This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s

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I reckon Audioweb. Ant?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Nope! Think early 90's, North of England!

― Ant., Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Molly Halfhead? Witness?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

oooh - you tease Ant .. madchester type of groove machine, or more indie styled ? North East or North West ..

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Um. No...I wanna keep my limited credibility intact! Very Madchester (think Inspirals) but not FROM Manc, in spite of what the music press would have you believe. Still going now actually but nothing to do with me any more.

― Ant, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't want to talk about this any more. (slips quietly away)

― Ant, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh go on.
Northside?
Northern Uproar?
New FADS?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

arrgh .. xpost !

my jealous god (not going)? northside (are still going!) ?

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

One of New FADs was the chief researcher for Mastermind when I went for my audition two years ago!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I saw Mundy in 2000 in Edinburgh, before his 2nd album came out, he was really good. I still have a soft spot for his 1st album.

Midget have got back together, according to Drowned In Sound.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

I don't think I ever heard any Midget after seeing them support Redd Kross.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

(wasn't one of Serum a member of the Portugese royal family, or am I forgetting stuff badly?)

-- Dom Passantino (lifetimepilingu...), February 20th, 2004. (Dom Passantino)

The question here stands.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the Llama Farmers supporting Green Day at the Barras when I was about 15. The amount calls for the bassist(?) to get her tits out was almost enough to turn me into a women's studies major.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the mighty Ultrasound.

I used to have that catwalk picture of Tiny with 'Unique' written on his belly on my sixth-form Spanish folder. Along with Dylan Thomas quotes in Tippex. I still love Floodlit World enough to have both the album and single mixes on my MP3 player, and when someone posted me a copy of that picture for my birthday it was the second-best present of the year.

― Mippy (Mippy), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

also Jonathan Fire*Eater got played a lot. Don't know if they form part of the Lamacq Canon here, but I had to go all the way to Bolton to buy their records so they're obscure in my book.

My friend Ben wore a black armband to school the day that Symposium split up. That's single-sex education for ya.

― Mippy (Mippy), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I have an ultrasound cd single in a rubber sleeve unopened. Got it for 99p.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've got that one as well, except I actually did open mine. IIRC there's one ok track out of three on it, but it's all a bit underwhelming.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 7 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

ultrasound had some really good tunes but their album was hard work. i much prefer the keyboardist's subsequent band minuteman. their album was excellent

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Saturday, 7 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I bought two copies of that Ultrasound single, because I wanted a copy that I didn't have to cut up... thinking it will be worth something one day. whoops.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Real People

one of the very first bands to play what is today known as “Britpop”, and have been quoted by Oasis as being one of their major influences.

Thanks for that, cheers.

― eh (fandango), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I :heart: Kenickie

― eh (fandango), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh and just re-reading the thread. the second Bis album is seriously underrated.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I ever heard The Real People.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have. In fact I've seen them live somewhere. Quite possibly supporting Oasis at the Barrowlands (Ocean Colour Scene were almost certainly on the bill too).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

The 3 times I saw Oasis fucking OCS supported. The band I hated most in the world too they were.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Unbelievable Truth! Thom Yorke's brother's band!

(Would probably be bigger than Radiohead if they released that album now)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

ha, i had that unbelievable truth record. i didn't think much of it... tried to sell the thing and the clerk wouldn't give me a penny for it.

― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I had that somewhere. Probably still do. I remember nothing at all about it other than it being Thom Yorke's brother. I have a sneaking suspicion I may have bought it in a fit of Radiohead-inspired madness and never actually listened to it.

Ocean Colour Scene used to be OK before they starting wanking over Paul Weller.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well they were 3/4 of Wellers band.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not mentioned so far on this thread:

Pusherman!
Fungus!
Earl Brutus!
The Monsoon Bassoon!
Vent 414! (Whose band were this again?)
The Montrose Avenue!
David Devant And His Spirit Wife!
Six By Seven!
Regurgitator!
Sunhouse!
GAY DAD!

It has suddenly occurred to me that I will never, ever be this immersed in one musical genre or scene ever again and have never been since. And I picked THE WORST ONE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, me too. Vent 414 were Miles Hunt and Morgan Nicholls + some others.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Six By Seven were not bad. Have a couple of their cds. I know someone that absolutely loves Pusherman.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

(others being dude from Eat, and Billy Duffy for a wee while)

xpost

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also, has anyone mentioned Mishka yet? Alan McGee went all the way to Jamaica in search of new talent and somehow managed to come back with a white, trad singer-songwriter with dreadlocks and an acoustic guitar who proceeded to go "Jah! Rastafari!" in front of a bemused crowd at the Other Stage at Glastonbury at about 11am.

And I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that a white man with dreadlocks has to be REALLY crap to put the Glasto crowd off.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've been discussing Mishka a lot recently as part of an attempt to put together a party playlist of one-hit wonders from 1999, and deciding if we can get away with "Give You All The Love", or if it'll just make people set fire to the stereo.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also - Belle and Sebastian!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

B&S were a Peel band, not a Lamacq band.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

It has suddenly occurred to me that I will never, ever be this immersed in one musical genre or scene ever again and have never been since. And I picked THE WORST ONE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.

This is arm-breakingly OTM though.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Matt, I kill you with, erm, teddy bears and cups of weak tea :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

They were a Lamacq band too. I know this because I managed to hear their records, despite never really listening to Peel, possibly because he always seemed to clash with This Life or The Day Today.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

The other band that really should be here are Travis, only they don't count due to having broken with the script and stopped writing songs like 'U16 Girls' in favour of records people actually wanted to buy.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Does Finlay Quaye still make records?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Tied to the 90s" is a good record!

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

In April 2006, Katie Melua chose an eclectic fourteen-track playlist for the iTunes music store of her favourite tracks and biggest musical influences.

* Paul Simon - "Hearts And Bones"
* Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
* Joni Mitchell - "Marcie"
* Bob Dylan - "Masters Of War"
* James Taylor - "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"
* Chuck Berry - "No Particular Place To Go"
* Portishead - "Glory Box"
* Björk - "The Pleasure Is All Mine"
* Camille - "Au Port"
* Rage Against The Machine - "Killing in the Name"
* Bobbie Gentry - "Fancy"
* Finlay Quaye - "Even After All"
* Suzanne Vega - "Caramel"
* Babyshambles - "Fuck Forever"

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Bobbie Gentry should come out of hermitude and smack Melua across the skull for including her amongst that shower.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

They play "Happy" at Celtic Park sometimes! Old Travis revival!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I've always thought there was an RATM element to Katie Melua's music.

(Also, the very thought of her covering Killing In The Name is hilarious)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

"abstain" by five thirty was an absolute killer. "pray" by my jealous god also.

a little later "for the dead" by gene.

my one undying hope for the future is that one day we shall talk about razorlight in the same half remembered terms.

― edger stewert (edger), Sunday, 8 October 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

monsoon bassoon were great & their album is pretty hard to track down :(

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 9 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

my one undying hope for the future is that one day we shall talk about razorlight in the same half remembered terms.

But none of the above bands got to No 1 did they? They will be on compilation cds now for the rest of time.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

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