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is a massively underrated album.

They sounded pretty great:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/112149-shudder-to-think-live-from-home

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Saw them in about 2004, wouldn't say they were "indie" really.

I would say you should have this in your ears too:

http://youtu.be/Z8jbNUJoeH8

Would be great if Shunt Vaults 'reformed'. Stupid Shard.

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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

Although the usual reform reservations apply: (i) play new stuff, (ii) don't be terrible.

..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.

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.

are extant. They still play Liverpool fairly regularly.

I still look at the 'Try' poster on my wall wistfully from time to time.

...their singer Geoff Barradale now manages Arctic Monkeys and blushes mightily whenever his frontman past is brought up.

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.

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thanks for turning me onto them!

Time for Hince to stop messing about with that Moss bird and the band back together.

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.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4356278

Criminally underrated/neglected band.
Yay for Cable too.

We were all so much younger then...

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."

but basically said it just wasn't enough money to give up their day jobs, etc to go out and tour again.

Big :-(

there's quite few fans knocking around on here. I used to love seeing them. Massive sound for a 3-piece.

shit

following the reformation. Apparently, there's another album due this year.

saw them 3 or 4 times in the 90s...3 great albums as well, but good luck finding copies anywhere.

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.

did a lecture at my uni. He said they were lucky to get 3 albums as most bands only get one now.

in around June 1994. At the time, an unknown band called Skunk Anansie supported.

Great, great band.

Strangelove.

I just Strangelove'd it up the moment I saw the thread.

Strangelove.

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?

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.

support band were Gay Dad.

(Yeah, though).

mostly as a production team but apparently album #2 is still in the works...

They weren't very good.

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.

Really liked One Summer Night. Wasn't one of their songs used as the Daria theme music?

but the Crimea are much better (and I did love the Crocketts too)

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.

http://www.seetickets.com/Event/KERBDOG/The-Garage/651290

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.

What a single!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TLXhWwpv0

but I thought they were more 2000's. Maybe they were "cusp-ish".

Played ATP and everything.

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.

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.

supporting Ginger from The Wildhearts, in Glasgow, a year or two back.

Sure if he asked them to reform they'd do it. Paul Yeadon is/was a producer these days? Should have been bigger!

Superb band. Paul Yeadon is still making music in a band called The Wireless Stores, but I do miss the bivs.

Only saw them once in 1996 - would love to see them again!

Arrest me now. Please.

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 :)

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.

Called Survival Knife. Sounds pretty Unwound judging by youtube.

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.

Never saw them live, but Matinee and The Valentine Tapes are fine records.