Where's Simian?

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I was listening to their albums today. Where are they?

― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A5953331

Seems they're sort of on-hiatus, or broken up? They got dropped by their label, but the article is sort of vague otherwise...

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

(and the Simian vs. Justice remix song is still the catchiest song of the last 10 years. A goddamned masterpiece, that one).

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Last thing I heard was that great track "Pulse" under the name Simian Mobile Disco. I don't know what they are doing now. Bring 'em back!

― everything, Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

but the article is sort of vague otherwise

sort of pathetic, more like. simian got nowhere because they had one good song; whether or not someone remixed them into decency is neither here nor there. i saw them play a couple of years ago with echoboy and hoboken in glasgow: they were dire. smug trendified bollocks of the first order. "la breeze" is reasonable, but i dug their album out the other week and it really is aimless arsery.

and as for that dobber mason, wanking on about coldplay: get a grip, you cunt. you weren't very good, that's all. you started well - "the three EPs" is mighty - and went massively downhill. christ almighty, coldplay and keane might be crap but their crapness doesn't stop your band being any good.

what a self-pitying wanker he is. fuck off and don't come back.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

woah

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I like the first simian record

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

How is Simian's We Are Your Friends "aimless wankery"? If anything it's a collection of concise and often excellent songs. And their Mobile Disco mixes are stupendous. Why so much vitriol?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

As far as I know, they still go on as Simian Mobile Disco, and their material under this name is very great... Last single I think was "Piggy In The Middle", maybe not as great as "Pulse" and "The Count" but a sign that a great album is on the way.

I don't know how Simian Mobile Disco is different from Simian, maybe only some members stay, etc.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I love Simian, both records are great. That bloke, who speaks about aimless wankery, should listen grime instead.

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Simian Mobile Disco have got a remix of 'Circle Square Triangle' on the b-side of the Test Icicles single which comes out on Monday.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

They were put together by management in the first place, with some success. Some of them are now Doloroso, who are doing alright.
I liked them myself.

― snotty moore, Friday, 21 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

simian split into (at least) 2 factions. on their website, it says they were dropped, but when La Breeze took off they were offered another deal (but declined).
now we have simian mobile disco and garden. http://www.intothegarden.co.uk/ has plenty of sounds from their album. sounds like simian, but without the weird electronic fx and such.

― txjaxx, Friday, 21 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

is grimly fiendish the new markelby??

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 22 October 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Garden is good, but I haven't heard Doloroso, do they have some leaked stuff?

― zeus (zeus), Saturday, 22 October 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

That song with the chorus "I see the world in one dimension..." was bonza!

― Doozer, Saturday, 22 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

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