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cay - resurrexit

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FRUGGING AWESOME SINGLE
listening to it now, making me feel very nostalgic. peh. i love cay. i'm going to wear my cay tshirt tomorrow.

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 17:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

also

i need Muy Feo mp3s. anyone remember them?

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 17:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i know the name

but only 'cause of the Org Records / My Vitriol connection..

guntrip | 25 Sep '06, 08:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Wow

That's going back a bit. I saw Cay support Idlewild in 2002 I think, still one of my favourite gigs ever.

colonol_k | 24 Sep '06, 17:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

doubt it

they had disappeared by the end of 2000 :-( last release was ressurexit on org after east/west dropped them, then they did the festivals including main stage at reading, and then i honestly heard that they'd pawned their guitars for drugs, and even sean organ doesn't know where they are.

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 17:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i think the idlewild tour was

summer of 99, cos i saw a show on it.

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 17:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm being silly

It wasn't Cay, it was Ikara Colt. I'm must have seen them some other time.

colonol_k | 24 Sep '06, 17:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

great thread

I used to love Cay in my youth, particularly around 1999 time. Remember a great gig they played in the summer of 99 with Co.Uk (who then changed their name to Co_Dot) and a band called Serum, who also seemed really promising then disappeared.

Always wondered what happened to Cay...heard many things: they all became coke heads, sold their instruments, etc. Also heard that Som from My Vitriol had to get a restraining order placed on Anet Mook. Almost certainly not true, but it's what I heard. She seemed a bit fucked up when they played the main stage at Reading.

Still think 'Nature Creates Freaks' is a great album.

ConcentrationFace | 24 Sep '06, 18:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

hm. i thought the album was a bit patchy

BUT some excellent songs on it. Princes & Princesses is one of the most cathartic songs (for me at least) ever. Its ace.

stella_thediver | 24 Sep '06, 18:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i think its great

the quiet songs are lovely.
yeh its either smack or coke they pawned their instruments for apparently, but who knows it its true.

serum released two singles, the were both very fun, had them on my blog a while back. never got to see them though

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 18:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

and also

co.uk's best single was Big Green Bath. irish green day wannabe mania.

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 18:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Serum

done a bit of digging, and they've got a myspace: http://www.myspace.com/serum95

Weird, yeah, thought Know How and Feeling Is Believing were amazing at the time...listening back to them now, still good songs but a little grungey / cliched. Remember Know How got a bit of airplay on the Evening Session. It looks like they've reformed as well, according to their MS

ConcentrationFace | 24 Sep '06, 18:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I liked Serum a lot

and Cay were great !
co.uk were a bit pop/punk by numbers...

lyle | 24 Sep '06, 18:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Cay

Cay were very sweet people, but they seemed to have a touch of the Docherty "heroin chic" about them. By which I mean they enjoyed the rock and roll myth a little too much.

I know they used to pawn their gear a lot, I once saw them pawn their guitars to buy stamps to send out flyers or a newsletter.

I always heard that their manager sort of fostered the habit, so she could keep them onside.

When they got signed, Nick and Anet (vox and guitars, a really sweet couple when they were sober) got a lovely plush flat, and a juicer (really) and tried to get healthy.

I didn't see them after that until they had been dropped, and last time I saw Anet so was outside the kitchens in the Spitz, doing what appeared to be begging for food. She certainly looked like she was using something.

Sad.

double-cherry | 25 Sep '06, 16:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I used to LOVE that song

even if it was their "Doll parts"

Those gigs in 2000 were really promising. But then yeah, they completely vanished in a drug shaped hole. Sad.

roastthemonaspit | 24 Sep '06, 20:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i loved cay

so much more than hole.
they made my first year of gig going absolutely amazing, and thus are part of what made me love live music and music in general so much.

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 20:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

funny how

the most seemingly insignificant bands can do that isn't it?

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 20:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Very true

I was nutso for My Vitriol around the same time. I remember legging it to the main stage at Reading in 2000 for 12 o' clock just to see them.

Happy days...

colonol_k | 24 Sep '06, 20:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i remember that

they had a singing fish

roastthemonaspit | 25 Sep '06, 10:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i have a picture of that

for some reason.

Jamie_Summers | 25 Sep '06, 10:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

indeed

see also (for me): Seafood and Ligament

roastthemonaspit | 25 Sep '06, 10:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Wow

I just listened to the songs on the Cay My Space fan page. I thought it sounded great. Thanks for getting me interested as I never would have heard of this band otherwise.

mhann24 | 24 Sep '06, 21:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

get the album

for £1.85
from
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Creates-Freaks-Cay/dp/B00002589U/sr=8-3/qid=1159129208/ref=sr_1_3/026-1912685-0058025?ie=UTF8&s=music

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 21:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

its

ace.

Jamie_Summers | 24 Sep '06, 21:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yes it is !

lyle | 24 Sep '06, 22:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Cay

were fucking brilliant, in my opinion

And my favourite co.uk song was probably 'Freakazoid'

bsmrocks | 24 Sep '06, 21:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

never knew they were so popular..

the drummer was originally from Ireland and lived in the same street as me in the house opposite. his younger brother gave me a single when it came out(was pinkish and has kida crap phtocopied inlay - think was Org lable or something?)
think twas the singer and one of teh ther band memebers that fecked up thewir budget on drugs...ooops
i know that the drummer is now a teacher in london..

IrishQuartet_London | 25 Sep '06, 11:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that org single was ace

wish i had a copy :(
yeh i think anet and the guitarist were a couple from what i recall.

Jamie_Summers | 25 Sep '06, 11:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Never got

to see Cay but the album has some fantastic stuff on it, especially the title track.

I quite liked co.uk too. My favourite tune was probably Influenced but most of their stuff was fairly good.

Their singer Joe went on to form another band afterwards called Vapour Lounge along with Craig who drums for Fighting With Wire, Herb who used to play bass in Fighting With Wire and a guy called John Rossi that supposedly used to be in Snow Patrol. They were fairly average and didn't last too long.

Joe's got a new band now although at the moment I can't remember their name, which is bugging me. I haven't seen them yet but they're supposedly really good.

johnny_goatboy | 25 Sep '06, 12:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply