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

the bands listed in the poll are like lammo's children really. the vast outpouring of popular art coming from the evening session's 10-year lock on national radio promo for new bands.

This is an astounding thread

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carp attack

looooool

'Quattro Formaggi' is such a peerlessly classic name for an anonymous 90s remix

Is there already a thread for britpop remixes?

cos I fuckin loved that shit. proto bloghouse hypem culture, or something.

the manics had dust brothers/chemical brothers remixes that were really good.

yeah they were good. I liked mu-ziq remixing the auteurs too (and Haines' subsequent comments).

Therapy? had a really good Photek remix done on 'em, got me into jungle that did.

Strangelove were pretty good. Brett Anderson was mates with them and does backing vocals on their album Love & Other Demons. The guitarist actually ended up being in Suede when Neil Codling left for the last album, the peak Suede years.

The was Alex Lee who was also in the Blue Aeroplanes round about the time of Swagger.

Therapy? had good taste in remixers: Sabres of Paradise remixed "Nowhere" too (but I can't remember what it sounded like).

Kerbdog (think they were Ulster boys, though might've been ROI)

From Kilkenny (i.e. the Republic)

Their singer is now an Lamacq-alike on RTE

David Holmes did some remixes for Therapy? too, don't think I ever heard them though.

I did like the Chemical Brothers remix of 'Toothache' by The Charlatans at the time.

Also, Therapy, before their first LP, were great - their original drummer, with the almost comically Norn Iron name, Fyfe Ewing, provided a trance-y house-y element that went awol as soon as he left.

Write in vote for shitty indie band Snug, who haven't yet been mentioned in this thread. The shitty indie band that shitty indie solo artist Ed Harcourt was in before he became a shitty indie solo artist.

The 90s UK music press really did use "Ireland" and "Northern Ireland" interchangeably. Ash and the Divine Comedy were always described as "Irish" and then turned out to be from NI and now I'm being surprised that Kerbdog weren't from NI.

Then again I may have been confusing them with Joyrider, as the two are pretty much the same band in my head.

(admission: I was in love with Fyfe Ewing and never quite forgave the band for letting him leave)
(second admission: a friend of a friend went to school with the singer from Therapy? and after many years of moping along to his angst-filled lyrics I was strangely disappointed when said FoaF reported that actually he had been quite popular and even - gasp! - had girlfriends and stuff)

Went to a Bluetones gig in Brighton once. 'Return To The 36 Chambers' by ODB played in it's entirety before they came on. That was good. They were okay.
Still love first Longpigs album.

Fyfe Ewing was a terrific drummer

Didn't like Joyrider much, but they were born out of the Cateran who were pretty good back in the day - basically Edinburgh's answer to Husker Du.

really scraping the barrel now

DG in your opinion what was worse shitty britpop or landfill?

landfill, can name at least two britpop bands

can't believe you guys continued without me :(

lol nineties indie kids, lauren laverne is never going to give u the time of day and u might as well admit

i had crushes on two of kenickie, neither of them the gofton siblings

kenickie drummer kinda looked like the stomach-baby guy from total recall

Scarfo are the elephant in the room here.

they are?

oh god i saw them (supporting seahorses lol before seahorses had released any material so i didnt know they were gonna be so bad)

then i saw the kills supporting primal scream

dudes bound to pop up with a 3rd band in 10 years time

i liked scarfo (and the first 2 kills albums for that matter) quite a bit

"hotel" put out a couple of singles as Fiji in between. 'cattlecount' was fantastic, probably my favourite song the dude was involved in

Kenickie C/D

CLASSIC and if i've said it once i'll say it a million times they had the SPUNKIEST BASS PLAYER evah oh my god swoon swoon swoon

― electric sound of jim, Friday, 24 May 2002 01:00 (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i cant even remember the bass player

scarfo were shit, it has to be said

kenickie bassist looked like a giant brian molko

The 90s UK music press really did use "Ireland" and "Northern Ireland" interchangeably. Ash and the Divine Comedy were always described as "Irish" and then turned out to be from NI and now I'm being surprised that Kerbdog weren't from NI.

