Everyone has one band they love that no one else has ever heard of. Share the band name, the type of music and maybe we'll find some new music. (Bonus points from me if they're in the London area and I can check them out live!!)
For me... is this band called The Wannabes. They're pretty generic alt rock, but I heard their song Atomic Girl and thought it was ace, so bought the album (had to get it used, couldn't find it anywhere else!)
What about you?
I think I've heard of the Wannabes, but it might be someone else I'm thinking of.
Mine are Autokat and Black Tambourine. I don't LOVE them and I' sure a few people on here must have heard of them, but they don't get mentioned too much.
Polkadot Cadaver
ex members of Dog Fashion Disco; retaining the DFD sound, so pretty much like Mike Patton and System of a Down at a circus
awesome description
"so pretty much like Mike Patton and System of a Down at a circus"
I really really want to check these guys out now!
Dog Fashion Disco are better
And because i'm feeling generous, here's a link to purchasing their best album for 67p
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00005A0GK/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1214215146&sr=8-1
Bastard Kestrel
Excellent!
I'll let you if I get it and what I think :)
i already advised it to SHANDYHOLMES &
GalacticStar3ruption, both of whom were very impressed. It's a stunning album!
^This
GalacticStar3ruption was very impressed.
Lincoln
released a couple of EP's (inc. the sublime Barcelona) and an album (Mettle) in 2003/04 i think on Narwhal records.
I've heard them likened to Calexico and other Americana-type bands but they are unmistakeably English. For anyone who loves beautiful folky harmonies, spanish trumpets and dusty melodies.
Sounds nice
They sound really nice. I'm a big fan of some of the more folky stuff so I'll have to check them out too.
Bobgoblin
You like the Cars? You like Weezer? You like Bobgoblin!
Bobgoblin
I do like Weezer, although I don't know the Cars (should I? I'll have to check them out too). Bobgoblin - I already like them just bc of their name.
One album
came out in '99 called The Twelve-Point Master Plan. You can get it for pence.
Bobgoblin
evolved into Adventures Of Jet. Who were good.
i have
their kibokin ep. it's good. might give them another listen.
The Hated
I may be wrong, but I don't think many people know of them. the only person I know who knows of them is the girl who told me about them.
they're emo, old skool.
Untitled 1961
Brutal, jerky, rock colossus with mathy sprinkles and tri-vocal wonderment.
They are in London too...
Bonus points!
Haha, awesome, I'll have to check them out!
Doesn't look like they have any shows coming up, though... http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/artist/untitled1961_livemusic
:(
They will do...
even if I have to see to it myself.
And hey, if you like them, they're putting on a gig of other similar types tonight at Catch in Shoreditch...
(OK, this is a JAG yes, but a valid one that answers the question, and I'll be finished by the time anyone actually gets there)
They
played my clubnight last week, was ace.
My band's playing their clubnight next month.
Sadly, their last ever gig is next Monday.... :(
Still well worth checking out the recordings though if you get the chance...
a band (person) called Vegetables
who plays bouncy keyboard lines and sings about dogging and victorian computers and building rockets in his shed. And sings a lot about vegetables too. I think he goes under a new name now though.
Has a brilliant album called Les Trompettes de la Mort (yes named after a mushroom). Czech it oud.
Bastard Kestrel
What a brilliant name for a band. Like 'Kes' going X-rated. Someone do the script!
That's a fucking awesome name!
Bastard Kestrel
we're around when I was a young lad back in '88. John Peel loved 'em and they actually recieved single of the week in Melody Maker once. Long now defunct but were truly ahead of their time. Very noisy in a Butthole Surfers / Punky kinda way.
Massive fan of Vegetables!!
Goes under the name National School with his missus on drums these days.
Doesn't play much now cause he's concentrating more on his video directoring stuff.
But yeah, Les Trompettes de la Mort is an astonishing album, so technical and clever, yet so many hooks.
