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That comment reminds me of Manda Rin from bis. That was much later in the decade.
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That comment reminds me of Manda Rin from bis. That was much later in the decade.
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L7 weren't really a riot Grrl band though.
Nor were Babes In Toyland, but I will use this as an excuse to say that they once turned up at my birthday party and I got a snog of Kat Bjelland...
...she also told me that if I played any of their songs while they were in the club she'd rip my bollocks off.
Nice girl!
I have to say she looked better in real life than in this video...
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tinycowboy
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We'll need either a Chemikal Underground thread, or a more generic Scottish indie music thread - I'll be happy to comment on either/both....
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Have you seen this?
http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/Rants/music%20that%20time%20forgot.htm
Great times.
tinycowboy
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Wow! Great link. That page has got almost the whole list of bands whose 7" singles I put on sale on eBay a couple of weeks ago. Most never sold. I even mentioned Nooney on my description of Helen Love, hoping to rope in some CCFC fans into parting with their cash. No luck. Not selling my Secret Vampire Soundtrack 7" though.
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I quite liked Bikini Kill.
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I still remember their first appearance on TOTP as an unsigned band.
My first though was "it seems wrong, but I would".
I'm still not quite sure why it seemed wrong...
Great Band:
Babes in Toyland Handsome Gretel - YouTube
Filthy lyrics on this song too:
I know you're feeling bad you f***ing bitch you cunthole bitch
...My name is Gretel yeah
I've got a crotch that talks
And talks to all their cocks
It's been 12 city blocks you f***ing bitch
...I vacuumed out my head
Jumping from bed to bed my name is Gretel
...I've got a sloppy slot
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Lovely!
Goldstone Rapper
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I never thought NSC's pages would be covering the music of bis and Helen Love!
I must say, The Secret Vampire Soundtrack was pivotal in my teens. The sleeve notes, the sloganeering, sense of fun, child-like quality, imagery, music and personal touch (being able to write to the band's home address and get a reply from the lead singer) got me heavily into reading and writing fanzines, going to gigs and writing to like-minded fans across the country. Great times.
Flex Your Head
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Aahh, Helen Love tweeted when Cardiff signed Nooney and I replied. When she re-tweeted my comment I was soooo chuffed; probably way more than was appropriate for a man my age.
Flex Your Head
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I used to contribute to Rigsby and Zonked, and whilst I didn't have any input to Tadpole, I knew Darren who was a top bloke. Did a single edition of my own zine - Nappysack - it's amazing how much effort it takes to put together 36 pages!
I'm guessing your username is a play on Los Crudos, the awesome Latino hardcore band from Chicago? Marvellous stuff.
I have a compilation of Brighton's own vaguely riot grrrl band The Blue Minkies coming out in the new year. 37 tracks for a fiver or less. Yes indeed.
fataddick
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Absolutely love Riot Grrrl. Indeed, it's the reason I live in Brighton. (First visited on a minibus that the Rough Trade shop in Covent Garden ran to a Huggy Bear/Bikini Kill gig at the Pavilion Theatre. A couple of weeks later i got mugged two days in a row and thought f*** this I'm moving out of London. That place Brighton I went to that gig in seemed nice. Still here 20 years on.) Karen Ablaze, who wrote the main riot grrrl fanzine Ablaze! and who I spent much of the gig drunkenly blathering at, gave a talk in Brighton a week or two back but I only found out the day after grrr. Riot grrl is coming back - Kate Nash has taken it up and the increasingly popularity of roller derby (with a similar third wave feminist ethic) will usher in a new era oh yes. Agree with all the Helen Love love too - 'Radio Hits 3' is what I listen to every rowing machine session, just wish they'd bloody tour.
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I remember Helen Love failing to play a gig because of pre-gig nerves and just sitting on the edge of the stage chatting to fans instead!
This thread prompted me to listen to the 'We Love You' EP and Radio Hits for the first time in years. Thank you all.
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fataddick
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If her Twitter is to be believed Helen Love is releasing a new single early next year. Called 'We Are The Pipettes'. She really hates the Pipettes. My mate Julia (who fronts my favourite band The Indelicates) was part of the original Pipettes line-up, so I don't know whether I will be offended or love it. Suspect the latter.
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tinycowboy
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I love The Pipettes, but I also love Helen Love, so I'm not sure where I stand in this debate...I also love fanzines and all the little bits of paper that used to fall out when you bought a 7" single and emptied out the contents. I'm obviously getting a little sentimental in my old age. Looking forward to the next semi-obscure music thread on NSC with my fellow Albion fans - I'm generalising, but surely NSC is more musically literate than most other football club forums. Always happy to discuss C86, Sarah records, DIY indie, Riot Grrrl, and plenty of others. Not landfill indie though...
tinycowboy
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Which fanzines? Was watching Terry Christian on "Pointless Celebrities" and thought about Huggy Bear on The Word - I blame this thread!
Any old fans out there of "Turn It Up" with Jem Stone on Radio Sussex on a Sunday evening? Jem's quite prolific on Twitter now. I remember speaking to Natasha Kaplinsky when I rang up to enter the quiz. Where did it go wrong for her? After Jem was Barry Johnston and his "Take Five" quiz. Sounded a lot like Alan Partridge.