Not to rake over simmering political coals, but NI is in Ireland, if you take Ireland to mean the second largest of the British Isles - and many people there, and not necessarily just nationalists/ republicans, will happily self identify as 'Irish' without this indicating any political allegiance to the Republic.

iirc, there has been some sort of controversy regarding this point? vaguely sectarian, i think.

If they've been reduced to the level of Facebook pests and playing at the Hobgoblin, then I think their threat has been effectively nullified.

Were split for ten years, now every November they play 1xBrixton Academy and 1xGlasgow/Manchester/Brum equivalent – Fruitbat happy playing the Hobgoblin with his pub rock band the rest of the time, Jim Bob alternatively constantly churns out band album/solo album/acoustic reinvention/memoir/novel/narrates musicals etc etc while hoping for something to catch.

Travis came up alongside Embrace and the like, they were meant to be sort of New Serious Rock. Then their first single came out and was called 'U16 Girls', which kinda put paid to that.

First single was actually All I Wanna Do Is Rock, sadly retitled for commercial release from original All I Wanna Do Is Fuck – could have set them on a different path

and a bad triphop poll too. man that shit was everywhere

Yeah but no-one can tell any of it apart enough to decide what’s good and what’s worst. Unless we can get Matos and Jess back for the thread.

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.

All of these had great early singles and totally good first albums (okay, if you pretend the Campag one is only LP-length and turn it off at 45 minutes).

remember i am klolt?

Touring Australia THIS VERY MINUTE, talking about how they’ve had their commercial breakthrough recently

menswe@r-I am probably the only person on here that bought the second album, I wouldn't exactly recommend it.

They discovered a new “country direction,” wasn’t it? Sadly a couple of years too early to be adopted and raised up by Allan Jones And His Merry Men.

smaller-The singer (Bagsy i think?) was mates with Noel Gallagher.

Digsy.

Peter Hook's second band with David potts.

Not reeeally I think, iirc the young feller just replaced someone else at the very tail end of Revenge? And then they formed the new band because no-one else could put up with Hooky, or something.

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Singer from Embrace, or lovechild of David Cameron and chap?

Anyone remember Strangelove?

-Goth singer called Patrick, stole all of Suede’s haircuts

lol nineties indie kids, lauren laverne is never going to give u the time of day and u might as well admit

idgas abt meeja Laverne, but Kenickie are fukkn grate

xxp Oh, I know, but I'd expect (mainland) British magazines to trumpet their UKishness, like how Scottish bands are British until the mag wants to slag them off, etc - but I guess the two words are a bit unwieldy

this seemed like more of a point when I thought the same was happening in reverse but to be fair I have no idea how or why I thought Kerbdog were from NI except that I vaguely remember a deal being made of them being from somewhere near the same place as Therapy?

what is it with ILM & Kenickie. Go right back to the beginning and it was still the same

xp

let go

i think i had/have a kerbdog pic disc, the bside was a cover of Mr Clean by The Jam

beside 2 kenickie 7"s i got for 50p

50p too much amirite

it is nice to get things for free

i thought the best things in life were meant to be free

Lets not forget the Britpop Bible, the magazine that invented Britpop
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40682000/jpg/_40682146_select_203300.jpg

i'd have to disagree with your choice of words. Select didn't 'invent' Britpop but it may have put a wrapper on a few british pop bands under the britpop tag that made it easier to market and sell to the public. The musicians 'invent' their own music and there are almost no similarities in The Auteurs and St. Etienne, for example, so putting those bands together under the same banner was bogus from the start. St. Etienne are in no way britpop, imo.

It's what the music press wanted to be britpop though. It just didn't happen that way. I still hate that Select cover more than any other though. It just smacks of Daily Mail/Sun type xenophobic shit.

Do people remember how bad Select became from about 1997 onwards? It was atrocious by the very end. Needless to say I bought most issues anyway