Bands who should have been big, but weren't

[Cian]

Stiltskin

Only ever heard their one hit wonder track, and I'd agree there... wonder what the hell happened to them, they weren't standard one hit wonder cheese.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Antarctic Monkeys - tho I hear their tribute band are doing quite well

 

[Squiggsy]

The PopGuns??!! Blimey - takes me back.

They supported the band I was in (Almost Charlotte) at the Richmond (now Pressure Point) in 1989.

By dint of this we should have been MASSIVE! Could have put loads of money into the Albion then.....

 

[Strike]

Republica
New Radicals
Lens
Sunscreem
Wildchild (RIP)

 

[Juan Albion]

The Smirks
Energy Orchard

 

[REDLAND]

The Wedding Present

 

[FamilyGuy]

The Men they Couldnt Hang

What he said....and...

Secret Affair

 

[Trufflehound]

House of Love rumoured to be getting back together.

The House of Love ARE back together: http://www.thehouseoflove.co.uk/

Best band of the late 80s.

Good calls on the Chameleons, Graham Parker & the Rumour (one of the best live acts ever), and the Red Guitars.

To which I add:

The Only Ones - wrote some awesomely beautiful songs that should have been massive hits.

The Wild Swans - classic Liverpool band who split up after one single (though they did reform a few years later) when their contemporaries Echo & the Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes were becoming huge.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Saw Doctors - really great, fun live act

 

[Seagull over NZ]

My Life Story - superb album, never heard them again. Saw them live in Brighton and they were awesome.

 

[Gwylan]

Doctors of Madness. Excellent band from the mid-70s who seemed to have no other fans apart from Attila and me.

I remember us going to see them at the Marquee, thinking there might be half-a-dozen people there and finding it was packed out as Dave Vanian from the Damned had just joined them .

I also liked the Dandies, a quirky sub-Bowie Brighton band, who got blown away by the punk wave in 1977.

I liked loads of weird German electronic bands as well but probably the idea that they should have been big is not shared by any other sentient being.

 

[El Presidente]

The House of Love ARE back together: http://www.thehouseoflove.co.uk/



The Only Ones - wrote some awesomely beautiful songs that should have been massive hits.

Could have been huge but Peter Perrett developed a love of smack and went the way of his hero Syd Barrett

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Only ever heard their one hit wonder track, and I'd agree there... wonder what the hell happened to them, they weren't standard one hit wonder cheese.

Inside was a fantastic track and they should have pushed on from there.....Trying to find out what happened to them. Apparently their lead singer is now in Genesis.

 

[tinx]

symposium.

on the brink of mega-stardom when they split up...

BLimey I loved what I heard of symposium, Still got a few of their 7 inches at home.

My personal fav band that never made it very far but shoudl have was a band called Jack

three singles one album an awesome set at Reading one year and then nothing.

 

[Rougvie]

The Wedding Present

YES.

Oh, and ALFIE.

 

[Jesus Gul]

FLOWERED UP

 

[Row Z Creased Shirt]

TSoul Asylum, had the one big hit over here (Runaway Train) saw them support Guns 'n' Roses and very nearly stole the show. Although they have been recording since 1981 and still going they never cracked it over here.

Never thought I'd see Soul Asylum mentioned on NSC, good call. A top band, check out Hang Time and And the Horse They Rode In On, quality albums. I saw them quite a bit at the end of the 80's and early 90's, really excellent band.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

MOWER and the amazing ALFIE

 

[Peteinblack]

B Movie

Comsat Angels

Xmal Deutschland

Wire

The Monochrome Set:

All criminally underrated and overlooked.

 

[withdeanwombat]

The Desperate Dan Band.

saw 'em in a pub in Worthing in the 80's,and after my gallon of ale I thought they were the dogs doodahs.

Are you still out there?