This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s

you CANNOT diss the TIMES. they were fab. and because of that you can't diss ed ball (plus he is nicest grooviest person i've met so far).

faux pas.

BUT PERFECT FOR CALUM'S FESTIVAL!!! second stage maybe???

Sgt. Rock
Mo-ho-bish-o-pi
Woodbine
Experimental Pop Band

1) The band Alan McGee was going to see when he saw Oasis at King Tuts changing history forever, boo hiss.
2) The band introduced by Tony Blair as "Wheeler 18" at some Labour sponsored shindig.

Yes they were in awe of Teenage Fanclub, so what? Yes, they went 'baggy' about seven years late. Big deal. I loved 'em.

I love that Mark Goodier jingle.

Skyscraper, Mint 400, Back To The Planet, Frank and Walters, Sultans Of Ping, Kerosene, Fretblanet...all these spell early 90's Evening Session to me!

2/ julio "can someone nuclear bomb this thread?" OTFM haha

3/ "tampasm" what band could ever live up to a name like that?

now that he's back up in Glasgow, Keenan's got the Telstar Ponies going again. The one-off single he did on Geographic was absolutely wonderful and their gigs around the time were simply magical - Pentangle meets Mercury Rev.

Scarfo
AC Acoustics
Warm Jets
Errr, that's it...

I liked Tiger. Molly Half Head were great, especially their song Barney.

What about Bennet - MY MUM HAS GONE TO ICELAND!

i so own.

clive, the singer, guitarist, he works at border books now.

(I was a 15-year-old boy in 1995)

Warm Jets had one good song, which I just ripped for an MP3 compilation the other day, the rest of the album was pants.

I wonder if I'm the only person who owns Ooberman's second album but not their first. I'll have to go a-hunting for it next time I forget I have no money.

Oslo got on Later With Jools Holland once. I remember watching it and thinking they were abysmal.

My sister used to work part time there with the guy from 18 Wheeler and moody SP, I think, c.1993.

I just saw the Witness album for £2.50 in the library. I didn't buy it.

This thread is like being on a board with only me and my ex-girlfriend.

I still think 'That's Nice' is awesome.

I always preferred "Shining In The Woods" to "Race"...

Another lost band - The Sweeney

Anyway: Kingmaker! These Animal Men! Dweeb!

Lock thread.

Didn't Ooberman have one good single and then turned shit? God, I have loads of these bands on NME and MM giveaway CDs. Bless Steve Lurpak, he actually made them sound like they might be good.

So who actually is worth searching out? I found "In The Club" by Kenickie the other day and it rules!

Bellatrix put out three absolutely stone-cold classic singles (Jediwannabe, Sweet Surrender, The Girl With The Sparkling Eyes) so I bought the album. It's alright, but they seem to have sunk without trace.

Nicola Bowery, wife of Leigh! I saw them support Pulp in Manchester. The bloke screamed "Heterosexual couple cuddling in the front row... THAT'S NICE!" and the crowd took a step back. I heart Minty.

Into the fray I throw Marion, 60ft Dolls and China Drum.

Campag Velocet. Magic.

"C'Mon Cincinatti" by Delakota is just asking to be used in a car or alcohol advert. It is great. I believe their main blokey was in the Senseless Things, whoever they were.

"Vague Us" by Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi is about as good as a lost album as you'll find, if they'd have been around last year they'd probably have managed an NME cover and a top 30 single.

Only if they were called The Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pis.

Blimey... s'a name I ain't heard in a long long time... their compadres Huge Baby were the bomb...

With a lumbering inevitability they toyed with changing their name to the Mo-Hos at one point, before doing one (1) gig as Telephone and knocking it on the head. I am not or have ever been a member of the band, BTW

Doesn't one of them work for Barfly now?

I've just been rediscovering the Geneva album today.. It's a bit like Keane, if only Keane had more character... and guitars.
and a Helen Love album. Helen Love rocks.

I adored Urusei Yatsura. (did anyone besides me buy Yon Kyoku Iri ep? nah, thought not.) And Ultrasound were my first proper gig! (along with Travis and, uh, the Hybirds? Whoever they were). Really didn't like the album, but as a singles band you couldn't fault 'em. Geneva were wonderful - I keep rediscovering their singles and cooing.

Magoo!

