Oh who remembers the Mo-dettes?

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I remember when NME slagged them off, and said the height of pretention was announcing your song titles on-stage in "bad 6th form french". (Of course, the singer was actually French for real, as a letter in the following weeks issue pointed out).

Saw them once, supporting the Bureau! (Long awaited album to be issued, the Bureau that is!)

Anyway, this was towards the end, but I remember them being tight as buttons, and as enthusuiastic as if it'd been their first tour.

I'd have bought the 'new' album on that evidence, but they split up not long after.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

i do! a bit. i have a single, er, dark park stalking or something. i haven't pulled it out for 20 years.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have one single, it had a flexi of "Twist and Shout" that got played a lot.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

I do.
I was listening to them last night.
My memory can just about stretch to 12 hours.

― coco, Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

Me, kinda. Don't remember them from when they were actually about, but after finding White Mice in a 7" cheapo record bin it has become a staple of my DJ sets.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

A friend turned me on to them years after they were around, but then when I went back and listened to them without weed in my system, I was not into it.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

"bedtime stories" has been coming up a lot on random play. good stuff.

aren't there other mo-dettes threads in the archives?

― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Heck yeah. I have their album, The Story So Far..., and what I believe are all their 7"s.

Apparently the Mo-Dettes had beef with Dolly Mixture back in the early '80s - slagging each other off in interviews, etc.

― mike a, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

(It remains a mystery what happened to the Modettes album I bought on vinyl. I think a vindictive friend threw it out, but he always denied it, and he's no longer alive, so I guess it will remain a permanent mystery.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

woo

http://soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/news/The_Mo-dettes_album_reissued_at_last.shtml

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

I was listening to the White Mice 7" on my ipod on the way to work this morning!

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 12:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

They're doing Girls at Our Best as well, apparently.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

About time they reissued GAOB, the Vinyl Japan CD is pricey nowadays. I did find Pleasure on LP for cheap earlier this year but I'm missing a few of the 7"s.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

I totally wanted to do it but dropped the ball yet again. Really great, underrated band, Girls at Our Best. I like Mo-dettes too, but not as much.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

The one GAOB 7" I do have is one of my favourite singles ever - Warm Girls/Getting Nowhere Fast

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

An actual video for "White Mice"? Nice!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2012 02:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

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