How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

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God I loved this band back in 94/95 as an acne-flecked nu-teen. Now, I couldn't care less but what do they do nowadays? Did they make enough money to live happily off royalties? Are they involved in vanity side projects? More than anything what is drummer Shutty up to? And if anyone knows about any of those other UK rock/pop-punk acts (Wildhearts, Therapy?, Baby Chaos, etc) then hey, fire away.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Therapy? and The Wildhearts are still going.
Tony Wright of Terrorvision has/had a band with a terrible name "Laika Dog" And appears sometimes on Nevermind The Buzzcocks.

Ian are you going to finally admit to your love of Redd Kross?

Whatever happened to Symposium? They were extremely shite but big for a while. Wasn't one of them in another band?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Another dreadful band that Kerrang/RAW loved in the early 90s - Skin. What happened to them?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Headswim. Remember them? Nu-Grunge then jumped on the radiohead bandwagon.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

haha this is a mad nostalgia fest for me, I had a Skin single, the green one, digipack. Loved it. The love I had for all these bands was unreal, never felt anything like it since. Let's turn this thread into a early-mid 90s rock-punkpop KERRANG! Raw nostagiafest.

Honeycrack, loved those first few singles. Kerr, you're the King Dong of this stuff, throw some more down.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Symposium. The lead singer is now is a band called Paper Cuts, another two are in Hell is for Heroes.. I used to think Symposium were great (when I was 14), then a heard one of their tracks again yesterday and realised it was dreadful.

jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Massive props for Baby Chaos (first band I ever saw, Manchester Academy October 1994, supporting Terrorvision). When the most pressing issue of the day was when would be the next gig to mosh or [hushed tones] crowdsurf at.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Senser reformed didn't they? haha i liked them.
Senseless Things whatever happened to them?

God i saw Honeycrack at T In The Park 95.
Also at T In The Park 95 there was a band from Liverpool, singer was called Ste, he was a shaven headed nutter who just got into the crowd and walked around singing the song they were playing. They also supported the wildhearts, what the hell was their name?

I think the almighty played t in the park 95 too. Ricky Warwick released a country album supposedly!!

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost, Jellybean I'm fully expecting that to happen with me. Just been mulling over how much love I had for those first two Terrorvision albums. Spent months with my scrotey smalltown chums devouring those albums, tracks like 'New Policy One' and 'Middleman' seemed to me how Beatles tracks seem to £50 CD Man.

There was one Senseless Things album (the last before they split?) that 14yr old me held up as the single best album of all time. OF ALL TIME. Constantly badgering girls to borrow it. I didn't see much action. They were too busy listening to Menswe@r and Radish and the like.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

And now I'm making the dumb youth-shattering move of downloading said Terrorvision albums.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Empire Of The Senseless.
I regret selling that and that double cd with the old tracks on it. I think that used to sell for quite a bit.

I'd download them if i could find them.
It's all your fault, Ian.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Well I'm sorting out my record collection at the moment, so as a result I've been listening to loads of really crap indie-teen-pop stuff (Snug, midget, Symposium) that I used to like at that time. The best way to reminise is not to own the record at all. I remember a song I heard on the Evening Session when I first started listening to it by a group called Athletico Strip (I think). In my mind it's still probably the best song in the world ever, but I don't remember what it sounds like anymore.

jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Midget support Redd Kross once.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Skunk Anansie belong in here too. and Silverfish.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Slightly after my Terrorvision/Wildhearts (ulp, Splatterpunk) phase I was OBSESSED with a band called Pusherman. They sounded like a vastly better Verve, big big big doomy gloomy sound about selling smack and the like. They were about 8 members, all junkies and some even died. This was THE coolest thing to me back then. And here's where I realise I was the 90s equivalent of a Babyshambles fan. Only on his lonesome without a gang or tabloid attention. But they sounded better than Doherty, I can say that with absolute certainty.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm gonna add Silversun's first single which completely blew my mind when I first heard it. And hey, some of that Tripping Daisy stuff (though we're veering away from the UK bands now).

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

How could I forget about Silver Sun?

I never realised what they were singing about until about 3 years later... and I was so excited to meet two of the band when I was 15. That first album was ace.

jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Pusherman were supposed to support Redd Kross at that gig I mentioned. But they pulled out.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Power Hour vs Raw Power Vs Noisy Mothers

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

More bands
Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Baby Animals
Paw (american band but need mentioned for the "jessie" single.
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
I suppose Reef deserve a mention.
Joyrider.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

co.uk!

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

carrie

jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm gonna add Kerbdog. Which reminds of something from this... Yr best & worst support-band experiences,please, folks

...and I quote:

Kerbdog supporting the Posies, 1996. Kerbdog were an Irish grunge band who were crap. But the funniest thing was the audience completely ignoring them and staying as far from the stage as possible, except for three kids who were moshing furiously into each other in front of the stage. Hilarious.

I'm proud to say that those three kids were (and still are) my best chums. I showed rare restraint and declined to join in with that lonely lonely moshing. Though at a third-full Pusherman gig, I was the SOLE person holding onto the metal guard at the front of the pit, moshing away like my life depended on it. I often wonder what the band thought of that - did they appreciate the devotion they inspired in that young kid, or were they horribly embarrassed by it?

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

co.uk, that rings a bell. And also, some band called RealTV or similar. Three Colours Red belong on here, though I thought they were shit. And how did Feeder manage to get where they are today? They were pissweak compared to mighty peers such as SOLAR RACE and BABY CHAOS.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I would love to have seen the Posies on the frosting on the beater tour. Loved loved loved that album.

Real TV. I saw them support the wildhearts. I also saw Baby Chaos support the wildhearts.

Three Colours Red were a poor mans Wildhearts for the NME/Melody Maker readers who were scared to RAWK.

Great american band here ian, but it will remind you of being 15 because we spoke about this years ago when i 1st met you. Girls Against Boys. Kerrang used to love them but despite their support they just didnt cross over.

same with Urge Overkill and the fabulous God Machine.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been listening to 'Kill The Sexplayer' by GVSB recently, it still stands up. 'Disco 666' ain't too bad either.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby was my fave.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

SugarComa!

