REALLY obscure bands

[thestraightman]

one fish two fish
came to play at my school
weird levellers style fayre.

 

[thestraightman]

Oh Oh.
I know "children of the bong"
Hippy dippy electronica



ohhh.. and dirtburg, ace live hiphop, sadly now gone.

 

[Pilgrim]

For a really obscure band with a truly disastrous name you can't get any better than a South Devon heavy metal four-pice going under the monicker:

'RECTAL HAEMORRAGE'.

Not likely to feature on 'Top Of The Pops' any time soon, methinks.

(I could post a picture if such a haemorrage if I find one. Any takers?).

 

[Dubversion]

GONG!


have a cup of tea!

hardly obscure, though

 

[belboid]

You Slosh! recorders of Glorious Racket
Little Chief - of Loosen Up fame

couple of Leeds bands (although YS! may have actually been from York) mixed up a bit of ska and folk and general hippiness.

 

[poului]

hardly obscure, though

b-dm tsh!

 

[Lisarocket]

Oh Oh.
I know "children of the bong"
Hippy dippy electronica

I put them on once, can't remember where though

 

[cyberfairy]

Oh Oh.
I know "children of the bong"
Hippy dippy electronica

I put them on once, can't remember where though

children of the bong? seen em on cduk

 

[Sunspots]

children of the bong? seen em on cduk

-Yeah, and they appeared at Party at the Palace (The Queen's Jubilee Concert)...

 

[Ozric]

As far as school groups went a few mates formed 'Kryptic Hippies'.
But for obscure I remember John Peel playing 'Anal Beard' and 'Mustard Masturbation', the former having drippy Richie Neville from Five as a 'member'.

 

[cyberfairy]

anyone remeber toxic shock syndrome from exeter? they beat Muse in the local battle of the bands!

 

[Lisarocket]

I put them on once, can't remember where though

children of the bong? seen em on cduk

-Yeah, and they appeared at Party at the Palace (The Queen's Jubilee Concert)...

Yeah right

 

[Lisarocket]

anyone remeber toxic shock syndrome from exeter? they beat Muse in the local battle of the bands!

Already mentioned on the obscure indie bands thread

Rocketman used to manage them....i didn't know they beat Muse in a battle of the bands contest though

Did a fab cover of Shout by Tears for fears....inna girl punk stylie

Wanna buy a flexi disc

 

[cyberfairy]

I put them on once, can't remember where though





Yeah right

AND they did a tribal dance on blue peter!

 

[Sunspots]

Yeah right

-It's true! Children Of The Bong were originally asked to perform on top of the palace, but that was before poodle-haired Brian May pulled rank on 'em.

-Honest.

 

[Dubversion]

were they on Handsome at some point? weird little label, that

 

[cyberfairy]

Already mentioned on the obscure indie bands thread

Rocketman used to manage them....i didn't know they beat Muse in a battle of the bands contest though

Did a fab cover of Shout by Tears for fears....inna girl punk stylie

Wanna buy a flexi disc

i have the flexi disc,came with some weird magazine as i recall... but with a few excellent reviews by someone who's name i can't quite recall toxic shock were fab...specially the one.. 'myyyra Hindley! she's a whore!'
now let's talk about knights of the occasional table...

 

[Lisarocket]

were they on Handsome at some point? weird little label, that

Magick Eye records i thought. They were a great band though. Put 'em on with The pipe of Justice...a cool little stoner band

 

[Orang Utan]

Thok
Bloody Lovely
Dead Inside
Seven Kevins
Hard To Swallow
Helvis
Shackle Me Not
Six Hundred And Sixty Six
Wives Of Seth

 

[Lisarocket]

now let's talk about knights of the occasional table...

I did a couple of songs with them back in the day

I do believe an ex KOTOT is now an Occassional Urbanite

Anyway...they are hardly obscure. Molara (Zion Train) used to sing with them and they put out at least 3 records that i know about...

 

[Dubversion]

Magick Eye records i thought. They were a great band though. Put 'em on with The pipe of Justice...a cool little stoner band

sorry, i i meant TSS but people post faster than me

 

[Lisarocket]

sorry, i i meant TSS but people post faster than me

I believe there may have been two Toxic Shock Syndromes, the one Cyberfairy and i were on about only had one release on a label called Too poor records/Hundredth monkey music....

NB Not Too Pure records who put out a few tunes back in the day

 

[rocketman]

sorry, i i meant TSS but people post faster than me

My TSS hailed from Exeter and lasted about fifteen seconds. They were great, and being a band, failed to split up until I'd secured them ecstatic live reviews in both NME and the Maker. That nice young Paul Moody helped there.

TSS weren't the first by that name, they just thought they were. It's academic anyway, the only release they made was on the prisoner flexi, which featured a few other actsm including Judda, Anorak Lovechild and The Rays.

Toxics were a good riot girl-induced slice of temporary freshness. One of them went on to play guitar in a few bands, but in case she's ashamed of her past, I'd best not name them.

 

[chooch]

the psychedelic calebs
(my mate's brother's band- shit as i recall)

 

[poului]

the psychedelic calebs

LOL what a dreadful name!!!

 

[chico enrico]

from mystery guest

I met Glen Wallis of Konstruktivists a couple of times back in 1993/94. Before then he'd asked me to play viola on one of his new tracks; I sorted out something but for whatever reason it never quite happened.

weird!! think the other guy in konstruktivists joined the band i used to be in!

but don't get me started on obscure bands. i've got a trunk back at my old dear's full of cassette tapes by bands (some great - some awful) who probably never even released a record. sure anyone else involved in the 'zine scene back in the early eighties would have the same.

most of whom certainly beats the fuck out of half the bacnd gracing the cover of the NME these days!

 

[bluestreak]

Oh Oh.
I know "children of the bong"
Hippy dippy electronica

i think i may have heard of them...

 

[Major Tom]

Month of Sundays - a very dour and Gothic sounding band.