"Any quarter-decent three-chord knobheads could and did get a deal in the ’90s." POLL

Madlib time:

Mark G, Is it fair to say you're a Britpop fan?

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Northern Oproar

Further investigation into the Bluetones turns up this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Morriss

Which mentions him once headlining this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeeStock_Music_Festival

Which is to be headlined this year by Toploader and Space. Man alive.

Good grief, last year's festival!

It was also revealed that Mark Morriss and Nigel Clark of Dodgy would be returning, this time joined by hit-selling D:Ream and American rock group Wheatus. The acoustic stage was headlined by Nick Howard who went on to win that year's The Voice of Germany.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2wlFZ4hZkFA/Tox0RR9kWxI/AAAAAAAAAR4/DFUYj6raDyw/s320/leon.jpg

So for those people who don't know, explain how the first incarnation of Northern Uproar came to an end in the 90's and what followed.

Well, let's see... things are a bit blurred. After the deal with Heavenly cane to an end we had a pretty big tax debt to pay... that took a while. We did another tour of Japan and started demo's for the 3rd album. It was a struggle to keep our studio goin though... So with some regret we downsized for a while and some of us thought we'd try a 'real' job (laughs). I was a hairdresser for a while, slashed a few ears i can tell you... Customers were terrified so i had to pack it in! (laughs).

I spent a few years in Spain performing with my uncles and my cousin Noel, learnt a LOT of new tricks playing the Catalan rhumba and singing in Spanish... A real eye opener. I love Spain and Catalonia and i usually spend half my year over there . I love the lifestyle and the food. Anyway, that kept me busy for a few years and i got the bug for loud rock'n'roll again.

Underrated band that Catalonia

Dodgy are playing here in a couple of months. I've written to my councillor.

Where is Geir to defend Dodgy's honor?

i'm sort of gutted i dropped my 1992 display name a day early

Nice of robbie to look through his record collection . He must regret jumping on the britpop bandwagon... oh wait it helped sell him shitloads I guess hes now jumped again to pop (after his swing album) When does his punk influenced album come out?

He did "making plans for Nigel" back in his day..

(b-side of "Old before I die")

Is LeeStock a festival entirely run for people called Lee? Wow.

Hang on; from the wiki:

The festival raises money for the Willow Foundation, a national charity that gives special days to seriously ill young adults.

Insert tasteless joke about ex-Britpoppers being "seriously ill young adults".

Completely unrelated but this comment on Robbie's follow-up 'Thank you Brett' post, without me knowing any context, is some kind of astounding rant:

I really wasn't going to go
by scrummy mummy - 22 Mar 2013 - 2:00pm

I really wasn't going to go there... but you know what @Birdless' post got me thinking too... because I'm always me too. Slightly irreverant, often sarcastic, trying my best to be humourous and attempting to diffuse the tensions from time to time.... Well THAT worked well :( I was taught that if I'd done something wrong to apologise and to always stand up for myself... @Frieda. WOW! Is that all you took from my post? Seriously? You took that massive jump and got to there from ONE LINE?? Do you know me? Have we actually met? Have you checked the contents of my fridge and bathroom cabinets this morning? Do you actually know what I choose to feed my child and husband? I'm more than aware of my responsibilities to the planet thank you very much. Which one are you on? As a family we more than offset our carbon footprint annually. MORE than. Nestle? I was protesting about their promotion of formula milk to mothers in the Third World YEARS ago if it interests you in any way at all... None of that GM Monsanta shit will ever enter my family's food chain... I would have answered your questions if you had any but you were too busy TELLING me who I am and jumping to some pretty massive conclusions about me instead. Happy to set you straight. My blog was about how brilliant Rob is and how shitty and stupid this endless round of argument is... Don't get your hemp knickers in a twist... I ALWAYS intend for any of my posts to be read tongue very firmly in cheek. It's the hypocrisy of those who choose to ram their highbrow standards down my throat to prove their point that gets me. I'm only here... don't SHOUT IT. I was making the point in reference to music and likened it to food snobbery, but made it clear - there's a place for it all... Did I say it was a trend? No. Organic, fair trade and even the mass produced... my point was it's all FUCKING chocolate. It's called a METAPHOR.... Give me strength... I'm a lot of things, but ignorant and small minded is a label you'll NEVER be able to hang on me. Earth Song??? I was at the Brits the year Jarvis Cocker stormed the bloody stage... @Ono I'll have one of those hugs please... Is Mercury in retrograde? Is the moon up Uranus? Because this place has gone utterly and stark raving mad..... Rob, I make no apologies for what I posted. it was supposed to celebrate you and your all round fucking fabulousness.... and I'd like to think you know me by now. If I've offended anyone else in what I have said then I am genuinely sorry, but thank you for letting ME be ME. I don't have to or intend take that level of crap from anyone, but I'll not mention it here any more... Am done. Happy Friday folks... :) Here's a bit of fairy dust for you all.......... (lovingly created by tiny little computer pixies...No child labour involved whatseover) + . + + . . * + . + * . ** + * * . + * .*. * + * * . + * .*. +* + * * . + * .*. * + * * . + * .*.* + * * . + * .*. * + * * . + * .*.* + * * . + * .*. * + * * . + * .*.* + * * . + * .*.* + * * . + * .*. * + * * . + * .*.* + * * . + * .*.* + * * . + * .*. * + * * . + * .*.

