ALEX CAMERON – “LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO” (LOVE RECORD STORES 2021) //Castle Face// (Released 4th September)

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£23.99 – 1xLP, Indies Exclusive, Limited Edition Vinyl

ALEX CAMERON – “LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO” (LOVE RECORD STORES 2021) //Castle Face// (Released 4th September)

Love Record Stores 2021

Very limited (80 copies only!) released on vinyl for Love Record Stores.

Here we have the final entry into our Live In San Francisco series: an intimate evening with Alex and his indispensable sax man, Roy Molloy (beard in briefcase) performing at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco, a very classy and lovingly maintained venue originally built in 1907 on Market Street, just a pube or two into the Castro District.

I was first introduced to Alex Cameron by Adam Beris, a real swell fellow who’s been drawing Castle Faces for us for years. He asked if I had heard of this “Suicide meets sad Springsteen” act and showed me the mysterious Geocities-style website (complete with shady porn ads). I was immediately hooked on the skeletal throb, the stark portraits of hard luck losers, the ego-maniacal squares, and the swagger on this prosthetically wrinkled Australian song & dance man. On a paid website, as he reminds us. Both sharp witted and steeped in thespian courage, this is exactly what the world needed in this hungry, hungry time we live in. We got in touch, things led to other things, and when Alex was opening for Oh Sees at the Chapel in San Francisco we hatched a plan to make a live record, over white wine spritzers (as all the best deals are inked).