the rectal prolapse of norman lamont: terrible post-britpop/dadrock ephemera

dont think there's enough aesthetic coherence in the interlull era, it's at least two separate streams, maybe a couple more depending on where u draw the lines

emil.y that is a wonderful joke and makes me nostalgic for xfm in the year 2000

xxp Ha, I am definitely going to use that joke asap.

That joke was http://www.dangerhere.com/issues/issue36-040202/outstanding_coley.jpg

Landfill = Many copies of record/cd were made, some sold, some did not, over time the owners attempted to get rid of those that they bought but do not play/want any more. But no-one wants them second hand either. So, they go to municipal dumps. i.e. land-fill.

So, Texas qualify as landfill, but not landfill indie.

Gomez? Dunno.

Rialto? Singles/albums sit in oxfam, priced at 25p, never move.

BooRads? Priced lowly, but then people go "Ooh, look: Giant Steps at 50p, they nuts?" so not landfill.

Etc...

andreas johnson....so technically it should be 'Hey, you know that song, 'Glorious', by An Ass Johnson'

agreed,
a) on emil.y's joke, A1
b) Incoherent interlull - there's also the regular fries, lo-fidelity all stars, campag velocet push from the papers around the turn of the millennium.

maybe the lex was right about uk music after all

There's a band called The Crooks currently playing on 6music. I fear we may have called the death of landfill indie too soon.

Was the New Acoustic Movement part of the interlull?

Skinner still has NAM flashbacks

The Crooks are the vibrant new sound of Leamington in 2011. Taking the coruscating guitar lines of The Cribs and the insouciant sneer of The Kooks, etc etc etc [file copy]

http://goofygifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/funny-animated-gifs-army-flashbacks.gif

needs shopped with starsailor in it

Was the New Acoustic Movement part of the interlull?

― oppet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:51 (2 minutes ago)

def

remember i am klolt?

Turin Brakes

terrible memories

http://forum.emobucket.com/avatars/l.gif?dateline=1296391406http://www.u1ab.co.uk/images/4579_bow_ties.jpg

lol

Ha, second google result for new acoustic movement is ilm thread "New Acoustic Movement" - classic or dud?

no posts in nine years and STILL tops the results? rip NAM, you were always the best of them

3 colours red-Alan Mcgee said they were going to be the new Sex Pistols, they weren't
18 wheeler-Alan Mcgee claimed their last album was going to be the new Screamadelica, it wasn't.
divine comedy-Love this band even though I understand why he annoys a lot of people.
dodgy-One of the worst bands on the list. Good Enough is still a song that makes me quite angry, sorry Geir.
dubstar-I still love the first album and No More Talk from the second album. She wrote lyrics like she was Morrissey and they wrote music like St Etienne.
echobelly-The singer was quite cute but she had a really annoying voice, especially on their big hit Great Things.
embrace-The worst band on the list by a mile, his awful nasal singing voice and his big round greasy face! Maybe the worst singer in the history of music.
gene-Great live band who actually deserved more than just those constant Smiths comparison.
gomez-The 90's version of The Coral. I love the way critics thought the guy with the raspy voice was like a great blues singer or something.
hurricane #1-Another Alan Mcgee favourite until he forced them to put their big hit on an advert for The Sun which killed their career stone dead and he disowned them months later.
kenickie-Two great albums, they do not deserve to be on the list. Come Out 2nite is still one of my favourite singles of all time.
longpigs-The first album had some great singles and the second one was kind of a lost indie classic, the singer was a twat though.
marion-I loved this band do much at the time, shame the singer blew it by getting hooked on heroin and stealing some garden ornaments. I think they would have would have done a lot better maybe 10 years later when all those bands that sounded a bit like Interpol were getting signed.
menswe@r-I am probably the only person on here that bought the second album, I wouldn't exactly recommend it. I was so obsessed with them when they came about thinking they were the indie Duran Duran or something. I listened to the first album recently and it hasn't aged well, still love Day Dreamer though.
my life story-Another band I used to love at the time but they've dated so badly and the singer is obviously a moron. I used to think their first album was an indie version of The Lexicon Of Love, I would like to say sorry to ABC for that one. 12 Reasons Why I Love Her is quite a good list song.
powder-I only really remember Afrodisiac which rhymed had some good rhyming going on the chorus, Afrodisiac, shrink wrapped, cracker jack etc. The singer did a lot of drugs and married the drummer from Supergrass.
puressence-One of the more serious bands that had success after the main Britpop years, pretty harmless.
sleeper-I definitely had a big crush on Louise Wener but the band were not up to much at all. All there songs started with strange little keyboard intro's that had nothing to do with the song then it would soon go into the same boring tune each time.
smaller-The singer (Bagsy i think?) was mates with Noel Gallagher.
space-Out of all the bands on the list they've probably dated the worst. Try watching the video for The Ballad Of Thom Jones now and just keep in my mind that song was a top 5 hit, it's scary.
audioweb-Can't remember much about them, think they were a bit more dance than indie.
bluetones-Still like a lot of their stuff.
geneva-The first album had some great singles. The singer had a very angelic voice.
heavy stereo-Another Creation records discovery. The lead singer went on to write songs for Oasis and is now in Beady Eye, it just keeps getting better and better for this guy.
jocasta-The singer was an absolute nutter who took himself way too seriously. He got himself a huge drugs habit but was eventually saved and sent to rehab by Dot Cotton from Eastenders
midget-Think these guys were about 14 when they got signed and were a power punk three piece who had songs called Welcome Home Jelly Bean and Kylie & Jason, they were big in Japan.
monaco-Peter Hook's second band with David potts. I liked the two hit singles but the album was a disaster.
northern uproar-One of the worst bands on the list. First single was produced by James Dean Bradfield. Their fourth single was a ballad called Town that went "Going down so down town, where the streets are full of clowns" they probably thought it was going to be their Wonderwall but it's just one of those great Britpop ballads where the label let them have fun using an orchestra. Their comeback (and last?) single was inspired by Motown!!
nowaysis-Nothing to say about them.
number 1 cup-Only remember their miner hit called Dive Bomb, I used to hate it.
perfume 60 ft dolls-Perfume had a great single called Lover but not much else. 60 Ft Dolls were always in the NME going on about their drink and drug habbits. I used to think they were pretty bad but then another quirky Welsh three piece came about a couple of years later who were a million times worse. The lead singer went on to manage Terris.
rialto-Their songs always sounded like they were going for big Bond themes. They had some pleasant singles and the singer was one of the less annoying fopps around. They had 2 drummers for no reason at all.
silver sun-Still love their first album. I seem to remember them being called the British Weezer when they came about.
supernaturals-One of the indie bands that were supposed to be quirky or cheeky a bit Space or Dodgy.
symposium-They could have done well about 5 years later with bands like Hundred Reasons were doing well. They did pop punk and spit up on the verge of doing quite well. Andrew Lloyd Webber was a fan.
the gyres-One of the more ladsy bands, like an even poorer version of Northern Uproar. I don't think they were on Creation but I'm sure Alan Mcgee was involved in whatever bidding war there was for these guys.
tiger-The singer couldn't really sing and they were a bit shouty, the NME loved them for about 5 minutes calling them the new Fall. They had some catchy singles but a terrible album.
unbelievable truth-Thom York's brother was the lead singer.
warm jets-The singer went out with Zoe Ball..erm that's about it.

