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I'm pretty sure they're still going strong.
I miss the Luminaire. Probably my favourite venue in London.
I said maybe.....
It's been a while since a 'post-rock' album did it for me, but the new Russian Circles album is pretty massive.
I wish Bleach would reform, bloody awesome band both live and studio, Killing Time is still one of my fave albums of all time.
Always interesting
Maybe a little over bright on the production but some nice sounds nonetheless
Agree completely about the premature demise of many inventive and interesting bands due to Britpop, which I couldn't stand. I was really into Ride back in the day; saw them live last year which was fantastic. I never gave Lush much attention at the time, but have really got into their first three albums over the last couple of years, and love the new EP. Slowdive is another; looking forward to hearing their new music.
Form the same era; I'm really enjoying Teenage Fanclub's new album, a real return to form.
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My old band Fenn played at Reading 93 ;-) We were about third band on the Friday afternoon in the Peel tent, so no big shakes. We'd supported Ride at a gig in Glasgow a wee bit before that too. I absolutely agree that Brit pop seemed to kill off a lot of interesting UK bands around at the time. A lot of bands were sitting somewhere between the classic American alt rock style (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, etc) and post-punk/C86 UK styles. Thinking of bands like Swervedriver and Bivoauc (who both played Reading 93). Next thing we knew it was feckin Elastica, Blur and Oasis - and the death of indie...
And as for Teenage Fanclub - I'm a long standing fan having been around and about Glasgow at the same time. Their new album doesn't really do much for me.
I think one thing I liked about the early 90s music scene was that bands were so creative, and coming up with music that really had meaning and atmosphere. Kind of reaching out into new territory as it were. For me, Britpop seemed like an annoying retreat into this laddish narrow kind of focus that I found pretty boring and predictable. I'll never be a massive fan of it, but as I said earlier, probably a bit unfair to blame it for everything, and there are a few things I can now feel a bit of nostalgia for. I was/am into some of the US alt rock stuff you mention also, and I would add to that some of the Boston bands that were on the go at the time - Pixies, Throwing Muses, Belly, Lemonheads, Juliana Hatfield and all that kind of stuff.
Amazing to be in a band at Reading 93 btw, wow!
@Magii you put it well. Yes the death of indie was a shame. It was a great period in music, a metling pot of influences, also people pushing boundaries with sound and guitar effects e.e MBV. It was also sad to see bands I liked such as the Boo Radleys and Verve go "britpop". The pity then was that record labels dropped any band that did not sound britpop, or that would not change, and the music press in cahoots creating new scences (after destroying the previous ones) to sell papers, backing britpop as a laddish, anti american movement, which to me was devoid of any musical merit or invention. Luke Haines's book 'Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall' is a great read about this period. Only a few could survived with credit, Teenage Fanclub being one, also the Manics. I always liked the american alt roack bands of the time, and did then get more into american alt rock/grunge/metal bands like helmet, dinosaur jr, melvins, soundgarden, janes addiction, then post rock etc