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

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....