Northern Uproar - Most Under-rated Band Ever?

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This is a difficult one for me because I love Menswear and I am also partial to a bit of U2 and Guns n Roses (neither gets the credibility they deserve).

[Cut it out Calum: Forum Moderator]

― Calum Robert [trolling as DG], Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

you like U2, no way DG man, get back on the beer, is this what your current abstinence is doing? wow thats awful!
is it true that menswear played with v/vm in japan. ha, intentional crimes against pop music vs unintentional crimes against pop music?

― g, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Calum Robert is being a wanker, in his usual manner, and so not surprisingly I didn't start this thread.

― The Real DG, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who you calling a wanker fug breath?

And stop trying to blame me for your bizzaro music tastes.

DG is being a wanker and blaiming me for stupid threads.

― Calum Robert, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I see your parents forgot to activate the Net Nanny, Calum.

― DG, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

No - they were shit.

― Zanny Gognet, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're all boring.

― Calum Robert, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

But Calum is exciting! And has sex! And a sense of humour! All the other people are weird and bad!

― Cumal Itbo, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Calum took the only girlfriend available and we are all JEALOUS!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Underrated bands = bands you love
Overrated bands = bands you hate

― Siegbran Hetteson, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Siegbran is a man full of wisdom.

Calum: What do you think of Iannis Xenakis? I think his electroacoustic works like ''La Légende d'Eer'' rock like a motherfucker!

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

XENAKIS == GOD!!!

― Calum Roberts evil greek twin, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Bach swings, man"

Xenakis does not rock in any way whatsoever, but he is amazing.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Xenakis rocks! And he's amazing!

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Please!! At this rate we'll be starting a discussion on the merits of fucking Northside next. Shall we take a trip?

― tacit, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Northside is better than the Beatles!

― Lord Custos III, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

I'VE BEEN LOOKING THROUGH MY WINDOW
SEE MY WORLD JUST FLY
SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING
MY MIND.... MY MIIIIIIIIINNNNNDDD

AWESOME GUITAR RIFF

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link

It's Britpop, but it ROCKS as well. All boxes ticked.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link

and i was all ready to hassle mark g for reviving this

― electricsound, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Not as good as Echobelly.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link

: /

― max r, Friday, 12 October 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.lukehaines.co.uk/communiques/statements/select2.jpg

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link

my thurman "she's a man" 45 always mocks me from my vinyl shelves with its yellow vinyl and striking cover art

― electricsound, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Cheery funster Haines OTM.

― Neil S, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link

"paul weller back on top" lol

― max r, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Please nobody start a Paul Weller solo career poll. Thanks.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link

KingCanute.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Dodgy and Ocean Colour Scene are way more correct answers than Northern Uproar or Menswear.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 October 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Underrated bands = bands you love
Overrated bands = bands you hate

I love The Beatles, but they aren't underrated. Not overrated either though - they belong up there.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 October 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

RIP

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jeff-fletcher-northern-uproar-victim-8131205

― disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link

jesus i only just saw this story. decapitated according to the independent, fucking hell

― john wahey (NickB), Sunday, 23 November 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link

and i was all ready to hassle mark g for reviving this
― electricsound, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:51 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I bought a single once, I don't remember much about it. Was going to say, they were probably underrated.

Very sad, feel for his family and friends. He obviously enjoyed what he did, so what does it matter what the 'press' or random ILXors thought? The only thing that really matters is what the people in front of the band watching, thought.

RIP

― Mark G, Monday, 24 November 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link

only 36 too. they must have been tiny sprogs when they were at their 'height'. very sad.

― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

Never heard this band, I think, but someone posted this on Facebook, A Night In Memory Of Jeff Fletcher.

― Utterly huggers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link

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