How good were Carter USM

[editor]

I might even have Fruitbat DJing too!

 

[Dubversion]

Thought I'd Died And Gone To Streatham

when Carter edited the NME, the NME made up some Carter titles. that was one

 

[dweller]

I never liked 'em much,
but I thought the Rolling Stones were
arseholes for sueing them over
"Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, go home you silly cow"

 

[silentNate]

Don't forget: Jim Bob from Carter is playing the Offline Christmas Special on Dec 16th!

Heard him DJ before at HDiF though

Carter were fantastic live- get the first two albums is my advice

 

[loud 1]

shite.

 

[ScallyWag II]

I liked them, but not thought about, or listened to them for years...brings back memories...

saw them in camden once and my residing memory of the gig (unfortunately ) is of my ex husband grinning inanely all night just cos he'd had his teeth polished - 1st visit to the dentist in loadsa years so he had been crapping his self, and couldn't stop baring his teeth at everyone all night cos he was so pleased at only havingf his teeth cleaned!

reckon i might have to have a shuffle thru the cds now, find them again and a relisten

 

[Idris2002]

Carter were very good for what they were.

And streets ahead of the kind of Travis rubbish that stands for the death rattle of indie today.

But as for me I think I'll leave all that to the kids.

 

[Lisarocket]

They were alright, but they were never as good as Neds Atomic Dustbin or The Wonder Stuff

You are joking. Surely?

Carter were great

 

[Blagsta]

I liked the first album a lot at the time. After that, they went right down hill.

 

[mrtambourineman]

My all time favourite Carter song
http://www.carterusm.co.uk/songs/sheltered.html

It's a cliche to say bands often do their best stuff before they are famous, but in this case it's true IMHO.

 

[Mech]

anyone who punched up philip scofiled live on tv gets my approval!

 

[eddiecurry]

If you like "classic" Carter (101 Damnations/30 Something) you really should go and see iDou. Two members of Fruitbat's band since 1998, Abdoujaparov, playing two loud noisy punk rock guitars over a backing track of electronica and samples. Sounds familiar?

Websites are http://www.idou.co.uk/ and http://www.myspace.com/idou2 and they've just finished a mintour so sorry if I got anyone unduly excited.

 

[Onket]

And they're good!

 

[eddiecurry]

Oh and mintour was meant to be "Mini tour", in case anyone thought that they'd just finished a minotaur.

 

[pilchardman]

I could never see the attraction.