Scary how many bands I owned albums or singles by. I will be voting Embrace as the worst band on the list.

my life story-Another band I used to love at the time but they've dated so badly and the singer is obviously a moron.

OK, tale often told, it's about to be told again. In short...

He used to manage "PanicStation/Dingwalls", I was there during an all-dayer, not terribly well but bearing up, standing in the lobby getting some air, he comes out and insists I either go back in or leave. Like, you know, I was standing on his foot or something. "It's not that hot in there" he goes in and checks for all of five seconds.

Rialto were ex-Kinky Machine, right? If a pre-1994 lolindie poll is to go ahead, they have to be in it.

symposium got a bottle of my piss at V97

kinky machine were mark goodier's fave band when he did the evening session

I love that the third post on that NAM thread is Ethan going "I suppose this is as good a place as any to talk about Daft Punk..."

jocasta-The singer was an absolute nutter who took himself way too seriously. He got himself a huge drugs habit but was eventually saved and sent to rehab by Dot Cotton from Eastenders

Please tell me this is actually true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Arnold_%28musician%29

This is an amazing piece of Wikipedia vandalism.

In 2003 Arnold traveled to a Buddhist monastery in Thailand.[2] He was practically adopted by the abbot of the monastery who encouraged him with his music and that, in turn, opened new artistic horizons. Under the guidance of the monks, he engaged in the composition of an album in which the music was created by following cracks in the earth, which metamorphosed into pop rock melodies.

Lokutara was his debut solo album, written and recorded in Thailand with the assistance of the monastery's community.

dom or ferg?

Hailing from a working class theatrical family, the smell of the grease paint was so strong that at 14 years old he decided to leave his mother's home in Spain and return alone to England to study at the Rudolf Steiner School and join the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Arnold was the youngest initiate ever to join the ancient order of which the poet William Blake had been a former chief. Bizarrely enough, Arnold completed the Orders’ Bardic teachings in 1990 and so, therefore, is actually a ‘Bard’. It was at The Rudolf Steiner School that he formed the band Jocasta with best friend Jack Reynolds. In 1994, Arnold and the band moved from Hertfordshire to London. Arnold originally intended to take a place at St. Martin's School of Art that he had been offered but instead took a job in Soho, working as a chef by day and a doorman by night in an illegal drinking bar.[1]

Algerian Goalkeeper your conception of "landfill" is about as well-defined as your conception of "hipster" or "electro".

― Matt DC, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:35 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah well i get most things wrong round here. I apologise!

