Blimey yes, I brought their first single!
Aye, I remember their song Why Did You Let My Kitten Die. Think I saw them supporting Ash or someone like that.
She'll be pleased that at least someone remembers! 🙂
My friends ex girlfriend used to go out with Rob The Bass Thing. Anyone here used to see him the Ship in Croydon?
Never a huge Wonderstuff fan due to Miles Hunt but shocked to find out that Rob Jones died so young.
Gilks is dead now too 😥
I was a huge wonderstuff fan
Loved Lush, but Kenickie were one of the most fun live bands I've ever seen. Serious case of the hots for the lovely Mis Laverne! Saw Elastica at The Fleece on their first tour, had to play two songs again for the encore, 'cos they only had enough written for a main set!
Really miss Curve, though, love that band. 🙁
Oh, and does anyone remember The Cardiacs? Mark and Stuart played one of theirs on 6Music this afternoon, as part of The Chain. Knew of them, but had never heard them before; bloody hell they were good! Sorry to hear their main man, Tim Smith, is pretty poorly, apparently.
Yay, Eat have some more admirers! 🙂
I knew the Levellers when they first got going in Brighton. They used to drive us to Salad from Atlantis/Blyth Power/Astronauts gigs in Charlies van. In fact all the "peace and love" went out the window the night we listened to Bruno vs Tyson on the radio as I watched all these hippies shadow boxing pissed on cider.
Glitch?
theotherjonv - it was a long time ago, put my last shift in on New years eve 2000, but if they remember Gary the bouncer then chances are I also served them a few snake bites while they stood at the bar counting their change 😉
The place is still going with Brad the DJ still there!
Marin - MemberMargin Walker do you know Marcus(bendy leg) or Fletch. Big travelling Neds fans back in the day. Used to go round to Stig's house, the origional bass player from Scorpio Rising who were an Alien Heat, for regular tea and biscuits.
PWEI are lacking Clint but saw them earlier in the year and they were O.K.
I remember Marcus. I reckon I saw Neds over 25 times. Got snowed in on their first Civic hall gig. Seeen em Leeds, Norwich, Rock City, London, Glasgow, newcastle - used to hitch everywhere. 🙂
Helped scorpio rising load their van at manchester when they supported Senseless things.
good times...
slept rough after gigs sooooo many times. Remembrer watchin CUD at Manchester international, then taxi'd to Boardwalk to watch Swervedriver who only came on at 11.15. Another class act. saw therapy in there with about 200 watching.
I met my Mrs at a Swervedriver gig in '94, got married 12 years later, merged CD collections about 2 years after that but only got rid of the doubles this summer!
Hopefully going to seen Therapy? next week!
Gilks is dead now too
MR Gilks! - very sad. top chap.
Margin Walker/Gravity Slave - swervedriver - now you're talking.
We must have been at some of the same gigs!
I also vaguely recall seeing alot of Mega City Four/Sensless Things.
i love "too much Kissing" if my memory serves me well!
Anyone mention Senser yet?
i love "too much Kissing" if my memory serves me well!
That was on 6 music a while back, made me dig out the vinyl.
Senseless Things at Harlow Square was one of my earliest gigs, loved my "pop kid" T shirt with a star on the front.
I still think the Poppies haven't got the recognition they deserve as musical pioneers. It took 15 years for the world to love MBV, how long until PWEI get their due?
I was at Halesowen college at the same time as Neds Atomic Dustbin and knew a couple of them to speak to. Went to their first gig with the Velvet Helicopters at the Barrel Organ in Brum.
Never went to see them again though... 😉
how long until PWEI get their due?
It'll be when Ich Bin Ein Auslander gets used in an ad and hipsters 'discover' them.
Speaking of the Poppies, while working as a guide I took out a couple from Brum that knew the Poppies, Stuffies and the other Brum band of the time ([i]Edit:[/i] Neds. D'oh). The lady half of the couple had been pursued by the Stuffie's bassist before they made it reasonably big, IIRC.
Hopefully going to seen Therapy? next week!
Saw them on the Troublegum anniversary tour last year.
[i]Ab-so-lutely[/i] ****ing brilliant.
All the "cool" kids liked Neds at school. I opted out and sat in the form room listening to Slayer 8)
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No Neds but twas a good mixed bag on this line-up, ahhh the memories!
I opted out and sat in the form room listening to Slayer
I bet you still had greasy long hair and baggy cargos though. 😉
HaHahaha. No, I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kinda guy. All the Neds fans I knew spent most of their time trying to look like Robert Smith of the Cure, strangely.
