Indietracks Festival / all things C86 and indiepop!

[tinycowboy]

Your chance to get your name in print, linked with some C86 heroes and heroines, depending on how much you are willing to spend:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/826456098/c86-and-all-that-indie-1983-86-a-history

I'm tempted by a £40 package - I'd get my hands on the much-discussed Lawrence and the Comfortable Society track then....

 

[Flex Your Head]

Well, our season was a lot worse than yours, although you'd never guess from looking on here.

I like this at the moment:

I like that, so I looked out some other stuff by them. This bizarre little thing couldn't be (much) further removed!



Oops. I've just realised it's not the same band at all, but the bloke from the band in Heaven directed the video.

 

[Flex Your Head]

Damn!

I also like these at the moment, because they look and sound like a million other no hope bands and could have existed at any time during the last 30 years. A dying breed:

I know I'm playing catch up, but that is bloody great.

 

[Flex Your Head]

Oh yeah, The Close Lobsters have just released some new stuff. I kinda like it on first listen.

 

[Staly]

Has a band ever releases a btter trio of albums than Wire's first three?

Probably not. Map Reference is probably in my all time top 10 (and there's a good theme to revitalise this thread).

 

[Staly]

Andy - my Come Again buddy - sent me a copy of the album last year, but it never really did that much for me. That video though is really bloody great I shall have to listen again on my commute tomorrow.

Yes it's a bit of a slow burner, their album. Also it wrong footed me a bit as I think I was sort of expecting a riot grrrl thing when in fact it's much more 90s US indie (Tsunami perhaps?).

 

[Staly]

Oh yeah, The Close Lobsters have just released some new stuff. I kinda like it on first listen.

It's got that Close Lobsters guitar sound, what more do you need? His voice is a bit shot though.

 

[Flex Your Head]

Probably not. Map Reference is probably in my all time top 10 (and there's a good theme to revitalise this thread).

You think we should all list our personal Top 10s? Songs. Singles. LPs. Bands.

Woooah! Awesome idea, but almost impossible, surely? Mine change every week, every day... every hour sometimes.

Still, we could give it a go...

 

[Staly]

You think we should all list our personal Top 10s? Songs. Singles. LPs. Bands.

Woooah! Awesome idea, but almost impossible, surely? Mine change every week, every day... every hour sometimes.

Still, we could give it a go...

Yes, but there's always a core of stuff you keep going back to. Although I agree, I could do a top 50 every week and a lot of it would be different each time.

 

[Staly]

Anyway, it could be like High Fidelity. Top 10 bands from Birmingham, top 10 songs about heroin, top 10 bucolic English sounds etc.

 

[Staly]

Top 10 Lawrence & The Comfortable Society songs

 

[hans kraay fan club]

[MENTION=2040]Staly[/MENTION] is right - we have to work to THEMES. 'Top 10 songs' is impossible. Mine would change all the time. Fantastic Day by Haircut 100 would be about my only constant

My suggestion for the first theme (because its so lovely and summery outside ) is SUMMER. Songs ABOUT summer. Songs that REMIND you of summer. Songs perfect for a festival Indie stage on a balmy summer evening (fey girly vocal and jangly guitars optional...)

 

[Staly]

I saw the sun was shining, still I stayed inside but never again.



So I'll go out and get a disappointing sandwich for lunch.

 

[Staly]

Although before I go, this has to be the ultimate Summer song:



Ba bababa ba ba ba ba ba

 

[Flex Your Head]

Both of those are absolute summer / sunny classics. I'll have a think...

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Although before I go, this has to be the ultimate Summer song:



Ba bababa ba ba ba ba ba

Superb

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Standard HKFC twee effort...

 

[Staly]

I'll raise you this:



The best band on Kitchenware. Recently dissed by Adam Buxton on Danny Baker's Rocking Decades.

 

[Staly]

And to complete my quartet of utter classics, this little gem:

 

[tinycowboy]

And to complete my quartet of utter classics, this little gem:

Unbelievable sexual tension in that video.