Lost and Found Video - Passion Puppets

Better late than never, I suppose. I hope my readers in the United States had an excellent Thanksgiving (if inclined to celebrate). Sorry for the delay in posting.

This week's lost and found video is one that had slipped off my radar quite a few years ago; another song I remember first hearing on Salt Lake City radio station KCGL. The tune was brought back to memory recently when reading the Retro Music Snob blog. BTW, the Snob thinks he is unable to continue writing his blog. Gary, if you're reading this -- I think your fans would be quite satisfied with a couple of posts a week.

Anyway, there isn't a whole lot out there about the Passion Puppets. Here's the band's All Music Guide Bio:

Passion Puppets were a British new wave band that caught radio listeners with one clever single, "Like Dust," before abruptly vanishing. Seemingly an ode to Italian Western films, "Like Dust," a cult hit on Canadian radio in the '80s, is more often remembered than the group that actually performed it. Formed in 1983 in Camden, England, Passion Puppets featured Ray Burmiston (vocals), Miki Screene (bass, vocals), Andy P. (guitars), Dave Rollins (guitars), and Simon Langford Godfrey (drums). Passion Puppets released three singles, "Like Dust," "Voices," and "Beyond the Pale," on Stiff Records in the U.K. between 1983 to 1984. In 1984, the band released its only album, Beyond the Pale, distributed in the U.S. by MCA Records. The LP didn't sell well and the group split up soon thereafter. Burmiston embarked on a career as a photographer, snapping pictures of pop stars for record companies and British teen magazines. In 1994, an extended version of "Like Dust" appeared on Hardest Hits, Vol. 1, introducing the out-of-print record to a new generation of fans; it was the first time the band had ever been heard on CD. In 2000, Burmiston recorded an album called Miniworld under the name Kicking the Moon.

From Beyond the Pale, this is Like Dust. Sorry for the bad quality -- I am just amazed that the video is available all.

Beyond the Pale has been reissued by Stiff Records, and is available at Amazon, as well as on iTunes.

The only links I have found are for the MySpace Page and website for David Rollins, who now works as an instructor and session guitarist.