The Rakes

It's actually...

I, I can't really take, um, credit for it because it's the title of a song by a band called The Rakes that were-- um, that I worked with in that era.

So, um, it's actually, um, Alan Donahue, who was their singer, who came up with the title.

Um, and he did it for-- They were asked to do, um, a music for a runway catwalk, catwalk show, um, for Dior Homme in Paris, and, um, this is the song that they wrote.

Bands like The Long Blondes in Sheffield, again, um, you know, they just kind of like the look of each other.

They used to see each other out in clubs and were like, "Maybe we should start a band." Not one of them could play an instrument, and then they sort of learn in, in the rehearsal space.

And The Rakes, again, same.

You know, they bought a ga- guitar from Argos, which in the UK is like a [laughs] kind of-

We'll be right back.

okay so there's three more songs with a bit more grit to them than we've played so far and don't forget if you are liking this kind of music if you like guitar music of any kind go back and listen to our previous podcasts this is the ninth one in the series so far we're going to keep on going and basically play music that you don't hear anywhere else we've got all kinds of stuff that we've had before and you never know you might just find your new favorite artist among there somewhere now on with the next three songs first up we've got the cooper temple claws with promises promises they were a band around 1998 to 2007 ish around that time didn't really make it again a bit unusual but quirky following on from that we've got the rakes with 22 grand job Now the weird thing about them is they were kicking off quite nicely.

They were in the middle of a tour and then all of a sudden they just split up because they felt they had nothing more to say.

Weird if you ask me but there you go.

Ian was having a nice cup of tea and just going, like...

Goldie Looking Chain, Boy Kill Boy, The Kooks, The Rakes, and Maximo Park.

Right, they've run out of ammo.

They're

It is.

It's, um, a song for, by The Rakes that they wrote for a Dior catwalk show for Hedi Slimane, um, who had done a Dior Home show, and the, that show just celebrated the kind of look of the bands at that time and, and actually features some of the bands and a lot of young men that were kind of hanging around at gigs and such like that, uh, were on that catwalk show, so yeah.

Yeah.

Does it, does it also link back to a Warren Zevon song? Dave and I were talking about Werewolves of London.

And at the same time, you've got the phenomenon of the Arctic Monkeys and, and, and their success, where a lot bands are like, "Well, we're not, we're not gonna get there," you know, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, "We're not gonna get, get to that level now.

They've already done it for us." Um, so I think you're getting to the point where some bands have some time out.

Bloc Party go on hiatus at the end of that, and The Rakes, they just decide to give it up.

They just stop.