My mum was friends with the mother of Fuzz from PWEI...
Anyone mention Senser yet?
When they toured last year Kerstin was off being pregnant and they recruited my wife's friend Erika to replace her [iMMa being Erika's stage name / music project]
Senser were immense. I remember a particularly messy Glastonbury set in the trees - they just pitched up and set up and started playing, we happened to be walking past.
Saw them supporting Eat Static one night (Edwards No 8). That got messy.
Me and my mate won free tickets to reading in er 93 i think whilst at a Neds live recording for some radios how
I saw Neds in their heyday... at the Civic in Wolvo, right down the front, i must have lost a stone that night, . .exhausting trying to stay alive . . .lol
i was into the stuffies a bit, saw them numerous times, at wolves, leicester and brum, very good indeed.
of course then belatedly got into the wedding present with bizarro after hearing Brassneck on tv - awesome and still going good, saw them last week.
There was a band from Stourbridge called Fretblanket, they worked where i worked, whilst at college - they never really made it but they did a few albums
I used to work with a brother of a member of Fretblanket. We both had the misfortune of working in Discount Bike World in Sports Division Merry Hill. He was a mountain biker as well!
Fretblanket - a regular at the Old JBs (along with Panic Beach, Belch Pop Frenzy...all those bands that seemed to pop up on the free nights that were mostly the regulars from the other nights!)
For old JBs goers, there is a good page on fb
(To bring it back on topic, I was at the filming of the original KYTV video at JBs)
First saw neds at Wolverhampton civic hall in 93, was immense. Big stuffies, poppies, things fan as well. Saw kingmaker a few times, and therapy, senser, etc.
I think stuffies stand the test of time better than most of them but it did feel like a great time in music.
Saw neds' supporting wonderstuff at king georges hall, blackburn, thinking late 80's but not totally sure. 8 legged groove boys were immense, all i remember of neds is a tower of about 4 people sitting on each others shoulders swaying round the dance floor.
"I remember Marcus. I reckon I saw Neds over 25 times. Got snowed in on their first Civic hall gig. Seeen em Leeds, Norwich, Rock City, London, Glasgow, newcastle - used to hitch everywhere."
Probably met you at some point Marginwalker. I doubt if saying I had dreads and wore a stripey t-shirt and hitched around with my kit bag narrows it down though!
Just been offered VIP/backstage ticket to Neds Atomic Dustbin gig in Wolves on saturday, just one thing....who are they again?
Remembrer watchin CUD
even I've seen CUD live in the mid nineties
I even went to a Cocteau Twins gig 🙄
Oddly enough, Sean Keavney played Senser this morning on 6!
you had to pick your bar carefully not to get beaten up. Bottle of K cider anyone?
See you in the Purple Turtle...
Don't tell me your a P'boro boy Stoner? If so unreal. I used to throw vinyl on at The Shamrock
K cider! Rememeber the lemon alcopop? Green bootle.
For me the early 90s were acid and....ermm Acid Jazz
Don't tell me your a P'boro boy Stoner?
nah, the original one in Reading
http://www.purpleturtlebar.com/
c.mid 90s
My best mate was from Marlow. The Purple turtle had immense numbers of different bottles of beer and the wallpaper was gig flyers.
Got tickets for PWEI / Wonder Stuff / Jesus Jones in december. I saw the Stuffies and the Levellers recently, they've both still got it. Some of Miles Hunt's recent acoustic / solo / him and a girl (Erika Nockall) is prety good too.
jamj1974
Fuzz from PWEI
And me. Erika is Miles Hunt missus. I have met them both a few time and are really nice people.
Fuzz now drums for the Wonderstuff.
He also has a classic car business in Walsall and writes for classic car mags.
All the cool kids followed Fridge Death.
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Mr. Jesus Jones (Mike Edwards) used to appear quite regularly in MBUK in the mid-90's. I guess you could sort of call that 'journalism'.
Neds' are at Wolves Civic this Sat with the Frank & Walters and Cud.
Neds' are at Wolves Civic this Sat with the Frank & Walters and Cud.
And they were brilliant!
what a great thread, saw therapy back last year they were great.
i was always a massive wonderstuff fan, sad really as they could have been massive.
saw them about 4 years ago in bristol, think it was just miles and the lead guitar guy, it was quite a sad gig as miles was obviously doing it just for the cash, he was p*ssed off his head on red wine and was in a foul mood.
so them at beautiful days aswell, he had a face like a slapped arse.
never forget levellers headlining glastonbury (1993??) epic.
aaah the glory days....
