indie pop ⁽¹²⁾

So, we recently took a trip to a City in the UK I have never visited. I still want to go back and explore some more, but what I did see was a quite beautiful thing. We booked the trip up in March and my, the months just fly by! The day of the trip was overcast and generally rainy (typical!). So, in terms of seeing the 'gleaming spires' of Oxford, it just wasn't going to happen. Nonetheless a great…

What wasn't to like, an Indie Label band that churned out a hit! To be honest it made a change for a band that had been on an Independent Label to turn up trumps (they had a little help from major label RCA as well), nonetheless this little number hitting the highs for the band on the National UK Charts reaching #5 in the charts of the day and has been used all over the place in films and covers…

For all those people out there who were ever 'let down' by others, perhaps held someone on a 'pedestal' that couldn't have given a s**t about you, well this song might just be your anthem... Catch it at the youtube link here: 'You Ungrateful Bastard' Possibly one of the best 'un-requited' love songs ever made, the video to which is quite brilliant in that it uses 'pastiches' of previous music videos such as Bob Dylan 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', The Levi…

Hull Indie Scores, London 0 Hull 4. The Housemartins, Happy Hour, what an awesome 'feel good' single and the whole album 'London 0 Hull 4' was indeed quite brilliant. I remember buying the single as soon as it came out in 1986. The album was released on the Independent Go! Discs label which was set up by former Stiff Records Rep Andy MacDonald along with Lesley Symons. The label released music by artists such as Billy Bragg, The La's and…

The Belshill Scene. Belshill a town associated with some of the UK's top indie acts of the day such as The BMX Bandits, Teenage Fan Club and also this band... The Soup Dragons From Hang Ten! 'Slow Things Down' released on single in '86 on the RAW TV Label The band naming themselves after a 1970's children's T.V. character in 'The Clangers'. The Soup Dragons were: - Sean Dickson (vocals, guitar) - Jim McCulloch (guitar) - Sushil K. Dade (bass)…