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, "Anthem" by the Wildhearts is a fantastic song, I'm gonna go download it right now. I do love how the Wildhearts will randomly release a single every couple of years, it goes top 30, and then you don't hear from them for another 18 months at all.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I had to review a Wildhearts gig a couple of years back, it was rotten. They did a cover of the Cheers theme. Even their hardcore fans seemed a bit put-out at that.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I gave up on them when they played a gig that was all stuff off their not out yet new album. and no oldies. It was a terrible sound too. and Ginger was a wanker.

I gave up on Therapy? with Infernal Love. It was an awful awful album. But the 2 early eps and the Nurse album still hold up very very well and Troublegum is stil a good album too.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't the lead singer of 3CR one of the Wildhearts' younger brothers?

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

2 bands I REALLY despised were The Little Angels and The Quireboys.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Three Colours Red were rubbish. My ex-flatmates supported them once and I was made to go along. A (possibly the least googleable band of all time) might also have been involved as well, or maybe that was another time, but they should maybe be on this thread as well.

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

A are a truely horrendous band, and their brief period as a legitimate chart act around 2002 was a dark era for British music.

Although "Old Folks" was pretty great, I suppose.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

A were horrid. The singer sounded like Sting. They seemed to be a sting loving record execs idea of a rock band.
UGH!!

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I *know* they were rubbish. I saw them live!

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I bet you saw lots of other rubbish bands back when you were a student.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Now I remember why I listened to so much american music in the 90s.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I was a thoroughly discerning young lady with flawless and impeccable taste*. I only saw A, as I said above, because my flatmates were supporting them.

*any shite bands I saw were because they were on a bill with people I did want to see, I swear I have no regrets about any bands I paid money to see ever

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Ben Harding of the Senseless Things was in 3CR IIRC.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Remember Blameless? I saw them and Real TV supporting the wildhearts at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I gave up on Therapy? with Infernal Love. It was an awful awful album. But the 2 early eps and the Nurse album still hold up very very well and Troublegum is stil a good album too.

No no no!! "Infernal Love" is fantastic, think of it as the In Utero to "Troublegum"'s Nevermind.

The one after ("Semi-Detached") was great too, though it all went a bit bleh after that (started sounding far too much like the Wildhearts, oddly).

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Ben Harding of the Senseless Things was in 3CR IIRC.

And Morgan Nicholls plays bass for the Streets (and covered for Muse's broken-fingered bassist at festivals last year).

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh blameless.. i'm really going to have to go through my tape collection and find out what gems, i mean bad choices i made when i was a teenager.

jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

morgan nicholls also did that M.Organ thing. he released a rather ace single with his brother i seem to recall.

jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember that Morgan thing, didn't it have his younger brother yipping on about how much he fancied his teacher? It wasn't bad that, good gimmick. And didn't a Senseless Thing go onto do Delakota?

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The liverpool band.........Cecil.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

"Miss Parker" by M.Organ/Morgan was released about 214 times, and didn't chart on any of them.

Swygart's a big fan.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It was the Senseless's drummer who did Delakota

... quick Google ...

Cass Browne.

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

... who according to t'Interweb was also in the appalling Vent 414, obvious lowering of standards there ;)

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I hope you are going to play some of these bands at Clique, Ian ...

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

What was the 90s rock band that Woody from Madness was in? I remember seeing a video on Alternative Nation I think it was. When Miles Hunt hosted it on MTV.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Vent 414 was Miles Hunt, yes?

(xpost)

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

It was. Thats what reminded me of him hosting that program.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

haha don't even mention my sparkly gleaming baby in the same breath as this bunch of ugly shite

xpost to kerr

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Woody from Madness was in Fat.

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I bet you play Alice Whats The Matter.
x-post.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post: was Woody from Madness in Transglobal Underground, or whatever they were called?

I loved Symposium/Midget/Snug/3CR/A et al when i was 14/15. All good fun. Not enough also-ran-indie these days :)

Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link

It was Voice Of The Beehive, wasn't it?

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

It was after them.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Senseless Things - Too Much Kissing
Senseless Things - Homophobic Asshole
http ://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=303EU6SP2APP3369W2J0EC7MAJ

just C+P the url in a browser with no spaces.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Honeycrack had some awesome songs. i especially liked their cover of "hey bulldog". baby chaos had a song that went "wash my head and wash my clothes/break my face and break my nose".

Blameless! That's the band I was going to post about but someone beat me to it. They were actually pretty good.

And that (albeit american) band Brad - they released a really really good album that was sort of Pearl Jam meets classic Soul (a lot better on tape than on paper).

Not quite the same style but somehow I just got an image of the naked woman on the front of all the Electrafixion stuff.

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Brad was Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam wasnt it?
I think the singer was the guy from Pigeonhed.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

it was Morgan Nicholls, not Cass Browne, in Vent 414 (alongside Miles Out Of The Wonder Stuff, Billy Duffy Out Of The Cult, and Pete Howard Out Of The Clash, No Really He Was, Before Mick Got Sacked And All). Cass is a live and occasional studio Blurilla these days though (is Morgan sometimes too? he was on most of the Delakota album).

kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Troublegum is one of the best albums ever. Therapy? deserved much more.

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't remember any Vent 414 at all (thankfully).

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

This confession by Affectian has made my day.

Sororah T Massacre workin' on electropop remix of Pretend Best Friend not really, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Cass is a live and occasional studio Blurilla these days

He also went to Mali with Damon Albarn for that album. Delakota did one single on London Records after that first (Polydor) album and that was that, I think.

Too bad nobody knows what all of these Evening Session people are up to. I would love to know about the office, shopkeeping or civil service jobs.

JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

This confession by Affectian has made my day.

Don't you remember him discussing this way back on the old nme chat? (does that still exist?)

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

This is like the hard rock version of that awesome lammo evening sessions thread.

