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

I'm glad someone said Salad - truly terrible

'Audioweb went top twenty once. Crumbs.'
- there wasa time when i thought this band was following me. they were everyone's support band in the britpop era. i'm not sure thet athey ever topped a bill in their life...

Audioweb have the distinction of being the most instantly forgettable support band I've ever seen. The entire set was just a blur. I think the singer may've used a megaphone at one point. They didn't even do their one hit, a cover of "Daddy Was A Bankrobber".

I'd completely forgotten My Vitriol - now there was a terminal support band if ever there was.

Asian Dub Foundation (although they are actually still around and about to make a comeback with the hilariously titled TANKS!)

Angelica were awesome. My Vitriol never made a second album because they apparently forgot how to write tunes, if the sole recorded follow-up to their album ("Vapour Trails") was any indication

my favourite britpop also-rans are Mover, whose album is really, really good.

Rialto? Did they exist?

I'm afraid they did. I saw them on telly. They were kind of like Pulp-lite IIRC.

With two drummers!

Didn't Ian Brown take out a full-page ad in a music paper after the Stone Roses finally carked it, saying he was now going to devote his life to the worthy and wholesome pursuit of listening to Audioweb?

this thread is fun. it makes me happy.

i was working in a studio next door to my vitriol for about 6 months. very nice peeps. i think they've got a new album out sometime soonish, which i heard throughout the recording and it's pretty out there! seriously huge sound! pretty cool. amazing drummer/guitarist. imagine perfect cirle crossed with nirvana in utero crossed with mierd hardcore metal crossed with mad dreamscapes...and songs...

blah.

i loved campag velocet first time round (!!!)...pete voss took my mate back to his hotel room and made her wear a plastic bag on her head...turns out, years later, i meet and become friends with lascelles from campag velocet! he's the drummer guy and he's great. he does awesome electro stuff under the name 7hurtz and has a studio round the corner.

i still love bis and i think they were way ahead of their time.
i think they'll be listened to by technocolourgeekoids from osaka to nyc to gay paree to ole' hacknee!

I loved Angelica.

Re Geneva. The leadsinger is now is a band called Amityville.
Murry the Hump split up, and formed The Keys, with 2 members of the original band. They lost all their songs in the change over though.

Geneva and Bis were both ahead of their time. The Geneva sound is now being recreated badly by Keane, and Bis had the whole disco-ish indie thing going by Social Dancing

Jocasta guy reemerged last year as the guy who was sent by his aunt (Dot Cotton) to that tibetan retreat to get out of his drug habit.

Rialto are ne of my favourite bands ever.

I have bought their albums twice and both times lost them on the way home, without ever having listened to them. Perhaps this is a sign.

I need to get that Rialto album. A friend of mine keeps on going on about Kinky Machine, the band that the lead singer bloke was in beforehand, as well.

ian brown vs audioweb. the bass player and drummer from audioweb are now in ians backing band.
well they were when i met them acting as the live band for King of Woolworths a couple of yers ago .. and everytime i see ian on tv they are there doing their thing ..

great thread.

others : engine alley, something happens, sack (who were awesome live when they supported Compulsion), milltown brothers, the wendys, dog,

just remembered : dust junkys .. !!

this album has been the subject of 2 people asking me about it .. one in a shop when they were trying to order it 3 months ago, and then last week my boss asked if i had ever heard of them and knew where he could get a copy of said album ..
the fact that he has now listened to the album a lot more than i ever managed (dont think i ever got all way throught the album in one sitting ..) makes me quite scared about my career prospects ..

Hey mccarty we weren't that bad!

I was in the band for the six years that we were around. We did have our dodgy moments but there was plenty of worse stuff about....

uh-oh! ;-)

I'm confused. I've just done a find on mccarty and found nothing on this thread. Was there really a late 90s band called mccarty as opposed to the excellent 80s/early 90s band McCarthy (who I can't see mentioned above either)?

Alba: search for M Carty. Results: Audioweb, Sensitize, Sand Kings and errr... Machine Gun Feedback.

Ah, I see.

I'm not really taking offence, it was just nice to do a google search after so many years and find a mention :)

am i the only person here who loves 'el toppo' by the llama farmers?

i've been playing this one again recently, and i think it's a shame it didn't find the accolades it deserves to have.

also, i don't really understand this thread, probably since i'm from america. would catatonia get grouped in with these bands? or do they have fans on ILM? damn, i really liked them, haven't listened in a while..

Catatonia did have a few actual proper UK hit singles, so I doubt they'd get grouped in w/the shower above.

i feel like i pushed past the fur coats out through the back of the wardrobe

not only did i miss this thread (through not readin ilm for a year) i missed out on this entire GALAXY (by bein old and workin at S&S in recovery from muisic journalism)

(ok except bis but that is powerpuff girl-related)

tampasm is indeed a creativity-realisin move

"WHERE IS THE LOVE" b4 it wz popular or profitable??!

