Bug Powder Dust - Just brilliant. Nigh on perfection.
Cheers for the posts - some entertaining reading. 🙂
I was 25, living near Peterborough, working for an insurance company, spending my weekends lapping Rutland Water on a Scott Impulse.
Music wise, can't find anything actually from that year. But I was in my hair metal pomp at the time.... 😳
Re Bomb the Bass - Tim Simenon was also an early idol for me being of similar mixed race and British. Into the Dragon was massive for me back then. Happy days 🙂
it's been a brilliant day of music working from home today.
I was 16. Went to my first gig in London (Smashing Pumpkins at the Astoria). Spent every friday night drinking snakebite and black at the Hatfield forum. And gave myself a blood clot on the brain cycling home a little merry. I was not allowed to go and see Neds Atomic Dustbin (they havent been played today) the week I got out of hospital.
Good times.
Dundee University studying Environmental Science. We had a flat of 11 of us 😯
Blur - Parklife, REM - Monster, The Cranberries, Crash Test Dummies, Oasis - Definitely Maybe etc.
I've ended up in Edinburgh as an environmental consultant...so not a huge leap, but it's all been fun!
25 here too, second year of teaching and first proper MTB, from Biketreks - Orange C16.
Pavement, Grant Lee Buffalo, Teenage Fanclub etc. Jeff Buckley's Grace was a huge album.
Mark n Lard on R1 while I marked books in the evenings. Rock Climbing dominated my efforts.
Mum died in September so I saved, jacked work and beggared off to Canada and US for 6 months - completely missed 'Definitely Maybe'. Realised my GF was 'the one', just in time.
A very important year for me, with a soundtrack that still sounds great.
I was 14, but really starting to get into music. I've loved today. Grace was a big album for me too - still is, in fact. Was The Bends really 94!? They've just played the first track from the Ride album too - Midnight Medicine or something. Superb. I think my physics teacher knew someone in Gene and managed to get my Olympian album signed. Winner.
Gene
Olympian
Move in with me now! 😀
Have you got wood?
I was 18, first year at uni, first time I'd really left Norfolk. Lost my virginity (finally) got in to indie and dance after teenage years only listening to Queen and GnR. I may have taken some drugs.
Still revert to that music now more than anything in the 20 years after. Still love an indie disco.
Have you got wood?
😆
Didn't get to listen too much to the radio today, mainly because of having a gurt big compressor running.
Nice hearing Paul Hartnoll though.
In 1994 I was fresh out of college and doing a mixture of freelance art-tech stuff, part time work in a prison and running an art gallery. I got asked to work with an artist at the Triplex Festival in Amsterdam - a big mix of art, performance, high-tech wizardry and a night of electronic music curated by HIA who happened to have their recording studio next door to my sculpture studio (luckily their 'recording' didn't involve microphones)
There wasn't really enough funds to pay for me to go over and work for the artist in question but a bit of wheeling and dealing saw me hired (along with my old ex-council transit) by HIA to drive all the various band's equipment over for the gig, effectively working my passage so that I could then work of the rest of the festival doing art stuff. So Orbital's, Autechre's, Hextactic's and various other people's gear was rammed into the back of my van and I followed their mini bus to the Harwich ferry.
Overnight on the ferry I ended up sitting with the Hartnoll brothers being entertained by the ferry's house band who were playing various MOR pop covers.
Paul started making requests - asking them to play the theme tune from Brazil. They politely refused, saying they don't really do requests and really they only do instrumental stuff latter in the night.
As he walked back to the table.... the band went into a superb, lengthy, prog improv cover of Brazil. We went nuts - Paul was making ornate paper doilies and draping them over the keyboards and mic stands to show his adoration.
Really interesting and lovely guys though. Heads well screwed on for people who were suddenly getting pretty big. They were in my transit on thursday night, they were going to be on concord on saturday afternoon.
Talking of getting things signed , in 94 I met snoop dogg& he signed my copy of doggystyle. At the time he was being described as a notorious ,dangerous person.
In fact he was THE most polite ,charming & respectful to ladies gangster rapper I have ever met. 🙂
What a great day of music! I was 19 living in Fulham with my best friend. We had a job which gave us a flat and a generous expenses budget. We made a go at eating at a different place every night, then head out. Lots of music, clubs and fun with ladies...and gents....Stand out gig was Primal Scream/parliament/funkadelic all nighter at Brixton academy. I think I danced for 12 solid hours! Loaded? Yes. Good time? Definitely.
