Easy Money - Getting LostHere is one of my all time favorite indie records... this was the first release from Richards Records of British Columbia: Getting Lost (Hourigan) 2:56 by Easy Money. My memory tells me I picked this disc up new sometime around 1981. I think this side is just the sheep's pinata! The b side for any record keepers out there was High Fashion (Hourigan) 2:33.
British Columbia had a great do-it-yourself spirited music scene around 1977-1983 with groups like The Subhumans, The Pointed Sticks, The K-Tels/Young Canadians, The Modernettes and The Dishrags. You can find Sticks, Young Canadians and Modernettes on CD from Sudden Death Records and a various artists compilation from the Vancouver scene circa 1977-78 titled Vancouver Complication is available there too!
If anyone has any information about Easy Money to pass along I'd be curious to know more. The songwriter's name Hourigan rings a bell as having been involved with some other group before this but I can't pin it down. I may dimly recall the name Easy Money being on some photocopied posters to events I couldn't attend, but hoo nose. The only show I know I saw had NoMeansNo and a lot of really loud noisy groups who held little interest for me at the time.
Update: Check it out... Linda McRae of Easy Money is still around!
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Stumbled across this entry looking for something completely different. I saw Easy Money many times in Victoria in the 80's. Front man Karl Hourigan worked at a music store in town and I went to UVic with his sister. I don't know if he was in any other bands but I think his family had a furniture or carpet store, which may be where you heard the name. If you can find it you'd probably like their other single. It's listed here:
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/easy_money
Easy Money was a Victoria B.C. group and Richard's Records was a Victoria label connected with a record store of the same name.
After Easy Money, I had a band called The Slip, then Hoi Polloi (which included Easy Money alumni Rob Lifton and Linda McRae plus Queen City Kids former drummer Jeff Germain), then moved to Vancouver and had a band called Helen Gone. After thieves stole our electric guitars and such, started an acoustic thang with Helen Gone. We released three albums - you can hear a few cuts on CBC Radio 3's website. Now in Kelowna with a new band, The Malarkeys, which has released one album so far...
Glad to hear you are still making music Karl, you have a lot of talent! Since posting this five and a half years ago (I had a homemade MP3 of the a-side with it for about a month by the way) there was a fantastic CD/book package released titled All Your Ears Can Hear with two Easy Money tracks ('No Stranger To Danger' and 'On The Edge'), and I found out I went to school with members of The Neos and Nematodes (who knew), I lived right near where the Twisted Minds photos in the book were taken too (long since demolished along with the skateboard park).
I could swear I have a track by The Slip on a cassette of mostly Vancouver groups someplace...
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