I've been diving back into the stuff I was listening to when I was in college, when it seemed there was a decent market for good British rock bands that isn't really there any more, or I'm too old to notice it. At first it was just nostalgia, but most of the stuff is still brilliant. I'm thinking stuff like the Hundred Reasons, Hell Is For Heroes, Copperpot Journals and Kids Near Water EPs, and the first albums by My Vitriol, Biffy, Jetplane Landing etc.
Are there any great bands I missed out on? And are there new bands around that still have that kind of sound, that do it well? Or is British rock doomed to be Trivium?
reuben?
they were pretty good, and they had a new album that was METAL
Trivium
are American
I'm grossly underinformed
about such things. I thought they were welsh or something. That must be the other ones.
Are you sayong you only liked the first Biffy album?
Hint: Say no.
Ah, good old My Vitriol
Q: When's the release date on that second album?
A: It'll never see the light of day.
First album is a genuine indie rock classic though.
Lord, course not,
my favourite is still Vertigo of Bliss but the first came out when I was in college. It's a timeframe thing, like a bunch of really good, catchy but interesting bands seemed to come out and do fairly well 'twixt 2000 and 2002. Just seemed an interesting time, to me anyway
I think the credit crunch
has meant kidz have no money to spend on distortion pedals.
Lame.
Mercury Tilt Switch
are from around the same time, Scottish, from Dundee I think. They certainly weren't successful but they had an album called Brundle Kid which was really good.
John from Kids Near Water
is now deputising in the too good for words Winter Olympics.
Check them out
MTS had a very good second album
Apparently they intend to play one festival this summer and then call it a day/change line-up/change name.