bands who got record deals and were never heard from again (1 Viewer)

[nlgbbbblth]

unfortunate.

of the five LPs they've done, my least favourite is the first one.

Mention `The Frank & Walters' and you'll get...
"I hate that fuckin' "After All" song."

Thats how they'll be remembered even though their new album is deadly

 

[nlgbbbblth]

how about microdisney?

signed to Rough Trade in 1984 then Virgin in 1987. Two LPs for Branson and they broke up.
one of the best ever.

 

[Flux]

One of the funniest things of working in HP was the January "Bands for 2007" feature... ah God, like lining up suckers against a wall so it was...

Yeah, thanks for the dreaded vote of confidence!

 

[coast to coast]

Yeah I remember Melaton being a big deal at the time. Thought they were a good band.


The Blew

Tha Marbles

I like Melaton's debut. I remember talking to someone about them... like the lead guy went off and did his own thing. Can't remember details. But their free two song demo was good. A bit heavily Jeff Buckley influenced but good none the less.

And for some reason that Marbles song Something In My Eye is still stuck in my head all these years later...

 

[rettucs]

Cry Before Dawn
The Fountainhead
The Cranberries
Flex and the Fast Weather (won some battle of the bands on 2fm and won a prestigious support slot with Chris de Burgh in the RDS. I was there. I was 10.)
Chris de Burgh

There was a band whose name slips my mind. They were a one-hit wonder, the song was called 'You Will Fall' and was released for the Irish Anti-Apartheid movement at the time. A good enough tune too. Pick Botha was on the cover of the 7"

Microdisney were great
Bloo in Heaven
Black Velvet Band
What was the name of that Aslan spin-off band that formed when Christy was off going mad on drugs?
The Pale
Power of Dreams (yeahhhhhhhh!!! they were from up my way they were!)
Mexican Pets (money, women and fame ruined them)
The Golden Horde

The Adventures (nordie version)
The Adventures (other version)
Ghost of an American Airman
Fergal Sharkey

anyone remember the Larks in the Parks?

 

[Dr Winston Umbogo]

scheer

 

[piratio]

whatever happened to big generator?

I have actually designed a CD cover for Big Generator... to my shame... I'll see if I can root it out..

 

[sparse]

Backwater....sorry Barry.
The Gurriers
Can we include The Thrills or JJ72?



Mesner are on a come back after 8 years or something, found them on myspace the other day releasing an album soon.

 

[Pantone247]

The Cranberries

to be fair you couldn't say they were "never heard from again"

She has an album out this year, it's expected to sell "fucking bucket loads" in Italy, they're mad for her wailing ways out there

 

[Stereobaby]

JJ72 - too right


What was the name of that band of little scum bag buskers who released a single.

Was it an Oasis cover or a Beatle cover?


Little Devils or something like that.

Anyway shite

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

yeah. good for him. If it were me, I'd be getting into punch-ups with well know celebrities. take THAT David Boreanaz!

He'd kill ya dead though, man.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

The Ultra Montanes half fall into this thread. Although they're still going.

New single out.
Horrifying.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

and as someone mentioned watercress i saw that willfully "eccentric" nordie lad Duke Special on the LLS lastnight and WTF is the story with him? sounds like keane unplugged with the singer from placebo "emoting" over it

Awesome slags.
He's not that bad, though.
Not Placebo bad.
Although you are convincing me

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

At least they were decent enough to looked morotofied at collecting an award they in no way desevered and was probably bought for them by the record company who are going to now "snap them up"

They were in Pravda the next night quaffing champagne, getting the DJ to play their songs and backslapping, though.

 

[billygannon]

THE HITCHERS.

oh man, they had at least one brilliant song.

They've got one about Gordon Strachan, don't they?

As for Micordisney, Sean O'Hagan has done okay for himself hasn't he?

How about Joyrider? Six?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Future Kings of Spain

New album coming out!

 

[therealjohnny]

He's not that bad, though.

ah he is

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

ah he is

Yeah, I know.

 

[hermie]

Pelvis was Guggi's (the reknowned artist and phoney ) little brothers band

You may remember him from such album covers as U2s Boy and U2s War

pelvis were actually quite good.i used to be into them in my early teens,it's amazing why record companies sign bands like that then don't get behind them in any way whatsoever.

The bass player in my old band's brother was in Puppy Love Bomb who were signed to Rough Trade.whoever fuckin heard of them?!?

 

[hermie]

Most of these bands probably had a bloody good time blowing the record company's money for two or three years so I wouldn't knock it.

well if Albini's manifesto is anything to go by these bands often make a loss from their flirt with the corporate music industry.or at best making about as much money as you would working in spar.