Veras
Get It While You Can
The Veras are four fellas making music inspired by all the great music from the '50s right up to about 5 minutes ago. Their first release sprung in early 2020 (just before the mayhem), and they have since released a further four physical singles and their debut album. The last single was a marvellous cover of The Action's 'Something To Say,' recorded by Morgan Nicholls, former bass-player of late '80s/early '90s indie-pop big hitters The Senseless Things and who has gone on to work with Muse, Gorillaz, Lily Allen and The Who. Morgan engineered and produced the track and created the accompanying video for the song. Morgan is the son of Billy Nicholls, a solo artist on Andrew Loog Oldham's trailblazing Immediate Records label in the '60s. Although there was no plan for it to turn out the way it did, 'Get It While You Can' has turned into a story of the best of (and worst of) the last 18 months. Covering (quite loosely at times) greed, consumerism, human rights, throw-away culture and the slow death-spiral that is the environment. But it's definitely not all doom and gloom as there's pop tunes a-plenty and the overall feeling is buoyant and positive. More songs this time around have been self recorded, which has seen The Veras sound progress since their 'V For Veras' debut album. 'Get It While You Can' is rounded off with an extended version of The Action's 'Something To Say,' as mentioned earlier, which gained much approval from The Action's drummer Roger Powell. Limited to 250 copies on vinyl (with printed inner sleeve).