Obscure old indie bands

[rednblack]

archers of loaf
illustrious gy
the poppyheads

 

[twistedAM]

archers of loaf - hardly obscure; more llike the Greatest Of All Time (sic)

actually reading this thread makes me so glad i was more tuned into the American scene at the time
couple of other faves:
Small 23 (i'm considering burning copies of the deleted and ultra-obscure 'Chin Music' album and dropping them in random places like those bookie people do)
Smoking Popes - 12 songs in 23 minutes!!! what an album

 

[Buds and Spawn]

Either non of these are obscure or I'm a complete anorak...

Here's my contribution:

Jane From Occupied Europe

 

[easy g]

ring a bell....but I haven't heard them.

 

[E. Coli]

Anyone else remember The Family Cat?

my very mild claim to fame is that they used to stay at our house when they were playing the local venue. "WOW" you be saying to yourselves.


What about - CUD, Collapsed Lung, oi oi saveloy, senseless things? - probably not that obscure.

 

[lizzieloo]

senseless things

Definately not that obscure!

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

my very mild claim to fame is that they used to stay at our house when they were playing the local venue. "WOW" you be saying to yourselves.


What about - CUD, Collapsed Lung, oi oi saveloy, senseless things? - probably not that obscure.

Cud Peel favourites and excellent cover of Hot Chocolates ' You Sexy Thing'.

Not too obscure but anyone seen The Blue Orchids..they were ace.

 

[E. Coli]

Definately not that obscure!

i was gonna post a hewlett picture. I was thinking that he might have been the 6th member of the band.

Trivia time then: What bands were created from the ex-members?

 

[articul8]

that a no on Wonky Alice then? They were from Oldham or Rochdale if that helps.

How about "Wizzards of Twiddly"?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Monochrome set may have been first indie band i ever bought a record by - back ine alry 80s when they were on cherry red. never thought thay were that obscure though.


what about:

sudden sway
1000 Violins
Stump
Mighty Mighty
Jayne
The Pooh Sticks
Terry & Gerry
Spitfire - who were magnificent live by the way

Stump - great.

Terry and Jerry - poor (the band I was in at the time supported them at the Zap...wouldn't have gone to see them otherwise).

Cheers - Louis Mac

p.s. Do 'Those Naughty Lumps' count as an indie band...if so I can thoroughly recommend their Zoo records single 'Iggy Pop's Jacket'.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

'The venus beads'

Remember the name...

The Monochrome Set - On Rough Trade - The first two albums I still listen to repeatedly, 12 years after first hearing them.
The Ukrainians - An offshoot of the Wedding Present - sing all their songs in Ukrainian.
Crispy Albulance - From Manchester - around the same time as Joy Division. Probably not so much obscure as long forgotten.
The Jazz Butcher - creation records - Mostly shite, but did great cover version of "We Love You"
The Loft - Did one great album, sounded a bit like .... well, typified the genre "indie" really.

Every one of them seminal as fuck. Jazz Butcher wasn't shite, he was the Southern Mark Smith! And Peter Solowka leaving The Wedding Present to form the Ukrainians left a gaping hole in that band.

McCarthy

Got the first album - 14 songs in 28 minutes - top drawer.

Anyone remember 5.30?

No?

*gets coat*

Yep, have 'Bed'. Jam-inspired haircut indie when it barely existed. Ahead of their time - if they'd waited four years they would have seen Menswear off in a dash.

Loop

Not obscure!

Thought it was top quality proto-grunge myself!
How about one of Creations unsung heroes "The Telescopes"?

The missing 3-way link between MBV, Loop and the Jesus And Mary Chain.

Molly Half-Head.

Beserk. A none-more-fey band name with a singer that sounded like a bouncer undergoing root canal surgery while giving birth.

Slowdive.

Not obscure!

I know they did more but The Fire Engines and Candy Skin has got to be a standard of indieness.

Fire Engines have a new compilation out and The Candyskins (same band?) were sued out of existence by the Rolling Stones for lifting a riff from 'Ruby Tuesday' or something...the grizzly fuckers.

Death by Milkfloat

I wanted to say them!

Dub Sex

...were the dog's rod.

Anyone else remember The Family Cat?

