SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #397 : 35mm DREAMS

I’ve this one courtesy of it being included in the many-times mentioned Big Gold Dreams box set.

mp3: 35mm Dreams – More Than This

It was released as a single on More Than This Records in November 1980, and that’s the picture sleeve above.  There was a small flyer with the 45:-

The BGD booklet offers up the following:-

“Taking their name from a song by Lou Reed and John Cale favourite Garland Jeffreys, Edinburgh’s 35mm Dreams sounded on their debut single like a post-punk ‘Eleanor Rigby’. This followed a four-track cassette of demos, Suburbia Sheiks, which perhaps nodded to the band’s roots at Craigmount High School in west Edinburgh, also alma mater to assorted Fire Engines and Scars.

“A second single, ‘Fasten Your Safety Belts’, followed. Drummer Moray Crawford went on to play in Buba & Shop Assistants before decamping to Japan where he guested on Shonen Knife’s Heavy Songs album.  A briefly reformed 35mm Dreams and Moray Crawford’s Japanese band My-T-Hi played an Edinburgh show alongside Shock and Awe thirty years to the day since the release of ‘More Than This.'”

I knew nothing of this song or the band prior to getting the box set back in 2019.  It’s become one of my many favourites across the entire 115 tracks – there’s nothing particularly ground-breaking about the 2 minutes and 18 seconds that it takes from first note to last, but it’s interesting and catchy enough to warrant repeated listens.

JC