National School myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nationalschool
cool
thanks for the update.
No worries!
The Fatima Mansions
One of my favourite bands, but one nobody else seems to have heard of. Their sound encompassed several different genres (eighties synth-pop, Scott Walker-esque ballads, alt-metal, folk, 90s indie ect.), but their main pull was their frontman Cathal Coughlan, whose lyrics are some of the most hilarious and abrasive I've ever heard - amazing voice as well. They way the history books seem to have written them out of existence is pretty sad really.
I have!
I've totally heard of them. My sister is really into that kind of music, and although it's not necessarily my favorite, I've picked up enough of the band names from her to recognize this one!
Fatima Mansions were pretty big.
Didn't they support U2?
Have you heard Microdisney? Cathal Coughlan's first band.
^
Total love for Cathal coughlan and all his works.
Supercar
A bunch of Japanese Radiohead rip-off merchants, but good, bubbly electro-guitar fun nevertheless!
XO Skeletons
www.myspace.com/xoskeletons
It's a strange mix of beats, hip hop and punk. I've actually bigged them up on here before, but no one cared.
Aw
Aw, sad. I'll check them out and let you know what I think. That mix sounds pretty cool...
Large Mound,
Gwan the mound!
I saw them
supporting Ted Leo. Friendly chaps.
Sackville
More people might know them than I think, but they're lovely. Sad folky stuff from Canada; they had a few things on Constellation, and I think they're stopped now. But they're lovely.
Listen to "The Principles of Science", I'd say.
I loved their track on the Constellation comp,
called This Machine. T'is brilliant, I'd really like to hear more. I think the violinist/cellist plays in Hanged Up now, and the Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary.
Genevieve Heistek; viola player, yp
Although HangedUp seem to have gone the way of all things now, too. Grr.
I'm going to listen to them now, that's what I'm going to do.
yes! That was a real highligt of
'music until now' - I'd forgotten about that song. Is the rest of the album up to 'THis Machine' becuase I will have to check it out if it is.
I think...
"Gold Dust" was the one on "Music until now"; "This Machine" was on the other CST compilation.
But I'm being picky: "The Principles of Science" is all gold. Really good. The half of "Low Ebb" that I've heard is also good. Off to Ebay with my pennies, I reckon....
Bad Dudes
I've been told the line up includes members of The Mae Shi, and their S/T album is prog punk (?) goodness. I haven't heard the new album yet but it's called 'Eat Drugs', which is promising.
Yup, Brian Mae Shi plays drums in them...
...ace band!
the first album is great
at one point it was meant to be coming out over here but it never happened.
designer babies
not a massive fan but saw them a few times and they were top.
think their original drummer has left now so not so interested - he was incredible!
Pilotdrift
and Phantom Buffalo.
Team Robespierre
www.myspace.com/teamrobespierre
Amazing party punk from Brooklyn.
We supported them on their single launch on Club Motherfucker records and they're just pure awesomeness.
check it!
Re: Phantom Buffalo
Yeah I like 'Shishimumu' a lot. The way the first three or four tracks segue in to each other is beautiful. A shame they seemed to bypass a lot of people because their sunshine pop would be perfect right now. Imagine Gorky's or B&S relocating to west coast USA or something. Really glorious pop. Rough Trade band weren't they? No idea what they're up to now.
They are / were awesomeness
indeed. I saw them three times that week and enjoyed every show.
Vox Merkoni
Hertfordshire's finest post/art rock.
www.myspace.com/voxmerkoni
Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer
Pretty pop music. I got into them a few years back because Keith from Every Time I Die said they were his favourte band in an interview. They sound nothing like ETID however, favouring pop hooks and synths and songs about ice cream.
Ice cream?
Songs about ice cream? Who could resist?!
Scul Hazzard
Supported them a couple of months back. They are excellent
Yeah,
excellent band.
i met those guys the other week
though i missed their gig to watch cancer bats.
massive fail.
