How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

Ian are you going to finally admit to your love of Redd Kross?

Whatever happened to Symposium? They were extremely shite but big for a while. Wasn't one of them in another band?

Honeycrack, loved those first few singles. Kerr, you're the King Dong of this stuff, throw some more down.

God i saw Honeycrack at T In The Park 95.
Also at T In The Park 95 there was a band from Liverpool, singer was called Ste, he was a shaven headed nutter who just got into the crowd and walked around singing the song they were playing. They also supported the wildhearts, what the hell was their name?

I think the almighty played t in the park 95 too. Ricky Warwick released a country album supposedly!!

There was one Senseless Things album (the last before they split?) that 14yr old me held up as the single best album of all time. OF ALL TIME. Constantly badgering girls to borrow it. I didn't see much action. They were too busy listening to Menswe@r and Radish and the like.

I'd download them if i could find them.
It's all your fault, Ian.

I never realised what they were singing about until about 3 years later... and I was so excited to meet two of the band when I was 15. That first album was ace.

...and I quote:

Kerbdog supporting the Posies, 1996. Kerbdog were an Irish grunge band who were crap. But the funniest thing was the audience completely ignoring them and staying as far from the stage as possible, except for three kids who were moshing furiously into each other in front of the stage. Hilarious.

I'm proud to say that those three kids were (and still are) my best chums. I showed rare restraint and declined to join in with that lonely lonely moshing. Though at a third-full Pusherman gig, I was the SOLE person holding onto the metal guard at the front of the pit, moshing away like my life depended on it. I often wonder what the band thought of that - did they appreciate the devotion they inspired in that young kid, or were they horribly embarrassed by it?

Real TV. I saw them support the wildhearts. I also saw Baby Chaos support the wildhearts.

Three Colours Red were a poor mans Wildhearts for the NME/Melody Maker readers who were scared to RAWK.

Great american band here ian, but it will remind you of being 15 because we spoke about this years ago when i 1st met you. Girls Against Boys. Kerrang used to love them but despite their support they just didnt cross over.

same with Urge Overkill and the fabulous God Machine.

I gave up on Therapy? with Infernal Love. It was an awful awful album. But the 2 early eps and the Nurse album still hold up very very well and Troublegum is stil a good album too.

Although "Old Folks" was pretty great, I suppose.

*any shite bands I saw were because they were on a bill with people I did want to see, I swear I have no regrets about any bands I paid money to see ever

No no no!! "Infernal Love" is fantastic, think of it as the In Utero to "Troublegum"'s Nevermind.

The one after ("Semi-Detached") was great too, though it all went a bit bleh after that (started sounding far too much like the Wildhearts, oddly).

And Morgan Nicholls plays bass for the Streets (and covered for Muse's broken-fingered bassist at festivals last year).

Swygart's a big fan.

... quick Google ...

Cass Browne.

(xpost)

xpost to kerr

I loved Symposium/Midget/Snug/3CR/A et al when i was 14/15. All good fun. Not enough also-ran-indie these days :)

just C+P the url in a browser with no spaces.

Blameless! That's the band I was going to post about but someone beat me to it. They were actually pretty good.

And that (albeit american) band Brad - they released a really really good album that was sort of Pearl Jam meets classic Soul (a lot better on tape than on paper).

Not quite the same style but somehow I just got an image of the naked woman on the front of all the Electrafixion stuff.

Troublegum is one of the best albums ever. Therapy? deserved much more.

He also went to Mali with Damon Albarn for that album. Delakota did one single on London Records after that first (Polydor) album and that was that, I think.

Too bad nobody knows what all of these Evening Session people are up to. I would love to know about the office, shopkeeping or civil service jobs.

Don't you remember him discussing this way back on the old nme chat? (does that still exist?)

I remember all of these bands, and even did onstage monitor mixing for leatherface at a couple london gigs, so I might have been at gigs some of you were at, way back in 199x. Redd Kross I still like loads, or at least "Phaseshifter" by Redd Kross I still like loads. A happy-hardrock classic! in places it sounds kinda rundgren-ish.

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

http://www.reddkross.com

x-post. I have 2 Compulsion albums. I played them not that long ago and they seemed to hold up quite well.
I'd be happy to YSI them if needed.