Silver Sun have just reformed.
Magoo are still as great as ever, if not better.
Astrid and Seafood are touring again soon.

Anyone else? Who would have thought that this lot are still playing on?

Surely there's the odd Pastels record which is better than working at John Smith's?

Didn't Ooberman have one good single and then turned shit?

nah, they actually improved once they got dumped from Independiente.

are Quickspace still around? they haven't released anything for a while and the Kitty Kitty website appears to be extinct.

i *love* Geneva, and now i can't find their second album for love nor money.

main dude became Echoboy

Oh yes. I loved Urusei Yatsura.

I went to Glasgow for a job interview in 1997, and came out in that "Omigod, did you say that? You fool" sort of state. Found Missing Records on Great Western Road and got "We Are Urusei Yatsura" going dead cheap. Thought it had to be a good sign.

I got offered the job the next day and moved to Glasgow and had a great three and a bit years there.

*ashamed*

I only actively bought one of their singles though.

Not sure, but one of their number is in a band with a mate of mine, called Empire Of Sponge, and who release their singles on some Italian label. Doesn't stop them being dead ace, though.

Someone mentioned China Drum? They hooked up with the drummer from Compulsion, went really bad, changed their name to The Drum and died a slow lingering death...

Three of them (Fergus, Ian and Elaine) have started a new band called Project A-ko who have been doing a couple of gigs in Glasgow. Graham is doing something else.

(ok ok I remember more than this.)

are you sure?

'we're going down to talk to the cows!' = the one I don't like.

However every band on this thread has got 'one page feature by Mark Beaumont' written all over them. Crashland!

Grand Theft Audio!

Good work sir.

The Period Pains!

I really liked Ooberman's 'blossoms falling': all wide-eyed and joyful and perfectpop-y.

Inter! They were from Aldershot near me! Their bassist was called Sid Stovold, which is a highly cool name!

I really liked Chicks, although it might just have been my age. One of my first posts on here was about the Period Pains. Big Leaves are now called Third Light and I assume they're still boring.

Re: Dom's two Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi questions way up there: yes and yes.

Oh god I know, it's just we were fairly under-represented so it was nice to have something around, even though they were all shit.

Linoleum. Quite liked their first record; second deteriorated through the floor.

Talking of which (I think they had Linoleum's guitarist) how bad was Elastica's long awaited second album? Has there ever been such a contrast in quality between a first and a second album?

Oh I didn't know that - I had their album to review, it wasn't entirely offensive.

Sunna.

I suppose I could add to the fray - Groop Dogdrill, Cable, and - at a difficult push as I really used to like them - China Drum.

The Ultrasound rumour (some way up there) doesn't really surprise me at all. However, having finally got round to hearing their incredibly overproduced pompous first album, it is a small mercy.

x-post - I have seen Paul from DotR in the same Co-op local store in Edinburgh far too many times now. They are still going.

It was Carrie, not Carrey. Their big single was "Molly" ("Molly can kick like a mule when Molly makes love, yeah"). Ray Cokes played it a lot on Virgin.

There was this documentary about Leigh Bowery last year which included some spectacularly bizarre clips of when he was still fronting the band. In one bit he comes on stage in an enormous fat-suit and proceeds to "give birth" to Nicola, and then feeds her with regurgitated food like a baby bird.

Uh, oh yes, the thread.

Salad!

Jocasta!

Fluke!

Honeycrack!

Bennet!(who's single tormented me when I was stuck at home with a throat infecion. Damn you, Simon Mayo.)

I still have a Dweeb sticker on my guitar.

they have a point

That's where I saw them. In fact I went to a lot of festivals throughout the '90s and most of the bands on this thread filled the afternoon-to-early evening slot before the properly popular bands came on, so I saw most of them, it seems. So, yeah, Subcircus! Scarfo! Molly Half-Head! I remember the names, not so much the music, just a vague tinnitus of grim, pig-iron guitar drone.

Kenickie, My Life Story, Minty, Geneva, Strangelove (1st album only) and Telstar Ponies I'd save, destroy the rest. My god, the '90s were filled with crap indie.

I saw a fellow who lookd very like tiny wood walking through newcastle central station last week. This reminds me that I am one of the "lucky" few who saw Ultrasound mk2s single concert at newcastle arts centre a few years ago now. it was really, really bad - it was tiny and the drummer from ultrasound mk 1, a female keyboard player, a barechested guitar shredder and a bass player who iirc they pinched of a local band. I really wanted them to be good, but it was terrible.

