Men on the Verge of Nothing also features Kate Nash, Roxanne Clifford (Patience / Veronica Falls), Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill / Frumpies) and Alana Amram (Hunx & His Punx/Habibi).
This is Patience's best single to date, an instantly catchy slice of mid-'80s style synthpop that could be a distillation of the entire Pretty in Pink soundtrack into one song nicely understated song.
Nick McCarthy, who very recently parted ways with Franz Ferdinand, is now backing his wife Manuela Gernedel in a new musical project. Going simply by Manuela, the collaboration is not too far from the low-fi post-punk Nick made with Box Codax...
With James Haore's other band, Ultimate Painting, taking off, Veronica Falls quietly ceased to be, apparently. The group's other singer/guitarist, Roxanne Clifford, has launched a new solo project called Patience that finds her trading in guitars for keyboards and drum machines...