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

Silver Sun have just reformed.
Magoo are still as great as ever, if not better.
Astrid and Seafood are touring again soon.

Anyone else? Who would have thought that this lot are still playing on?

Surely there's the odd Pastels record which is better than working at John Smith's?

Didn't Ooberman have one good single and then turned shit?

nah, they actually improved once they got dumped from Independiente.

are Quickspace still around? they haven't released anything for a while and the Kitty Kitty website appears to be extinct.

i *love* Geneva, and now i can't find their second album for love nor money.

main dude became Echoboy

Oh yes. I loved Urusei Yatsura.

I went to Glasgow for a job interview in 1997, and came out in that "Omigod, did you say that? You fool" sort of state. Found Missing Records on Great Western Road and got "We Are Urusei Yatsura" going dead cheap. Thought it had to be a good sign.

I got offered the job the next day and moved to Glasgow and had a great three and a bit years there.

*ashamed*

I only actively bought one of their singles though.

Not sure, but one of their number is in a band with a mate of mine, called Empire Of Sponge, and who release their singles on some Italian label. Doesn't stop them being dead ace, though.

Someone mentioned China Drum? They hooked up with the drummer from Compulsion, went really bad, changed their name to The Drum and died a slow lingering death...

Three of them (Fergus, Ian and Elaine) have started a new band called Project A-ko who have been doing a couple of gigs in Glasgow. Graham is doing something else.

(ok ok I remember more than this.)

are you sure?

'we're going down to talk to the cows!' = the one I don't like.

However every band on this thread has got 'one page feature by Mark Beaumont' written all over them. Crashland!

Grand Theft Audio!

Good work sir.

The Period Pains!

I really liked Ooberman's 'blossoms falling': all wide-eyed and joyful and perfectpop-y.

Inter! They were from Aldershot near me! Their bassist was called Sid Stovold, which is a highly cool name!

I really liked Chicks, although it might just have been my age. One of my first posts on here was about the Period Pains. Big Leaves are now called Third Light and I assume they're still boring.

Re: Dom's two Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi questions way up there: yes and yes.

Oh god I know, it's just we were fairly under-represented so it was nice to have something around, even though they were all shit.

Linoleum. Quite liked their first record; second deteriorated through the floor.

Talking of which (I think they had Linoleum's guitarist) how bad was Elastica's long awaited second album? Has there ever been such a contrast in quality between a first and a second album?

Oh I didn't know that - I had their album to review, it wasn't entirely offensive.

Sunna.

I suppose I could add to the fray - Groop Dogdrill, Cable, and - at a difficult push as I really used to like them - China Drum.

The Ultrasound rumour (some way up there) doesn't really surprise me at all. However, having finally got round to hearing their incredibly overproduced pompous first album, it is a small mercy.

x-post - I have seen Paul from DotR in the same Co-op local store in Edinburgh far too many times now. They are still going.

It was Carrie, not Carrey. Their big single was "Molly" ("Molly can kick like a mule when Molly makes love, yeah"). Ray Cokes played it a lot on Virgin.

There was this documentary about Leigh Bowery last year which included some spectacularly bizarre clips of when he was still fronting the band. In one bit he comes on stage in an enormous fat-suit and proceeds to "give birth" to Nicola, and then feeds her with regurgitated food like a baby bird.

Uh, oh yes, the thread.

Salad!

Jocasta!

Fluke!

Honeycrack!

Bennet!(who's single tormented me when I was stuck at home with a throat infecion. Damn you, Simon Mayo.)

I still have a Dweeb sticker on my guitar.

they have a point

That's where I saw them. In fact I went to a lot of festivals throughout the '90s and most of the bands on this thread filled the afternoon-to-early evening slot before the properly popular bands came on, so I saw most of them, it seems. So, yeah, Subcircus! Scarfo! Molly Half-Head! I remember the names, not so much the music, just a vague tinnitus of grim, pig-iron guitar drone.

Kenickie, My Life Story, Minty, Geneva, Strangelove (1st album only) and Telstar Ponies I'd save, destroy the rest. My god, the '90s were filled with crap indie.