Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

I was thinking it was more likely just in a box to give to charity but I do have a feeling I sold it on Amazon. I know it was going for quite a lot at one point.

Have never actually heard Plastic Fantastic, Sexus or Dexdexter. Should check them out.

I also have the Ornaldo album

THE BEATLES
two-page special

Did any of those Romo bands actually <i>sound</i> like 80s new romantics, or was the romo scene all about looks and image? My impression was the latter. Musically, La Roux were probably much closer to the sound of 1982 than any of the Romo bands would ever manage.

geir otm.

(and welcome back)

Loving Roxy Music stuck in the bottom corner in a Romo special

ha i know that one guy on the cover of that. hiya stuart!

The band was formed in 1997 by Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey and his girlfriend Pearl Lowe, the former vocalist with Powder.[1] The line-up was completed by co-vocalist Neil Carlill and guitarist Will Foster, both of Delicatessen.[1][2] Lowe and Carlill's dual vocals drew comparisons with Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.[1][2]

I'd forgotten about the existence of Lodger. Think I only heard one single of theirs ('I'm Leaving')... didn't care about them at all.

I love kenickie's first album but always considered it "punk pop". It was so much better than the mallpunk garbage we got in the u.s.

The whole "romo" thing just sums up how disgusting uk music mag culture is, sorry

oh dear, perhaps i'm mistaking Romo for Grebo

upon cursory research, disgust applies to both romo and grebo

I'd forgotten about the existence of Lodger. Think I only heard one single of theirs ('I'm Leaving')... didn't care about them at all.

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican)

I bought all three Lodger singles but didn't end up getting the album. Still have a soft spot for I'm Leaving but can't remember anything about the other singles.

They were no Rialto

I think I remember Rialto for being comp to Scott Walker, maybe?

Romo was pretty much just Simon Price, iirc. Although the music was broadly terrible, the reaction to it seemed worse than the original push behind it. The relationship with Britpop was mostly oppositional.

Cinerama did what Rialto attempted to do many miles better

At around this time, a first anniversary party was held for Club Skinny headlined by Crush, the band of former Byker Grove TV stars Donna Air and Jayni Hoi. However, continued tensions in the scene led to the discontinuation of both Skinny and Arcadia in July 1996. Romo activities continued at the individual bands' concerts (although one Plastic Fantastic concert at Dingwalls from this time ended in a mass brawl after a hat was thrown onstage).[40]

fuck throwing a hat

27th of April is the Fuck washing a hat day.

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lol crush
sounded like a republica tribute act iirc

Rialto's thing was having two drummers, and the guy from Kinky Machine

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/27/britpop-and-me-looking-back-not-in-anger-eva-wiseman

Britpop was our moon landing, except janglier. It was our Summer of Love, our Nelson Mandela's presidential years, our fall of the wall.

The full line is

Britpop was our moon landing, except janglier. It was our Summer of Love, our Nelson Mandela's presidential years, our fall of the wall. It was the awkward suburban girl's Wonderful World of Colour. The never-kissed's big bang.

Xposts I said that?

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They were no Rialto

― Master of Treacle

Really liked Rialto at the time. When they got dropped just before the album came out I remember paying £20 for it on Import in HMV. So much money wasted on CD's from that time. Everything Bennet ever released, albums and single by Mover, Joacasta, 18 Wheeler and Ether. Anyone remember Ether? The guy's voice was just ridiculous!

http://youtu.be/HmnhsHtqzKk

Yeah, I had one of their songs on a compilation, think I ended up in email correspondence with one of them?

ugh just listened to it and it's horrible

hated Rialto too

actually no, I'm confusing them with someone else...

rofl 18 wheeler

nothing can be worse than
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Geh_zrt2Ps

I was doing work experience at a record shop when the Ether album came out. After a few days the owner said they couldn't pay me but I could have a couple of new CD's instead. The first album I picked was their album (as I'd enjoyed a couple of singles) That is a decision that still haunts me today. Luckily my second choice was Pulp's This is Hardcore.

Xposts Thanks, bizarro gazzara.

Nice to see the day is being observed.

xp Monaco, that's who I'm confusing Rialto with

Re catch

I don't recall that totp perf, but he looks exactly as I assumed.

Reminds me of listening to xfm where they played it over and.

Awful.

xpost Don't know which is my favourite 18 Wheeler moment. Them being forced to play some Labour event and being introduced by Tony Blair as Wheeler 18 or Alan McGee claiming their last album was going to be the new Screamadelica.

The worst of these bands (that will occasionally get stuck in my head) is Ruth. (Sorry to remind everyone of them.)

There used to be a website probably over 10 years ago at this point called "This is Romo" where you could listen to Sexus and Plastic Fantastic and the like. They were all pretty bad, but the DexDexter song was ok. I still love the Orlando record, but I also have Fosca records, so...

I sort of like Rialto and their 2-drummer attempt at sweeping romanticism, but they lyrics were way sub-Suede/Pulp.

*their lyrics. Ignore the grammatical mess there.

I'm pretty sure someone once mentioned this band Ruth and i said "Who?" and a video was posted.

But I cant remember. So I'll just say who? (again?)

Joacasta kind of invented Muse. I bet Tim Arnold is pissed off about that.

Ruth appeared on Blue Peter, performing their song Fear Of Flying. I imagine someday they'll be on a box set with the likes of The Smiles, The Young Offenders and Laxtons Superb. Or perhaps music will have been abolished by then

And also with The Poppyheads of 'Wake Up America", 'fame'

Ruth were a very late in the day Britpop act who had one hit single with a track called 'I Don't Know', struggled to follow it up and then got dropped. They then re-named themselves The 45's, got another record deal, couldn't get a hit and got dropped again. Then Matt Hales, their lead singer, became Aqualung (of 'Strange and Beautiful' fame).

After that, he started co-writing tracks for Boyzone, Jason Mraz, Paloma Faith etc.

Ruth talking about mental health on the National Lottery...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz3IXutwwI8

Anyway, fuck Ruth, anyone remember Speedy!?

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