Another band dies at the discotheque: DiS remembers The Cooper Temple Clause
It’s funeral season, and another band dies in the summer of our discotheque. These are dark times for music; even pretending the emperor’s new day-glo wardrobe isn’t a walking obscenity is becoming an increasing challenge. ‘Nu-rave’ may be all well and good every other Friday night, but if you think anything of substance is being created you’re dancing in the dark. But every band the cited as ‘the problem’ is not the problem...
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Nice article
this.
For my two pennies worth, I thought the 2nd album wasn't a patch on 'See This Through...', and when Didz Hammond left the writing was probably on the wall then.
Really enjoyed that.
Cheers. RIP TCTC.
cheers
RIP coopers xx
Fabulous.
Beautiful article
this.
For my two pennies worth, Dom is wrong, and See This Through And Leave is far superior. But thats my opinion, I so wished that they'd come back bigger and stronger after Didz left just to say "Dirty Pretty who?" to the world, but I gues it was realistically never going to happen. Sad face.
Eh????
That's what I said!
I remember....
...seeing them play a gig at Bar Oz in Reading just before they signed, and even then they were ten steps above anyone else.
really enjoyed this article
and agree with it completely. tho i've not really listened to make this...
i think thats one of the best dis articles i've read
v. similar sentiments from me - after adoring the bands first two albums what i heard of the third from seeing it live and such put me off enough to stay clear...
TCTC
Represent so much of what is missing in modern music, heart, intergrity, passion, anger, overflowing creativity - they were brilliant, one of the best bands I've ever seen, I miss them already. I wish they split before the release of Make This Your Own, thats just a sad husk of an album to me
never quite lived up
i can tell tell the the article is heartfelt and i certainly agree with the coopers comparitive worth and integrity over much of the current crop. but ultimately they never lived up to the promise of their early singles and live shows, panzer attack and who needs enemies were a breath of fresh air when i heard them, but to myself and a lot of fans the first album was patchy at best. by the time the second album came no one cared and by the timne of the third album no one remembered. live they always remained top notch though.
Yeah
that IS what he said.
Even if you didn't rate Make This Your Own
up there with either of the first 2 albums, it still had more ideas on it than anything most of today's indie soundalikes will ever release.
Homo Sapiens and All I See Is You in particular, are up there with their finest work.
The Coopers will be missed by those who knew of them, which is, comparitively, a criminally small number of people.
I'm feeling this
.