#2

All local support bands.

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#3

Why not? Could be her favourite band

#4

Just don’t think it’s to her tastes

#5

Violent Delight

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#6

That’s a shame. How about Cajun Dance Party? Reckon she’d like them?

#7

Too many from yesteryear and current. From the top of my head:

Yesteryear: Madder Rose, Velocity Girl, Black Tambourine, Galaxie 500 and Tsunami.

Current: Jen Cloher, Desperate Journalist, Camp Cope and Petal.

Just realized that nearly all my list are female fronted bands and artists.

#8

I saw the Libertines first on the bill at the Hope & Anchor in Islington once.

Erm… Perhaps that proves your point.

#9

I think she wouldn’t mind it, but wouldn’t put it on in the car

#10

Please explain

#11

Just my own observations on my music tastes. I guess they haven’t changed over 20 years. My go to genre is female fronted indie rock.

#12

I think you may have the wrong thread my friend

#13

FOTL. Too good for the masses

#14

Excellent Yesteryear choices :slight_smile: …but the the thread is explainably unsuccessful artists - rather than unexplainedly unsuccesful artists…
Madder Rose did headline the second stage at Reading 94 - somewhat succesful, but agreed should have been much bigger
Galaxie 500 definitely have Cult appeal - I got about 9 compliments on my Galaxie 500 t-shirt at the Cure one-dayer at Hyde Park recently - much to the bafflement of my friends…
I enjoyed revisiting Simpatico for the first time in 20 years or so the other week

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#15

Yep. I read the title of the thread wrong.

#16

I love Simpatico. I remember buying it via mail from a record shop called Beat Route in 1994. That was the long summer when I finished my A’Levels and was waiting for uni. That Velocity Girl album was one of the soundtracks to my summer.

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#17

btw…worth checking out Snail Mail - Lush if you are yet to…its not a perfect album but has some incredible highlights - Pristine & Stick are probably 2 of my favourie 3 tunes of the year. Its’ sonically right up your street of yearning female led fronted indie-rock and sounds very early 90s - meant very much as compliment

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#18

I saw them(/her?) a few months ago at The Oslo. Great band.

I very recent discovery and a band I’ve just seen earlier today are Linda Guilala (a band and not a solo artist). A female fronted Spanish shoegazing band. Their album Psiconáutica could easily fit amongst my Lush, Black Tambourine albums from the 90s. They’re worth a listen.

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#19

Any great esoteric 90s bands that you know that may be under the radar for me and others?

For oldies like me the internet wasn’t around back then and I may have missed a few gems.

#20

Oh cool - good to know they were already on your radar. I hope to see them live one of these days. Thanks for that tip - will certainly check out. Actually a spanish band are near the top of my picks of the year - its more post-punk meets shoegaze and quite derivative but very strong tunes - Puput - Purga.

#21

Fuzzy had a self-titled record on Seed records (Madder Rose’s label) and its of a similar bent - the single Flashlight in particular is very good. Also Magnapop’s - Slowly, Slowly from the Hot Boxing LP was a great single - slightly grungier.

Other obscure- bands of the era (avoiding my favourite genre shoegaze as thankfully there aren’t many artists now that haven’t been given their rightful acclaim - the Pitchfork top 50 shoegaze LPs covers most of them):
…not really of the same ilk but Submarine (I was talking about them on another thread) had some great moments, Lotion (another on Seed Records and I saw them play a sublime gig with Madder Rose - Full Isaac is one of my favourite LPs - slightly more emo-ish and rocky). I also found Smudge to be very overlooked but that’s Lemonheads-y slacker pop from down under (in fact Lemonheads covered a few of their tracks like Outdoor Life, Divan etc). On a slow-core tip like Galaxie 500’s depressed cousins Codeine are great. From the early 00s Trespassers William are well worth digging into if you are yet to. Female fronted dreamy, slow loveliness. Oh yes and just remembered Rose Chronicles - I’d definitely file much of that under early 90s esoterica…awaiting eternity was their college radio hit and oft played on 120 minutes - probably their peak but the whole LP ‘Shiver’ is strong.