Senseless Things / Mark Keds Memorial Thread

Whoops, *Morgan* Nicholls

genuinely thought he was a girl

Freely admit when I first saw photos in MM I thought the same. Oh my callow youth.

Saw them open for Blur in May 1992 over here. Fun show and I had a long sleeve Pop Kid shirt for years after.

Saw Senseless Things while studying abroad in Canterbury, along with The Family Cat (genuinely impressed by the Cat, & love their records still), in the same week, & I truly believed the Replacements/SST bands I loved in the US of A were making a mark in the UK, but somehow Grebo & fake sounding Beatles amp ups ruined that wave. So sad Keds died at such a young age. Peace to his family & fans. Beach Slang's cover of 'Too Much Kissing' sucks & is not a patch on the original. Sad dipshit BS dude's abuse will get more press than this.

i have always assumed that the fact the senseless things lads went onto help out/join/form other bands across many genres proved a couple of things :

- they were a f*cking brilliant band, and knew their craft
- through their gigging excess, they made friends with a lot of other bands, and were clearly loved by all those who met them i.e. they weren't twats.

personally, i came to them primarily cos of the Jamie H artwork (a relationship that lasted a very long time, hence Cass doing so much for Gorillaz - who even ended up writing the Gorillaz coffee table monstrosity 'The Rise Of the Ogre')

i first discovered senseless things via their debut cd ep on CBS, "Got It At The Delmar" i think, which was of course only 99p in week of release.
i got it for the cover, and then realised just how much fun they were and so stayed for the ride.
unfortunately due to my newfound settled adult life i only managed to see them the once (freebie Heineken thing in Roundhay Park), they were great fun.

r.i.p mark, and thanks for all the tunes-n-grins.

re Morgan Nicholls : "I can see how he came to the attention of The Who, he is exactly like an Alt-Rock version of Entwhistle."

pretty sure i read somewhere that his solo album, Organized, was recorded using an old hammond that belonged to the Who, pretty there is a family/friend connection.

yeah, there is a family/friend connection : Morgan Nicholls is the son of Billy Nicholls.

they toured a heck of a lot on the toilet circuit with people like snuff and perfect daze and milk.

not that anyone cares, but i think i meant the milk monitors. or sink.

I care, Nick :)

I never saw them, the reunion gig happened at a time in my life when there was no way I could go to it.

Since we are posting youtubes these 2 are my faves and haven't been posted:

Trevor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fydrYF8HB6A

Easy To Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqkAI7vk3c

and a couple of deeper cuts:

Drunk and Soppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS6AtWHsGGY

Busload to Bingo (I could only find a live version of this early track which is a bit more Snuff-like than their later stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-Xqz8ZhME

This performance of Hold It Down on The Word is wild, better than the record maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_NMRSw9Je8

i'll say one thing for The Word, they really knew how to get across the energy and excitement of a band. different genre, but same thing with 'Dance Energy' with Normski. possibly the same same production team? makes the likes of 'Later...' look so dull in comparison (not difficult i guess!)

as mentioned earlier :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6DipjJ41dE

something i never ever expected from a senseless thing, but damn ..

amazing, always loved that track (think it was on a cover CD, we used to play it a lot) but never made the Senseless Things connection until this moment. Would love someone to do an oral history of that track, especially with his little brother, and Miss Parker herself of course.

amazing, always loved that track (think it was on a cover CD, we used to play it a lot)

yup : NME mounted 'Steve Lamaqs Bootleg Sessions Vol 2'
twas where i first came across it.

an old school NME styled family tree re Senseless Things would be insane.
they spread out far and wide.

there totally should be a Pete Frame web app that you can use to build rock family trees

I made one for my Pulp website using ms paint and a custom font called ff-nosebleed

https://pulpsongs.wordpress.com/family-tree/

https://www.fontspace.com/ff-nosebleed-font-f3260

Cass Browne (drummer in the Senseless Things) on BBC Breakfast News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlEbcytr-I

why is there no dvd of THE WORD (channel 4, uk)

Lovely work, Camaraderie!

(The faux-Frame font is pretty good, but one-letterform-only means the kerning on PULP is hecka squished every time :) )

I might have watched that Penguin Cafe interview and never made the connection.

Once travelled to Harlow to see Senseless Things at The Square on the full understanding that there was no getting back to London before the trains started again.

solid commitment there

Senseless Things family tree:
http://discograph.mbrsi.org/artist/56205?roles[]=Alias&roles[]=Member+Of

^ need to copy and paste the full URL or it displays wrong

wow.

had totally forgotten re 3 colours red connection.

lol at Billy Duffy being from Cardboard Vampyres, a band who played a few gigs in 2004, and not from The Cult

he was in the nosebleeds with m*****sey too! he was vini reilly's replacement

You need to click on the band member to see their own tree in full.

I did, but maybe I needed to shake it harder to get the other bands loose or something

I was thinking about this band and I think this song needs some boosting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjfo8du7wO0