Gareth and dj mencap are both otm.

I think the profusion of meant & 2 veg guitar musick in the '90's is part of why I have a real hard time getting excited about anything these days. I've been burned too often! Music I wind up liking,
I get into after everyone else, but I suppose it works out better-ish.

!!!

Yes!! You are my hero for today, david m.

Marion, almost the same story. Decent first LP followed by ultra-dull U2ish follow-up(with one really good single). Working with Johnny Marr didn't exactly turn out to be their ticket to fame and glory, sadly, although the singer's heroin addiction and constant petty crime may've scuppered their chances a bit.

Anyone remember Spacehog? Anyone care?

seriously, you all need to check out "Almond Kisses" by Spacehog f. Michael Stipe. great tune that seemed to have been unjustly passed over.

The daughter of Aerosmith (news - web sites) front man Steven Tyler married
Royston Langdon, lead singer of the band Spacehog, in a private ceremony at a
villa in the Caribbean on March 25, her publicist said Wednesday.

It's the first marriage for both the 25-year-old actress and 30-year-old
musician. They plan a small reception for family and friends next month in New
York, where the couple live, publicist Stephen Huvane said.

Tyler, who plays the elf Arwen in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has also
appeared in such films as "Armageddon," "Inventing the Abbotts" and "That Thing
You Do!"

British-born Langdon also plays the bass for Spacehog, which formed in the
mid-1990s.

i have to admit here that i used to love Spacehog, actually still have all THREE albums they released in my possession. the lead singer is now married to Liv Tyler and fronting a new band called The Quick.

some Britpop bands:
Echobelly!
Menswear!
Sleeper! (remember the term "Sleeperblokes" to define anonymous bloke playing drums/guitar/bass?)

'Audioweb went top twenty once. Crumbs.'
- there wasa time when i thought this band was following me. they were everyone's support band in the britpop era. i'm not sure thet athey ever topped a bill in their life...

I'd completely forgotten My Vitriol - now there was a terminal support band if ever there was.

Asian Dub Foundation (although they are actually still around and about to make a comeback with the hilariously titled TANKS!)

i was working in a studio next door to my vitriol for about 6 months. very nice peeps. i think they've got a new album out sometime soonish, which i heard throughout the recording and it's pretty out there! seriously huge sound! pretty cool. amazing drummer/guitarist. imagine perfect cirle crossed with nirvana in utero crossed with mierd hardcore metal crossed with mad dreamscapes...and songs...

blah.

i loved campag velocet first time round (!!!)...pete voss took my mate back to his hotel room and made her wear a plastic bag on her head...turns out, years later, i meet and become friends with lascelles from campag velocet! he's the drummer guy and he's great. he does awesome electro stuff under the name 7hurtz and has a studio round the corner.

i still love bis and i think they were way ahead of their time.
i think they'll be listened to by technocolourgeekoids from osaka to nyc to gay paree to ole' hacknee!

Re Geneva. The leadsinger is now is a band called Amityville.
Murry the Hump split up, and formed The Keys, with 2 members of the original band. They lost all their songs in the change over though.

Geneva and Bis were both ahead of their time. The Geneva sound is now being recreated badly by Keane, and Bis had the whole disco-ish indie thing going by Social Dancing

Jocasta guy reemerged last year as the guy who was sent by his aunt (Dot Cotton) to that tibetan retreat to get out of his drug habit.

I have bought their albums twice and both times lost them on the way home, without ever having listened to them. Perhaps this is a sign.

great thread.

others : engine alley, something happens, sack (who were awesome live when they supported Compulsion), milltown brothers, the wendys, dog,

this album has been the subject of 2 people asking me about it .. one in a shop when they were trying to order it 3 months ago, and then last week my boss asked if i had ever heard of them and knew where he could get a copy of said album ..
the fact that he has now listened to the album a lot more than i ever managed (dont think i ever got all way throught the album in one sitting ..) makes me quite scared about my career prospects ..

