Any "not too famous" 90s indie bands that you love that you wish would reform?
Dear:
Velocity Girl
Madder Rose and
Belly
Please reform,
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Kenickie
Belly
Symposium
I was thinking about Madder Rose the other day...had Car Song in my head for some reason.
Would like to see Jawbreaker and Shudder to Think reform.
I love Car Song. It reminds me of when I started university. Panic On
is a massively underrated album.
I have a Madder Rose album...
...in my car. 100% true story.
Shudder to Think reformed a couple years back
They sounded pretty great:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/112149-shudder-to-think-live-from-home
Yeah, I own a copy of that album...
I'm talking proper reformation though, not a one-off reunion show.
THE VAN PELT
The Van Pelt / The Lapse would be great
New Kingdom
764-hero
764-hero reformed a few years back.
I think they only played Japan.
Ten Benson
Just for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFIRon3YLc
I know nothing more and prob don't need too. But I'd like to hear the riff and drum machine boo boo to remind me of my school days if I was to become an indie dad or something in years to come.
Still together according to wiki
Saw them in about 2004, wouldn't say they were "indie" really.
I just remember them from
Steve Lamacq on the radio when I was at school so just think of any of that stuff as indie, should of checked that they where dead first mind. haha.
Ah, they were fun live.
I would say you should have this in your ears too:
http://youtu.be/Z8jbNUJoeH8
Saw them play at Shunt Vaults a few years ago
Would be great if Shunt Vaults 'reformed'. Stupid Shard.
Americ
an Football
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mac369ifow1qcr9hro1_500.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mac369ifow1qcr9hro2_500.jpg
The God Machine
always.
unfortunately..........
Have to make do...
...with Sophia these days :(
Dodgy
Erm
You know they're back together and have a new album and everything? In fact...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/13/mercury-prize-2012-shortlist?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9389
Deffo Belly
Oh Tanya, when we met at Pontins Prestatyn for a Radio One roadshow that time did you not feel the spark between us?
Can I also have back Salad, The Real People, Top and World of Twist?
^this to Belly
Although the usual reform reservations apply: (i) play new stuff, (ii) don't be terrible.
World of Twist would be a bit tricky
..as one of the main players passed away in the last year or two. Wonderful band who were quite ahead of their time too much to be appreciated.
YES to Salad
I would be chuffed as balls about that.
Shudder to Think would also be ace. And the suggestion below about Prolapse. The Italian Flag is one of my alltime favourite records.
The Real People
are extant. They still play Liverpool fairly regularly.
Kid Galahad
Thirteen:13
Seafruit
(they could all be early 00 's but hey ho)
Came to post Thirteen:13
I still look at the 'Try' poster on my wall wistfully from time to time.
They were *always* supporting JJ72
Must have seen them like 8 times by accident
Seafruit were great but
...their singer Geoff Barradale now manages Arctic Monkeys and blushes mightily whenever his frontman past is brought up.
Five Thirty...
Levitation/ Dark Star
Curve
Model Morning
Fields
Pure Reason Revolution
The Music
massive ^this for Curve
They'd really hit their stride again with Gift.
Shame they called it quits soon after.
So true
those later albums are really unfairly dismissed, it's kind of frustrating.
Gift is my fave Curve album
Every song is brilliant
model morning, 90s?!
if four or five people wanted to see them it could probably happen. most of them are in spotlight kid now. alround bunch of fine young eggs.
Missed the 90's bit in the title. My bad!
I know 2 are now in Spotlight Kid (who I love and have seen 20+ times) and Pete has a band called Winterhouse now. Still love to see them play once more together.
Arnold
Although I did read somewhere they may be reforming
Radiohead
Modest Mouse
Medicine
sadly, it will never happen.
R I D E
my favourite band ever... nowhere and going blank again are just all round solidly brilliant guitar albums
Karate
Quickspace
MASSIVE ^ for Karate
prolapse
COWS
COWS
COWS
COWS
Prolapse
Beulah
great summer music
thanks for turning me onto them!
:)
Scarfo
Scott 4
Saloon
Massive this for Scarfo
Time for Hince to stop messing about with that Moss bird and the band back together.
Regular Fries
Better be a monkey if you like king kong.
Being on stage with half of the crowd
during the encore at their last ever show is one of my fondest gigging memories. Think it was their last show anyway... 5th June 2001 at the old LA2.
Cap'n Jazz
radiohead
Cable
No further comment required. Other than, if you haven't heard their music, WHAAAAAT! Go and get some, now!
Uh....
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4356278
mainly Drive Like Jehu
Yes! and Jawbox too
RFTC would be good too
Llama Farmers
...just for the name really.