Am I right in thinking that the lead guy in Headswim had the fantastic name Clovis Dilweed?

Infernal Love: bad album, but didn't David Holmes do some production on it (between track static and that kind of thing)?

Oh, and I saw (the awful) Apes, Pigs & Spacement supporting the Wildhearts on what was supposed to be their farewell show- wasn't the lead singer of A,P&S responsible for Candyflip, and their baggy version of "Strawberry Fields"?

I spent *far* too long reading Kerrang! as a teenager!

RAW Magazine was great. It covered loads of indie/alternative bands that Kerrang hadn't started covering yet(preferring the likes of Skin or more trad rock/metal bands at the time- how things change!) and it was my gateway to discovering Sebadoh, when Bubble & Scrape got a 5/5 review. Same with Sugar. Which actually was no3 in the albums of the year poll that year . (its a shame rocklist.net have removed the RAW lists) but get your nostalgia fix from Kerrang instead
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1991
Scroll all the way down to 2005 and relive it all!

Would the 60ft Dolls fit here? Probably more NME than Raw, but some snotty punk goodness. Their Happy Shopper single is one I still hum to myself occasionally.

Saw Warrior Soul with Metallica in '89-ish. They were rubbish I thought.

He was a bit of a cock. His long history of being laughed at started with a somewhat immature 'gay' skit on the first Meatmen single in 1980

I must have hours of videotape of this stuff. I need to dig it all out.

Sadly there will be lots of crap Thunder/Bon Jovi/Little Angels as the woman presenter loved that shite.

Didn't do much for me, I have to say.

esp No's 2,11,15

The divide between the 80s and the 90s couldn't be more stark, could it? Although it would appear that for the guys at Kerrang! the 90s actually started in 1991!

Kerrang 1984 Singles

1. Van Halen - Jump
2. Prince - When Doves Cry
3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
4. John Waite - Missing You
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
6. Motörhead - Killed By Death
7. Robin George - Heartline
8. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
9. Van Halen - I'll Wait
10. W.A.S.P. - Animal (**** Like A Beast)

Yeah, David Lee Roth better than Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood on the '86 albums list! And who the hell were/ are the Vinnie Vincent Invasion? And was that really the 9th best album of 1986? Interesting to note that Purple Rain did extremely well in '84, as well.

7. Robin George - Heartline?

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/550/556666.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/VinnieVincent.jpg

I like the way this thread has morphed from dubious rock bands of the 90s to- erm- dubious rock bands of the 80s!

x-post: Gawd, Charlotte Church is looking well rough there.

Robin George was pushed by Kerrang as a rising superstar around 1985, until they realised that no-one liked him. Sounded like Magnum I think.

I remember Kerrang giving Robin George the big push back in the '80's. My memory says aor/pomp-rock w/technoflashy lead guitar playing, but I'm not entirely sure. I do remember this promo photo, where he's standing on a hilltop, bare chested, sucking his cheekbones in, and holding a bc rich guitar. IIRC he wasn't a shredder, '90's style.

I checked his website, and he's evidently still making music, so good for him, I really fucking admire ppl who keep on plugging, even if I'm not into what they're doing. I was going to check his music out on his site, but it crashed not only firefox, but my entire PC! while I was (briefly) staring at the screen, I noticed that they'd misspelled "discography" as "discocraphy" haha.

He was certainly very handsome, probably the equivalent of lisa dominique for Kerrang's (many) female readerz.

Actually my main memory of Kerrang in the '80's was this constant migraineish background drone of grim adolescent mastubatory sexism. If you were into metal & prog rock, it was pretty much the only game in town - especially after someone at "sounds" went batshit insane and handed the editor's chair to g4rry bush3ll - and if you wanted to read abt new metal releases, tour d8s etc, you were stuck w/"kerrang". But, it wasn't much fun. How I wish we'd had "terrorizer" back then.

My ex band played at this big club last year, and in a cupboard in the dressing room, they had a big pile of old "kerrang" issues, starting at something like issue #3. Cover starts liek Asia, or Fish from Marillion, with his sub jaz-coleman facepaint! I decided to rip 'em off next time we played there, but when we did, they were all gone.

