![]() I want to see you gig again and even have a new album out. You would have been my most important gig by then till All About Eve took over my life lol. Anyhow, I was going to see them live at the Boardwalk, Manchester in 1989 but the gig was cancelled. I do wonder was there an album before as they had so many early singles out. HLF's 1989 album is amazing and now I play it most days. Lost all but the 7inch Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt. I got their rare 12inch/7inch singles in the like 1987. Fame and fortune may elude them yet again, but these factors do not disguise the quality of His Latest Flame 's songs." (Lestyn George, July 1990) Relying on a solid pop/rock formula, Moira Rankin's mannered vocals benefit greatly from some imaginative four-part harmonies, particularly on "America Blue" and "Take It In Your Stride". In The Neighbourhood presents a new set of songs which betray the band's growing maturity. A name change and a contract with Go! Discs failed to rouse the record buying public, despite some fine pop tunes, leaving them in the unenviable position of being patronized as an "all-girl group" by some and pilloried by others for growing out of their monkey-booted adolescence. ![]() As agit-popsters Sophisticated Boom Boom they recorded a John Peel session, but never graduated to vinyl. "This is His Latest Flame 's debut album in a chequered career spanning the best part of a decade. His Latest Flame - In The Neighbourhood (1989) Documenting rare finds in thrift stores and bargain bins all across America. ![]()
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