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.

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