Catatonia were the aural equivalent of a dog turd lying on a rain sodden pavement with a pram wheel track through the middle. They belong here nicely.

I was just browsing on ebay, and came across cds by Simian. That was a good band. I don't think they even had that much radio play.

in my opinion, 'snow white' and 'note on the door' by the llama farmers are two of the great lost (indie) treasures (to add to the pile). the second one has a melody of such striking simplicity and gorgeousness that i whistle it over almost every song i hear every day! even now! ha!

oh the shame...

i just need to list, so as not to make it worse by actually writing anything.

midget, the delgados (and everything ever on chemikal underground, bless em), northern uproar, period pains, shed seven, brassy, symposium, sultans of ping, helen love, pin ups, backwater, pink kross, inter, dweeb, ash, cast, dubstar, radish, mcalmont and butler, nut, dweeb, me me me, octopus(?), gene, mansun, ultrasound, suede, tampasm, oasisradioheadpulp&blur, kenickie, the prodigy, snakebite city complilations and that one period where they kept playing tupac OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

Change the underscore to a dash to e-mail me:

I really like most of these bands still - there should be a "90s bubblegum indie night" somewhere!

INDIEPOP: Astrid, Midget, Snug, Symposium, Magicdrive, Kingmaker, Urusei Yatsura, Llama Farmers (esp. the 'Style' cover), Aerial, Carrie, The Ultra Montanes, Mover

GRRL-POP/ROCK: Girlfrendo, Chicks, Helen Love, Period Pains, Cuckooland, Disco Pistol, Cay, Bellatrix, The Donnas, Kenickie & Rosita

ELECTRO: Bis, Mo-ho-bish-o-pi, Clinic

PUNK: (Early) Idlewild, China Drum, J Church, Travis Cut

One-off choons:
'Know How' - Serum
'Living For The Weekend' - Farrah
'Celestial Q&A' - No Fun At All
'I've Had Enough' - Hillman Minx
'Small World' - Pink Assassin
'Letter From An Occupant' - New Pornographers

This was MY GENERATION indie-wise. Bellatrix were GRATE and Lara from Dweeb was in my class at school.

Also No One Speaks by Geneva >>>>>>> any Coldplay or Keane song.

And, yes, I would totally go to any club that played a even a tenth of the bands in this thred.

Good god, I have NEVER heard of ANY bands on this thread.

(except New Pornographers)

Absoloute corkers!!!

Jacob's Mouse
Bivouac

I always liked Honeycrack - their cover of Hey Bulldog was awesome.

oh my gosh. this thread is a line up of every band who ever played at In The City! sheesh.

Ha ha! I have records by so many of these bands! At the time i loved Symposium, Midget (a mate of mine happily plays Midget at his 'indie' night), Astrid, Kenickie, Honeycrack, Snug (featuring Ed Harcourt!), Llama Farmers, Chicks, China Drum (AND the Drum!) etc. I still love the Delgados, Geneva & Urusei. "Know How" by Serum was really good. The second Rosita single (Santa Poca's Dream) was, and still is, excellent.

Anyone remember Bullyrag? Brothers In Sound? Boutique? (I still have a great 7" by Boutique called 'I Told You Before') Hopper? Laxtons Superb? the Dandys?

Then you have Molly Half Head, who became Wireless, and Nightnurse whose guitarist left to join Ash.

i don't have any bullyrag but i have at least one record by all the rest.

*shame*

I have just got out my Fierce Panda CD, which includes the following bands not mentioned thus far: S*M*A*S*H, Done Lying Down, Credit to the Nation, Create!, The Weekenders (OMG, I went to their album launch party on a Thames Riverboat and stalked Jarvis Cocker), The Nubiles, The Flying Medallions, Joeyfat, Lush, Solar Race and Splendora. Ithangyou.

I remember Bullyrag, who had one good song, called Lunatic which was really quite inspired then they got signed and toned down the ragga/metal collision stuff.

I thought Bullyrag were crap, just amused to remember them. I remember the Flying Medallions, but have never actually heard them. I actually have a Credit To The Nation single from 1998 (on EMI) that samples "High & Dry".

Whilst perusing my record collection for more example of average bands, I appear to have more than one single by The Family Cat. Also not mentioned : Mambo Taxi, Voodoo Queens, Passion Fruit And Holy Bread (shit name, shit band), Hurricane #1 .

lush don't belong on this thread! passion fruit & holy bread became mover

The lead singer of the Sonic Boom Boys just died, which is sad.

Dream City Film Club, anyone?

God, I just remembered SACK TRICK! They were brilliant!

The lead singer of the Sonic Boom Boys just died, which is sad.

Dream City Film Club, anyone?

Not mentioned as yet (mercifully, to be honest)

Tabitha Zu
The Popinjays
Cellophane
Bedhead

I saw Bellatrix *live*

lucky. their guitarist was teh hott

I've seen an alarming amount of these bands live.

I don't care what anyone says. The Llama Farmers' second album is great.

I have a Chicks 7". I feel unclean.