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ELSTON MAJESKA

THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL THAT LEFT HOME EP   BUY 
Release Date: 29th Jul, 2002
Cat No: DISCO0207
Format: CDS
Tracks: Piano Time  ~  The List  ~  Sending Waves To Manhattan

Hello one and all from The Kingdom of The Random,

enclosed is the rather dishy and definitely different disc from the little known Elston Majeska.

We first spied these Sheffield originals at last years In The City, the urban festival of shoulder rubbing and cocaine abuse held annually in Manchester, the highlight (and voted best band or something) of the thing in those who know (fuck all) were Hoggboy, we saw Hoggboy ... we've seen a billion Hoggboys.

Elston Majeska's set was in a scabby pub, no stage, limping PA, indifferent audience, you know the deal right?, and what struck us, apart from the drug crazed solo go-go dancer front and centre (no relation) was how beautifully obscure this tiny trio were, whilst all at once sending shivers down our punk rock backs with licks and riffs we thought you young 'uns had given up on, it was enough to make even the most hard nosed of Gang Of Four fans weep in their lager beer.

So we put it to them that they should join the family somehow, dragged them screaming southward and recorded them at Shonk, not 'waves to Manhattan' that's one from Joe's bedroom and he'd like to point out, and often does, that it was written way way before the events of September 11th.