I remember all of these bands, and even did onstage monitor mixing for leatherface at a couple london gigs, so I might have been at gigs some of you were at, way back in 199x. Redd Kross I still like loads, or at least "Phaseshifter" by Redd Kross I still like loads. A happy-hardrock classic! in places it sounds kinda rundgren-ish.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link

never liked terrorvision, but compulsion were great live.
the fact that the bands lead singer then became a big beat producer, and now helps out U2 with their remixes and suchlike completely baffles me.

mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Redd Kross are a wonderful band norm. Pick up the Neurotica reissue. Its a fab fab album.(I love all their albums, i'm a fanboy)
They have reformed and are making a new album too.

http://www.reddkross.com

x-post. I have 2 Compulsion albums. I played them not that long ago and they seemed to hold up quite well.
I'd be happy to YSI them if needed.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Best nostalgia thread ever! Some questions:

Am I right in thinking that the lead guy in Headswim had the fantastic name Clovis Dilweed?

Infernal Love: bad album, but didn't David Holmes do some production on it (between track static and that kind of thing)?

Oh, and I saw (the awful) Apes, Pigs & Spacement supporting the Wildhearts on what was supposed to be their farewell show- wasn't the lead singer of A,P&S responsible for Candyflip, and their baggy version of "Strawberry Fields"?

I spent *far* too long reading Kerrang! as a teenager!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

He was indeed!

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Just when ILM turns to shit we get gold in this thread and Martin's funk thread

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

How I got into Red Kross, actually, & prepare for this awesome example of gratuitous namedropping - one of the l-face london gigs was senseless things/leatherface/redd kross/local s3-ish band I was sat on the balcony in the bands area next to THE BASSIST FROM THE SENSELESS THINGS!!!1!!1 come on, admit you're impressed ;) he was ok iirc, but he wasn't impressed w/RK "oo the fack are these, there are facking shit" etc. I thought they were great, easily the best band on the bill.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Redd Kross twice when show world was out. Once at the Glasgow Cathouse and once supporting Foo Fighters.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, this is terrific. At one point in my life Terrorvision were streets ahead in the hot battle for Band I Had Seen Live The Most Times (seven, I think)

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The first Compulsion album is quite good. Then Green Day got massive and Compulsion went pop-punk for their 2nd album, which was pretty crap. I sold it for about 50p on Ebay recently!

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

If you insist on crowbarring Leatherface into this then it seems decent to also mention China Drum, Snuff etc

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

one of China Drum used to live about 5 doors down the hill from me!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I lost my glasses in the moshpit at a Snuff/China Drum gig! The lead singer of Snuff gave me them back! I only know this because my friend told me the next day I was too drunk to remember anything about Snuff playing :(

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link

A great band from these times would be Warrior Soul.

RAW Magazine was great. It covered loads of indie/alternative bands that Kerrang hadn't started covering yet(preferring the likes of Skin or more trad rock/metal bands at the time- how things change!) and it was my gateway to discovering Sebadoh, when Bubble & Scrape got a 5/5 review. Same with Sugar. Which actually was no3 in the albums of the year poll that year . (its a shame rocklist.net have removed the RAW lists) but get your nostalgia fix from Kerrang instead
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1991
Scroll all the way down to 2005 and relive it all!

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Warrior Soul at Donnington 1994. Wasn't the lead singer a bit of a nutter?

Would the 60ft Dolls fit here? Probably more NME than Raw, but some snotty punk goodness. Their Happy Shopper single is one I still hum to myself occasionally.

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

In the early to mid 90s there was a lot of crossover between MM/NME and RAW/Kerrang.
So much so that RAW actually became a britpop mag for 2 issues before disappearing forever. The Bluetones on the cover of RAW is just something that should never have happened.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Bloke from Compulsion/China Drum plays drums in my mate's current band.

Saw Warrior Soul with Metallica in '89-ish. They were rubbish I thought.

NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Warrior Soul at Donnington 1994. Wasn't the lead singer a bit of a nutter?

He was a bit of a cock. His long history of being laughed at started with a somewhat immature 'gay' skit on the first Meatmen single in 1980

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Do none of you guys remember The Power Hour/RAW Power(presented by Phil Alexander, a woman i forget the name of, and Krusher on the Kouch) and then Noisy Mothers presented by Krusher?

I must have hours of videotape of this stuff. I need to dig it all out.

Sadly there will be lots of crap Thunder/Bon Jovi/Little Angels as the woman presenter loved that shite.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't the woman on that show the wife of Ricki from the Almighty? I can't for the life of me remember her name either!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

No, that was Vanessa Warwick from MTV's Headbangers Ball.
It was Ann someone who did Raw Power. She was also the shows producer.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yes, I remember now. To think, Phil Alexander now editor of Mojo!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I got a cassette of Red Kross for 50p at HMV, long time ago, and remembered Shonen Knife liking them a lot.

Didn't do much for me, I have to say.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Check this for the BAD old days of late 80s Kerrang

esp No's 2,11,15

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link

That list is great- who knew Molly Hatchet and the like released so many (presumably rubbish) records?

The divide between the 80s and the 90s couldn't be more stark, could it? Although it would appear that for the guys at Kerrang! the 90s actually started in 1991!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

it all started here
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1982

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh god the 1985 and 1986 lists are staggering.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I meant 1984 as well. But 1986....i wonder which albums of those 3 retained such high critical respect.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

and was there really a band called Sabu ?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't see how those mid-80s ones are worse than anything that thinks Snake River Conspiracy made the seventh best album of any year

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

This is the greatest list ever :

Kerrang 1984 Singles

1. Van Halen - Jump
2. Prince - When Doves Cry
3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
4. John Waite - Missing You
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
6. Motörhead - Killed By Death
7. Robin George - Heartline
8. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
9. Van Halen - I'll Wait
10. W.A.S.P. - Animal (**** Like A Beast)

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post

Yeah, David Lee Roth better than Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood on the '86 albums list! And who the hell were/ are the Vinnie Vincent Invasion? And was that really the 9th best album of 1986? Interesting to note that Purple Rain did extremely well in '84, as well.

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

That 84 singles list IS good (Steve Perry excepted)... but what the hell is

7. Robin George - Heartline?

NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Kerrang! got a lot of shit (or, as they would say, shite) over putting Prince on the cover once. Not the racist shit that Rip got when putting Living Colour on the cover, but the nobody-bought-this-issue-because-wot-the-'ell? shit (shite).