We may as well do this now
Pandora Vs Pandora Peroxide.

Kerrang!/NYC memory: It's Only Rock And Roll, a record store in Manhattan, used to sell Kerrang! for only 99 cents as a way to get people in the door. Did anyone else here religiously visit this store for this like I did?

(I found a reference to the store here!)

That sort of continues in "classic rock" magazine, which is pretty much targeted at ageing ex-80's-kerrang readers. They have people covering various sub-genres of metal, and someone covering prog rock. Many of the writers I remember from '80's Kerrang, and "Sounds" before that. They had a feature on all the less well-known nwobhm bands, written by geoff "deaf" barton iirc.

(x-post, yeah, I remember bushell writing for kerrang, but at least they didn't let him edit the bloody thing!)

Kontinuum is officially the worst music magazine cartoon ever. Even worse than those two DJs from Melody Maker.

Nurse! The screens!

Pashmina, throw it all in the bin! Really! You'll never regret it.

Also, Manowar.

Oh yeah, me too

For shame, I once saw Lisa Dominique live, although I'm sure she was supporting somebody I actually wanted to see.

So we don't leave the americans out - What were American metal mags like in the 80s? Which non-memorable bands were covered there?

Yeah, I think that the Replacements were quite a big influence on those sorts of bands. What Goes On or someone had released all those early 'Placements records under licence (for the first time in the UK?) a couple of years prior to those bands getting big, maybe that was some sort of trigger. Mega City Four always used to dress like they'd just climbed off the roof on the cover of Let It Be.

Anyhow, 'Too Much Kissing' is a great song! The wife has a copy of Postcard CV in the back of the wardrobe I think, maybe I'll have to dig it out on Friday night. Wish I still had Snuff's 'Not Listening' though, cos that was truly a corker.

Not as good but we tried real hard.

Actually, at the weekend, I got all my old copies of "mojo", and pitched the lot of them! I don't regret it either.

Pash, you should have bunged them on ebay, they sell quite well, especially the early issues.

I had a bunch of the early ones, starting at nr 3 or 4, but that block of them got ruined when the roof sprang a leak last year! Bloody typical...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Aust-Kerrang-Mag-Vol-2-issue-6-signed-Metallica_W0QQitemZ7592811283QQcategoryZ70897QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I have a couple of those cd singles I think in a box up in the loft.

electrafixation : ep + album in my loft too.
amongst the 100's of cds i will never listen to again.

I think I might listen to the 2 Therapy? eps and Nurse album today if I can look them out.

Oh, and also BEST THREAD EVER!

For me it was (and remains) a draw between Terrorvision and, er, Paradise Lost (five times each).

Can anyone answer the original thread question? What do Shutty and Tony and the others do these days? I know the guy from Kerbdog hosts a radio show over in Ireland but what about the rest of the 'peak at #34' lot?

Tony Wright is always really good value on Buzzcocks (or was, since i haven't actually seen it for ages). It used to be a cert that just as the series was going shit, they'd wheel out either him or Shovel from M People - the Buzzcocks versions of Boris Johnson, I assume.

The aftermath
Since splitting up, singer Tony Wright has formed Laika Dog; guitarist Mark Yates formed firstly the short-lived Boston Crabs and then Blunderbuss with biker bass player Sasquatch Bob, releasing one album to date, Relentless; whilst Leigh Marklew formed Malibu Stacey who released one album On Heat before splitting up. Ian Shuttleworth sought employment in Leeds, serving the UK's public education sector.

The re-union
The group has since reformed to play two tours in 2005, and played what was described as their 'last EVER show' at Rock In The Castle in Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 17 September, 2005. A collection of B-sides and rarities was also issued by EMI in September 2005.

Terrorvision's original recording studio in Bradford is currently being revamped by Grant Henderson, and it will be launched as "Ivolv" in the first quarter of 2006.

Little Angels
Quireboys
Skin
*add name as appropriate.

???

http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s175/st11631.php

Noone got anything to add to the 90s hard rock Nostalgia Fest of HELL?

