― 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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:56 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:07 (twenty 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
There was this documentary about Leigh Bowery last year which included some spectacularly bizarre clips of when he was still fronting the band. In one bit he comes on stage in an enormous fat-suit and proceeds to "give birth" to Nicola, and then feeds her with regurgitated food like a baby bird.
Uh, oh yes, the thread.
Salad!
Jocasta!
Fluke!
Honeycrack!
Bennet!(who's single tormented me when I was stuck at home with a throat infecion. Damn you, Simon Mayo.)
I still have a Dweeb sticker on my guitar.
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
they have a point
― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
That's where I saw them. In fact I went to a lot of festivals throughout the '90s and most of the bands on this thread filled the afternoon-to-early evening slot before the properly popular bands came on, so I saw most of them, it seems. So, yeah, Subcircus! Scarfo! Molly Half-Head! I remember the names, not so much the music, just a vague tinnitus of grim, pig-iron guitar drone.
Kenickie, My Life Story, Minty, Geneva, Strangelove (1st album only) and Telstar Ponies I'd save, destroy the rest. My god, the '90s were filled with crap indie.
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw a fellow who lookd very like tiny wood walking through newcastle central station last week. This reminds me that I am one of the "lucky" few who saw Ultrasound mk2s single concert at newcastle arts centre a few years ago now. it was really, really bad - it was tiny and the drummer from ultrasound mk 1, a female keyboard player, a barechested guitar shredder and a bass player who iirc they pinched of a local band. I really wanted them to be good, but it was terrible.
Gareth and dj mencap are both otm.
I think the profusion of meant & 2 veg guitar musick in the '90's is part of why I have a real hard time getting excited about anything these days. I've been burned too often! Music I wind up liking, I get into after everyone else, but I suppose it works out better-ish.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
!!!
Yes!! You are my hero for today, david m.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 5 February 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Marion, almost the same story. Decent first LP followed by ultra-dull U2ish follow-up(with one really good single). Working with Johnny Marr didn't exactly turn out to be their ticket to fame and glory, sadly, although the singer's heroin addiction and constant petty crime may've scuppered their chances a bit.
Anyone remember Spacehog? Anyone care?
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
seriously, you all need to check out "Almond Kisses" by Spacehog f. Michael Stipe. great tune that seemed to have been unjustly passed over.
― jonviachicago, Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
The daughter of Aerosmith (news - web sites) front man Steven Tyler married Royston Langdon, lead singer of the band Spacehog, in a private ceremony at a villa in the Caribbean on March 25, her publicist said Wednesday.
It's the first marriage for both the 25-year-old actress and 30-year-old musician. They plan a small reception for family and friends next month in New York, where the couple live, publicist Stephen Huvane said.
Tyler, who plays the elf Arwen in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has also appeared in such films as "Armageddon," "Inventing the Abbotts" and "That Thing You Do!"
British-born Langdon also plays the bass for Spacehog, which formed in the mid-1990s.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i have to admit here that i used to love Spacehog, actually still have all THREE albums they released in my possession. the lead singer is now married to Liv Tyler and fronting a new band called The Quick.
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link