― minna, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Paul, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
You did not miss anything, minna - trust me.
― DJ Martian, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jerry, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
i love the elegant double distancing here: martian covers himself nicely.
― pulpo, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Venga, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
(in fact I can't even remember why I went...)
― baxter wingnut, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alexander Blair, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Darren, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― joey, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I love the fact that they've put down THE HIVES as one of the happening Romo acts of today.
Anyway, I wasn't there, either, Minna, but it's seemed kinda fun. Wish I still had that cassette that came with Melody Maker. Skinny, nerdy guys with makeup on, ridiculous manifestos, failure--how could I not love it? And, yeah, Minty were wonderful--I reckon Peaches, Gonzales, Miss Kitten must have heard "Useless Man" at some point...
Also, what about the American Romo band Romania? They were on Teenbeat, I believe. Must have been very lonely for them.
― Arthur, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
As for me, it was great. I'd forgotten just how extreme some of the crowd at Club Skinny dressed. Taboo - pshaw! There's a decent book to be made about it all. And a film. And a musical. Happy times. Good times. I was there, you know. The ones who hated Romo were just the ones who couldn't get on the guest list. Or pass the dress code. A common misconception is that we were celebrating the 80s New Romantics. The truth is we were celebrating our own wonderful selves, and each other. And the rest of the world could get knotted.
No trainers! No untucked shirts! NO SMILING ON THE DANCE FLOOR.
― Dickon, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― --, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
You just don't get it, do you?
― Pulpo, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― David Gunnip, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
What do YOU think of 'electroclash', Fischerspooner, etc...?
― Robin, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I can't stand that gruesome genre term, for one thing. At least with "romo" there's ample scope for puns. Romophobia, romosexual, Romocop, romo pomo promo...
I still haven't sat down and listened to Fisherspooner proper, but going by their image alone, they certainly wouldn't have been out of place at Club Skinny in late 1995.
At a club on Saturday, someone rushed up to me and said "you MUST come to this - you'd fit right in", and handed me a flyer for a club which plays "NO WAVE, ELECTROCLASH, DISCO POGO". So there you go.
― Jerry, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― alext, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chupa-Cabras, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― blueski, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
saw the romo tour in bristol. i remember feeling ENERGISED and POISED FOR THE FUTURE. i played pool after with hollywood. i had terrible hair then.
romo = bowie/roxy/eno and associated bloodlines.
hey! did somebody mention the STAR SPANGLES? shaolin's always raving about them. i got the olde 'can't be with you' single. the new stuff's (apparantly) better. tommy volume is such a cool name.
the strokes? why now? £2million worth of hype = why now. but! the songs are amazing, so who cares?
can i just point out (as i'm prone to doing) that 'can you see me shining' by shelleydevoto is a fantastic ROMO record?
― rob, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I've always though I was more of a weasel faced arse but maybe you were at the back. And I have never in my life wished to 'cut it' so that was one thing I succeeded at...oh and getting Warner Brothers to give us a quarter of a million pounds and getting Universal to give us £120,000 and getting on the front cover of a music paper I'd read all my life and being called the best new band in Britain...failure? If I was in The Cooper Temple Clause then I'd feel like a failure.
It was the funnest thing I've ever done in my life.
― Timothy Mark Chipping, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― kendall, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
So it is true! My brother works at Warner Music and he said he was bored the other day, so he started reading the Orlando file and he said there was a piece of paper saying that you'd been given that much (I think it said "Balance: -£249,501" or something) Apparantly, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief whilst exclaiming "Zoinks!" Actually, he didn't say that he did that but he probably did do it.
― jamesmichaelward, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― wardytron, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
yrs, hopefully
mr rob
un romo activities such as 'hard graft' and 'paying our dues' then, that's the way.
'learning your chops'. that's what they called it in the olden days.
pork, lamb. i think i can remember that.
― rumbaba egronicrum, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
If Channel 4 ever does a Top 10 Romo, will there be enough to make it up to 10?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
plastic fantastic
viva!
minty
hollywood
dexdexter
nancy boy
inaura
sexus
damn, that's only 9.
eeerm -
i dream of wires?
― cap'n peacock, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
The Venus Hunters?
Which oddly enough I'm about to listen to -- the song, that is. Yay Gary!
the new Fosca album is sitting next to me right now. the front cover is rub.
― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
By the way Wyndham. How's Annie? How's Annie?
I reviewed both singles at the time and I think I gave them 5/5. The editor didn't agree with such high marks, and lowered them to 4/5. I still feel I was right and he was wrong.
And yes, things might have been drastically different for Romo if it came out in NY 2002. But, as someone much wiser than me once said, pop is context.
Now, if only Simon Price and Taylor Parkes could just take care of their long overdue comeback to the music press...
PS - Jasper Fascinating, anyone?