I was in the band for the six years that we were around. We did have our dodgy moments but there was plenty of worse stuff about....

i've been playing this one again recently, and i think it's a shame it didn't find the accolades it deserves to have.

also, i don't really understand this thread, probably since i'm from america. would catatonia get grouped in with these bands? or do they have fans on ILM? damn, i really liked them, haven't listened in a while..

not only did i miss this thread (through not readin ilm for a year) i missed out on this entire GALAXY (by bein old and workin at S&S in recovery from muisic journalism)

(ok except bis but that is powerpuff girl-related)

tampasm is indeed a creativity-realisin move

"WHERE IS THE LOVE" b4 it wz popular or profitable??!

i just need to list, so as not to make it worse by actually writing anything.

midget, the delgados (and everything ever on chemikal underground, bless em), northern uproar, period pains, shed seven, brassy, symposium, sultans of ping, helen love, pin ups, backwater, pink kross, inter, dweeb, ash, cast, dubstar, radish, mcalmont and butler, nut, dweeb, me me me, octopus(?), gene, mansun, ultrasound, suede, tampasm, oasisradioheadpulp&blur, kenickie, the prodigy, snakebite city complilations and that one period where they kept playing tupac OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

I really like most of these bands still - there should be a "90s bubblegum indie night" somewhere!

INDIEPOP: Astrid, Midget, Snug, Symposium, Magicdrive, Kingmaker, Urusei Yatsura, Llama Farmers (esp. the 'Style' cover), Aerial, Carrie, The Ultra Montanes, Mover

GRRL-POP/ROCK: Girlfrendo, Chicks, Helen Love, Period Pains, Cuckooland, Disco Pistol, Cay, Bellatrix, The Donnas, Kenickie & Rosita

ELECTRO: Bis, Mo-ho-bish-o-pi, Clinic

PUNK: (Early) Idlewild, China Drum, J Church, Travis Cut

One-off choons:
'Know How' - Serum
'Living For The Weekend' - Farrah
'Celestial Q&A' - No Fun At All
'I've Had Enough' - Hillman Minx
'Small World' - Pink Assassin
'Letter From An Occupant' - New Pornographers

Also No One Speaks by Geneva >>>>>>> any Coldplay or Keane song.

(except New Pornographers)

Jacob's Mouse
Bivouac

Anyone remember Bullyrag? Brothers In Sound? Boutique? (I still have a great 7" by Boutique called 'I Told You Before') Hopper? Laxtons Superb? the Dandys?

Then you have Molly Half Head, who became Wireless, and Nightnurse whose guitarist left to join Ash.

Dream City Film Club, anyone?

The lead singer of the Sonic Boom Boys just died, which is sad.

Dream City Film Club, anyone?

Tabitha Zu
The Popinjays
Cellophane
Bedhead

I have a Chicks 7". I feel unclean.

(I might have for a pound, but maybe not.)

They also had the album by the Young Younger 28s. I was surpsied the YY28s even made it to an album. They got on CD:UK, you know?

Whoever said that Subcircus single was good was absolutely right.

I was in 1 of the bands mentioned on this thread...but I am way too ashamed to admit which one. (We did have a couple of minor hits at least!)

my jealous god (not going)? northside (are still going!) ?

Midget have got back together, according to Drowned In Sound.

-- Dom Passantino (lifetimepilingu...), February 20th, 2004. (Dom Passantino)

The question here stands.

I used to have that catwalk picture of Tiny with 'Unique' written on his belly on my sixth-form Spanish folder. Along with Dylan Thomas quotes in Tippex. I still love Floodlit World enough to have both the album and single mixes on my MP3 player, and when someone posted me a copy of that picture for my birthday it was the second-best present of the year.

My friend Ben wore a black armband to school the day that Symposium split up. That's single-sex education for ya.

one of the very first bands to play what is today known as “Britpop”, and have been quoted by Oasis as being one of their major influences.

Thanks for that, cheers.

(Would probably be bigger than Radiohead if they released that album now)

Ocean Colour Scene used to be OK before they starting wanking over Paul Weller.

Pusherman!
Fungus!
Earl Brutus!
The Monsoon Bassoon!
Vent 414! (Whose band were this again?)
The Montrose Avenue!
David Devant And His Spirit Wife!
Six By Seven!
Regurgitator!
Sunhouse!
GAY DAD!

It has suddenly occurred to me that I will never, ever be this immersed in one musical genre or scene ever again and have never been since. And I picked THE WORST ONE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.

xpost

And I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that a white man with dreadlocks has to be REALLY crap to put the Glasto crowd off.

