Sorry about omission of Delta 5. It's a post-punk scandal.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I must own up to never having heard of Hood, though.
And I never knew Scritti were formed in Leeds. Always thought of them as a Camden squat band.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
rectify that shit, they have an immense body of work with many many high points
xpost
― tacoma chameleon (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Having investigated further I see Scritti didn't become Scritti until they moved to Camden, so that excusion is justified.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link
start here http://www.last.fm/music/Hood/Cabled+Linear+Traction
or here http://www.last.fm/music/Hood/Cold+House
or maybe here http://www.last.fm/music/Hood/The+Cycle+of+Days+and+Seasons
― tacoma chameleon (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank you; will do.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
IMO this is their most essential record: http://www.last.fm/music/Hood/Rustic+Houses+Forlorn+Valleys
Outside Closer also has some truly wondrous moments. But yeah. Search everything.
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, where is The Mission Spoonfed Hybrid?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
age of chance of course
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
In Leeds Museum there's a couple of Soft Cell LPs on display to celebrate the city's music. My vote goes to the Lorries.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
No Hood AND no Cavil ...
― djh, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
And no Bear.
― djh, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not a poll of, you know, EVERY act that ever set foot in Leeds ... No Mr Peculiar either, and they released one single on Lust in 1989.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and Boyracer are from Wetherby, not Leeds.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Where the fuck are BILGE PUMP?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
1) Mekons, 2) Wedding Present, 3) Pale Saints, for me.
(I'm not sure if any of them are actually 'from' Leeds, or if the groups just formed there out of students who'd come to Leeds)
― FIFA Brutish & Short (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
All students (true of almost all those bands), but as long as group was formed in Leeds and based in Leeds for some part of their career, I'll take them.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm gonna vote for someone crass in protest. How can you include the monuments to earlessness that are Hadouken! and The Pigeon Detectives, and leave out Hood? How?― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 06:17 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkWho?― sarahel, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 07:22 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― HELLO MY NAME IS TWILIGHT AND I AM A DRACULA (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 06:17 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Who?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 07:22 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Actually, my current favourite musical argument is that Hood (folksy but very mysterious indie band) are England's national answer to Black Metal, especially from the mid-90's onwards. The comparison is extremely seductive.
― country matters, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:15 (5 months ago)
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
have seen Mekons play 25-30x, so...
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Hood are great! The noisy early stuff like cabled linear traction, silent '88, and the ep with 'biochemistry revision can wait' have a special place in my heart. From this list I'll go for The Wedding Present.
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcNpXmr-Ps
― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Weren't LFO also students at Leeds when they met/started?
Why has a city of that size not produced more good groups?
It's done pretty nicely in the 00s at the "underground" toilet venue circuit level. Over the past decade I have immensely enjoyed Bilge Pump, Quack Quack, randomNumber and Chops, and I'm sure I'm missing a few. I have also tried hard to enjoy Vibracathedral Orchestra and on occasion managed it.
But from that list, it's between the Wedding Present and Gang of Four. Teenage nostalgia probably gives it to the Weddoes (that and the suspicion that Go4 don't need any help).
― brett favre vs bernard fevre, fite (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Between the Three Johns and the Sisters for me. Saw the Johns many times and they were always great, saw the Hussey-era sisters and they were just dull, but strangely, I find myself leaning towards the Sisters. Goth nostalgia and that initial run of EPs and singles.
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Leeds underground has definitely been decent. I've made very little effort w/Vibracathedral and still really enjoyed them, Astral Social Club too. They get my vote.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Duh, Polaris
― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
God, I've got a BIlge Pump single. A split seven inch of Modern Lovers covers. Completely forgot about them. Will definitely investigate Hood properly though, given the love they're getting on this thread.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and thought LFO were South Yorks. Certainly I was living in Leeds when they first started out, and they were always associated with the Leadmill rather than the Warehouse. Think Nightmares on Wax might have been Leeds, though I may be mistaken.
― ithappens, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 3 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 4 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
gosh. i wasn't alone.re NoW : a leeds set up - they used to run the decks at the glorious Downbeat club in 86/87, and hang out with AoC before all the Warp stuff took off ..
― mark e, Monday, 4 January 2010 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guHN65eNRL8
― mmmm, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Quite a good feature in the Guardian about some of the above bands.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/19/pubs-disco-and-fighting-nazis-how-leeds-nurtured-british-post-punk .
― Proger, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
i know the cribs are from wakefield but its like five minutes down the road! no mentions? truer than any toss gang of four ever put out...
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link