Audioweb - Fireworks City

Audioweb were probably one of those unlucky bands that didn't fit into any easy pigeonhole and as such suffered from a little indifference from both  the press and music buying public... let me say if you missed out on this band and haven't heard this album, you missed a treat!

They came out of Manchester, as so many great bands have done, lead singer Martin Merchant had soul, ska and rock music running through his music and this all fused together as Audioweb. 

you can read what the NME said about the album here , they were wrong by the way as they often are... and go to the usual place below for the tunes....

Policeman Skank

Test The Theory

Personal Feeling

Try

Sentiments for a Reason

Soul On Fire

Freefall

Out Of Many

Control

Out Of My Mind

Get Out Of Here

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The Cropdusters - Home Grown Agent Orange

The Cropdusters were from Lymington, Hampshire.. Its near Southampton for those who are wondering! 

They formed around the mid 80's and were really good live and so popular they were headlining the second stage at Reading Festival long before you had to be NME cover stars to do so, the band had a fiddle player which always seems to end up lumping them in with bands such as Levellers and the like, I guess its a fair comparison  one that stood them in good company.

Done For You

Lucked Out

Get Busy

Lady Next Door

Chicken Train

Shimmy Sideways

Luddites

Song For You

John Henry

The Test

Sheltered Life

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The Death of SIX.by Seven - EP

More genius from one of the country's greatest ever songwriters.... 

Eat - Sell Me A God

Eat were bonkers, lead singer Ange Doolittle was bonkers...never a bad thing actually

Sell Me a God was released in 1989 and mixed blues, rock and funk to make a decent racket, the band didn't last much longer as drugs, drugs and well really drugs pretty much made them hate the sight of each other... 

1993's Epicure album had a different band line up with singer Ange still present, but pretty soon after that they fell apart again, ange went onto front we Know where you Live who were the Wonder Stuff minus Miles Hunt and the band formed Vent 414..... with Miles Hunt as front man ... a tangled web they do weave !!

Tombstone

Electric City

Fatman

Stories

Walking Man

Skin

Red Moon

Insect Head

Body Bag

Things I Need

Judgement Train

Gyrate

Summer In The City

Mr and Mrs Smack

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Laugh - Sensation Number One

Laugh formed in Manchester in 1985..... made an album, released a few singles.... had some airplay on John Peel and the Indie charts then promptly disappeared for a few years..nothing that special it seems unless you give this a  few listens and you can here the shoots of madchester and the dance explosion...  Id really never heard of Laugh until they reappeared around 1990 and Lazarus like a transformation had taken place.... 

Welcome to Interstella !  

Sensation Number One as i said is a pretty decent stab at indie dance rock and roll etc etc, its kinda like climbing a mountain but without ever getting to the summit, it never reached the highs! having said that its not the worst hour of your life you'd ever spend so its not all bad, i like it but once they had recruited Stella Grundy to sing they became loads better

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Beam Engines - Maverick Hour EP

The return of David Auton.... get in there! in and around the Portsmouth music scene for over 20 years, The Spinner Dolphins, Screeper (who were fantastic by the way) Reinhardt and then The Autons, David is back....

No work , no prizes!!

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The Chesterfields - Westward Ho!

The Chesterf!elds as we shall correctly call them were mainstays of the mid 80's jangle pop scene, i first came to notice them as they were often incuded on early compilations of the Indie top 20 series, a pretty cool series of compilations actually

But onto this, and The Chesterfields, they cam from rock and roll central...er Yeovil actually, that didn't stop them releasing 3 albums and an early collection of singles, Westward Ho! was the first album released in 1987

Sweet Revenge

Whats Your Perversion

Love Mountain

Best Of Friends

Untitled

Completely and Utterly

Girl On A Boat

Ask Johnny Dee

Pop Anarchy

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