Sidi Bou Said
Criminally underrated/neglected band.
Yay for Cable too.
Yup
a big This for Sidi Bou Said.
Whale
Longpigs
I interviewed The Longpigs way back in 1996
We were all so much younger then...
As soon as I saw Longpigs
I knew it would be you.
Hmmmmmmmmm. Dark Star, so they could release Zurich properly.
http://soundcloud.com/dark-star-4/sets/zurich
zurich is awesome
Really?
I thought it was stained...
Joyrider
seaweed!
that would be a riot
Rodan
Which will, very sadly, never happen now :(
Lush. It'll never happen due to a death in the band but I wish in some sort of
time machine way, I could see Lush reform.
A more complete story of Lush split according to Miki Berenyi...
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/miki_berenyi_interview_1020071/
"UTR: Were there any circumstances under which you think Lush could've stayed together and made more albums after Lovelife?
Berenyi: Perhaps, but not without Chris. I know bands that have managed to soldier on through that kind of loss, but to be honest, by then, we were already struggling to stay together. Just before he killed himself, Emma called a meeting with me and Phil (Chris was up at his parents’ house in the Lake District). She wanted to leave the band—she felt the pressure to become successful in the U.S. was swamping everything. Emma and I were not getting along well, either. I’d venture to say that our relationship was always a little fragile. But I desperately wanted the band to stay together and coerced her into giving Lush one more shot. A few days later Chris was dead. We were falling apart as it was, and that was the killer blow. If Chris had been around, I might have had the strength to keep Emma happy and convince her to stay in Lush. If Emma hadn’t already lost faith in Lush maybe she would have been able to convince me that we could carry on even without Chris. But with Chris’ suicide, we both had plenty of reasons for giving up on Lush."
that's really sad :(
Lush have been offered cash by promoters in the past to reform
but basically said it just wasn't enough money to give up their day jobs, etc to go out and tour again.
Never saw them live
Big :-(
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
I'm still holding out for a Rialto reformation...
Add N to (X).
Been listening to them a lot again recently. Great band.
Jonathan Fire*Eater
Campag Velocet.
Silverfish
I'm not fussy, just a one-off gig in a 200 capacity venue would suffice. Don't want them to write anything new, just a good knees up for old-time sake.
PWEI
the real one, not the silly new one. Just a quick 5 date tour would do thanks.
The God Machine
Stunning band I still haven't heard anyone come close to them. It's a mix of early 90's alt rock with shoegazing and some odd experimental bits. Both albums are amazing.
http://youtu.be/EqES_Nxb8Fo
they were mentioned earlier
there's quite few fans knocking around on here. I used to love seeing them. Massive sound for a 3-piece.
At least
Robin is still producing fine work with Sophia still. If people today had heard the God Machine, or if they were still going then A Place To Bury Strangers would look like a very empty option indeed. Never saw them live :(
Downloaded The God Machine's 2nd album
when Malcolm Middleton mentioned them on twitter. It's very good.
Psychid
maybe they were early 2000s, but at any rate, where did they go??
Symposium
According to Wikipedia, "A reunion tour all over the UK was announced for spring 2012." but it seems now as autumn approaches that this was nothing more than wishful thinking.
wikipedia is full of
shit
if we're saying bands that can't reform because of the death of band members
then fuck it, Morphine and Brainiac would be lovely.
just how evil is Evil Sean Adams? if he's 'bringing back the dead' evil, then make it happen o dark one.
he's pretty evil
.
NUB
echobelly
Polvo
Pretty sure they did reform
and played an atp event a couple of years ago. Don't think there was any new material though.
That was in reply to Polvo
Released the excellent album "In Prism"
following the reformation. Apparently, there's another album due this year.
Shows how much attention I was paying
I gave up after today's active lifestyles. Oh well, at least Huggy_Bear will be pleased.
I really need to pay more attention to music
Kenickie
Walt Mink
great band!!
saw them 3 or 4 times in the 90s...3 great albums as well, but good luck finding copies anywhere.
That was tough!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_i_0?rh=k%3Awalt+mink%2Ci%3Apopular&keywords=walt+mink&ie=UTF8&qid=1348235790
Maybe not quite 90's but Seafood
I never got to see them :(
I managed to see them 4 times, but never deliberately...
they were support 3 times and once happened to be playing in this venue beneath the flat I was Kipling in for the night, just heard them playing so walked downstairs and watched them, great band.
Kipping, I wasn't running a fly by night baking operation.
Girls Against Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FglI86u_MfA
Reformed in 2006 and 2009
Tiger
Fudge Tunnel
I bloody loved that band
Seam
obviously
seam have, haven't they?