1) Therapy? - Screamager

Thunder
The Almighty
Paradise Lost
Warrior Soul
Senseless Things
Headswim

The evening session thread can have its own box.

I never even knew that this guy had died. Never really into MC4 all that much but they were inarguably a grand bunch of blokes. And they put heart and soul into the one gig of theirs I saw, played in the back room of a Manchester pub in their early days with literally NO-ONE there apart from me and the bar staff. RIP Wiz.

Are Therapy? still going?

No one cared about Therapy? enough to know.

I know Andy Cairns' sister.

I used to care about Therapy? quite a bit. I even thought Infernal Love was decent.

No! Infernal Love was awful.

I haven't listened to it for a decade or more, so you could well be right. At the time I thought it was a fair attempt to broaden their sound.

Therapy? should do one of those ATP gigs where they only do the 2 eps and Nurse

Hey rebecca

2 bands I REALLY despised were The Little Angels and The Quireboys.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:24 (4 years ago)

Chap is going to poll these. Lets do the noms here!

Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser
Kerbdog
China Drum
Senseless Things

Skin
Symposium
Baby Chaos
Honeycrack
The Almighty
Skunk Anansie

Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
Reef
Joyrider.

Dub War

There was a punky one with a single word name beginning with C who some of my friends liked. Though they might've been American.

Blameless
Real TV
Cecil

There was a punky one with a single word name beginning with C who some of my friends liked. Though they might've been American.

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

I texted my friend to find out. Compulsion, from Ireland.

I liked them! got a couple of their cds. Pretty sure I said that on this thread

So far

Feeder
Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser
Kerbdog
China Drum
Senseless Things
Skin
Symposium
Baby Chaos
Honeycrack
The Almighty
Skunk Anansie
Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Silverfish
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
Reef
Joyrider.
Dub War
Blameless
Real TV
Cecil
compulsion

little angels
quireboys

A

Best or worst though? Wildhearts for best, Reef for worst IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZJN1dP0qM

A

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:05 (4 minutes ago)

dim memories of a conversation abt them circa 2001, was unable to confirm if they existed due to unsearchable name

It has to be worst i think to keep the britpop/landfill theme going

there used to be loads of pop punk punds that belong here but all the ones i remember are american. should be keepa 00s mall punk/emo for a separate poll?

think u shd maybe ration them a bit, otherwise hate fatigue will sit in

My arch-nemesis circa 1999-2001 was pretty much permanently dressed in an A t-shirt, with a long-sleeved RATM tee underneath, and the obligatory wallet chain. For this I will not forgive them even now I have long forgotten their boring music.

British ska-punk! King Prawn! Oh dear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z9_TGX7-E

this was like my least favourite song in 2002

A always will be a record execs idea of "imagine sting fronting one of thse new fangled alternative rock bands it would be great and bring the money in!"

Nakh come on aim

Wolfsbane, Little Angels and Quireboys seem like a diff't thing, not just cos they're older but there's an evident trickledown effect of NWOBHM which you absolutely don't have in... Reef

yeah but they were fucking shite

Are Lostprophets and Sikth too late for this?

no, good call Rebecca!

All these 90s threads are bringing back long repressed early gig memories. But 3 colours red, reef, and A on the 99 version of the nme tour...IT HAPPENED.

oh and what are we going to do abt Goldblade?

Raging Speedhorn :(

(maybe I'm just picking the ones from after I stopped liking this stuff to save myself the embarrassment of remembering ones I really did like)

Biffy Clyro have been around a long time but Im guessing as they only just got big they would skew the poll

oh god

RACHEL STAMP

And they're on the 00s landfill poll. (xp)

King Adora

Queen Adreena (again, possibly leaving the 90s for this one)

ok go through the EOY lists for Kerrang http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1990

and RAW
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/raw.htm

some of my friends on Facebook are friends w/ the irl person Rachel Stamp (who the band named themselves after because they wanted to bone her), it always brightens my day when I see her posts

Pitchshifter

I see that Rub Ultra are still going. They were... rub. Ultra-.

(ok ok, coat etc.)

Paradise Lost (they went all depeche mode so they belong)

Placebo

Fightstar

Muse & Stereophonics too big right?

Anyway it's chaps call

The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster ?