Don't really remember to be honest. 94 would be the year I finished a toolmaking apprenticeship and spent a few months on the dole, did a couple of fessies and a few weeks playing gigs in Europe with my shit punk band (not going to call it something as grand as a tour). I was a hunt saboteur, doing foxhunts from Carlisle to Manchester. As you do.
Music-wise, the new wave of San Francisco / Berkeley punk and catching up on the old stuff.
Wasn't riding bikes that year but I did have an Suzuki RG500 on the never-never.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have envisioned myself dossing around on the Cantabrian coast at 42 but hopefully my 1994 self would not have been too disappointed.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any better - Tom Ravenscroft is on now!
I've been listening on/off all day, brought back a lot of happy memories for me.
'94 was a real high point for me, 16/17 and ripping around on a Raleigh Max and later a GT Timberline during my first period of MTB, shamefully I sold the GT for the price of a night on the piss by the end of the year and didn't get another one till 2005.
Anyway, first part-time job, taking home £300 a month, no bills, no responsibilities back when £2 a pint was an outrageous club price. First shag, first lads weekend away, first lads holiday, unlimited energy, 6th form collage when most of my mates were still in school made me think I was waaay more mature, end of Cold War.
I feel sorry for 16 year olds today, back then no adult wanted to work In a supermarket of an evening - they basically handed over the place to the 6th form of my school and we treated it like a youth club, they fed us and paid us £10 an hour to work 6 hours on a Sunday which was enough to go to the pub in style - nowadays the supermarkets seem to be staffed by middle aged people trying to make ends meet and they're paid £7.50 an hour and told to work Sundays. I'd be amazed if many school kids find part-time jobs these days, and if they do every pub wants to see ID for anyone who looks less than 90, like real ID, not a shady student union card from a 6th form college.
Great times.
95 was okay, but the cracks were starting to show in the relationship with my parents and I was unhappy a lot of the time by 96 thing took a serious turn to the shit, I've had periods of my life that were as happy and carefree as '94 - but they were short and usually based on denial.
In fact he was THE most polite ,charming & respectful to ladies gangster rapper I have ever met.
He's been with the same partner for many years.
I've always liked Snoop Dog, the story of him inviting a Welsh Giant Vegtable Grower backstage to discuss 'growing crops' always makes me laugh.
I only caught a bit of Lauren and Katy, but didn't hear Dubnobassformyheadman mentioned in this thread. Got to say, when I returned from Oz at the end of 94 it absolutely blew my head off. Still think it's one of the greatest albums ever, especially for a Romford boy.
1994 will always stick out as I was 14/15 and had just got into Nirvana before Kurt Cobains death 🙁 Also it was the year Ayrton Senna died so that was 2 of my heroes gone in the same year 😥
Liked Blur & Oasis, Prodigy, and other chart rubbish! Some that stick out are Chaka Demus & Pliers Twist & shout, Rednex cotton eye Joe, Aswad shine (due to a girl in my class with a really shiney forehead 😆 ) Was more into fishing back then but had a Raleigh Lizard that I rode everywhere on, i wanted a Kona but my paper round didn't pay enough.
Oh, I think I had a dedication from a mate played out on Mark and Lard's late night show that year too. No idea what it was though.
Where did you live? : same quiet rural Galloway town as I live now
What were you doing at the time? : Age 22, attending college wasting my life doing HND mech/electronic engineering 3-4 days a week and working 40hrs+ a week running THE only decent bar/pub in the town, putting on gigs/djs 3 nights of the week whilst supplementing my meagre income by providing a menu ordering system on thursday nights quiz night for all my loyal customers weekends "medicinal" needs whether that be acid/weed/quality hash/pink champagne/ecstasy and finally blue 10s for a Sunday afternoon comedown where I ran a "you bring it-we'll play it" session. Genuinely some of (if not the best) times of my life so far and we had a ****ing ball.
What were your albums of the year? : Christ knows without looking through my collection.....although it would include a fair deal of obscure techno amongst whatever else went plinky-plonk.
Would you have guessed then where you're at now? : I really didn't have any vision as to what was going to transpire week to week never mind to years in the future, nothing's changed 😉
I'd left a well paid but hateful job to start my own business and suddenly was poor. Was definately more oasis than blur & remember listen constantly to definately maybe whilst arranging funeral wreaths. Happy days
Now playing are doing JUNGLE
Fabio and Grooverider are having a chat
Just so you know
I was studying Ecology in Norwich. The rest is a blur.
