For ILM's Lamacq Hating Contingent...

In '97 a girl I liked who generally had very good taste in music recommended Symposium, I got one single, was not hugely impressed but thought it was ok, revisiting it now, yeah, it's bad. iirc they lost all their cool points when it turned out the singer was a practicing christian, also turned out the girl I liked was one too, so maybe this is all making sense now.

or maybe not i dunno

huh Daisy Chainsaw was British did not know that

i don't even remember their song but seems like such and American band name

they turned into Queen Adreena later just for you

the website that link is on has one of the most poorly worded slogans I've ever seen

"the box set and reissue music site for fans who love holding the music in their hands"

"the box set and reissue music site for overfocussed fans who become instantly psychotic when the Australia only edit of their favourite Kim Wilde 12 inch remix perplexingly isn't included on the 18 disc box set and therefore all record companies are the devil incarnate"

I used to love the Salad tune on that compilation tbf

the compilation has two of my favourite songs on it (teenage fanclub "everything flows" and arab strap "the first big weekend")

I went to the '97 NME tour gig in Cardiff which was rife with Lamaq fodder - Symposium, 3 Colours Red, Tiger and Geneva. Geneva were actually really good from what I recall, although somehow Tiger were headlining.

I'm pretty sure this gig may have been a turning point in my falling out of love with indie and getting heavily into raving for a decade looking back.

From that lineup I would rate Tiger as still brilliant, other three somewhere between forgettable and awful (Geneva I liked at the time, revisiting their releases has changed my mind I'm afraid)

Oh, and those NME tours had rotating headliners.

No Kingmaker? Huge if true.

the nme tour gig i saw featured the datsuns, polyphonic spree, interpol and the thrills

ah, memories

alfie / amen / starsailor / JJ72 at the Astoria is the real goat

Can't help but think one of those bands didn't quite fit

2008: The Cribs, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ting Tings[6]

Even the flyer must have been a mess.

christ 2008 was a hellhole

2008 was the one I went to, I wanted to see The Ting Tings but my friends took forever to do predrinks and we missed them. I spent the night in a huff by the bar, hiding in the toilet and befriending people in the smoking section even though I don't smoke, because am I fuck ever surrending my time and energy to "Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong"

my biggest regret in life is that I stuck with the people I met in uni and spent years hanging around crap indie discos instead of making new pals and going to places playing UK funky and r&b

Version 2:

"the box set and reissue music site for overfocussed fans who become instantly psychotic when the Australia only edit of their favourite Kim Wilde 12 inch remix which was included on the 18 disc box set but six years later is reissued cheaply as a one-disc Australia 12" singles collection, and demands their money back"