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

H-H-H-H-H-H-H-Heartline (da-na-na-nananana--)

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/550/556666.jpg

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Vinnie Vincent Invasion was the Egyptian themed guy from Kiss circa 1983-1985.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/VinnieVincent.jpg

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Lookin' good!

I like the way this thread has morphed from dubious rock bands of the 90s to- erm- dubious rock bands of the 80s!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Still none the wiser re. Robin George. All looks a bit Snowy White to me (that's not supposed to be rhyming slang BTW).

x-post: Gawd, Charlotte Church is looking well rough there.

NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a definite move from the early 90's to mid 90's of crap UK bands ripping off Faith No More to crap UK bands ripping off Rage Against The Machine. All done with a stodgy pub rock rhythm section of course.

Robin George was pushed by Kerrang as a rising superstar around 1985, until they realised that no-one liked him. Sounded like Magnum I think.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the fact that one of the photos on Redd Kross' site shown one of them sporting the exact same egyptian ankh facepain as vinnie vincent, above.

I remember Kerrang giving Robin George the big push back in the '80's. My memory says aor/pomp-rock w/technoflashy lead guitar playing, but I'm not entirely sure. I do remember this promo photo, where he's standing on a hilltop, bare chested, sucking his cheekbones in, and holding a bc rich guitar. IIRC he wasn't a shredder, '90's style.

I checked his website, and he's evidently still making music, so good for him, I really fucking admire ppl who keep on plugging, even if I'm not into what they're doing. I was going to check his music out on his site, but it crashed not only firefox, but my entire PC! while I was (briefly) staring at the screen, I noticed that they'd misspelled "discography" as "discocraphy" haha.

He was certainly very handsome, probably the equivalent of lisa dominique for Kerrang's (many) female readerz.

Actually my main memory of Kerrang in the '80's was this constant migraineish background drone of grim adolescent mastubatory sexism. If you were into metal & prog rock, it was pretty much the only game in town - especially after someone at "sounds" went batshit insane and handed the editor's chair to g4rry bush3ll - and if you wanted to read abt new metal releases, tour d8s etc, you were stuck w/"kerrang". But, it wasn't much fun. How I wish we'd had "terrorizer" back then.

My ex band played at this big club last year, and in a cupboard in the dressing room, they had a big pile of old "kerrang" issues, starting at something like issue #3. Cover starts liek Asia, or Fish from Marillion, with his sub jaz-coleman facepaint! I decided to rip 'em off next time we played there, but when we did, they were all gone.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Vinnie Vincent is famous for actually being sacked by his own band who went on without him.

We may as well do this now
Pandora Vs Pandora Peroxide.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

And lets not forget the roadie cartoon Brick Outhouse.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Kontinuum

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't pandora peroxide actually based on a real heavy metal singer? I'm sure I remember some F singer from some american glam/sleaze band rocking the ripped t-shirt/vest look, with "bitch" printed over each tit. Then, the comic strip (which was pretty terrible, for the most part) appearing a couple of issues later. Is it still running?

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

God.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Terrible.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

The best thing about Kerrang! in those days was how they had writers who handled their respective genres. Kelv Hellrazer was the AOR/glam guy, for example. Mike Smith, my editor at Livewire, tried to emulate that to an extent with that mag (and Powerline before it) using me as the underground thrash/death metal dude, him as the "glam" guy, etc...

Kerrang!/NYC memory: It's Only Rock And Roll, a record store in Manhattan, used to sell Kerrang! for only 99 cents as a way to get people in the door. Did anyone else here religiously visit this store for this like I did?

(I found a reference to the store here!)

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Bushell wrote for Kerrang BITD, I guess there was a lot of crossover w/ Sounds when it was still a new mag

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm, this thread seems to have jumped back a decade with little hope of returning.
Anyone remember Rogue Male?
Xavier "Son Of Ken" Russell was Kerrang's resident "Suvvern Rock" authority, hence the preponderance of Molly Hatchet and 38 Special albums in the end of year lists.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The best thing about Kerrang! in those days was how they had writers who handled their respective genres.

That sort of continues in "classic rock" magazine, which is pretty much targeted at ageing ex-80's-kerrang readers. They have people covering various sub-genres of metal, and someone covering prog rock. Many of the writers I remember from '80's Kerrang, and "Sounds" before that. They had a feature on all the less well-known nwobhm bands, written by geoff "deaf" barton iirc.

(x-post, yeah, I remember bushell writing for kerrang, but at least they didn't let him edit the bloody thing!)

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, after "Kerrang" took off, they (IE Sounds) launched another monthly or fortnightly spin-off covering independent chart music - "noise", I think it was called. I still have a couple of copies, or perhaps a couple of pages cut out from it in my file of old shit I should really chuck in the bin.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

In the mid 90s Pandora Peroxide retired and her niece Pandora took over. She is a goth chick/marilyn manson type.
I assume it's still going now.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Kontinuum

Kontinuum is officially the worst music magazine cartoon ever. Even worse than those two DJs from Melody Maker.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

that second one is actually worse than "nemi", shich is an achievement of sorts, I suppose.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't the Hokey Cokey an American invention?

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/tiffany/brianpand.jpg

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Ray Zell used to be in a band with Razzle, pre Hanoi Rocks. They all had names that were variants on Raise Hell. God knows what the others were called.

Pashmina, throw it all in the bin! Really! You'll never regret it.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, at the weekend, I got all my old copies of "mojo", and pitched the lot of them! I don't regret it either. I have more space. I'll get round to it all eventually.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I was hoping Ray Zell was the not particularly clever pseudonym of Rahzel.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Pandora is always made to sort of represent the female Kerrang! reader at the time. She was a bombshell when glam rock was king, she became kinda grungy for a while and now she's got a gothic Avril Levigne thing going on. I also think it's fascinating how her tits have gotten smaller as well.

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Can we talk about ECT now?

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT BLOODY PROGRAMME ALL MORNING!!!!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Robin George was on it!

Also, Manowar.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I also think it's fascinating how her tits have gotten smaller as well.

Oh yeah, me too

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Marino The Band.
(ECT I'm talking about, not tits)
(although Lisa "Gypsy Rider" Dominique was in them)

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't she related to Frank Marino in some way?