This is arm-breakingly OTM though.

xp

* Paul Simon - "Hearts And Bones"
* Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
* Joni Mitchell - "Marcie"
* Bob Dylan - "Masters Of War"
* James Taylor - "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"
* Chuck Berry - "No Particular Place To Go"
* Portishead - "Glory Box"
* Björk - "The Pleasure Is All Mine"
* Camille - "Au Port"
* Rage Against The Machine - "Killing in the Name"
* Bobbie Gentry - "Fancy"
* Finlay Quaye - "Even After All"
* Suzanne Vega - "Caramel"
* Babyshambles - "Fuck Forever"

(Also, the very thought of her covering Killing In The Name is hilarious)

a little later "for the dead" by gene.

my one undying hope for the future is that one day we shall talk about razorlight in the same half remembered terms.

But none of the above bands got to No 1 did they? They will be on compilation cds now for the rest of time.

- so i dug out the 3 cd singles and realised just how bad they were.

naturally, i loved them at the time.

When you Google "Urusei Yatsura", you get this picture:

http://a763.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/29/s_a49c5093911b3237ff968d709c17ce6a.jpg

Would smash.

bit like peel bands but with misguided chart aspirations, maybe getting to number 27 for one week with their over-produced 4th single.

One another
One another
One another
HELLO TIGER

Never heard of The Monsoon Basoon until this thread.

if there's one song i wish more people had heard, that song is "commando"

One another
One another
One another
HELLO TIGER

-- Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 November 2007 22:37 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this

Your director has a 70's eye
And he's sorry that you're superfly

Would smash.

-- Dom Passantino, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:41

you'd smash anything

Also, has anyone mentioned Mishka yet? Alan McGee went all the way to Jamaica in search of new talent and somehow managed to come back with a white, trad singer-songwriter with dreadlocks and an acoustic guitar who proceeded to go "Jah! Rastafari!" in front of a bemused crowd at the Other Stage at Glastonbury at about 11am.

un-fucking-believable

never thought i'd see him back.

Which bands are you most interested in at the moment, which do you think hold most promise for the next year or so?
Steve - Tiger. I just think Tiger are slightly different and there's this yearning for something that's a different take on what's going on at the moment. I think Tiger have got some tremendous ideas, very askew kind of British pop music which is really quite interesting. There's also this baby band that I'm trying to help out slightly who are called The Pin-ups, who come from Reading. They're like a 1977 punk band, but they're only 15 and 16, and they've just had to kick out their drummer because he couldn't play a gig because he was going canoeing with the Scouts. I quite like them.
Jo - I'd say Tiger as well. Martin from Gene did an interview this week which hit the headlines quite a lot with him saying how he hated Yob rock and was looking forward to new bands coming through, and I read the interview and thought "Yeah, I know exactly what you mean". I'm bored of all these guitar bands looking back to the past, retro stuff. It's just dull, really dull, and I look forward to some new bands coming through, like Tiger, Posh, Baby Bird, all those. They're just doing something new and exciting- I hate retro.

(Phoenix Festival interview 1996)

the time is ripe for a tiger revival

Princes Risborough's gift to the world.

Also, best mullets since Chris Waddle?

I used to work with the brother of one of the Pin Ups when I lived in Reading. I think they had an EP called something like Made In Tilehurst.

I went to Phoenix 1996! I saw lots of not particularly good Evening Session bands there - Echobelly, Compulsion, Goya Dress, Catatonia (about 2 songs) etc. Compulsion were quite good.

'We Are Puppets' has arguably the most off-puttingly rubbish artwork ever conceived. what were they thinking?

I went to Phoenix 96 but didn't see any of those bands. I saw Minty headline the little tent, in fact I think I mention this fascinating fact upthread

I have no memory whatsoever of what tiger sounded like. I'm sure I must have heard them a couple of times at least.

Habitually I'm compelled to mention Rub Ultra when this sort of thing comes up, they had two really quite good singles (well, they had more than that, but two were pretty good.)

And also The Sandkings, pre Babylon Zoo, Jas Mann shenanigans.

I swear 'All's Well With The World' really is the most perfect but forgotten early 90's indie ramalama tune.

