NEWS: Train Driver In Eyeliner – Nick Sanderson Revisited

“Looking out the window of a train is the only time I feel really relaxed.”

Nick Sanderson

Nick Sanderson was a train driver. He wore eyeliner. On April 22nd 2021 he should have been 60 years old.

A lighting conductor of creative disturbance, as frontman of the legendary Earl Brutus, Nick knew all about the strange and inescapable ambiguities of the British condition.

Train Driver in Eyeliner is a Memorial Device that remembers him in all his genius and life-force, a collection of 19 Earl Brutus Greats, specially recorded by friends, family and fanatics including Saint Etienne, the Jesus & Mary Chain’s Jim Reid, Luke Haines’ Surrey Wrecking Crew, plus Nick’s wife and son Romi and Syd, Earl Brutus bandmates and spiritual glam rock peers Giuda.

It’s all available as a limited-edition cassette, a medium that is both retrospective and incredibly futuristic – like the life and times of Nick himself.

Cassettes can be pre-ordered (see link) for delivery on Nick’s 60^thBirthday, 22^nd April 2021.

All profits for this release will be donated to Cancer Research UK.

The full track listing is as follows:

Dark5 (ft.Syd Sanderson) – Bonjour Monsieur

Jim Reid – Motarola

Saint Etienne – Midland Red

Giuda – Life’s Too Long

Gurgles – Second Class War

Sim Sanderson – Universal Plan

Quatermass III – Navy Head / England Sandwich 2021

Soft Rock Forever – East

Alien (ft.The Daryl Easlea Orchestra) – God, Let Me Be Kind