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.

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