Apache Dropout – ‘Yellow Fever’ (The Best of Apache Dropout)

“Yellow Fever” (The Best of Apache Dropout)
by Apache Dropout
Released on CD and Digital Download 3rd July 2020 via Bristol Archive Records

Apache Dropout were formed in 1990 when revoltingly good-looking failed rock star Mike Crawford returned to Bristol after a distant brush with fame in the USA and met Richard Beale recently departed from Head, drunk on words at a children’s birthday party. This union resulted in three albums, ‘Hey Dopey’, ‘Live’, and ‘Masters’ which the press described as ‘An English REM’ – Mojo, ‘Classic British song writing similar to Aztec Camera’ – Record Collector.

As a band they were doomed but the songs play on in a hopeless honky-tonk hotel in the land of lost legends. Imagine a down and out Exile era Rolling Stones armed with a Tascam 8 track, tincture of opium, cider, the works of Malcolm Lowry and a stack of skin flicks. In their hometown of Bristol, they are still spoken about with the hushed reverence and respect reserved for the all-time greats and this compilation serves to share these hidden gems with the new world.

Apache Dropout: Those Who Have Served:

Adrian Utley, Alex Lee, Andy Price, Angelo Bruschini, Bill Waine, Ben Christie, Bob Locke, Clive Deamer, Charlie Jones, Charlie Rose, Corin Dingley, Gina Griffin, Jamie Hill, John E Vistic, Jon Chilcot (RIP), Joe Allen, James Ryan, Kenny MacDonald, Marc Clements, Paul Horlicks, Tim Jukes, Stew Jackson and Reg Evans.

Yellow Fever (The Best of Apache Dropout) is an album of beautifully crafted songs from the rich vaults of Bristol’s vast musical history and is released on 3rd July 2020 via Bristol Archive Records.

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