With Mike Hall acting as Georgie Fame to Grahame’s Van, ‘The Land of Do As You Please’ opens with early single, ‘Looking through the Butcher’s Window’. Similarly-themed, it was written from the subconscious perspective of a young man who had moved into the big city, as the now Edinburgh-based Grahame had done, and who was finding his way in the world and with women, God and his music. The subtitle of ‘Friday the 13th and Everything’s Rosie’ was "Excerpts from the life of a spiritual cowboy” and could have equally applied to ‘The Land Of Do As You Please’. Hastily recorded in three days, it was released somewhat confusingly by Silvertone in the summer of 1993 as a means of raising publicity for the band before ‘The Land Of Do As You Please’, their debut album proper, came out in the autumn.
The group’s debut LP, ‘Friday the 13th and Everything’s Rosie’, was a part tongue-in-cheek “country” record.
They were soon joined by Gavin Smith on percussion. The Lost Soul Band had formed in Penicuik, a small town eight miles outside Edinburgh, in 1989 and, as well as Grahame, also consisted initially of Mike Hall (keyboards), his brother Brian Hall (drums) and Richard Buchanan (bass). They were a band out of step with the fashions of the music press and out of time. While the rest of the world got into grunge and mourned the death of Kurt Cobain, the Lost Soul Band harked back at one level to the R&B/soul of Van Morrison and at another to the funk of Sly and the Family Stone and Parliament. Indeed that was his group’s greatest virtue, but also much of the problem. “It’s just impossible for us to sound like other people”, Gordon Grahame, the Lost Soul Band’s vocalist, guitarist and lyricist, boasted in a 1993 short promo documentary about the band made by their record company, Silvertone. By 1994 they had slipped into oblivion, but left behind a brace of under-rated singles, and a minor classic in their first recorded, but second released 1993 album,’The Land Of Do As You Please’. Although they played several well-received shows at the Borderline and Mean Fiddler in London and toured across the UK with Irish other indie hopefuls the Four of Us in November of 1992, they, however, never caught on nationally. They attracted a fervent following in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. They contain powerful messages based upon scripture, as well as many issues facing Christians today.For about a year from the last part of 1992 through until towards the end of 1993 the Lost Soul Band were one of the great hopes of Scottish rock music. All their songs have been written with strong and prayerful inspiration. Their music is comprised of Hardcore-Screamo/Pop-Punk/Metal, but the heavier aspects do not overpower the catchy melodies and unique harmonies. Although their music might be seen or thought of as unconventional, it is their that God’s calling for their lives is to reach those souls that otherwise could not be witnessed to by a more traditional style of music or method. That have been given an amazing opportunity to share God’s unconditional love and sacrifice for all, by not only sharing their music but also by interacting with fans both young and old.
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