Some guy upthread said: jamie from scarfo is now called 'hotel' and is in 'the kills'

I had no idea about that. "Alkaline" was a good song I think. Never been much of a Kills fan though.

tiger had one great song, if i remember rightly, and a lot of mediocre ones. was "shining in the wood" the good one or not? am i going to look through my CDs? er, no.

what a shit time to be trying to carve a niche as a music hack: 1996. no wonder i embraced subbing.

'race' was the good tiger song

yes. it was. thank you!

the time is ripe for a tiger revival

― jonty alouette (electricsound), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:37

^^^this. I still love 'em, still play We Are Puppets and Rosaria frequently at home and out, and I'd love it if they showed up at the 100 Club or somewhere for a one-off. Maybe supported by The Warm Jets.

what a shit time to be trying to carve a niche as a music hack: 1996. no wonder i embraced subbing.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHA.

(ahem)

Oh god, Tiger.

All I remember really was the haircuts mind you

I just remembered about the band Ether, who were only vaguely talented but kind of catchy circa 1998. I wonder what eventually happens to these poor people?

british people cared about Molly Halfhead?! even american dudes who taped "120 minutes" every night wouldn't know who the fuck she is. i honestly can't find the words to describe how small of a "splash" they made in america. like spin never even reviewed one of their records.

lol

Did Spin ever review Sp!n and were Sp!n ever on the Evening Session?

Here's a summer tune from the Evening Sesh days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qxJi5W4i8

sp!n were pre-evening session iirc

Is that Mermaid horror by a proper real band who were trying to have a career?

http://ichlugebullets.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/top-50-songs-reminiscent-of-a-night-in-a-shitty-provincial-rock-club-between-1999-and-2003-part-1-girl-its-me-and-you-like-sid-and-nancy/

passantino killin it imo

In a previous life, ILB commented on how the solitary saving grace of Kittie’s entire, pig-awful, career was the variety of gratuitous sexually violent fan fiction that’s out there on the internet about them. Have you ever wondered how Avril Lavigne would cope with a ruptured anus if she was kidnapped by Kittie, sleep-deprived, and then fed nothing but dog faeces for a week? Well, do yourself some googling and fap like crazy. Then shoot yourself.

never change, dude

The Kustom Built! I thought they were the bees knees at the time.

i don't think canberra and wollongong have toilet circuits tbqh

if you're able to play multiple venues in Canberra OR Wollongong on a single tour, let alone regularly, you are winning at music

failed zing, stopped reading there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pquBVIN_6Jk

i have that album :(

Is it any good? The above tune is a CHOON imo but I never heard anything else - which makes me doubt that anything else was worth hearing.

P sure every one of these bands has appeared on a mix tape made for me by my now-husband, including 86'd! Think I got the album after that, can't remember anything of the top of my head except Shelly's on the telephone

I had the Tiger album too. This is kind of weird because in them days I had no money for albums so only actually bought a few a year when I had xmas and birthday money and my priorities were PULP and SUEDE. Probably it was in the bargain bucket :(

subcircus album is substandard tbh but bits are alright

tiger debut is great imo. underrated.

You have to check out Bellatrix's first album, or even the earlier Icelandic releases. Beat "It's all true" by a thousand miles.

Subcircus's first album was a classic example of how to ruin a bunch of decent songs through over-production. Listen to the demos/live tracks on the 86'd single, and you might think, "Wow, this band had something going for them." Then you compare them to the finished album versions and it's like "...Oh." Such a disappointment.

Just to prove a point, here's the studio version of "Gravity Girl & Analogue", followed by the live version. Compare and contrast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=potZ8bF6x64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YK5D8EZQ0M

You have to check out Bellatrix's first album, or even the earlier Icelandic releases. Beat "It's all true" by a thousand miles.

i only know "g" and "stranger tales" of their earlier stuff. "g" is great, probably my favourite thing of theirs, but the previous album is shite imo

i only know "g" and "stranger tales" of their earlier stuff. "g" is great, probably my favourite thing of theirs, but the previous album is shite imo

Yes it's Stranger Tales. Haven't got a chance to hold "g" yet. It's not a surprise that people don't like that one. I mean, there were quite a few amateurish moments, and the album as a whole is pretty raw/unpolished in every aspect.

Btw I have heard it rumoured that Ultrasound are to return

quite the rumour

I was going to find this thread and bump it myself after I got an email this morning from Pledgemusic telling me about prospective releases by Senser and Spacehog.