Were Hundred Reasons welsh?

the darkness or they too recent? or are you doing a 90s poll then a 00s poll?

Ash

Rock is not my world, but if Pitchshifter are legit, Fudge Tunnel too?

fudge tunnel were great. but pitchshifter did go really poppy so merit inclusion and its going to be a worst poll.

don't see a lot of convergence between reef, pitchshifter and the 80s matchbox bla

xp

ah, i see (back to indie world for me)

Where were Cyclefly from?

So far we have

Feeder
Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser
Kerbdog
China Drum
Senseless Things
Skin
Symposium
Baby Chaos
Honeycrack
The Almighty
Skunk Anansie
Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Silverfish
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
Reef
Joyrider.
Dub War
Blameless
Real TV
Cecil
compulsion
little angels
quireboys
A
Rachel Stamp
King Prawn
Lostprophets
Fightstar
Sikth
Pitchshifter
King Adora
Paradise Lost
A Hundred Reasons
Raging Speedhorn
Rub Ultra
The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster
Placebo
Muse
Stereophonics
The Darkness
ASH
Biffy Clyro

It's up to Chap who is included and who is too big

Rachel Stamp were formed in 1994 when David Ryder-Prangley met Will Crewdson before recruiting Cliff Harris and Mike Rowe.

......................

In 2010, Will Crewdson and David Ryder-Prangley have been playing alongside Adam Ant for performances around London. Crewdson is also currently working with a band called LIVAN, fronted by Greek-born musician Cosmas Livanos.[1]

You still haven't listed Skyscraper! It is a conspiracy! Just because apparently nobody else remembers their existence...

I remember Skyscraper actually being pretty good, is my memory deceiving me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_%28band%29

Good work. Sorry, been watching Human Planet. Poll should be up soon! It will be for the BEST band.

I liked them at the time but the tracks I've remembered enough to dig out haven't aged well at all, I think it's fair to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlj7jXx9jR0

^ don't know if Snuff count but this song was fucking great and one of my favourites from the late 80s/early 90s. ONly mention them cos they seem tied up with the whole Senseless Things/Mega City Four scene.

If anyone votes Reef for best I am going to drink several litres of the alcopop of the same name (which I suspect you can't even buy any more, for added 90s retro and also added past-sell-by-ness) and come round and throw up on their carpets.

Not going to include Muse, as they're too big now, or Lostprophets or The Darkness as they're more 00s bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmD08Na5VKI

^ Somewhat more embarrassingly, I heart this song too. Dunno if you're allowing fraggle though

Swervedriver maybe?

did they even get written about in Kerrang? I mean that has to be the baseline requirement right

I liked Skyscraper (or at least i had 1 or 2 singles)

remember X-CNN? lol

neds didnt get covered but Swervedriver did
SO DID CATHERINE WHEEL as they went RAWK

chap please dont do best band do worst (or both)

Jacob's Mouse

The Tanya Donnelly bits of that Catherine Wheel song with Tanya Donnelly on are quite good. The Catherine Wheel bits not so much.

Kerrang! probably just excited by the Bruce Dickinson connection.

(Which tangentially reminds me via the lineup of Bruce's solo backing band - what an oxymoron, never mind - do Gun count? I know they were barely rock at all by the time they had a real hit...)

I sorta liked Jacob's Mouse. They wanted to be the British Tar. They didn't quite make it, but still.

Done Lying Down
Rosa Mota
Hyperhead
Daisy Chainsaw
Some Have Fins
Silverfish
Bivouac
Midway Still

plus many many more useless fucks who were unavoidable if you went to gigs in London in the early 90s.

Part of that was an xpost. Now it's just confusing. Don't imagine anyone is paying too much attention to my ramblings by this point anyhow.

(xposted again)

I think I said somewhere on ILM that the Hyperhead album is the worst album I've ever bought. Mind you I liked my Silverfish album ("Cockeye" iirc) at the time, put it on recently, and christ what a horrible noise.

