[Music] Obscure 80s indy music

[AmexRuislip]

Here's some 80s scottish tat for you

Not planning on going norf of the border soon

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Here's some 80s scottish tat for you, featuring the Outstanding and much missed Billy McKenzie. Great to see the hibernian audience having such fun :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRyt1ApyVKc

And if that didn't send the blood racing through you shrivelled old Scottish body, try this loveliness:

https://youtu.be/1olbqFpiJ6Y

If you thought Billy McKenzie was part of the 80s answer then you've not understood the 80s problem shirley

 

[Weststander]

Not obscure as the others above, but Liz Fraser’s vocals alone make these worth including:

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Has there been vocals like McKenzie’s before or since? What a talent. What a waste.

Tragic. Killed himself after his father died, wasn't it?

I shall now post some classic 80s Billy McKenzie:

https://youtu.be/eDbXbuqPqmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUOqjJgMPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbP7NMm5Jm8

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Not planning on going norf of the border soon

Is that a euphemism

 

[Stat Brother]

Ok I'll play

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

OK, back on track with more obscure 80s indy music. I saw this line up in the early 80s in Vancouver. The original singer (on here) is English. I absolutely love Moev. Madeline (the singer) wenty on to form Family Plot with her husband.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CUoImkz9w

Family plot below from 2.30. Brilliant vid. Pretty sure I saw Family Plot and Art Bergman at that festival!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggbZCaCJ5Tc

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Some more obscure American niceties

Bitch Magnet



Basto

 

[Blazing Apostle]

White and Torch and Lover Speaks xxx

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Oh and not all 80s Vancouver music was underproduced....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCFThqmQaI

I saw them a few years earlier when they were more....restrained. Note the total lack of tattoos and camera ****ing phones.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I missed these completely at the time (86 to 93 are my wilderness years). My little brother introduced me. As a lifelong batchelor, he perhaps was hinting at something? I shall never ask him. Anyway this is from the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWGh7UBhgw

 

[boik]

Another band we used to follow round the pubs of South and West London were Sad Among Strangers. Had a decent pub following but no commercial success.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Lawnchairs are everywhere....

 

[Trelford Mills Guide Dog]

Ok I'll play

My favourite. Played Concorde 2 last Friday

https://youtu.be/Xef60FAN6Vk

 

[Flex Your Head]

I saw Actifed play Brighton a couple of times and thought they were ace - back in the days when goth was known as posi-punk or whatever. They released a couple of 12" EPs which I played to death. Still sound decent enough now...

 

[Simgull]

Absolutely loved these chaps first 3 or 4 singles.
Great gig at Sussex university.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F0UR3AMRDA


Then they had a one hit wonder with a cover of in the country and it all went a bit wonky.

Saw the Farmers Boys many times - part of the ‘Norwich scene’ along with The Higsons. Lead singer used to have a Casio organ on an ironing board. I also have their giveaway postcard somewhere - The Joy of Cress - featuring several cress action shots if I remember correctly