What happened to LUSH?

It's one of my favorite albums that I would usually probably forget to list among my favorite albums. I discovered at just the right point in my life, too, which doesn't hurt. Total gateway drug to lots of other, similar stuff I'd never been exposed to previously.

I love Spooky but it's my least favourite of their albums.

Lovelife never really gelled for me

Yeah, Lovelife isn't bad, but they sounded like a different band to me (although I can't fault them for not continuing to do exactly what I wanted them to continue doing). I love everything up until then, though.

that first sing-sing album is so great, seems like it could've been big if it were released a few years later

I've been on such a Lush-binge these past few days. Christ, they were fantastic.

I will rep for Lovelife, too, it was the kind of spikey pop band that was lurking underneath all the shoegaze haze all along, but people just didn't seem able to accept that side of them. Which is a shame, because I always loved their melodic sensibility. I mean, come on! 500 (Shake Baby Shake)? Such a choon!

I even dug out the Sing-Sing albums yesterday. Yeah, the timing on that was weird. To put out this deeply textured, finely arranged summer-pop album right at the height of the Noo Rawk Revival seems like bad luck. It's way, way better than I remember it being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qah2UXQj3kQ&app=desktop

almost as good as fabulous on rapido

i had that "Get Fucked By Fabulous" shirt, it was kind of ill-advised to ever wear it out

is that Quantick in the waistcoat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq1QWn8KXsw

all-time

Who's the speccy wee gadge in the blue cardy?

James Brown

The knowledge that he went on to become editor of lads mag 'Loaded' makes me take everything he says in that video with a huge pinch of salt.

taking any of what they said seriously would be utterly ridiculous

Miki was onstage with Jesus And Mary Chain for Just Like Honey last night in London!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3PfzrVIAAIdD1n.jpg

the live band also has philip king in the line up ..

ok so..

http://www.lushofficial.com/

oh dude.

I guess it was inevitable really - but out of all those guys, reformed Lush is the one I see most struggling to raise interest.

It basically comes down to: What are the new songs like?

What's the news? Is that just a new website?

I would also note this:

https://twitter.com/evjanderson/status/645886417957203968

I really can't process this right now because I can't run around my office screaming "WHOOOOOOOOO LUSH!" without getting fired

reformed Lush is the one I see most struggling to raise interest.

Really?

Anyway, hope this turns out to be yet another fantastic album from a 90s band who hasn't been together in 20 years. It's been a good year for that.

I'm into this if this is the thing that's actually happening. Remains to be seen what direction they'll take. I deeply love everything they did up to the last album, which I thought was just okay. I really like Sing-Sing, though.

Eek, this is all very exciting! I was just downloading some of their B-sides yesterday.

New album, tour and reissues would all be welcomed. I don't ask for a lot.

I would personally fund their reunion

if I had any money.

please please please let this be true!

announcement tomorrow supposedly.

Yeah Philip King has been dropping thoroughly obvious photo hints on Facebook while pretending not to know what's being talked about.

Less than an hour to go, I am very excitable today

one gig and some reissues? ...

It's more Lush than we had yesterday.

i think LUSH were an 'on-ramp' for me and Indie rock. Pixies were too harsh and shouty for little early-teen me and as for MBV forget it. but Lush were just pop enough but just noisy enough for me to begin to 'get' the rest of it. Ride came next and then it was a solid Indie diet for god knows how many years. aw man. makes me feel all weird this, dunno why. gladdens my heart though.

May next year? That's not much more Lush than we had yesterday.

Still,..

Phil dropped more than enough hints about American shows recently. I'm mildly surprised this will be after Coachella and not before.

It's not gonna happen but I wish they played some Sing-Sing as well.

You could rush the front and shout "Sing sing-sing", see what happens.

Awful band. It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.

I've never heard anyone say Lush were among the dregs of shoegaze, so at least you're original.

i keep expecting this thread to be about the massively successful cosmetics store

Any details on the reissues?

Awful band. It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.

Aliens are real!

It's at least fitting that the shoegaze reunions are restoring the natural order of things - ie. this is the dregs coming now. First Lush, probably Revolver next.

Well this came out recently, so if the sales are good who knows?

http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/catalogue/releases/access-all-areas-revolver/

i quite liked a couple of Revolver tunes.

hope the reunified LUSH stick to the pre-Spooky stuff most. that's the stuff that's lasted IMO. great to see Justin Welch back too.

pre-spooky only? so just play the EPs?

Revolver had some great singles

can't say the same for Lush, pretty shitty all around.