Yeah, Lovelife isn't bad, but they sounded like a different band to me (although I can't fault them for not continuing to do exactly what I wanted them to continue doing). I love everything up until then, though.
― Soggy Spongey Moist & Messy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
that first sing-sing album is so great, seems like it could've been big if it were released a few years later
― clouds, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I've been on such a Lush-binge these past few days. Christ, they were fantastic.
I will rep for Lovelife, too, it was the kind of spikey pop band that was lurking underneath all the shoegaze haze all along, but people just didn't seem able to accept that side of them. Which is a shame, because I always loved their melodic sensibility. I mean, come on! 500 (Shake Baby Shake)? Such a choon!
I even dug out the Sing-Sing albums yesterday. Yeah, the timing on that was weird. To put out this deeply textured, finely arranged summer-pop album right at the height of the Noo Rawk Revival seems like bad luck. It's way, way better than I remember it being.
― Branwell with an N, Monday, 21 July 2014 12:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qah2UXQj3kQ&app=desktop
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Monday, 20 October 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
almost as good as fabulous on rapido
― mit iodine (electricsound), Friday, 24 October 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
i had that "Get Fucked By Fabulous" shirt, it was kind of ill-advised to ever wear it out
― Chimp Arsons, Friday, 24 October 2014 06:14 (nine years ago) link
is that Quantick in the waistcoat?
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq1QWn8KXsw
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 25 October 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
all-time
― mit iodine (electricsound), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Who's the speccy wee gadge in the blue cardy?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 October 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
James Brown
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 25 October 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
The knowledge that he went on to become editor of lads mag 'Loaded' makes me take everything he says in that video with a huge pinch of salt.
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Sunday, 26 October 2014 08:52 (nine years ago) link
taking any of what they said seriously would be utterly ridiculous
― mit iodine (electricsound), Sunday, 26 October 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
Miki was onstage with Jesus And Mary Chain for Just Like Honey last night in London!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3PfzrVIAAIdD1n.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link
the live band also has philip king in the line up ..
― mark e, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
ok so..
http://www.lushofficial.com/
― piscesx, Monday, 21 September 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
oh dude.
― how's life, Monday, 21 September 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
I guess it was inevitable really - but out of all those guys, reformed Lush is the one I see most struggling to raise interest.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 21 September 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
It basically comes down to: What are the new songs like?
― Mark G, Monday, 21 September 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
What's the news? Is that just a new website?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 21 September 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
I would also note this:
https://twitter.com/evjanderson/status/645886417957203968
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
I really can't process this right now because I can't run around my office screaming "WHOOOOOOOOO LUSH!" without getting fired
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 21 September 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
reformed Lush is the one I see most struggling to raise interest.
Really?
Anyway, hope this turns out to be yet another fantastic album from a 90s band who hasn't been together in 20 years. It's been a good year for that.
― how's life, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
I'm into this if this is the thing that's actually happening. Remains to be seen what direction they'll take. I deeply love everything they did up to the last album, which I thought was just okay. I really like Sing-Sing, though.
― Sitting In The Ape Chair (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 September 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Eek, this is all very exciting! I was just downloading some of their B-sides yesterday.
New album, tour and reissues would all be welcomed. I don't ask for a lot.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 21 September 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
I would personally fund their reunion
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Monday, 21 September 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
if I had any money.
please please please let this be true!
― daavid, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
announcement tomorrow supposedly.
― mark e, Sunday, 27 September 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Yeah Philip King has been dropping thoroughly obvious photo hints on Facebook while pretending not to know what's being talked about.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 September 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Less than an hour to go, I am very excitable today
― boxedjoy, Monday, 28 September 2015 11:04 (eight years ago) link
one gig and some reissues? ...
― adam, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
It's more Lush than we had yesterday.
― Sitting In The Ape Chair (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 September 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
i think LUSH were an 'on-ramp' for me and Indie rock. Pixies were too harsh and shouty for little early-teen me and as for MBV forget it. but Lush were just pop enough but just noisy enough for me to begin to 'get' the rest of it. Ride came next and then it was a solid Indie diet for god knows how many years. aw man. makes me feel all weird this, dunno why. gladdens my heart though.
― piscesx, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
May next year? That's not much more Lush than we had yesterday.
Still,..
― Mark G, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
Phil dropped more than enough hints about American shows recently. I'm mildly surprised this will be after Coachella and not before.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 September 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
It's not gonna happen but I wish they played some Sing-Sing as well.
― daavid, Monday, 28 September 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
You could rush the front and shout "Sing sing-sing", see what happens.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link
Awful band. It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.
― Position Position, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
I've never heard anyone say Lush were among the dregs of shoegaze, so at least you're original.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
i keep expecting this thread to be about the massively successful cosmetics store
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 28 September 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
Any details on the reissues?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
Aliens are real!
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 28 September 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.
Well this came out recently, so if the sales are good who knows?
http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/catalogue/releases/access-all-areas-revolver/
― michaellambert, Monday, 28 September 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
i quite liked a couple of Revolver tunes.
hope the reunified LUSH stick to the pre-Spooky stuff most. that's the stuff that's lasted IMO. great to see Justin Welch back too.
― piscesx, Monday, 28 September 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
pre-spooky only? so just play the EPs?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 28 September 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Revolver had some great singles
can't say the same for Lush, pretty shitty all around.
― hackshaw, Monday, 28 September 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
You have an odd way about you.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 September 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
xxp mm yeah pretty much. the 'Gala' EP compilation in a random order would suit me fine! i'd save Desire Lines, Cat's Chorus and Nothing Natural from a fire too but not much else from Spooky onwards.
― piscesx, Monday, 28 September 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
gotta love these drive-by cameos from posters gifting us their self-congratulatory opinions. odd way indeed.
― brimstead, Monday, 28 September 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link