Silverfish singer had a trip-hop album iirc (man there was a lot of trip-hop landfill)

I suppose Die Cheerleader belong here even though I really liked them and regret selling their cd

Yeah Hyperhead are maybe the only band in history you could accurately describe as sub-Gaye Bykers On Acid

xpost

I had Lesley Rankine's triphop album too, yes. Ruby! (xposts)

The Cateran
RPLA
Bomb Disneyland

Chap wants a BEST poll. I say WORST poll. What does everyone else think?
I think worst is best because it's in the spirit of the britpop/landfill polls. Also I think it will get more votes

haha RPLA

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xdpra7-EL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Don't think this was too bad. Don't think it was too good either.

xp would rather have worst (because I am a ball of spite)

Cable
Tribute To Nothing
AC Acoustics

oh god I'm in the Camden Underworld and it's 1993 again

There is nothing good about any of these bands so has to be worst

there was a really good american band called Cable and a really bad UK one

Most of these bands are terrible so it has to be worst imo

therapy & the wildhearts are the only good ones (unless fudge tunnel are included)

worst

although I am surprised about the relative warmth itt for its contents compared to the Britpop flotsam

Wonder if anyone would call themselves Cable in this day and age.

Leatherface wrote some bangers tbh and are genuinely respected in certain albeit rarified circles

i think thats because most of the shite here didnt sell or last. Britpop did.

The Abs

Milk

Or do I mean the Milk Monitors?

chap please do a worst poll

I like two songs by AC Acoustics :(

I also bought a compilation because it had Tribute to Nothing on once (also for a track by Monkey Boy, who are probably not for this thread but whom I'm sure Matt #2 will have seen, quite possibly in the Camden Underworld) and apparently it contains Muse's first ever track and is accordingly worth some money to some sad bastards. Or was, at one point.

'Stunt Girl' by AC ACoustics was alright imo

think rare Muse stuff sells for nutso smasho prices, if you still have that comp (it's an Organ one, right?) you'll still be quids in I reckon

Headcleaner

It's on whoever Tribute to Nothing's label was at the time. Lockjaw? Helping You Back To Work or sth?

sorry yes that's the one indeed

Hm! Thank you, DJM, might revive one of the many "eBay or Amazon Marketplace?" threads a bit later on.

Crashland
Symposium
Vex Red
Midget

Milk were indeed a UK band.

'Symposium' and I read the whole thread, soz

Shitposium more like

Gashland

Tribute To Shite

etc

BivouWACK amirite

Symposium might just be the worst imo, but the relentless coverage in the NME didn't help either.

I'm sure I remember a feature where they compared the on-stage smashability of various guitars. That's rock, that is.

the whole sneering backslapping lols of the landfill indie thread is revolting so i, as the OP of this thread, politely request that chap make it a 'best of' thread

cable, tribute to nothing, bivouac, symposium belong in this list. paradise lost don't, nor do all the acts that made it bigger in the 00s (muse, feeder etc)

ian he already made it 90s hard rock Nostalgia Fest of HELL (UK and Ireland)

are you someone i know under a diff name, AG?

yes

im 2nd poster on the thread. i arrived on ilm same time (2001?) as you via msn via the same sources!

back in the days of you setting the alarm every 2 hours to connect to napster!

ha yeah, aright man. off to bed now but give me a shout on msn soon

I texted my friend to find out. Compulsion, from Ireland.

trufax career path: Compulsion guitarist -> Big Beat two-hit wonder -> superproducer for U2, REM, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, Kasabian etc

will do, i looked for you but you werent online! You need to get AIM and join ilxchatz

xpost

yeah i knew about the production career.

didn't know this compulsion thing, how did that happen? what's the guys name?

Jacknife Lee innit

"Pretend Best Friend" is still a jam for me.

i love this thread

agreed.

Is much of this stuff available on Spotify?

I would Grokk a playlist of this stuff.

entitled "sharing is turned off"

maybe it can be a project of mine after I've moved house.

Would expect it all to be on spotify. I think the old Kerrang britrock compilations were on there but don't know if they still are

hahahaha check the odd band out here http://open.spotify.com/album/0C8yfB19v8gLxGBG5jf7TF

Britrock really is the worst thing ever

i dont think we ever polled worst britrock band did we? Though Stereophonics would walk it so they would need to be left out

Need some nominations

Feeder
Skunk Anansie
3 Colours Red
Rachel Stamp
King Adora

http://tomkclarke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/reef-02-academy-6.jpg

Reef were terrible, but they didn't trouble the charts for very long.

