, and Virgin naturally did nothing to promote it, despite its moments of fine melodic, jangly guitar-pop. Grimpen Mire is the name given by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the hazardous, marshy, bog-riddled moors surrounding the Baskerville estate in his novel The Hound of The Baskervilles.

"See" said he, "no one could find his way into Grimpen Mire tonight". She laughed and clapped her hands, her eyes and teeth gleamed with fierce merriment. "He may find his way in, but never out" she cried.
  - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of The Baskervilles)