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

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Well he made a very good shop assistant when he worked at John Smith's

My sister used to work part time there with the guy from 18 Wheeler and moody SP, I think, c.1993.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

Puressence, anybody remember them?

― mzui, Friday, 20 February 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

Yep. Think they're still going - they had a top 40 single (at #40) early last year, I think...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah they were shit.

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.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

DJ Mencap - I saw that Minty "performance" at Phoenix 96... Nicola (i think was her name), yeah totally naked except for some 80s mobile disco snake lights... weird.

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

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

Another lost band - The Sweeney

― Shooz (shooz), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

Not sure why WBS has got such a thing for Newport bands, and shit ones too.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

I don't like Feeder, if that's what you're suggesting.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

One of the ex-members of Derrero was just in my office with Martin Carr. I tell you, I'm like all the 3am girls rolled into one

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

Hope you're not as fat.

Anyway: Kingmaker! These Animal Men! Dweeb!

― billislord, Friday, 20 February 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

Was there some sort of connection between Evening Session and the Volume compilations? I recognize about 60% of these artist names from these CDs.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

Hah, Dweeb! Oh my fucking Lord...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

M Organ.

Lock thread.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Jedi Wannabe" by Bellatrix is great!

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!

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

"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. As it was, the album did more wood than Jenna Jameson.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

Dawn of the Replicants!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

Well, the Murry The Hump album is pretty good. Telstar Ponies of course, but they don't really fit here

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

Silver Sun
Ultrasound
Helen Love

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.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

I have the Morgan (as M Organ would later be called) album! I dunno where it is and I've never actually listened to it as such, but I know I did most assuredly pay money for it at some point in my past...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

You all seem to have forgotten Bis. I haven't, unfortunately.

― clive (Clive), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Wasn't "Miss Parker" released about seventy times?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Probably. Never made the top 40 though, which I remember being a bit irked about at the time cos I thought it was great (d/l'ing it now). I was very miffed that Woolworths (West Norwood branch) hadn't heard of it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

Subcircus
Crashland
Union Kid
Lowgold
Terris

― ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry, I'm not reminiscing, am I?

― ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

If I could only remember what any of them sounded like.

― ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

Nicola (i think was her name)

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.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, I remember that Morgan single, that was great. And C'mon Cincinnati by Delakota. Both around at the same time if I remember rightly. Winter evenings as a 14 year old, doing my homework with Steve 'n' Jo in the background...

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

Aren't most of the bands mentioned on this thread from the early and mid 90s?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

A lot of these were handily collated on the Melody Maker cover CD's of that time. There was one, 'The Maker's Dozen', that had Ooberman, Llama Farmers, The Crocketts, One Lady Owner, Ten Benson, Scott 4, Delakota, Seafood, and loads others even less significant than that...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

also - I used to, but am not sure if I still do, have a copy of the Mishka album. He had a top 40 single, you know.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

This thread is making me feel like I just stepped out of a coma.

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, it's brilliant, innit?

Campag Velocet. Magic.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

Rub-Ultra

― mzui, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

Tord-Grip

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

Stroke. Not to be confused with The Strokes but a million times more likely to make you feel like you've just had the entire Newcastle United squad raping you in the ear

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

No, Campag were awful. I think I listened to their album once when I bought it and haven't since.

"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.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, and Straw, of whom I remember nothing, other than the fact that I thought Straw was the worst and most broing name for a band ever, even back then.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

broing = boring

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

Rub-Ultra

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

― Mog, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

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

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

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Audioweb went top twenty once. Crumbs.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

Aren't they still together as The International Karate Plus? Or is that just Bimrose and Carter?

Doesn't one of them work for Barfly now?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

(That's Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, not Audioweb)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

Of all the bands mentioned above, I loved Astrid, Bellatrix, Tiger, Urusei Yatsura (the first proper indie band I ever loved.. thanks to Mark and Lard), Murry the Hump, Angelica, Ooberman, M Organ, Kenickie,
Ultrasound (their album is still one of my favourite albums ever), Silver Sun, Seafood.

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.

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

The Motorhomes

― ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

I second all endorsements of Bellatrix, Ultrasound and Geneva.

― ara, Friday, 20 February 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

This is like my 7" collection summed up in one thread. O dear.

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!

― cis (cis), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Magoo live once in Glasgow playing with Mogwai! And Urusei Yatsura! And possibly Bis! AC Acoustics may also have been involved! This may have been the most evening-session-glasgow-centric gig ever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

big yoga muffin

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

It's interesting to see which of these bands are still around.

Silver Sun have just reformed.
Magoo are still as great as ever, if not better.
Astrid and Seafood are touring again soon.

Anyone else? Who would have thought that this lot are still playing on?

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

actually I may have been confusing a couple of gigs up there. Ganger may also have been involved. And Quickspace Super-something? Think they might have been with Magoo, and the rest at a separate gig. Well whatever, there are some more bands of the type required for this thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

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― kinder, Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link

I'd forgotten Miss Parker! sure it's on a c90 somewhere

― kinder, Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link

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