MONSANTA

Appearing with Nivea at the club

Earth Song??? I was at the Brits the year Jarvis Cocker stormed the bloody stage...

this is also killing me

sometimes respecting our differences is hard

Another one out of Menswe@r defends himself
http://www.nme.com/news/robbie-williams/69348

all of this is just making me want to listen to Menswe@r

iirc menswear's moment in the sun consisted of ripping off elastica ripping off wire.

slur

noun

1. an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation

the verb might be a bit closer to the truth mind

This is between Ride and Geneva. I love Ride, but went with Geneva because they were always extremely underrated and are a much, much better band than everything on this list (Ride aside).

all of this is just making me want to listen to Menswe@r

Rightly so.

Ah, didn't see Adorable there... but could have easily voted for Adorable too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzJqKumTEI

I think I have a couple of geneva cd singles i got for 99p. You have them turrican?

Salad were cool. I dig "Motorbike to heaven"

I didn't buy any of Geneva's singles, I did invest in their albums though... always thought they got a bit of a bum deal from people, I remember the lead singers voice was a bit of a love-it-or-hate-it thing. Surprised that Marion haven't been mentioned once in this thread so far.

http://static.nme.com/images/article/menswear_photoshot_UKWT_L90409.jpg

they're called menswear and they look like this? okie dokie.

someone i know looks just like the singer from shed 7, that's a lucrative celeb lookalike job there.

Have had 'slight return' in my head for the past two days since seeing the RW blog post. A few weeks ago my parents and my o/h's parents unloaded a ton of boxes of our old stuff on us and we saw our CD collections for the first time in years. At least 50% of these are in there somewhere (not Northern Uproar though, never Northern Uproar)
I saw someone doing karaoke to Menswe@r in San Francisco in 2012

btw Republica are playing in my town soon. They're not really akin to the rest but I did raise an eyebrow and furrow a ... brow

Marion's 1st album was good. Saw them live at t in the park 95 too (prob saw a lot of these britpop bands there but most weren't very good live but Marion & Menswe@r were as were Cast)

Voting Ride, even in britpop era Ride's Carnival Of Light was really good, not a patch on earlier albums however.

Saw Marion sometime in the past... 7 years? when they had their massive comeback

Uh, they had a massive comeback?

http://images.theage.com.au/2011/07/12/2488339/liveaidmain-600x400.jpg

sorry wrong picture

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-af5AeyMpRWg/Tf8dWbGpg-I/AAAAAAAAFFM/TlzLQos-mr4/s1600/20-06-11+011.jpg

The plot thickens:
http://www.nme.com/news/devendra-banhart/69350

Linked that upthread.

xxxp huh, according to Wikipedia, almost exactly 7 years ago, I have a pretty finely tuned internal clock ... Which is actually why I'm such a good natural percussionist

i still listen to, and enjoy, the menswe@r album
(wasn't it rumoured that the band had little to do with it, and it was all production/sessioners etc).
well, a couple of times a year.
the rest, except curve and adorable of course, nah ..

Voted Symposium for their commitment to tune avoidance.

Okay, I'm a bigger fuckin idiot than RW for that

you just realised its a best not worst poll?

*head in hands*

Wonder what Symposium's Spotify stats are.

Who the hell are most of these

robbie otm I'm sure

every time there's one of these polls of a load of lol landfill acts people pop up to say things like "powder don;t belong on this list" or "symposium's first 2 singles were actually quite good" and I just know without checking that this isn't true

both were utter shite so they do

Powder are the fucking worst.

Well, actually, I'm not sure anything could be worse than Northern Uproar. But they make a good stab at it.