For shame, I once saw Lisa Dominique live, although I'm sure she was supporting somebody I actually wanted to see.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I can remember reading some old kerrangs at a friends place in the very early 90s. It was full of posters of sexy girls like Lisa Dominique, Dora and other names i've forgotten.
There was also a few 80s ones and the letters pages were full of complaints about sexism and particularly some sort of page 3 style feauture.
Perhaps someone knows what that was?

So we don't leave the americans out - What were American metal mags like in the 80s? Which non-memorable bands were covered there?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Those Senseless Things tracks sound remarkably similar to the Libertines. And I kinda like em, esp that 'Too Much Kissing' one. The album I adored by them was the one after that though, can't remember what it's called at all. Just relistened to some Terrorvision and blow me down, those guys could write a cracking pop track. A real barrage of hooks, esp on Pretend Best Friend. The ballads are shite though. And I'm probably never going to listen to them ever again. That's a decade-old boil lanced right there.

Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Senseless Things always sounded like The Replacements to me.
So you won't listen to the terrorvision ballads but you will listen to the pop rock ones?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Remember how at the height of grunge, there was a few big soft rock ballads that became hits. Bands like Mr Big and Extreme.
I hated them so much.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Senseless Things always sounded like The Replacements to me.

Yeah, I think that the Replacements were quite a big influence on those sorts of bands. What Goes On or someone had released all those early 'Placements records under licence (for the first time in the UK?) a couple of years prior to those bands getting big, maybe that was some sort of trigger. Mega City Four always used to dress like they'd just climbed off the roof on the cover of Let It Be.

Anyhow, 'Too Much Kissing' is a great song! The wife has a copy of Postcard CV in the back of the wardrobe I think, maybe I'll have to dig it out on Friday night. Wish I still had Snuff's 'Not Listening' though, cos that was truly a corker.

NickB (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link

What were American metal mags like in the 80s?

Not as good but we tried real hard.

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

What bands were covered that were shite but never made it big then?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the Redd Kross guys is now playing bass for Sparks, which got a lone cheer when he was announced at the Gateshead gig.

Actually, at the weekend, I got all my old copies of "mojo", and pitched the lot of them! I don't regret it either.

Pash, you should have bunged them on ebay, they sell quite well, especially the early issues.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I checked ebay for prices, and apart from the really early ones, it just wasn't worth it.

I had a bunch of the early ones, starting at nr 3 or 4, but that block of them got ruined when the roof sprang a leak last year! Bloody typical...

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Why hasn't DJ Martian posted on this thread yet?

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I've seen early Kerrangs go for a fortune.

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

According to Chuck, Ginger from The Wildhearts has a solo album out Rolling 2006 Metal Thread

Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...
So Ian have you listened to terrorvision lately?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread is a fantastic read.

chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It is.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Not quite the same style but somehow I just got an image of the naked woman on the front of all the Electrafixion stuff.

I have a couple of those cd singles I think in a box up in the loft.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link


snap.

electrafixation : ep + album in my loft too.
amongst the 100's of cds i will never listen to again.

mark e (mark e), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually did like the two Electrfixion cd singles. But I haven't heard them since.

I think I might listen to the 2 Therapy? eps and Nurse album today if I can look them out.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I listen to Troublegum now and again. It's fun and quite well written and produced.

chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Troublegum love seconded.

Oh, and also BEST THREAD EVER!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Troublegum is great but Nurse is better.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

At one point in my life Terrorvision were streets ahead in the hot battle for Band I Had Seen Live The Most Times (seven, I think)

For me it was (and remains) a draw between Terrorvision and, er, Paradise Lost (five times each).

chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

They were quite good fun when I saw them at T In The Park as they were still touring the 2nd album.
Anyone seen The Wildhearts since they reformed? The 4th time I saw them nearly 10 years ago was so bad I never went to see them again thanks to Ginger's shitty attitude.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried re-listening to Terrorvision and co and yeah, good pop hooks but it doesn't say anything to me about my life anymore.

Can anyone answer the original thread question? What do Shutty and Tony and the others do these days? I know the guy from Kerbdog hosts a radio show over in Ireland but what about the rest of the 'peak at #34' lot?

Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Terrorvision actually got a No 1 didn't they?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I think #2 was as high as they got - it was a remix of "Tequila", kept off the top by "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)". Kerrang! were all "ROCK IS BACK!" about it at the time.

LC (Damian), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe someone can confirm it.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19990130
There it is.

LC (Damian), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Look at what was no 10.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sebadoh and Humate in the top 30. Wild!

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 8 October 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Englebert Humperdinck and Frank Sinatra at 40 and 41 (and Tony Christie at 16)!

Tony Wright is always really good value on Buzzcocks (or was, since i haven't actually seen it for ages). It used to be a cert that just as the series was going shit, they'd wheel out either him or Shovel from M People - the Buzzcocks versions of Boris Johnson, I assume.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone who's actually burning to find out what these clowns are up to now, this is from their Wikipedia entry (misplaced semi-colons included):

The aftermath
Since splitting up, singer Tony Wright has formed Laika Dog; guitarist Mark Yates formed firstly the short-lived Boston Crabs and then Blunderbuss with biker bass player Sasquatch Bob, releasing one album to date, Relentless; whilst Leigh Marklew formed Malibu Stacey who released one album On Heat before splitting up. Ian Shuttleworth sought employment in Leeds, serving the UK's public education sector.

The re-union
The group has since reformed to play two tours in 2005, and played what was described as their 'last EVER show' at Rock In The Castle in Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 17 September, 2005. A collection of B-sides and rarities was also issued by EMI in September 2005.

Terrorvision's original recording studio in Bradford is currently being revamped by Grant Henderson, and it will be launched as "Ivolv" in the first quarter of 2006.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 8 October 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Just wait until the early 90s hard rock nostalgia tour/festival take place with

Little Angels
Quireboys
Skin
*add name as appropriate.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Shuttleworth sought employment in Leeds, serving the UK's public education sector.

???

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

He's a teacher.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Would this be him?

http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s175/st11631.php

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Too much hair.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and younger than me. Scratch that.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The thought of Shutty teaching is hilarious to me though. I doubt Ian will be able to get his head round that.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

He might not be a teacher. He might be a school janitor or something. Who knows?

