There were some great places to hang out in Leeds at the time – in 86 it was the Fav (the Faversham pub) it was literally like a who’s who of goth in there. We had the Phono in the Merrion Centre as a club as well as the Warehouse – Our local pubs were the Hyde park pub...
Model Shop: now we head to Seattle to discover a new band. Thist rio formed by Kevin, Jen and Ethan, is releasing their debut album “Love Interest” on November 21. It is on vinyl. Now, for those of you who live under a rock, this band features two ex-Maths and Physics Club me...
There were a few bands at my high school. My brother Matt played drums in The Mess, together with Phil Mayne and Choque Hussein. Choque worked in Jumbo records which was the best independent record shop in Leeds at the time. Later, Choque formed “Black Star Liner”. My friend Luke Blum...
We recorded our track on the Island, and he did his on the mainland. The whole thing was produced by the legendary Alvin Smith, who made fanzines and arranged events documenting the indie scene in Hertfordshire. Do you know that compilation album “Alvin lives! (in Leeds)”? Named in his...
I hope I can catch some of their set. As I said I leave around 9pm. Maybe I can escape a bit earlier. They are on at 8:45pm at the Cake Shop. I read some reviews saying they are the second coming of Prefab Sprout. Maybe they are right. This sounds very timeless, like it coul...
Andy:Yes, thou I live ‘up north’ so not as often as I should. I went to the University of Manchester in 1991, played quite a few gigs in a band called Dooba based in Leeds in the mid 90’s and since then a lot of birding. ...
Dani:I buy less music than I would want to. The record store that I remember the most is the one Ochi and me, as teenagers, used to visit in Alcalá de Henaras. On the front it was a jewelry shop but on the back of the shop they had the records. You couldn’t tell from out...
Then we moved to a building close to the City Hall in Cork which was above a paint shop. ++ Was your first ever “release” the 2 song demo tape wth “Swallow” and “Talk to the Wall”? This tape was mostly sold at gigs alongside other demo tapes of yours like “The Bible – ...
I do remember, though, that the address that I wrote on the envelope was “Leeds St.,” which was a direct reference to a lyric from the Smiths’ song “Panic”: “the Leeds side-streets that you slip down.” As that guy in The Doom Generation said: “He was really into the ...