#101

Ugly As They Wanna Be was one heck of an EP.

#102

I imagine that pub banter greebo indie like Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Pop Will Eat Itself etc was massive then too?

#103

It went in phases

Neds and the Wonderstuff were very popular when I first started going at 16, then quickly supplanted by grunge when that arrived, which in turn got largely replaced by Brit pop

I was never into greebo though, was into rock then straight into grunge

#104

Greatest indie disco moment was at the gas club in London’s glamorous west end on a Wednesday night. Chesney Hawkes turned up for a bit, then word go round that JamesDean Bradfield was in a booth with both of Shampoo

#105

In 2004 I had a housemate whose no 1 all time favourite band was the Wonder Stuff and he would evangelise about them like he was a missionary. Really nice guy, this was his one fatal flaw.

#106

They seem to be one of those bands that people stay devoted to

#107

He was slightly too young for that too, which was the extra weird thing. Like he’d seen them on the telly when he was 9 or 10 or so and been impressed and that was it.

#108

They did that cover of Dizzy with vic Reeves. Wonder if that grabbed him

#109

Wearing my new slipknot tee, baggy jeans with accompanying chain, off on my way with a mate to the local metal night we have heard about, but had never made it to. Are drunk and buzzing aged 15. Get my head kicked in by a skinhead on the way and we never make it there. Ever! The following weekend it was all closed down due to persistent trouble. Nooooooo!

#110

I went to one of those shiiine on day festival things a few years ago (free ticket), and miles hunt did a solo acoustic set mid afternoon, to at best a hundred people, some of whom were devoted, There was a man in front of me singing along but also sort of acting out all the lyrics at the same time.

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#111

Had a wonderstuff short sleeve over a pwei long sleeve too I think.

#112

Do you think he bought all his clothes in 1992, or does he regularly replace them.

I had a co-worker in the late 2000s who seemed to have done that, but with jewel tone suits and blouses and a bubble perm.

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#113

Reply upthread reminded me of going to a gig in a pub we’d regularly go to aged 14-18 and one night there was a bouncer. I of course had no ID, and he asked if there was anyone inside who’d vouch for me… Solid system that mate

#114

Don’t kid yourself. In 98/99 they’re still playing Wonderwall & Cigarettes & Alcohol

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#115

Was the acting out man building all his problems to the size of a cow?

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#116

I had a conversation along those lines with my friend on my way home, as there was a lot of t-shirts on display that day of bands that, with the best will in the world, were unlikely to be able to manufacture or sell any t-shirts after the early nineties. I think we concluded that they were probably bought at the time but saved ‘for best’.

#117

Oh yeah, every time I played guitar in a band back then, I’d come back in another band later and play bass on Oasis covers.

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#118

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread before bed.

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#119

Remember those T-shirt catalogues you used to get inside music mags where they’d frantically try to cover every base, so you’d get like Celtic Frost shirts next to tie dyed Carter USM ones

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#120

Or sold on eBay 20 years later after their partners finally persuaded them to get rid of them, presumably