Only as a one-off for the Touch And Go 25th anniversary festival in 2006
And not to be confused with these Canadian lads:
http://www.sonicbids.com/2/EPK/?epk_id=304073
Pale Saints
With Ian Masters, obv.
I think a couple of members are now in The Programme
I'm not sure
But I look forward to the inevitable League One Britpop reunion tours. Sleeper, Menswear, Dodgy and Cast on the same night (with Suede insulted by headlining.. but hey, got to fill the venue sometime. And the Here and Now tour with pretty dreadful 80s bands seems to make a roaring trade.)
The guitarist from Sleeper
did a lecture at my uni. He said they were lucky to get 3 albums as most bands only get one now.
Barkmarket
Airhead
Funny how the girls you fall in love with never fancy you, funny how the ones you don't do...
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Still together (and weren't that great when I saw them ).
toenut
!!
Thousand Yard Stare
would be a fun gig.
0-0 AET still sounds ace to me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpaV3NYMEZg
Compulsion.
On the topic of Irish 90's types, Kerbdog are playing in that London soon
Compulsion was the first proper gig I ever went to. It was at The Astoria 2
in around June 1994. At the time, an unknown band called Skunk Anansie supported.
Prolapse, Delgados, The Heart Throbs
I was thinking The Delgados too
Great, great band.
Does anyone
know if this is even vaguely feasible? The Delgados that is? Have they given any indication either way?
Was thinking about this really recently. Would love to see them again.
Of course, the only valid answer is: Stranglove.
Strangelove.
Patrick and his every decreasing pinstripe trousers
*ever
Only just saw this
I just Strangelove'd it up the moment I saw the thread.
Strangelove.
Urusei Yatsura
Hello tiger...
Would love this, prob not too much chance though
as it seems even Projekt Ako (ie Yatsura minus Kemp) has stopped and Fergus is doing a noise band or some such as Angel of Everything Murder.
In fact anyone know what Graham Kemp is up to nowadays? Any new bands?
Strangelove.
Strangelove, Strangelove, Strangelove.
Strangelove.
Mansun
Mansun got pretty big
Not as big as I'd like, mind you. But in the context of this thread, they were swinging pretty hard. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing them come back but I imagine it'd be a rough road given all the stuff that's come out since they packed it in. Paul Draper remains a fascinating presence on the web.
You're probably right
I live in the States where I constantly get asked "Marilyn Manson?" if I bring them up in conversation so to me they seem not very famous at all, hah. Wish Paul Draper would get back on Twitter -- his feed was a goldmine!
Anyone know anything about the solo stuff he was apparently working on?
Not gonna happen I'm afraid
I got to know Paul a while back and though he was very much into writing and producing he said he'd given up on his own solo stuff. A real shame. Great bloke with some incredible stories.
Dangit
That is sad to hear. Glad he's still active one way or another though.
Watched them at Cambridge Corn Exchange in late 1998...
support band were Gay Dad.
I was gutted
that I missed that tour. Would have been a riot to see them together. Lucky git.
Here's hoping that Gay Dad don't reform.
shut up.
Cap'n Jazz
The KLF
Slowdive
Poe
Laika
Propellerheads
Dubstar*
Single Gun Theory
Moloko
Fluke
*they announced that they reunited few years ago but nothing released so far.
KLF were massive!
(Yeah, though).
KLF FACT!
In 1991 they were the biggest selling singles artists in the world.
Propellerheads are still going
mostly as a production team but apparently album #2 is still in the works...
Really?
I thought it was just Alex Gifford who produced under that name. Last lp I remember him doing was a De La Soul one years back.
Will White still DJ's at your Spacey cosmic spiral tribe style raves....probably.
Album #2 has been in the works since forever
I still hold out hope for it happening though.
Still
don't think Will White has got anything to do with it.
yeah
Pizzicato Five, Zumpano, Lilys, Codeine.
Lilys played ATP NY in 2008
They weren't very good.
figures
I saw them in '04 I think, & they were bad. I thought it was an off-night, but I guess not. IMO they haven't put out a good record since "The 3-Way".
Codeine are back aren't they? I saw them at Ally Pally a few months ago.
I read an article
but I thought it was just a fan-piece. I can't see them together for long. So I guess they don't count in this list. I'll think of someone else.
that dog.
Anyone remember them? Brilliant twee US band.
Yep
Really liked One Summer Night. Wasn't one of their songs used as the Daria theme music?
Daria
Daira theme tune is/was Splendora - You're standing on my neck
Although it highly possible That Dog was used somewhere in the show as there were loads of goo tunes played throughout.
