― ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― ara, Friday, 20 February 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
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
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Barnaby (Barnaby), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
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
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
― castle ashby, Friday, 20 February 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
Surely there's the odd Pastels record which is better than working at John Smith's?
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
Didn't Ooberman have one good single and then turned shit?
nah, they actually improved once they got dumped from Independiente.
are Quickspace still around? they haven't released anything for a while and the Kitty Kitty website appears to be extinct.
i *love* Geneva, and now i can't find their second album for love nor money.
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
main dude became Echoboy
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
Oh yes. I loved Urusei Yatsura.
I went to Glasgow for a job interview in 1997, and came out in that "Omigod, did you say that? You fool" sort of state. Found Missing Records on Great Western Road and got "We Are Urusei Yatsura" going dead cheap. Thought it had to be a good sign.
I got offered the job the next day and moved to Glasgow and had a great three and a bit years there.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
*ashamed*
I only actively bought one of their singles though.
― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
Not sure, but one of their number is in a band with a mate of mine, called Empire Of Sponge, and who release their singles on some Italian label. Doesn't stop them being dead ace, though.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
Someone mentioned China Drum? They hooked up with the drummer from Compulsion, went really bad, changed their name to The Drum and died a slow lingering death...
― billislord, Saturday, 21 February 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link
Three of them (Fergus, Ian and Elaine) have started a new band called Project A-ko who have been doing a couple of gigs in Glasgow. Graham is doing something else.
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 21 February 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
(ok ok I remember more than this.)
are you sure?
'we're going down to talk to the cows!' = the one I don't like.
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
However every band on this thread has got 'one page feature by Mark Beaumont' written all over them. Crashland!
― laticsmon (laticsmon), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
Grand Theft Audio!
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link
― ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
Good work sir.
The Period Pains!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
I really liked Ooberman's 'blossoms falling': all wide-eyed and joyful and perfectpop-y.
― cis (cis), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
Inter! They were from Aldershot near me! Their bassist was called Sid Stovold, which is a highly cool name!
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago) link
― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 22 February 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
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?
― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh I didn't know that - I had their album to review, it wasn't entirely offensive.
Sunna.
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― ___ (___), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― gerv, Friday, 5 November 2004 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link