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

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")

MORONICO

I came across this monstrosity recently. Can't remember it from the time at all. I'm kind of perversely fascinated with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qxJi5W4i8

dear god that is horrific

from 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33SjUj4J5BU

proto scouting for girls?

"im only 17 i go to public school they never taught me anything i need to learn"

how i wish robin carmody still posted here

this is like ilx set to music

Haha I had that posh single. The B-side was called Body Fascist! They had to change their name because Posh was already taken so they became The Swarm.

I'm not looking at Wikipedia for any of this, I'm ashamed to say.

presuming catch singer is enrique pre-bfi days?

this is like ilx set to music

― Romford Spring (DG),

LOL so true

http://i.imgur.com/TaLkH.jpg

then and now

http://www.urbanjunkies.com/london/guide-my-london/pippa-brooks.html

xps I have at least one record by a Canadian hardcore band called The Swarm [continuing a theme upthread]

didn't rate the noise long pigs much btw

she seems to have turned into quentin crisp xps

landfill never really had scenesters

I'd forgotten how horrific that Catch single was.

I remember that single was about him losing his virginity/prostitutes then they had a follow up called Dive In that was about masturbation. Think they were probably dropped/beaten to death just after that.

did the singer ever get a solo career or get into tv?

house of lords

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_%28band%29

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, the video for "Bingo" was being featured on the ITV Chart Show on ITV, before it faded out to be replaced by a news report, giving the then sketchy details of the road accident that killed Princess Diana.[2]

One for the unusual details in wiki articles thread.

Reputedly formed when Slater, Murray and Etchells kissed the same girl at a party; Catch were, in fact, formed from the ashes of Brattish, Slater's first band, formed in 1994/95, which also included Etchells. Brattish rehearsed the Catch material extensively, paid for by interested A&R men, but never gigged. Slater also was a driving-force behind the short-lived "Romo" movement in the autumn/winter of 1995, DJ-ing at "Arcadia".

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/102267034_af57e96362.jpg

More recently Slater has formed a band under the name Kunta Kinte, but have now changed their name to Tough Love.

looool

http://www.toughloveband.com/

Tough Love have been described by The Guardian as "the Afrobeat Scissor Sisters"

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, the video for "Bingo" was being featured on the ITV Chart Show on ITV, before it faded out to be replaced by a news report, giving the then sketchy details of the road accident that killed Princess Diana.[2]

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment the 90s dream ended.

Nobody else remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScBuPPou5pE

Oh my God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMa8Dj9gtlU

catch were proto-Busted

fightstar belong on the kerrang landfill poll

http://www.blink-think.co.uk/images/portfolio/Tough%20Love/tough_love_band.jpg

What the press is saying...

"Brilliant - packed with pop hits and charisma and fielding two drummers. Somebody sign them post haste"

- Music Week

I thought that was going to be mumford & sons at first

mumford & sons crossed with the scissor sisters would be a lot of peoples idea of hell

omg the diana news report clip is incredible.

ya the segue is awesome

Anyone remember Strangelove? That name just popped into my head. I used to buy 49p and 99p singles i'd never heard from my local indie shop back then. Im pretty sure I had a strangelove 7" and a fluffy single as well as punka by kenickie on pic disk?

ugh worst band ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7gZ5j37qA&feature=related

But it seems there's an American band with the same name that is LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJkHXTHWyyk&feature=related

^^^
Thank you.

I was stuck for a week in Mancs in '94 and went to see three bands: two of them were Marion and Geneva, and until now I'd been racking my brane for the third......

I can't for the life of me understand why I did this - I was 33 at the time, certainly no indie brat.

xp re Strangelove

Marion were ok. I saw them at t in the park in 95 i think.

i had a shine compilation with their song on