One of the drawbacks with the dvd boxset is that the music during the shows has been replaced by generic music as they couldn't afford to get al;l the tunes cleared for the release.
Boo
Retreat From The Sun by that dog came up on my mp3 player
this morning on the bus. A brilliant 90s twee pop song. Ch ch check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUimUg022o
They had
a second album that wasn't widely released at all, but Retreat From The Sun is a mini-masterpiece. Petra Hayden is in The Decemberists now and has done some brilliant acapella stuff by herself, Anna Waronker I think is solo (that last that dog record was meant to be Anna's first by herself). I think she is the daughter of Warners label boss Lennie Waronker and her brother Joey has drummed for Beck, Pumpkins and REM. Daddy obviously didn't have buy her a career like that Lana girl anyway.
So far, you're the only person whose heard of Retreat From The Sun.
Not many have heard of it or the band I think. Together with Velocity Girl, a massively underrated band.
Got the 1st 2, but never heard RFtS
Petra is the daughter of Jazz bassist Charlie Hayden (Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, amongst many others). Loved them, but had to laugh when they did a Rough Trade Covent Garden instore & brought roadies & a mixing desk. Total overkill, way too much money around that band.
Should have probably added Rachel Hayden into that previous post too
:D
Where did the audience go, or did they just listen upstairs? Hee hee. Bearsuit played there on the day I got married, was gutted to not have seen the comedy that would have been those six and all their equipment squeezed into that tiny space!
Retreat From The Sun should have been a huge mainstream/pop hit off its own back, stunningly good and such a step up from their Kill Rock Stars/Yoyo Records style debut.
Luckily for them it wasn't the best attended instore
Plus I think some people got fed up of waiting for them to finish faffing around setting it all up (they arrived late as it was), so there was room for us all. Completely blocked off one side of the shop though, so people would walk into the basement, go clockwise & realise they couldn't get around to the counter that way 'cos the mixer was in the way & have to go back round the other way. The staff & me were desperately trying to keep our amusement to ourselves.
For comparison to the usual state of affairs, I saw a Eugenius instore where no mics led to Eugene singing into his guitar pickup.
They played a few shows in the US this year.
Saw them in Brooklyn in May. Not a very polished show, but I geeked out all the same.
The Crocketts
I would this this
but the Crimea are much better (and I did love the Crocketts too)
Bennett
Midget
Kerbdog
They did something
a year or two back, packed out the Barfly for a Kerrang thing and did some Ireland shows, so always a possibility. Great band!
I'd love Elevate and Ligament, the former I saw a few times and were always brilliant and the latter I never saw, and even though Part Chimp were equally as good I'd love to hear the Ligament stuff that loud too.
Part Chimp should keep going, their excuse of "been doing it ten years, time to move on" is silly.
Buy tickets here
http://www.seetickets.com/Event/KERBDOG/The-Garage/651290
Thanks loads...!
Yup, Kerbdog are still around.
Their frontman, Cormac Battle, is a fairly successful Irish radio presenter, DJ and producer.
They're still playing shows now and again and are playing On The Turn in full in Dublin in December.
Murry The Hump
The Keys are arguably better, but I never got a chance to see The Hump before it was all over.
Cracking Up
What a single!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TLXhWwpv0
Shack
I was gonna say them
but I thought they were more 2000's. Maybe they were "cusp-ish".
They were both really
Waterpistol and HMS Fable were released in the 90's. They released 2 albums in the 2000's too. Nothing new since 2006 though, which is a shame.
Kitchens of Distinction
Cotton Mather
The Amps
The Sundays
The Faith Healers.
Reformed in 2009
Played ATP and everything.
so just played ATP then.
Saw them at 93 Feet East
still had it (think the 1st ATP show was a bit of a shambles).
Eat
Ange Dolitte now has his own band Dolittle (a 3 piece)
He plays old Eat songs as well as Big Yoga Muffin, We Know Where You Live stuff too. My Brother and I put his band on at The Hope & Anchor in Islington in June. One of my favourite frontmen. He's great.
Yeah I've put them on in Bolton a couple of times!
In fact I should sort out another one soon...
Would still love him to get Eat together for a gig though. Suspect the other two lovely Dolittle guys would like this too!
Bis
To record new material. They reform live occasionally and are just as much fun now as they were before splitting in 2003. The 2 new songs they played earlier this year were great, so hopefully it could happen.
Spitfire
Geneva ?
Spacehog ?
Baby Chaos !
jesus, not that name for a while
textbook pre-britpop indie-rock desperately signed by clueless major label cashing in on the post-Nirvana boom.
Poor buggers had their singles in the bargain bins almost the same week they were released. Quite liked the single with the fly on the front.