IT'S YOUR LE-TTERS!
IT'S YOUR LE-TTERS!

That Rides album was quite successful. I seen them on that tour (with A, of all people) so I suppose their glory period is a lifetime for some of the acts in here

a poll for britishers - Did you own any of the "Shine" compilation cds?

Mark e get in here

morgan nicholls also did that M.Organ thing. he released a rather ace single with his brother i seem to recall.

ooooh yes .. i love love that track .. (miss parker)

re terrorvision : i need to hear the debut again .. been buried deep in the archive for 20 years ...

I can't hate "Oblivion" for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU

seems the most appropriate thread for this

Tony Wright has been on tour with Ricky Warwick.

http://planetmosh.com/ricky-warwick-and-tony-wright-announce-july-acoustic-on-tour/

lol

Ricky Warwick and Tony Wright announce July “Acoustic On Tour”

that might be the single most depressing sentence i've ever read

Naw that would be "Ricky Warwick touring in Thin Lizzy replacing Phil Lynott"

depending on who's in the Lizzy lineup that would still be more entertaining than Acoustic On Tour

Tell me more about the Wolverhampton Slade Rooms

should have called them the Slade Roomz

i have no idea, all i know of Wolverhampton is the Mol and Woolworths and i'm assuming the Woolworths has gone

what happened to Tony Wright, did Never Mind The Bollocks stop calling him

Buzzcocks ffs

Acoustic On Tour doesn't really sound very much in the spirit of Slade to me.

Mama Weer All Janglee Now

not sure I want to hear about Tony's long, dark night of the soul, or alternatively a bunch of Terrorvision and Almighty songs on the acoustic guitar

Almightyvision

i like to picture this has Tony just playing "Tequila" 8 times in a row to 3 blokes on the bandit

I hope shutty is on bongos for both acts

Tony will be presenting Acoustic TV alongside Milly (from Terrorvision) and exploring a host of old and new songs in the acoustic format.

Acoustic On Tour will be featuring classics from Thin Lizzy, The Almighty, Black Star Riders, Terrorvision and Ricky and Tony’s solo projects.

Milly was the trumpet player in Terrorvision from 2005 onwards, which doesn't feel like an intrinsic part of the band to me.

I kind of wish Ricky Warwick had done this tour with Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones instead, then he could have called it Christ Almighty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qOuXetaiA

on a trip up to yorkshire this weekend, browsing round shops in skipton i bumped into terrorvision tony.

really nice guy.

and i now know what he does to fill his days .. not what i would have ever expected at all.

mcdonalds or burger king?

NI did I tell you I re-purchased empires of the senseless last year? on vinyl this time though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aBsOybMMcE

Taken from the forthcoming new live album; CONGREGATION: Kerbdog Live
Coming Summer 2014

I suppose they relax with some chick called Alice and constantly ask her "what's the matter?"

so my band is supporting Tony Wright as Acoustic TV in Milton Keynes on Friday. Big tings!

So were Terrorvision the unnamed band in the Luke Haines'(of the Auteurs) spectacularly bitchy autibiography?

excellent news dog latin! i trust you will blow him off stage

steady on, i liked them when i was younger but not that much.

wahey!

:)

How did it go DL?

It went really well haha, although I'm not in that band any more

Funny to think that of all the bands people were into when I was younger, it was Terrorvision that seemed to unite pretty much everyone I knew. The indie/grungey kids were into them. But also, weirdly were the metal kids who would otherwise be listening to Slayer, Mayhem or Candlemass would be happy walking around in Terrorvision t-shirts. Looking back, they were a Britpop band but at the time people tended to treat tham as a hard rock band because they'd appear in Kerrang

They were clearly promoted by Kerrang from the off and they came via the rock circuit not indie. They certainly were not Britpop.

Raw and Kerrang did however try to start a competing subgenre called Britrock along with bands like Reef and Skunk Anansie and the band erm 'Skin'. Remember those shitehawks?