David Keenan was a founding member of 18 Wheeler.

Which will teach me to read through entire threads before sharing nuggets like that.

Need to check one day to see if 'We Are Puppets' is still on the Nice 'n' Sleazy jukebox

This must be the least worthwhile purchase ever: http://www.amazon.fr/18-Wheeler-Band-ensemble-Creation/dp/6131840806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360845662&sr=8-1

This is the most amazing thread ever. I am so sad to have missed it the first time around. Let me know if anyone wants to revisit. Some choice bands named above...

Does Lamacq play this stuff on 6music? I heard that he claimed someone requested Cud recently. Who on earth would request Cud?

I probably wouldn't request it but i don't skip it when it comes up in shuffle

Would it not be the OG Evening Session stuff, rather than the late 90s era?

well yeah, Cud

Cud released a big box of BBC Sessions not long ago. Fun stuff!

dunno if there's a thread on the OG evening session and i sure as hell wasnt starting one

Cud are awesome. Bibi Couldn't See, Under my Hat, Push and Shove, Eau Water...tons of great songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BK2KwQq6VY

I just listened to their LP! Solid tunes though his voice can be grating. Went on to lead Fixed Stars and Pony Club.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Steve-Lamacq-Alternatives-Various-Artists/dp/B07KW9XRD1/

Oh dear lord.

Disc: 1
1. Ride - Chelsea Girl
2. The Charlatans - Indian Rope
3. Northside - Shall We Take A Trip?
4. Flowered Up - It's On
5. New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Big
6. Slowdive - Catch The Breeze
7. Curve - Ten Little Girls
8. Kitchens Of Distinction - Prize
9. Pale Saints - Throwing Back The Apple
10. Family Cat - Place With A Name
11. Senseless Things - Is It Too Late?
12. Mega City Four - Words That Say
13. Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows
14. Silverfish - Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal
15. Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
16. Voodoo Queens - Supermodel Superficial
17. Cornershop - Waterlogged

Disc: 2
1. S*M*A*S*H - Real Surreal
2. These Animal Men - Speeed King
3. Blessed Ethel - Rat
4. Suede - The Drowners
5. The Auteurs - Showgirl
6. Elastica - Stutter
7. Sleeper - Alice In Vain
8. Tiny Monroe - VHF 855V
9. Whiteout - Starrclub
10. China Drum - Wuthering Heights
11. Snuff - Caught In Session
12. 60Ft Dolls - Happy Shopper
13. Salad - Drink The Elixir
14. Drugstore - Solitary Party Groover
15. Ash - Uncle Pat
16. Northern Uproar - Rollercoaster
17. Perfume - Lover
18. Mansun - Take It Easy Chicken
19. The Bluetones - Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?

Disc: 3
1. Bis - School Disco
2. Travis - All I Want To Do Is Rock
3. Catatonia - Sweet Catatonia
4. Marion - Violent Men
5. Audioweb - Sleeper
6. Rialto - Monday Morning 5:19
7. Tiger - Race
8. Strangelove - Greatest Show On Earth
9. Animals That Swim - Pink Carnations
10. Linoleum - Dissent
11. Scarfo - Alkaline
12. Kenickie - Come Out 2nite
13. Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Boom
14. Jocasta - Go
15. Livingstone - Good Intentions
16. Geneva - No-One Speaks
17. Whipping Boy - When Were Young
18. Earl Brutus - Life's Too Long

Disc: 4
1. Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend
2. Mogwai - New Paths To Helicon Part 1
3. Idlewild - Satan Polaroid
4. Symposium - The Answer To Why I Hate You
5. 3 Colours Red - This Is My Hollywood
6. The Delgados - Pull The Wires From The Wall
7. The Beta Band - Dry The Rain
8. The Hitchers - Strachan
9. Wubble U - Bit Like You
10. Ten Benson - The Claw
11. Clinic - I.P.C. Subeditors Dictate Our Youth
12. Cay - Better Than Myself
13. Cable - Freeze The Atlantic
14. Seafood - This Is Not An Exit
15. Llama Farmers - Paper Eyes
16. Ultrasound - Stay Young
17. Morgan - Miss Parker (The Dust Brothers Mix)

already discussed on a Dom revive:

For ILM's Lamacq Hating Contingent...

xp epic scrolldown post

I'd forgotten Miss Parker! sure it's on a c90 somewhere