The God Machine: Great Lost band?

Ned, you're writing of Disintegration era Cure, I guess?

Nope -- to quote myself:

"It's All Over" in particular leapt out at me, the burnt, sad acoustic guitar-led song smack dab in the middle of the album, rivalling anything as gripping as what the Cure did in Faith/Pornography days, to echo Fabrice there.

This band could do with a nice lil' box set collecting all their odds and ends

all of a sudden I need to know if brad has heard Scenes from the Second Storey

One of my top 5 albums, ever.

Wow, I posted in this thread seven years ago.

Scenes from the Second Storey is extraordinary. I passed up the chance to see them in 1992, and hugely regret it.

blimey i posted on this thread 15 years ago

What's good to check out of the satellite stuff? I've tried a couple of Sophia records, but only desultorily.

the may queens album

May Queens are good, but I like the first two Sophia albums better.

all of a sudden I need to know if brad has heard Scenes from the Second Storey

Yeah it feels like a Brad album

It does indeed.

Damn I'm so glad I did see them the once.

When I saw this thread was being revived I hoped it might finally mean there was an e.p. compilation appearing. Would love a single cd collection with all those e.p.s with the various cover versions.

Glad I got to see them several times.

There are some live sets and videos that have been shared on torrent sites over the years. hope I still have the drive that has taht stuff on somewhere active.
Not sure what happened to Austin, I know that Robin Proper-Shepherd went on to Sophia.
Also interested to know if he had played guitar much before they became a 3 piece with him on guitar. I'd heard he's previously been a vocalist with limited instrumental experience. Certainly made a good job of what i've heard.

Checked out the last Sophia album that came out last year (they are relatively "indie"-big here in Belgium & Netherlands) but it felt kinda bland. Still, I'm very happy Robin's managed to make a good living out of music.

I found out last night that you can get the 2 God Machine lps reasonably cheaply on Amazon after they were reissued in 2010.
Wondering what kind of audience awareness of them there is or was at that point which was really posthumous for them as a band.
have they been covered at all?

Would love those studio covers from the e.p.s there were some really good ones in there.
Trying to think if there were many more things they covered live.

e.p. versions of songs also on lps tended to be different too I think. Some of them heavier or more impactful at least.

Finally tried to do them some justice.

http://thequietus.com/articles/24109-the-god-machine-scenes-from-the-second-story-review-anniversary

awesome!

Excellent, indeed

Thanks, Ned! Came here to post that link.

Too kind, all of you.

Great piece, thanks so much!

It reminded me of buying One Last Laugh... and then weirdly not being able to listen to it for weeks, I recall wondering to myself if people ten years older than me had the same problem when Closer came out.

This is intense, RPS smashes his guitar in the first few seconds so the song becomes a vocals, bass, drums and extended Voix Bulgares freak out jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJmZbBdCxK0

Thanks Ned. I feel we're really reaching the point where, without efforts to keep their memory alive, this band will be completely forgotten, engulfed under the waves of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOF-XAeNG_o

Have hoped there might be an e.p. compilation at some point. I think I didn't get them all at the time so would like a one stop you could find them at.

Yeah, that would be nice for sure.

God, what a band. That live set is fantastic.

Just idly noting that Scenes OG vinyl currently going for £530 on Discogs.

missed this three weeks ago - thank you Maresn3st!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ3hVzKDP8s

someone needs to reissue this stuff, yes, the second hand prices for the vinyl and even the CD are stupid

It would be nice, yes.

I suppose I could ask around re: masters ownership, my best friend knows Robin.

but I'd guess they are lost, missing, or tied up in some shit

definitely look into an e.p. collection.

& I don't think they had a live lp during their lifetime did they?

No - two albums, 4 EP's, and that's it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcNSoYBrqjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucoUoCl_LyI

thank you! sounds great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvBOp49nYgs

thank you again!

No problem, I'll keep posting them when they come up, it's a shame there's not a good radio recording or a live album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjYDt9eeu8

Thank you! The frustration remains - you just know someone at some venue must be sitting on a soundboard recording but they're keeping quiet...

At this point what I would really want is a remaster of the first album which always sounded a bit muffled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKXeyrafrg

<3

Where do they keep finding these? :-)

The channel is kinda amazing in its own way, with scores of mid-tier toilet circuit indie gigs going back to the shambling era and a sprinkling of larger concerts.

If you want to hear what Milk, Sun Carriage, or The Chesterfields sounded like then this is your channel :)

omg that channel is all my early-90s London toilet circuit support band nightmares returning to life! He even has a live set by a band I auditioned for once, a tryout which was thankfully a failure.

Well now you have to tell us which band.

It'd be about the only mention of them on the internet apart from the Youtube set so I'll spare any self-Googling band members the embarrassment.

Clue: it wasn't Lush

Gay Dad?

Ron Austin is apparently going to be on this show today at 4 pm BST (although there is a Mixcloud archive by the looks of things) talking about TGM and his new project Mercylane.

www.Madwaspradio.com

Very cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZV9jNvekes