[Misc] What happened in the 90’s ?

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Skinny Puppy
70 Gwen Party
Blaine Reininger
Section 25
Foo fighters
Sparklehorse
Propaganda
For Against
The The
Smashing Pumpkins
Inspiral carpets
Manics
Curve
At the Drive in
The Cure
Bel Canto
NIN
Suede
Massive Attack
Tuxedomoon
Bjork

 

[clapham_gull]

Skinny Puppy
70 Gwen Party
Blaine Reininger
Section 25
Foo fighters
Sparklehorse
Propaganda
For Against
The The
Smashing Pumpkins
Inspiral carpets
Manics
Curve
At the Drive in
The Cure
Bel Canto
NIN
Suede
Massive Attack
Tuxedomoon
Bjork

Belly ? This Mortal Coil ?

Sugar ?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Or earlier please. Your eclectic and encyclopedic knowledge of music is a highlight of NSC.

I love to catch up with at some point and talk about the random occurrence that ended me up spending a day in John Peel's house in the 1990s.

1. The bin bags of cassettes tapes that arrived in his post.
2. The multiple copies of the same LP he never had time to listen to.
3. The depression the above caused him.
4. The Live Aid back stage pass randomly sitting on a shelf.
5. The Noel Edmonds story.
6. The offer of a caravanning holiday in North Wales from my colleague that he politely declined.
7. Why I ended up there in the first place because of those (his words) ##### at the ####.

You're on! Top tale. I have a hand written letter from Peel written in the mid 70s.

If you attend at the Amex, there is a small group of very discerning chaps who meet at a secret venue pre match. PM me

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Belly ? This Mortal Coil ?

Sugar ?

Wait, wait.

Wait.

 

[clapham_gull]

You're on! Top tale. I have a hand written letter from Peel written in the mid 70s.

If you attend at the Amex, there is a small group of very discerning chaps who meet at a secret venue pre match. PM me

I never had a note, but he tracked down the phone number (pre-mobile) of the landline in my halls in my halls of residence. After a number of attempts by him to get hold of him.

- Hello ?
> It's John
- John who ?
> John Peel
- John Peel ?
> Yes
- Brilliant, can we come and meet you at ####
> No they are all #####
- Eh ?
> Come to my home at Suffolk

And we did.

> Hello, would you like some soup, I made it myself....

A fascinating day.

 

[clapham_gull]

Wait, wait.

Wait.

Can I throw a really really random one in who I met as part of the John Peel experience.

The Tansads - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Live (but probably not on record) they did a sort of Levellers thing, but had a really anti Southern thread going through a number of songs.

Unfortunately usurped (and ironically) by the Levellers from Brighton

One of those bands who were doing first but got overtaken by somebody doing it better and everyone thought THEY were the imposters.

They bloody hated me.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Mogwai
Pink turns blue
Ozric Tentacles
Primal Scream (higher than the sun, only)
Adorable
Chapterhouse
Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations
Guns N Roses
Githead
Minimal Compact
Siouxie and the banshees
Richard Sinclair
Robert Wyatt
The Pet Shop Boys
Paralysed age

 

[clapham_gull]

Come on... Nirvana.

( or come as you are )

Lucky to see them live at probably the last iconic Reading. The one that Mudhoney got pelted with mud, because there was lots of it.

 

[The Clamp]

Pixies
Rollins Band
Soundgarden
Screaming Trees
Pearl Jam
They Might Be Giants
A House
Husker Du
Meat Puppets
Liz Phair
Lemonheads


The list could never end!

 

[Midget]

Summer 1993 when xfm were going for the London licence. I was still at school. Felt like proper adulting. Got drunk and missed the train back. Happy days.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Not much. 4 kids and everything else that goes with it. But then there was the play off final and Sussex v Warwickshire at Lords.

 

[PeterT]

Not much. 4 kids and everything else that goes with it. But then there was the play off final and Sussex v Warwickshire at Lords.

I was at that final!

I did a round the world backpacking trip in the 90s, liked it so much that I found a job that sent me around the world 70% of the time for 4 years staying in nice hotels and forgetting what the winter was like! And met my missus doing that job too!

Back in time for Hereford away though…..

 

[peterward]

I lost the noughties, with babies/young kids meaning we lost track of our lifelong interest in music, cinema etc.


The 90’s …. the trance genre of incredible music

The Escape club main in Brighton, + Zap.

Sasha/Digweed Northern Exposure at the Paradox. Wow!

Shoreham Power Station, old Sainsburys London Road, Ovingdean after the clubs.

Sterns in Ferring.

Further afield, Club UK Wandsworth, Leisure Lounge Holborn, God's Kitchen, Birmingham.

What a time to be young and alive, Paul Oakenfold Perfecto heyday!

 

[The Clamp]

View attachment 179011

My first Reading. Soundgarden pulled out though. Absolutely gutted.

 

[portlock seagull]

It was my coming of age decade really. I suffered poor health for much of it, but masked and pushed through as you do aided by alcohol often as not. I also almost died at the start of so I guess everything’s been a fortunate bonus since!