Another seminal outfit, have 'Tell 'Em We're Surfing'.

1000 Violins
Stump
Mighty Mighty
The Pooh Sticks

Check.

archers of loaf

Good. But not as good as Bogshed.

And Senseless Things were practically nicking the Wonder Stuff's TVs before The Levellers ripped out the electrics...anyway, how about:

The Dave Howard Singers
The Three Johns
The Screaming Shits
The Snivelling Shits
The Irwin Testacles
Donkey See Donkey Do
The Band Of Holy Joy
The Cropdusters
The Bodines
A R Kane
Sore Throat
The Caretaker Race (partly what became of The Loft)
Mighty Lemon Drops (OK, not obscure, but indier than thou)
Adorable
The Rockingbirds
Drop 19s
Thurman
Whiteout
12 Rods

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Cud Peel favourites and excellent cover of Hot Chocolates ' You Sexy Thing'.

Not too obscure but anyone seen The Blue Orchids..they were ace.

Cud had a #22 hit single - making them about as obscure as A Tribe Of Toffs.

The Blue Orchids were Marc Riley's (aka Lard) band after leaving the Mighty Fall.

This is a top thread tangerinedream!

 

[editor]

We Are Going To Eat You (I was in them too!)

 

[clandestino]

who are all of these bands??

 

[easy g]

We Are Going To Eat You (I was in them too!)

you never played Derby did you??

 

[belboid]

p.s. Do 'Those Naughty Lumps' count as an indie band...if so I can thoroughly recommend their Zoo records single 'Iggy Pop's Jacket'.

work of bloody genius that track!

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

We Are Going To Eat You (I was in them too!)

Haven't heard of them - wonderful name for a band though!

I was once in a band called Pylons On Mars and, strangely enough, one of our songs was called 'We Are Not Going To Reason With You, We Are Going To Eat You'!

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

We Are Going To Eat You (I was in them too!)

I was in a band called Oh No you're Not.

No seriously, I think I heard of them.

So if you heard of them does that make them obscure, some baseline definitions please!

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

who are all of these bands??

You should certainly be familiar with enough of them Mr W.

 

[belboid]

The Three Johns
...
The Band Of Holy Joy
...
The Rockingbirds

none of them are obscure! Rockingbirds were pretty big (in some parts anyway) and the Three Johns absolutely bloody legendary!

The world of the workers is wild! Dontcha know..

 

[DaveCinzano]

anyone remember colorblind james experience - excellent eccentric american band from early 90s

thriftshop xl has done a great m.i.a./cbje mash-up, 'bucky done gun to memphis'

 

[akirajoel]

Anyone ever hear of a band called Cay? (think thats what they're called)

I dont know what they sound like - but have read about them... any good?

 

[easy g]

The Dave Howard Singers
The Three Johns
The Band Of Holy Joy
The Cropdusters
The Bodines
A R Kane
Sore Throat
The Caretaker Race (partly what became of The Loft)
Mighty Lemon Drops (OK, not obscure, but indier than thou)
Adorable
The Rockingbirds
Drop 19s
Thurman
Whiteout

heard of all these but only own stuff by AR Kane and Sore Throat

 

[DaveCinzano]

none of them are obscure! Rockingbirds were pretty big (in some parts anyway)

i even remember a feature about 'the camden scene' ( / ) in the 'daily telegraph' c.1992, which focused on the rockingbirds and 2 other bands.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

yeah Yeah No

Yip Yip Coyote

Puritan Guitars

Normil Hawaiins

 

[easy g]

wasn't it Yeah Yeah Noh??

 

[clandestino]

Anyone ever hear of a band called Cay? (think thats what they're called)

I dont know what they sound like - but have read about them... any good?

it was Kay if i remember rightly. grunge pop punk thing, female singer, she was dutch i think, had purplish hair. pretty good, late nineties.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

wasn't it Yeah Yeah Noh??

yea

 

[easy g]

yea

isn't it yeah?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Plus:

The Godfathers
Luxuria (Howard Devoto's post-Magazine and Noko Wotsisface's pre-Apollo 440 band)
Pooka Makes 3
Won Ton Ton
Tad
Head Of David
Oasis*
Contempo (akirajoel might have heard of them)




*No, not that one...