Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Bizarrely, DJ Erol Alkan is a MASSIVE Ocean Colour Scene fan, and may even be releasing some stuff on their label (Mosely Shoals?).

-- Raw Patrick, Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:27 AM

as a sidenote, erol alkan's big musical epiphany was nwonw bands like smash and these animal men. he described early trash nights as "new wave of new grave", playing out tunes by the likes of marion and the longpigs.

It could've been worse. It might have been the wonderstuff or kingmaker.

Kingmaker!!!
A total dud embarrassment from my home town- I swear there is no jealousy here! How they ever 'made' it was beyond me. Does anybody ever still play their records?

I hope not.
Colonel Poo are you still doing the early 90s equivalent poll?

Perhaps we can help him by nominating early 90s bands.
Kingmaker
The Wonderstuff
Carter USM
Neds Atomic Dustbin

Sultans Of Ping F.C.

Cork is an anagram of rock.

Corkists?

Fuck Rieg for reals.

Where's Me Melody?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWsHXX_HLKs never forget

Forgot the charity shop coat and not much else look. Ugh.

Still, know the feeling which is why I bought a £15 H&M denim jacket which it doesn't matter if I lose.

"Paranoid pop has a new face" said the NME singles review.

how did dance music sweep the nation with competition like this?

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Did you used to some other login?

(Not asking sarkily).

ogwhiaqi

Welcome back!

I am well disposed to them because they let their keyboardist write one track and it was by far the best thing they ever did. I regard that as some kind of victory for the little man

we've done this before somewhere, but trust me: i think shagging my flatmate is probably the greatest victory the keyboard from space (and indeed his "little man") ever enjoyed.

er, keyboardist. you knew what i meant.

unless i really did misunderstand what i was told o_O

grimly you just made me spit ice lolly over the monitor

hahaha

I wonder if that keyboard likes cars.

I never quite understood the appeal of Catatonia.

i was thinking about the sexual proclivities of the keyboardist from space just then when i was in the shower -- no, not like that -- and i feel i should correct the record: it wasn't actually my flatmate he shagged. it was her mate (who, incidentally, went on to play in a variety of underachieving indie combos, one of which was staggeringly awesome and eclipses everything on this list several times over).

my flatmate shagged the backline tech.

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I think Catatonia were one of those "you had to be there" bands, where your enjoyment of them was proportional to the enjoyment you got by reading in the gossip pages of the weeklies about how they got blindingly drunk at some party or other. That, together with some fun singles and the "we're Welsh and we're proud" stance that was popular among a bunch of bands at the time, all added up to something more than the sum of its parts.

I got sick of Wu Tang pulling that "we're Welsh and we're proud" shit.

And Kingmaker?

Convenient Welsh figures of fun for those of us struggling along in Welsh bands in Hull, Wales at the time.

The singer dude was from one of the posh villages that seceded from Hull when we became a unitary authority. His mam and dad lived in a castle. The bass player dude was the one you used to see in the pub all the time. I know the drummer dude's brothers, nice guys.

God I can't stand that pic of big-nosed Liam up at the top there.

http://static.nme.com/images/64_britpop_originals.jpg http://i28.tinypic.com/14l1qbo.jpg

hah i just noticed Spice Girls are on that cover too.

hahahaha oh fuck look whats just come out

http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/FCCD110.JPG
Release date: 26-5-2008

Wonder if it will do as well as the John Power and John Squire albums did haha

i was shocked and dismayed to discover that mrs fiendish went to see reef, many years ago. apparently they were "a bit shit" and she only went "because my mate had a ticket". still, though. brrr. reef. boak.

herman: yes, those mid-to-late-nineties TitP lineups you mention are one of the reasons i've never been to the thing -- i associate it with irredeemable shiteness.

I saw Noel Gallagher at Euston station at 9:30am this morning. He was leaning by the Cornish Pasty Company stall on his mobile. Someone shouted "Oi dickhead" at him.

"Someone" i.e. you?

I don't think Dom's the type for the hasty expletive, more the thought-out devastating character assassination, followed by the insouciant "Jokes, bruv"

Grimly> I wasnt at the 1st TTP, but the 2nd and 3rd were awesome, you just had to avoid the shite britpop acts. The dance tent was awesome and the main stage wasn't too bad apart from when The Beautiful South and M People headlined. All their fans waited out in the car park til they were due on. I saw Reef at one of them though and they were dreadful. I remember loads laughing at them as they had been proclaimed as the future of british rock.

Wasn't the first T In The Park technically the Stone Roses on Glasgow Green?

no

Are you sure? There was definitely at least one year it was on Glasgow Green before it moved out to Strathclyde Country Park, Radiohead played it. 99?

Wait a minute, that's obviously bollocks, the radiohead thing. It definitely started on the Green though.

Radiohead and Primal Scream did gigs on the green in late 90s. Then there was the gig on the green festival that bands playing reading would play. That's probably what you are thinking of.

No, I'm definitely thinking of 4-5 band bills under the Tennents banner before it moved to the country park. If the Stone Roses thing wasn't the first, then whatever happened the year after it was.

1st TITP was 1994 in Strathclyde Park,Hamilton. Possibly there was a gig in Strathy in the year or 2 before that led to it?

There may well have been, but the whole thing definitely started in Glasgow Green, I'm positive. It wasn't a festival as such, since it was only 4-5 bands and all on the one afternoon, but went under the T in the Park banner.

Nothing mentioned on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_in_the_park

I checked there. I've discussed this before with people irl, so if I'm imagining it then I'm not the only one.

You are probably right about it coming from some gig Tennants sponsored, I just would be surprised if it was the stone roses one.

The guys from Shed Seven very kindly donated loads of Shed Seven 2007 Reunion glowsticks to my son's junior school disco the other day so they don't get my vote.

Who do?