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

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.

I just saw the Witness album for £2.50 in the library. I didn't buy it.

This thread is like being on a board with only me and my ex-girlfriend.

I still think 'That's Nice' is awesome.

I always preferred "Shining In The Woods" to "Race"...

Another lost band - The Sweeney

Anyway: Kingmaker! These Animal Men! Dweeb!

Lock thread.

Didn't Ooberman have one good single and then turned shit? God, I have loads of these bands on NME and MM giveaway CDs. Bless Steve Lurpak, he actually made them sound like they might be good.

So who actually is worth searching out? I found "In The Club" by Kenickie the other day and it rules!

Bellatrix put out three absolutely stone-cold classic singles (Jediwannabe, Sweet Surrender, The Girl With The Sparkling Eyes) so I bought the album. It's alright, but they seem to have sunk without trace.

Nicola Bowery, wife of Leigh! I saw them support Pulp in Manchester. The bloke screamed "Heterosexual couple cuddling in the front row... THAT'S NICE!" and the crowd took a step back. I heart Minty.

Into the fray I throw Marion, 60ft Dolls and China Drum.

Campag Velocet. Magic.

"C'Mon Cincinatti" by Delakota is just asking to be used in a car or alcohol advert. It is great. I believe their main blokey was in the Senseless Things, whoever they were.

"Vague Us" by Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi is about as good as a lost album as you'll find, if they'd have been around last year they'd probably have managed an NME cover and a top 30 single.

Only if they were called The Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pis.

Blimey... s'a name I ain't heard in a long long time... their compadres Huge Baby were the bomb...

With a lumbering inevitability they toyed with changing their name to the Mo-Hos at one point, before doing one (1) gig as Telephone and knocking it on the head. I am not or have ever been a member of the band, BTW

Doesn't one of them work for Barfly now?

I've just been rediscovering the Geneva album today.. It's a bit like Keane, if only Keane had more character... and guitars.
and a Helen Love album. Helen Love rocks.

I adored Urusei Yatsura. (did anyone besides me buy Yon Kyoku Iri ep? nah, thought not.) And Ultrasound were my first proper gig! (along with Travis and, uh, the Hybirds? Whoever they were). Really didn't like the album, but as a singles band you couldn't fault 'em. Geneva were wonderful - I keep rediscovering their singles and cooing.

Magoo!

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