An excerpt from John Robb's book which touches on many of the things said on this thread.
― everything, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to reading this book - hopefully there are some good interviews in it. I'm more than happy with John Robb as the writer of this book. I can't really think of anyone who's better qualified actually, let alone anyone who would even bother. His writing has absolutely none of the depreciation that some other UK music commentators his age indulge in, especially when they are discussing non-canonical/critically maligned music. This music was very self-confident and positive and so is Robb's writing.
One thing he talks about there is the influence of the Stranglers' bass guitar which I have never really considered but it makes some sense, eg. Let Them Eat Bogshed.
― everything, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, Burnell's bass playing is an interesting connection. I read somewhere that the Cravats were formed after seeing the Stranglers - puzzled me at the time, as they seemed poles apart, but Shend's bass is very much upfront in their sound. (And, for me, the Cravats and the Very Things were very much the weird elder brothers of the scene Robb is writing about.)
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
How come nobody told me the Membranes were back together? (We Americans are always the last to learn these things.)
http://thequietus.com/articles/03623-john-robb-the-membranes-reform-interview
― xhuxk, Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtG1sLMyfLA
Good vid
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Got John Robb's Death To Trad Rock book for Xmas -- Tons of context in there, not to mention more bands I never heard of. Am starting to get obsessed again, and wish I'd kept all my Pigbros and Bogshed and World Domination Enterprises and Big Flame etc. EPs and 45s from back in the '80s when almost nobody else in the U.S. was paying attention.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 December 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
Get yourself bogged. If you choose.
https://bog-shed.bandcamp.com/album/the-official-bog-set
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Mike Bryson RIP ;_;it were all about dat bass:-(
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 11 November 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/15/bogshed-bog-set?fbclid=IwAR1ybOITJE6_o6agV0E2tktVi1FkzOxqyWG0jh6mDkezGHO4Ig5LvWwYza4
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Wow, shocking that 3 of them are dead. How sad.
― everything, Friday, 18 November 2022 08:22 (one year ago) link
Yes, shocking.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Friday, 18 November 2022 09:23 (one year ago) link
CD5 on the bog-set looks exciting - i've only heard half of these on those DVDRs that were doing the rounds turn of the centuryCD5 – Who Scoffed The Trill?1 Budgies2 This MUST Be Taken Seriously3 Necktie Murder Shopping Trollies4 Gathering Change5 Proper Music6 You Are This7 Too Many Personalities8 The Amazing Roy North Penis Band9 Hardly Manky10 I Feel Like A Thing11 Are You Alive12 Thankyou Horse13 Pain Is Nice14 Lodger Problem15 Piano Vocal Easy Organ16 I Taste Little Windmill17 I Prayed In Your Parlour18 Monument19 Soon To Exist20 Oh Regulation!21 Sunday Man22 My Little Heart's In A Whirl23 Simple Spinal24 Runner On A Blunder
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 18 November 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
Yeah nothing there is familiar & should be a fun listen. Mostly looking to hear the later peel session tracks in best quality because that was some gold.
― everything, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
been catching up with this thread today, really great read. Listening to the Death to Trad Rock comp on Spotify. Love this kind of thing, always fascinated by UK bands that didn't didn't fit in with whatever the narrative of what was going on in the UK musically was at that point.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
I remember hearing there was supposed to be a volume 2 of "Death To Trad Rock".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
just discovered this super fun band… correctly guessed there would be an informative ilm thread <3 would have liked to see them in the day, such a great kind of energy. Adventure of Dog!!!
― brimstead, Friday, 11 August 2023 19:07 (eight months ago) link