Don’t dis Skin, she’s great

If you complain about Skunk Anansie / Skin, you’ll meet an army of her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7LWE7RdH3s

*ahem*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxgx1Q5YFUo

Another dreadful band that Kerrang/RAW loved in the early 90s - Skin. What happened to them?
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hang on, was there a separate band called Skin or are we talking about the singer in Skunk Anansie? Yeah Britrock - a slightly more distorted version of Britpop with long hair, tatoos and eyeliner. Three Colours Red and stuff - I guess even Stereophonics were sometimes put in there etc.

But Terrorvision always had songs like "Oblivion" which, if Supergrass qualified as Britpop then that is firmly a Britpop song. I remember Terrorvision slagging off Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys in Select once, saying he was sweating too hard to write catchy pop songs. Then they came out with Tequila ffs.

Search: Pretend Best Friend - rappy rock with lounge jazz interludes. thought it was amazing when i was 14

xp oh i see

god, i just remembered Stiltskin. That one Levis ad song was pretty good, mind, as far as post-grunge stuff is concerned

Skin were the big hype band of Kerrang. Utterly dreadful just like I said 19 years ago. The OP was a big fan.

Ha, that's me, never getting the obvious joke. Then trying and failing to make my own joke

I saw Cecil at Phoenix ‘96, lead singer did the whole ‘climbing over the barrier to be with adoring fans’ thing. They were first band on that day IIRC.

Skin were part of the Kerrang!-approved nu-Britrock scene, along with Thunder, Little Angels and the Quireboys. More of a return to the Whitesnake/BadCo/worst end of LZ approach, absolutely no rap sections allowed. Weren't Terrorvision more the UK's shoddy answer to Faith No More?

xxp
same at T In The Park 95

xp
Thunder, Little Angels and the Quireboys were all late 80s bands. Skin was later alongside Reef, Terrorvision et al

and 3 colours red were a shitty inferior poor mans Wildhearts.

Although Skin mainman Myke Gray had previously been in Kerrang!-hyped losers Jagged Edge, who were more contemporaneous with Thunder et al. This of course is after Thunder had emerged from the rock chrysalis of Terraplane, another attempt by K! journos to instigate a trad rock revival that floundered at birth until the butterfly of Thunder flew free.

How the fuck do I remember all this crap

Skin not to be confused with the arty Swans offshoot of the same name of course

I saw Cecil at Phoenix ‘96, lead singer did the whole ‘climbing over the barrier to be with adoring fans’ thing. They were first band on that day IIRC.

― pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Monday, 8 September 2025 13:51 bookmarkflaglink

ha me too. they were shit iirc

But Terrorvision always had songs like "Oblivion" which, if Supergrass qualified as Britpop then that is firmly a Britpop song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RIlRhXXQjg

Imagining a future musicologist unearthing this, one of the last surviving music videos, and saying "Ah-ha! So THIS is what metal was!"

Speaking of UK NME/Kerrang crossover acts, were Symposium any good? One of them, Hagop Tchaparian now makes a decent electronic racket but I don't remember anything about the band

Quite enjoyed them when I saw them on one of those NME tours back when I was 16, which I presume is optimum ‘vaguely enjoying Symposium’ age.

were Symposium any good?

Fuck no

How the fuck do I remember all this crap

― corgan – a suitable case for treatment (Matt #2),

A misspent youth?

symposium mixed in some ska with the pop metal; that was mostly bad. then went a bit more Helmet later before the split and that was ok?

also not so secret christians... https://genius.com/Symposium-drink-the-sunshine-lyrics

Weren't Symposium all still at school when they first got hyped up iirc

In answer to the original thread question, the lads released a new album last year!

https://www.discogs.com/release/31790225-Terrorvision-We-Are-Not-Robots

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51--zOhorqL._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg

A1 Electrocuted 1:40
A2 The Night That Lemmy Died 2:36
A3 Opposites Attract 3:17
A4 Baby Blue 3:36
A5 You Gotta Want To Be Happy 3:28
A6 Magic 3:09

B1 Promises 2:50
B2 Lucifer 3:29
B3 Don't Spoil Tomorrow 2:55
B4 Bleecker Street 3:03
B5 Daydream 3:25
B6 Shine On 2:57