It's starting to occur to me that this is actually all true and not a work of vandalism at all - see this for example.

Dunno if it is vandalism tbh eg:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sonnet-155-Tim-Arnold/dp/B003GE69Q6/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1298568316&sr=1-3

xp!

dear lord, you post quotes from wikipedia but you dont post this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/TIM-SOS_1_smalljpg.jpg

http://www.thamkrabok.net/html/spiritual_high.html

It's a place that has gained a degree of international fame - not least since one of its success stories, erstwhile minor Britpop star Tim Arnold and his godmother June Brown (Dot Cotton of Eastenders) made a very public plea to drug-addled Pete Doherty of the Libertines to seek help there following his much publicised meltdown.

CD Description
'Sonnet 155' is a rock/classical crossover of 11 songs written and performed by Arnold.
Stylistically bridging the gap between Seattle Rock and European Baroque, the album re-interprets classical pieces of music by Mozart, Rimsky Korsakov and a co-write with Michael Nyman - all driven by Shakespearean themes.
In early 2007 singer, Arnold wrote over 30 individual letters to Shakespearean actors Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Richard Briers & Janet Suzman, asking `What theme in Shakespeare best described the human condition?' Replies to his letters poured in and with the gentle help of those who have devoted their lives to working on and in Shakespeare's plays, Arnold formed the basis of what would become the album, Sonnet 155. The result is one man's personal navigation through these themes. The self-financed album was produced by Arnold with Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Radiohead, The Boxer Rebellion, Biffy Clyro and Feeder).

LOL

In 1999 he signed a publishing deal with V2 Music. he also became Master of Music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, composing original music for Peter Oswald's Augustine's Oak, a new verse play written especially for the Globe. In 2000 he briefly begun a new band called Spearshaker. The band recorded some demos at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, but nothing materialised.

In 2001, Arnold left V2 and signed to Universal Music Publishing. For two years, he wrote and produced music for newly signed artists at Universal, mostly Pop, R & B, Garage and Hip Hop.

This is pretty productive for a crackhead.

the monastery/Dot Cotton thing was filmed for a BBC documentary iirc?

maybe I just read about the forced puking or w/e in the paper - either way it got your man from Jocasta more press than his band ever did

I remember the NME did a feature on him around 2004. Basically he got a story and decent album review because Pete Doherty tried going to the same monastery in Thailand but he left after about five minutes.

Dot Cotton saved Tim Arnold but sadly couldn't do the same for Pete.

this must be one of the most anglocentric threads on recent ilx

not a great advert

there's always cliches about french culture being singular and inward looking, a country unto itself, but really despite half the world knowing english, so much never leaves our shores (thankfully)

this must be one of the most anglocentric threads on recent ilx

narrower than that, i don't fucking understand 75% of it

so no horrific britpop flashbacks for you then lex?

It's too soon for any of us to truly understand what happened.

ive probably heard half of the polled bands, haven't even heard of about ten

so no horrific britpop flashbacks for you then lex?

general ones yeah, but i...just wasn't into this scene, or god help us the landfill one, to have paid attention enough to remember half the things you're talking about

This era's 1066 and all that:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4161S7E1Y7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst...Album_in_the_World...Ever...EVER!

THE SHIREHORSES - (Now) I Know (Where I'm Going) Our Kid (The Seahorses - "Love is the Law")
PEELA TATER - Ta La (Kula Shaker - "Tattva")
BABY BLOKE - You're Gormless (Baby Bird - "You're Gorgeous")
THE CHARLEY TWINS - West Country Boy (The Charlatans - "North Country Boy")
DICK CAVE AND THE BAD CHEESE feat. RILEY MINOGUE - Hapless Boy Lard (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds featuring Kylie Minogue - "Where The Wild Roses Grow")
DOOFERGRASS - Feel Like Shite (Supergrass - "Alright")
GAZEBO - Lardy Boy (Placebo - "Nancy Boy")
EDWYN BOBBINS - Girl Like You (Hiya) (Edwyn Collins - "A Girl Like You")
FLUSH - Single Bloke (Lush - "Single Girl")
MORONICO - Sha La La La, Tum Tee Tum (Untitled) (Monaco - "What Do You Want from Me?")
CHEEPER - Ugly Bleeder (Sleeper - "Inbetweener")
DICK CAVE AND THE BAD CHEESE feat. ALAN BAWL (NO RELATION) - The Ballad of Franny Lee (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds -"Henry Lee")
THE RA-GNOMES - Sheena Easton (Punk Rocker) / Joe's F***ed Off (The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker segued with Blitzkrieg Bop)
ALLADIN-ANE - Bill Oddity (David Bowie (aka Aladdin Sane) - Space Oddity (song))
FRANK SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION - Frank Spencer Blues Explosion (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion general parody)
PO-FASIS - Cum On Skweeze Me Boilz (Oasis, covering Slade's Cum On Feel the Noize)
BABY BLOKE - You're a Bastard (Baby Bird - "You're Gorgeous")