― JML, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― g, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
There's not really much of a music press now to come back to, is there? At least in the traditional sense.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
It didn't sell many records but everyone who heard some all posted on this thread 8 years ago about it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f358/cilamc/IMG_2170.jpg
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)
If the intention of 'romo' was to kill the credibility of a music paper so that sales declined as noone took it seriously anymore so the paper "folded" (haw) a few years later, leaving the NME to exist all on it's own, then http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG succeeded!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:03 (fifteen years ago)
xpost -- and I have that very issue still.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWNNGR9ou_8&a
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)
Whale Hump America!
― crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)
haha paul weller was still in the mag?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
ORLANDO * PLASTIC FANTASTIC * SEXUS * DEXDEXTER
― Neil S, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
Watching that Orlando video it's pretty hard to see what all the fuss was about
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
lol and the beatles
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
interesting dental choices, judging by that MM cover...
― Neil S, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)
sorry xp
so wait, you're saying this was real thing? thishttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGbusiness?
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)
yes a real cat
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
a real and very angry hobo cat. namedhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:09 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
'Free As A Bird' was out about then innit
― hoxton whores ahoy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)
lol "Free As A Bird"
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)
Why does the Orlando guitarist walk like he's just shat himself at the beginning of the video?
Gotta agree that Minty were good, but I never really thought of them ashttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)
Just reliased what's going on here. Applauds.http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGromohttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)
Maybe he had. Must be intimidating playing to 3 people at a gig.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:31 (fifteen years ago)
what was 'http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL7CbHcFkAk
Yay, I love MInty! NSFW BTW
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)
One to play at your funeral that.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
KInd of sad that I can't find 'That's Nice' anywhere.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)
was coincidentally listening to orlando last night
― pies madness (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)
That's a bit unfair. I once saw them play to a half-full Cambridge Boatrace.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:41 (fifteen years ago)
I heard even the dog walked out after one song at the tour at the arches in Glasgow
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)
to pass the time this morning i checked a passage of bowie's wikipedia entry explaining that he got 2 blue eyes, leading to watch the ashes to ashes video (it had been a while) leading to click wikipedia's entry on new romantism (had read years ago so why again because steve strange is in that bowie video) leading to check the wikipedia page of a certain short-lived musical movement (that i had also read years ago because of this thread) . i guesshttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGis in the air!http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGis finally happening
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)
always thought hurts bit a lot of r0m0 elements, but with a great yawning chasm where the 'fun' should be
― NI, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
That's a bit unfair. I once saw them play to a half-full Cambridge Boatrace.― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
was this supporting kenickie, or did they manage to topline at some point?
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGromohttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)
[was this supporting kenickie, or did they manage to topline at some point?]
Hmmm… maybe it was supporting Kenickie: sands of time and all that. In which case it wasn't even their half an audience! It would make more sense why I'd have bothered to drive 50 miles to see them.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
― markers, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:08 (fifteen years ago)
roflhttp://i.imgur.com/UmHofFc.jpg
― ۩, Monday, 20 January 2014 17:41 (twelve years ago)
Can be change the cat image to that design classic when we say romo ?
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 20 January 2014 19:02 (twelve years ago)
always thought hurts bit a lot of r0m0 elements, but with a great yawning chasm where the 'fun' should be― NI, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 1:33 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― cardamon, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 05:43 (twelve years ago)
will always always stan for that debut orlando album. some of the greatest pop music ever on there, fuck all yer sneers
― NI, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 21:13 (twelve years ago)
20th anniversary of the Romo front cover on MM today
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 27 November 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)
definitely a significant historical event worth marking
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Friday, 27 November 2015 18:50 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj9k4ZP2e7U
― soref, Friday, 27 November 2015 22:48 (ten years ago)
Taylor Parkes, a major figure in music and Hitlerian Blairism
― Noodle Vape (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 November 2015 22:52 (ten years ago)
eh?
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 27 November 2015 22:54 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9GBO7i-6GI
^ best song
― gazcom (NickB), Friday, 27 November 2015 23:05 (ten years ago)
actually it's dreadful but i do like it a lot
― gazcom (NickB), Friday, 27 November 2015 23:07 (ten years ago)
its the only romo song i remember
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:08 (ten years ago)
Another Car Another Carcrash by Dexdexter is awesome, also pretty much everything by Orlando
― soref, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:10 (ten years ago)
Dexdexter geocities page is here http://www.geocities.ws/retropalace/dexdexter.html
http://www.geocities.ws/retropalace/dextexter1.jpg
― soref, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:12 (ten years ago)
Viva sound a bit John Foxxy on that clip you posted, but the Spandau Ballet look is a definite no
― gazcom (NickB), Friday, 27 November 2015 23:15 (ten years ago)
trying to do GIS for romo, but all of the results are pictures of some american footballer, but there was also this dog who is pretty neat: http://www.dogster.com/the-scoop/romo-famous-dog-pictures-photos-washington-dc-hanging-out-window
― soref, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:15 (ten years ago)
Clearly the peak of everythinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd939uTSjNgDisappointed they cut out the latest internet news tho..
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 28 November 2015 04:35 (ten years ago)