Played a one-off reformation show
supporting Ginger from The Wildhearts, in Glasgow, a year or two back.
Bivouac
...best british band of the 90's.
And ha a massive fan in Stewart Lee
Sure if he asked them to reform they'd do it. Paul Yeadon is/was a producer these days? Should have been bigger!
Drop Nineteens
Winona is a great song and the video was always played in the 'Indie Chart' bit of the Chart Show
Life Without Buildings
Was the correct answer to this thread.
Seconds to
Scarfo and Jonathan Fire*Eater. Alkaline and Give Me Daughters respectively are probably still in my top 20 favourite songs.
I will add to this that any band who were on Deceptive 50 but who subsequently split should also be listed. The Prisoners, Colouring Lesson, Earl Brutus, Collapsed Lung etc.
BIRDLAND
Just kidding.
Frank Black and the Catholics
Pain Killer
LONGPIGS so we can support them
and Crispin and myself can have a who's a bigger dickhead competition.
For the love of God...
BIVOUAC
PROLAPSE
...I'd agree with Madder Rose BUT Mary and Billy together ( at The Borderline many years ago ) is / was more mesmerising.
Ahh Bivouac
Superb band. Paul Yeadon is still making music in a band called The Wireless Stores, but I do miss the bivs.
AC Acoustics
Pretty much my favourite band for a long long time. Gutted they didn't do anything when Understanding Music and O were reissued last year.
Fantastic band
Only saw them once in 1996 - would love to see them again!
Ultra Vivid Scene
Their second album Joy is still one of my favourites records, despite being overplayed (by me) massively.
130 or so replies to this question on Facebook too
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151109721543145
I started this thread on Saturday evening whilst listening to Madder Rose
before heading to the pub to meet my mates. I wasn't expecting over 200 replies. I'd love to see The Lemonheads of Dando, Hatfield and David Ryan reform. I know that Dando and Hatfield are playing in December and that's a two-thirds reformation for me.
Juliana Hatfield is gonna be in London?
Arrest me now. Please.
Here's a link. I'm luckily a member of The Southbank and got a
couple of tickets earlier. I'm really hoping for a lot of stuff from Come On Feel and also some Blake Babies stuff. I've seen Dando solo as well as various guises of The Lemonheads but for me The Lemonheads aren't The Lemonheads without Juliana Hatfield.
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/evan-dando-and-juliana-hatfiel-69849
I believe a Lemonheads album is being made with Juliana Hatfield involved
and also Ryan Adams drumming and producing.
Then you'll be pleased to hear Evan and Juliana are busy recording a new Lemonheads album together, with original member Ben Deily involved in the songwriting and Ryan Adams drumming/producing... Adams announced it on Twitter a couple of days ago :)
Come
Oh to see Come do Eleven:Eleven and Dont ask dont tell. Think they did Matador 21st party last year but Barry needs to get them for ATP
Screaming Blue Messiahs
not really 90s per-se but fuck it.
Best UK trio ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlgxpOiNYY&feature=related
Swell
they released an album about 4 years ago and toured it but David Freel is the only original member left... still I'd love it if the band became a full-time project again.
and
Swervedriver
Silver Jews
The Replacements or even Paul Westerberg solo wouldn't be bad
that's all I can think of for now
Swervedriver
they still kick about and play the odd show. New material would be great to hear. One of THE great underrated bands of that era. Unfairly categorized as shoegaze also-rans, they were in fact nothing of the sort.
I was talking to Graham Bonnar (Drummer) the other day. They do have plans to do new material.
great great news
Skyscraper
Can't work out why I loved them so much. They were so much more straight rock than everything else I listened to at the time, but I got really into them
UNWOUND
Justin has a new band
Called Survival Knife. Sounds pretty Unwound judging by youtube.
Unwound were great. Speaking of "un" bands, anyone remember a
a band called Unrest? Their album Perfect Teeth is great. I wonder what happened to them.
Know this is probably trolling, but...
Did some reunion gigs not so long ago. Mark still runs Teenbeat, & has other bands, think Phil & Bridget still perform...now that Bridget isn't on the run from the law.
Blind Mr. Jones
their first album is fantastic, the follow up is dogshit though. Would be good if they performed Stereo Musicale.
Carrie!
Galaxie 500
China Drum
Jocasta
were awesome, I wish they would reform and have a platinum selling album and end up with U2 supporting them at stadium gigs. That would be justice.
Seely and Disco Inferno
Sharkboy
What a great band they were
Never saw them live, but Matinee and The Valentine Tapes are fine records.
Come
Mazey Fade
Trumans Water