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I like to imagine him as a fun loving lollipop man.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Angels
Quireboys
Skin

Noone got anything to add to the 90s hard rock Nostalgia Fest of HELL?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

What tracks would you include on an Evening Session 4cd box set of the 90s?

1) Therapy? - Screamager

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, nostalgia rockfest line-up additions!

Thunder
The Almighty
Paradise Lost
Warrior Soul
Senseless Things
Headswim

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That 4cd box set should have been rock show/evening session (since lots of bands got played on both.)

The evening session thread can have its own box.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone heard Ricky Warwick of The Almighty's country album?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...
http://www.spiny.co.uk/megacityfour/content/tribute/flyer_fixed.png

I never even knew that this guy had died. Never really into MC4 all that much but they were inarguably a grand bunch of blokes. And they put heart and soul into the one gig of theirs I saw, played in the back room of a Manchester pub in their early days with literally NO-ONE there apart from me and the bar staff. RIP Wiz.

NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link

lol, "compare".

jimn (jimnaseum), Monday, 29 January 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you suppose Andy Cairns will be playing at that show? Has he gone all sensitive acoustic singer-songwriter?

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

My brother vaguelly knew MC4. He's thanked on the sleeve of Who Cares Wins. Wiz is/was about the closest thing he's got to a hero apart from David Hirst. He was gutted when he found out.

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Any idea what he died of?

NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a Myspace tribute page for him which I imagine a google search would turn up

Hell Hath No Furry (DJ Mencap), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Bloodclot on the brain, I think.

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sheesh, poor dude.

NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Are Therapy? still going?

Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link

six months pass...

No one cared about Therapy? enough to know.

Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link

I know Andy Cairns' sister.

Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to care about Therapy? quite a bit. I even thought Infernal Love was decent.

chap, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link

No! Infernal Love was awful.

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I haven't listened to it for a decade or more, so you could well be right. At the time I thought it was a fair attempt to broaden their sound.

chap, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Therapy? should do one of those ATP gigs where they only do the 2 eps and Nurse

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 7 June 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Hey rebecca

2 bands I REALLY despised were The Little Angels and The Quireboys.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:24 (4 years ago)

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Chap is going to poll these. Lets do the noms here!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link

Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser
Kerbdog
China Drum
Senseless Things

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Skin
Symposium
Baby Chaos
Honeycrack
The Almighty
Skunk Anansie

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
Reef
Joyrider.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Dub War

There was a punky one with a single word name beginning with C who some of my friends liked. Though they might've been American.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Blameless
Real TV
Cecil

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link

There was a punky one with a single word name beginning with C who some of my friends liked. Though they might've been American.

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

I texted my friend to find out. Compulsion, from Ireland.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link

I liked them! got a couple of their cds. Pretty sure I said that on this thread

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link

So far

Feeder
Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser
Kerbdog
China Drum
Senseless Things
Skin
Symposium
Baby Chaos
Honeycrack
The Almighty
Skunk Anansie
Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Silverfish
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
Reef
Joyrider.
Dub War
Blameless
Real TV
Cecil
compulsion

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link

little angels
quireboys

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link

A

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Best or worst though? Wildhearts for best, Reef for worst IMO.

Neil S, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZJN1dP0qM

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link

A

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:05 (4 minutes ago)

dim memories of a conversation abt them circa 2001, was unable to confirm if they existed due to unsearchable name

oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link

It has to be worst i think to keep the britpop/landfill theme going

there used to be loads of pop punk punds that belong here but all the ones i remember are american. should be keepa 00s mall punk/emo for a separate poll?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link

think u shd maybe ration them a bit, otherwise hate fatigue will sit in

oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link

My arch-nemesis circa 1999-2001 was pretty much permanently dressed in an A t-shirt, with a long-sleeved RATM tee underneath, and the obligatory wallet chain. For this I will not forgive them even now I have long forgotten their boring music.

British ska-punk! King Prawn! Oh dear.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z9_TGX7-E

this was like my least favourite song in 2002

oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link

A always will be a record execs idea of "imagine sting fronting one of thse new fangled alternative rock bands it would be great and bring the money in!"

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Nakh come on aim

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Wolfsbane, Little Angels and Quireboys seem like a diff't thing, not just cos they're older but there's an evident trickledown effect of NWOBHM which you absolutely don't have in... Reef

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah but they were fucking shite

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Are Lostprophets and Sikth too late for this?

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link

no, good call Rebecca!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link

All these 90s threads are bringing back long repressed early gig memories. But 3 colours red, reef, and A on the 99 version of the nme tour...IT HAPPENED.

oppet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link

oh and what are we going to do abt Goldblade?

oppet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Raging Speedhorn :(

(maybe I'm just picking the ones from after I stopped liking this stuff to save myself the embarrassment of remembering ones I really did like)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Biffy Clyro have been around a long time but Im guessing as they only just got big they would skew the poll

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

oh god

RACHEL STAMP

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

And they're on the 00s landfill poll. (xp)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

King Adora

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Queen Adreena (again, possibly leaving the 90s for this one)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link

ok go through the EOY lists for Kerrang http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1990

and RAW
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/raw.htm

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

some of my friends on Facebook are friends w/ the irl person Rachel Stamp (who the band named themselves after because they wanted to bone her), it always brightens my day when I see her posts

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Pitchshifter

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

I see that Rub Ultra are still going. They were... rub. Ultra-.

(ok ok, coat etc.)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Paradise Lost (they went all depeche mode so they belong)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Placebo

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

Fightstar

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

Muse & Stereophonics too big right?

Anyway it's chaps call

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link

The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster ?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Were Hundred Reasons welsh?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link

the darkness or they too recent? or are you doing a 90s poll then a 00s poll?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Ash

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Rock is not my world, but if Pitchshifter are legit, Fudge Tunnel too?

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

fudge tunnel were great. but pitchshifter did go really poppy so merit inclusion and its going to be a worst poll.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link

don't see a lot of convergence between reef, pitchshifter and the 80s matchbox bla

oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link

xp

ah, i see (back to indie world for me)

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Where were Cyclefly from?

Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link

So far we have

Feeder
Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser
Kerbdog
China Drum
Senseless Things
Skin
Symposium
Baby Chaos
Honeycrack
The Almighty
Skunk Anansie
Leatherface
Wolfsbane
Silverfish
Apes Pigs & Spacemen
Reef
Joyrider.
Dub War
Blameless
Real TV
Cecil
compulsion
little angels
quireboys
A
Rachel Stamp
King Prawn
Lostprophets
Fightstar
Sikth
Pitchshifter
King Adora
Paradise Lost
A Hundred Reasons
Raging Speedhorn
Rub Ultra
The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster
Placebo
Muse
Stereophonics
The Darkness
ASH
Biffy Clyro

It's up to Chap who is included and who is too big

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Rachel Stamp were formed in 1994 when David Ryder-Prangley met Will Crewdson before recruiting Cliff Harris and Mike Rowe.

......................

In 2010, Will Crewdson and David Ryder-Prangley have been playing alongside Adam Ant for performances around London. Crewdson is also currently working with a band called LIVAN, fronted by Greek-born musician Cosmas Livanos.[1]

oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

You still haven't listed Skyscraper! It is a conspiracy! Just because apparently nobody else remembers their existence...

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

I remember Skyscraper actually being pretty good, is my memory deceiving me?

Neil S, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Good work. Sorry, been watching Human Planet. Poll should be up soon! It will be for the BEST band.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I liked them at the time but the tracks I've remembered enough to dig out haven't aged well at all, I think it's fair to say.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlj7jXx9jR0

^ don't know if Snuff count but this song was fucking great and one of my favourites from the late 80s/early 90s. ONly mention them cos they seem tied up with the whole Senseless Things/Mega City Four scene.

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link

If anyone votes Reef for best I am going to drink several litres of the alcopop of the same name (which I suspect you can't even buy any more, for added 90s retro and also added past-sell-by-ness) and come round and throw up on their carpets.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Not going to include Muse, as they're too big now, or Lostprophets or The Darkness as they're more 00s bands.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmD08Na5VKI

^ Somewhat more embarrassingly, I heart this song too. Dunno if you're allowing fraggle though

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Swervedriver maybe?

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link

did they even get written about in Kerrang? I mean that has to be the baseline requirement right

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link

I liked Skyscraper (or at least i had 1 or 2 singles)

remember X-CNN? lol

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link

neds didnt get covered but Swervedriver did
SO DID CATHERINE WHEEL as they went RAWK

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link

chap please dont do best band do worst (or both)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Jacob's Mouse

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

The Tanya Donnelly bits of that Catherine Wheel song with Tanya Donnelly on are quite good. The Catherine Wheel bits not so much.

Kerrang! probably just excited by the Bruce Dickinson connection.

(Which tangentially reminds me via the lineup of Bruce's solo backing band - what an oxymoron, never mind - do Gun count? I know they were barely rock at all by the time they had a real hit...)

I sorta liked Jacob's Mouse. They wanted to be the British Tar. They didn't quite make it, but still.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Done Lying Down
Rosa Mota
Hyperhead
Daisy Chainsaw
Some Have Fins
Silverfish
Bivouac
Midway Still

plus many many more useless fucks who were unavoidable if you went to gigs in London in the early 90s.

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link

Part of that was an xpost. Now it's just confusing. Don't imagine anyone is paying too much attention to my ramblings by this point anyhow.

(xposted again)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link

I think I said somewhere on ILM that the Hyperhead album is the worst album I've ever bought. Mind you I liked my Silverfish album ("Cockeye" iirc) at the time, put it on recently, and christ what a horrible noise.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Silverfish singer had a trip-hop album iirc (man there was a lot of trip-hop landfill)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I suppose Die Cheerleader belong here even though I really liked them and regret selling their cd

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah Hyperhead are maybe the only band in history you could accurately describe as sub-Gaye Bykers On Acid

xpost

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I had Lesley Rankine's triphop album too, yes. Ruby! (xposts)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link

The Cateran
RPLA
Bomb Disneyland

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Chap wants a BEST poll. I say WORST poll. What does everyone else think?
I think worst is best because it's in the spirit of the britpop/landfill polls. Also I think it will get more votes

haha RPLA

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xdpra7-EL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Don't think this was too bad. Don't think it was too good either.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link

xp would rather have worst (because I am a ball of spite)

oppet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Cable
Tribute To Nothing
AC Acoustics

oh god I'm in the Camden Underworld and it's 1993 again

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link

There is nothing good about any of these bands so has to be worst

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link

there was a really good american band called Cable and a really bad UK one

Most of these bands are terrible so it has to be worst imo

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link

therapy & the wildhearts are the only good ones (unless fudge tunnel are included)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

worst

although I am surprised about the relative warmth itt for its contents compared to the Britpop flotsam

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Wonder if anyone would call themselves Cable in this day and age.

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Leatherface wrote some bangers tbh and are genuinely respected in certain albeit rarified circles

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link

i think thats because most of the shite here didnt sell or last. Britpop did.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link

The Abs

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Milk

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Or do I mean the Milk Monitors?

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link

chap please do a worst poll

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link

I like two songs by AC Acoustics :(

I also bought a compilation because it had Tribute to Nothing on once (also for a track by Monkey Boy, who are probably not for this thread but whom I'm sure Matt #2 will have seen, quite possibly in the Camden Underworld) and apparently it contains Muse's first ever track and is accordingly worth some money to some sad bastards. Or was, at one point.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link

'Stunt Girl' by AC ACoustics was alright imo

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link

think rare Muse stuff sells for nutso smasho prices, if you still have that comp (it's an Organ one, right?) you'll still be quids in I reckon

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Headcleaner

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

It's on whoever Tribute to Nothing's label was at the time. Lockjaw? Helping You Back To Work or sth?

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link

sorry yes that's the one indeed

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Hm! Thank you, DJM, might revive one of the many "eBay or Amazon Marketplace?" threads a bit later on.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Crashland
Symposium
Vex Red
Midget

Milk were indeed a UK band.

Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link

'Symposium' and I read the whole thread, soz

Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Shitposium more like

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Gashland

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Tribute To Shite

etc

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link

BivouWACK amirite

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Symposium might just be the worst imo, but the relentless coverage in the NME didn't help either.

Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm sure I remember a feature where they compared the on-stage smashability of various guitars. That's rock, that is.

oppet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link

the whole sneering backslapping lols of the landfill indie thread is revolting so i, as the OP of this thread, politely request that chap make it a 'best of' thread

NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link

cable, tribute to nothing, bivouac, symposium belong in this list. paradise lost don't, nor do all the acts that made it bigger in the 00s (muse, feeder etc)

NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link

ian he already made it 90s hard rock Nostalgia Fest of HELL (UK and Ireland)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link

are you someone i know under a diff name, AG?

NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link

yes

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link

im 2nd poster on the thread. i arrived on ilm same time (2001?) as you via msn via the same sources!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link

back in the days of you setting the alarm every 2 hours to connect to napster!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link

ha yeah, aright man. off to bed now but give me a shout on msn soon

NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link

I texted my friend to find out. Compulsion, from Ireland.

trufax career path: Compulsion guitarist -> Big Beat two-hit wonder -> superproducer for U2, REM, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, Kasabian etc

yesterday's twat (sic), Friday, 25 February 2011 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link

will do, i looked for you but you werent online! You need to get AIM and join ilxchatz

xpost

yeah i knew about the production career.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link

didn't know this compulsion thing, how did that happen? what's the guys name?

NI, Sunday, 27 February 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Jacknife Lee innit

ka£ka (NickB), Sunday, 27 February 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link

five months pass...

"Pretend Best Friend" is still a jam for me.

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

i love this thread

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 16 November 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link

agreed.

Is much of this stuff available on Spotify?

I would Grokk a playlist of this stuff.

entitled "sharing is turned off"

maybe it can be a project of mine after I've moved house.

my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 16 November 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link

Would expect it all to be on spotify. I think the old Kerrang britrock compilations were on there but don't know if they still are

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link

hahahaha check the odd band out here http://open.spotify.com/album/0C8yfB19v8gLxGBG5jf7TF

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link

Britrock really is the worst thing ever

Master of Treacle, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link

i dont think we ever polled worst britrock band did we? Though Stereophonics would walk it so they would need to be left out

Need some nominations

Feeder
Skunk Anansie
3 Colours Red
Rachel Stamp
King Adora

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link

Reef were terrible, but they didn't trouble the charts for very long.

Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Friday, 16 November 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link

IT'S YOUR LE-TTERS!
IT'S YOUR LE-TTERS!

Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Friday, 16 November 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link

That Rides album was quite successful. I seen them on that tour (with A, of all people) so I suppose their glory period is a lifetime for some of the acts in here

Master of Treacle, Friday, 16 November 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

Mark e get in here

pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 20 January 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link

morgan nicholls also did that M.Organ thing. he released a rather ace single with his brother i seem to recall.

ooooh yes .. i love love that track .. (miss parker)

re terrorvision : i need to hear the debut again .. been buried deep in the archive for 20 years ...

mark e, Sunday, 20 January 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

I can't hate "Oblivion" for some reason.

afriendlypioneer, Monday, 21 January 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU

seems the most appropriate thread for this

Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link

Tony Wright has been on tour with Ricky Warwick.

http://planetmosh.com/ricky-warwick-and-tony-wright-announce-july-acoustic-on-tour/

Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link

lol

Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link

Ricky Warwick and Tony Wright announce July “Acoustic On Tour”

that might be the single most depressing sentence i've ever read

what makes a man start polls? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link

Naw that would be "Ricky Warwick touring in Thin Lizzy replacing Phil Lynott"

Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link

depending on who's in the Lizzy lineup that would still be more entertaining than Acoustic On Tour

what makes a man start polls? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link

Tell me more about the Wolverhampton Slade Rooms

should have called them the Slade Roomz

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link

i have no idea, all i know of Wolverhampton is the Mol and Woolworths and i'm assuming the Woolworths has gone

Mancunian stagger (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link

what happened to Tony Wright, did Never Mind The Bollocks stop calling him

Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link

Buzzcocks ffs

Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link

Acoustic On Tour doesn't really sound very much in the spirit of Slade to me.

Mama Weer All Janglee Now

not sure I want to hear about Tony's long, dark night of the soul, or alternatively a bunch of Terrorvision and Almighty songs on the acoustic guitar

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link

Almightyvision

Mark G, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link

i like to picture this has Tony just playing "Tequila" 8 times in a row to 3 blokes on the bandit

Mancunian stagger (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link

I hope shutty is on bongos for both acts

Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link

Tony will be presenting Acoustic TV alongside Milly (from Terrorvision) and exploring a host of old and new songs in the acoustic format.

Acoustic On Tour will be featuring classics from Thin Lizzy, The Almighty, Black Star Riders, Terrorvision and Ricky and Tony’s solo projects.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link

Milly was the trumpet player in Terrorvision from 2005 onwards, which doesn't feel like an intrinsic part of the band to me.

I kind of wish Ricky Warwick had done this tour with Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones instead, then he could have called it Christ Almighty.

Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 09:32 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qOuXetaiA

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 25 July 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

on a trip up to yorkshire this weekend, browsing round shops in skipton i bumped into terrorvision tony.

really nice guy.

and i now know what he does to fill his days .. not what i would have ever expected at all.

mark e, Monday, 12 August 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link

mcdonalds or burger king?

eight months pass...

NI did I tell you I re-purchased empires of the senseless last year? on vinyl this time though.

۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aBsOybMMcE

Taken from the forthcoming new live album; CONGREGATION: Kerbdog Live
Coming Summer 2014

۩, Friday, 2 May 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link

I suppose they relax with some chick called Alice and constantly ask her "what's the matter?"

Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 2 May 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link

five months pass...

so my band is supporting Tony Wright as Acoustic TV in Milton Keynes on Friday. Big tings!

Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link

So were Terrorvision the unnamed band in the Luke Haines'(of the Auteurs) spectacularly bitchy autibiography?

Willl, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link

excellent news dog latin! i trust you will blow him off stage

john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link

steady on, i liked them when i was younger but not that much.

Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link

wahey!

john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link

:)

john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

How did it go DL?

Odysseus, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link


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