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Eddie Mooney & The Grave se formaron en 1978 en la frenética escena del Manchester de finales de los 70, en plena ebullición del punk y la nueva ola. Rapídamente llaman la atención del legendario sello mancuniano TJM Records que les recluta para editar un 7" de dos canciones, "I Bought Three Eggs/Zombie" que solo verán la luz en el recopilatorio "Identity Parade" (TJM, 1979), siendo recuperadas más tarde en formato 7" por el sello alemán Still Unbeatable Records en 2009.

Después de varias grabaciones en 1978/1979 la banda desaparece y Eddie milita en conocidas bandas clásicas de los 60 como The Fortunes o The Dakotas. Estas grabaciones se editaron en 2019 y 2020 en sendos 7" EPs también en Still Unbeatable Records, en ediciones muy limitadas y ya descatalogados. En el último de esos EPs aparece un tema nuevo, "Dawn The Drain", co-compuesto también con el capo de Still Unbeatable Records. Malte Buhr, que también forma parte de la banda junto a Mike Rowbotton y Ricky Medlock.

Para este nuevo 7", hemos recuperado este "Down The Drain" en una nueva mezcla y hemos incluido un tema nuevo, este "Telephones" que está teniendo una excelente acogida en las radios británicas.

"In the summer of 1978 I did a demo of „I Bought Three Eggs“ in a cellar in the Manchester student house that I was living in. I played the recording over the telephone to the voicemail of TJM Records in Manchester, who at the time included bands such as Slaughter and the Dogs and Frantic Elevators (featuring Mick Hucknall, later of Simply Red). The telephone recording was heard by Mark Standley of TJM band V2, who told label boss Tony Davidson he had to put this bizzarre song out! Tony rang me and arranged a studio session at Smile Studios, Upper Chorlton Street in south Manchester, produced by myself and Steve Foley.
The night before the session I quickly wrote the B-side, „Zombie“ and the following day I turned up with drummer Chris Fisher and rhythm
guitarist Mike Rowbottom. The session took place late in !978, around December I recall. As Mike wasn’t really a lead guitarist, I played lead guitar on „I Bought Three Eggs“ as well as lead vocals and bass guitar. TJM first released the tracks on the „Identity Parade“ sampler LP
and almost immediately „Eggs“ got BBC Radio 1 airplay by John Peel and Peter Powell.
At this point the band hadn’t even done a live gig but such was the
success of the track that we were booked to appear on a variety of punk and new wave shows with the likes of the Cure, Joy Division, V2,
the Damned and others. The track was scheduled as a single release as TJM16, but the label went bust just as the single came out. Very few were pressed and the release was chaotic. Eddie Mooney and the Grave continued up to 198O before splitting. Many years later in the mid 9os, I appeared at the „Holidays In the Sun“ festivals in Blackpool and Morecambe, with the Damned, Buzzcocks, Slaughter & the Dogs and many others, this time backed by V2.
In February 2006 "Eggs“ appeared on CD for the first time on
the „White Dopes on Punk“ compilation – without my knowledge!!

Eddie Mooney