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

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.

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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.

This is arm-breakingly OTM though.

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* 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"

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

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.

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

- so i dug out the 3 cd singles and realised just how bad they were.

naturally, i loved them at the time.

When you Google "Urusei Yatsura", you get this picture:

http://a763.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/29/s_a49c5093911b3237ff968d709c17ce6a.jpg

Would smash.

bit like peel bands but with misguided chart aspirations, maybe getting to number 27 for one week with their over-produced 4th single.

One another
One another
One another
HELLO TIGER

Never heard of The Monsoon Basoon until this thread.

if there's one song i wish more people had heard, that song is "commando"

One another
One another
One another
HELLO TIGER

-- Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 November 2007 22:37 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this

Your director has a 70's eye
And he's sorry that you're superfly

Would smash.

-- Dom Passantino, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:41

you'd smash anything

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.

un-fucking-believable

never thought i'd see him back.

Which bands are you most interested in at the moment, which do you think hold most promise for the next year or so?
Steve - Tiger. I just think Tiger are slightly different and there's this yearning for something that's a different take on what's going on at the moment. I think Tiger have got some tremendous ideas, very askew kind of British pop music which is really quite interesting. There's also this baby band that I'm trying to help out slightly who are called The Pin-ups, who come from Reading. They're like a 1977 punk band, but they're only 15 and 16, and they've just had to kick out their drummer because he couldn't play a gig because he was going canoeing with the Scouts. I quite like them.
Jo - I'd say Tiger as well. Martin from Gene did an interview this week which hit the headlines quite a lot with him saying how he hated Yob rock and was looking forward to new bands coming through, and I read the interview and thought "Yeah, I know exactly what you mean". I'm bored of all these guitar bands looking back to the past, retro stuff. It's just dull, really dull, and I look forward to some new bands coming through, like Tiger, Posh, Baby Bird, all those. They're just doing something new and exciting- I hate retro.

(Phoenix Festival interview 1996)

the time is ripe for a tiger revival

Princes Risborough's gift to the world.

Also, best mullets since Chris Waddle?

I used to work with the brother of one of the Pin Ups when I lived in Reading. I think they had an EP called something like Made In Tilehurst.

I went to Phoenix 1996! I saw lots of not particularly good Evening Session bands there - Echobelly, Compulsion, Goya Dress, Catatonia (about 2 songs) etc. Compulsion were quite good.

'We Are Puppets' has arguably the most off-puttingly rubbish artwork ever conceived. what were they thinking?

I went to Phoenix 96 but didn't see any of those bands. I saw Minty headline the little tent, in fact I think I mention this fascinating fact upthread

I have no memory whatsoever of what tiger sounded like. I'm sure I must have heard them a couple of times at least.

Habitually I'm compelled to mention Rub Ultra when this sort of thing comes up, they had two really quite good singles (well, they had more than that, but two were pretty good.)

And also The Sandkings, pre Babylon Zoo, Jas Mann shenanigans.

I swear 'All's Well With The World' really is the most perfect but forgotten early 90's indie ramalama tune.

Some guy upthread said: jamie from scarfo is now called 'hotel' and is in 'the kills'

I had no idea about that. "Alkaline" was a good song I think. Never been much of a Kills fan though.

tiger had one great song, if i remember rightly, and a lot of mediocre ones. was "shining in the wood" the good one or not? am i going to look through my CDs? er, no.

what a shit time to be trying to carve a niche as a music hack: 1996. no wonder i embraced subbing.

'race' was the good tiger song

yes. it was. thank you!

the time is ripe for a tiger revival

― jonty alouette (electricsound), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:37

^^^this. I still love 'em, still play We Are Puppets and Rosaria frequently at home and out, and I'd love it if they showed up at the 100 Club or somewhere for a one-off. Maybe supported by The Warm Jets.

what a shit time to be trying to carve a niche as a music hack: 1996. no wonder i embraced subbing.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHA.

(ahem)

Oh god, Tiger.

All I remember really was the haircuts mind you