I remember seismic world events starting with the Gulf War, seeing friends go off to war, and then the break up of Yugoslavia and sadness and brutality of the Balkans Wars that erupted and our collective failure in the West to prevent ethnic massacres in mainland Europe once again. I was quite affected by this, and followed intensely because of my interest in WW1 and 2. Elsewhere the chaos and near civil war in Russia as a drunken Yeltsin struggled to maintain order. Here, Maggies reign ended and I’d known no other PM really in my lifetime up until then so it was a bit strange at first. In France, Mitterrand long reign also ended and I was living there when it happened and saw first hand on the streets of Paris. Akin to when Labour came to power here in 97 which was an exciting moment similarly.

Throughout the 90s my life was dominated though by one thing. The Albion, and especially the war years. Every weekend and most of the time inbetween! The strongest and most powerful sense of community I’ve ever experienced before or since.

Then there was the eclipse, which I was on a hillside in Normandy to witness and vividly recall how strange such natural phenomena is. And gazing at Hale-Bopp comet above the South Downs. Both awesome to see.

Music - it was dance and rave for me mostly, I was a fully paid up member of the MADchester scene! Cool Britannia passed me by really, I was never that fussed about Oasis, Suede, Blur and the rest especially. Compared to the 70s and 80s it was a poor decade IMO.

Remember right towards the end of it in 98 or 99, a friend at work one day said “here use this thing. It’s called Google and you can find loads of stuff on it…”

Finally, I feel lucky to have seen much of the natural world as it once was back then because in 30 years since everything has changed dramatically and not in a good way obviously. We are all living through an era of mass extinction beyond question, and much of what was once common is now rare. A side from litter. I hate litter and the literal tossers who cause so much damage to wildlife by their selfishness.

 

[clapham_gull]

Pixies
Rollins Band
Soundgarden
Screaming Trees
Pearl Jam
They Might Be Giants
A House
Husker Du
Meat Puppets
Liz Phair
Lemonheads


The list could never end!

Pixies for f#### sake.

Wife's favourite band from that era. Missed tickets at the Round House a few year ago.

> Where else are they playing ?
- Nowhere in Europe love, they are only doing these places in North America and....

Next thing I know I'm on a plane to Vancouver to see a f***ing band !

Then announced they were doing Alexandra Palace.

And I bough the f##### tickets....

.. in Vancouver !!!!!!

 

[The Clamp]

Pixies for f#### sake.

Wife's favourite band from that era. Missed tickets at the Round House a few year ago.

> Where else are they playing ?
- Nowhere in Europe love, they are only doing these places in North America and....

Next thing I know I'm on a plane to Vancouver to see a f***ing band !

Then announced they were doing Alexandra Palace.

And I bough the f##### tickets....

.. in Vancouver !!!!!!

Ha! They are playing with LCD Soundsystem in London soon. I have tickets. Two of my favourite bands/musicians. Seen them both a few times.

If that makes you feel better?

 

[clapham_gull]

Music - it was dance and rave for me mostly, I was a fully paid up member of the MADchester scene! Cool Britannia passed me by really, I was never that fussed about Oasis, Suede, Blur and the rest especially. Compared to the 70s and 80s it was a poor decade IMO.

Suede had a cracking first couple of singles though. I was in Manchester and they were very much part of the mix.

I was never into the rave scene, because the danceable indie scene was immense. There was a legendary club called "Legends" which mixed new indie with basically anything. Pixies onto Paperback Writer, Hendrix followed by Suede, followed by the Stone Roses.

Rolled out in the early hours, stopped at the all night garage for invariable munchies later.

Manchester was incredible at that time. It wasn't just new stuff it was a music education. Joy Division interlaced with the Stones, The Pixies interlaced with Iggy Pop.

It was relentless.

Came to London and worked in Camden. The "Good Mixer", the manufactured Brit Pop scene, the awfulness of Oasis and Pulp. The horrific new lad culture that spawned the likes of Russell Brand. Don't start me on Tim Lovejoy and Jamie Oliver.

Bag of shite

Didn't help that one of first jobs was managing the tape library of the German version of MTV's VH1. The job was easily the funniest that I have ever had but I was surrounded by a "mix" of invented indie, derivative Carnaby Street Austin Powers nonsense and easy listening mullet rock from a newly reunified Germany. Nena's 99 Luftballons on repeat acted as a short term paracetamol.

I rarely listen to music these days and would struggle to name anybody relevant from the last 20 years.

 

[clapham_gull]

View attachment 179011

I was there. Brilliant.

An early Simon Day of the Fast Show doing Tommy Cockles, I think I was the only one laughing although I was in my twenties.

Lew Grade? rolled a mint imperial across the stage..... 70s tv education watching Dennis Norden.

Bill Bailey in his original double act the Rubber Bishops. Eddie Izzard went down like a bomb, few years later stadium tours.

I got caught in the Nirvana mosh after stupidly going front row to watch Nick Cave.

Great memories. Thank you. I remember it like yesterday.

Manics knocked out a steward, L7 threw a tampon. Mudhoney got covered in mud. Suede as the new bright things packed but absolutely appalling live.