Cog
AMAZING live.
Cog are Huge
in Australia (Y)
Exit Calm
.... anyone?
They are very fucking ace indeed.
Triste Sin Richard
stumbled on their MySpace last year or the year before, a modern classical type ensemble where all the members were like 16-18 at the time, managed to gather up any recordings from there and a couple of other links to burn a CD of their stuff, the band was really short-lived apparently and couldn't find much about what they went on to do.
Worst
That's the worst when you find a band of teens who really seem like they'll be ace then disappear in a year. There was a band from my hometown called Solemite and they were fantastic, but they all went off to uni and never recorded anything else.
True,
at the Leeds Film Festival 2 years back there was a terribly made documentary about a bunch of bands up in New England, but a few of them were really damn good. Only one ever recorded a full album as far as I know, there's some recordings around for the others though-
Daniel Striped Tiger
Black Bear
Pukka Argot
all worth hearing, esp. Pukka Argot.
I´m Widely Spread
www.myspace.com/widelyspread
Perfect MIDI-based, tacky, shouty, pop.
i know them
they invited me to drum for them once when their drummer couldn't do a gig, i didn't tho.
i think the music is terrible bar I Love You Philosophically, melody and harmonies = qual in that one
played a gig with them tho and they were pretty good fun to watch, can't deny that
Surferosa.
Everytime I post one of these, either Bamos or Colonol_k likes them.
I think I'm pretty safe with this one though.
It's cos people are annoyed
they don't sound like the pixies much?
That could be it.
i like them!!
really good first album.
Nowaysis
EPIC
Mount Vernon Arts Lab
i sometimes think this band was a figment of my imagination. they were a experimental electronic band from glasgow whose members still float around somewhere. i saw them open for stereolab at the arches. they had a synthi AKS if i remember correctly. i was pleased. their albums ended up with my ex. damn it.
i have heard of mval,
because they did an album called 'the seance at hobbs lane', inspired by quatermass, the 50s(?) sci-fi tv show. i desperately want to listen to them.
Ah...
.they are/were?? marvelous. Ghost Box records just reissued Seance at Hobs Lane with a wonderful new cover. Remember seeing a couple of interviews floating around the time of it's re-release but got the impression they weren't active anymore. Ach.
Unter Den Linden
Someone on last.fm describes them as "classy new wave"
I find them very very difficult to describe, perhaps M83's grandparents?
Bottom of the Hudson
though probbably no that unknown
little cosmonaut
they're like this twee instrumental outfit, really really great. Most of their songs are free from SOMEWHERE
Little Cosmonaut are the awesome!
:D
Isn´t that your ex´s nickname for your penis though?
:P
Another "who is the indiest" competition.
Hmm
Or a way of discovering new bands perhaps?
I thought I'd better use the default response to these threads..
..just in case no-one has posted it already.
Not so indie?
Haha, I'm definitely not indie. In fact, I think if I were, I would end up finding more people who know the same unknown bands as me.
Most of my favorite unknowns are American or Australian folk or country!
Surely
it's more about those who listen to underground "independent" bands rather than the genre "indie?"
Noob
Anyone here
like: Fort Lauderdale?
Or: Man Like Me?
This band called The Rolling Stones...
named after a Bob Dylan lyric or something, whoever he is
Never heard of them
They must be really nobodies :-P
Rolling Stones- named after a muddy waters' song
if you're not going to play nicely then don't play at all young squire.
'bob dylan is great, neigh infallible
and the original inspiration for everything...' cry the masses.
makes me wanna grrr
The Adam Brown
Geisha
http://www.myspace.com/geishanoiseresearchgroup , possibly the first noise-rock band to catch my attention, they mix moments of sheer aural fury with serene shoegaze esque moments
you sir have made my day!
This is EXACTLY the kind of random reccomedation I come on this board for. Awesome sounding band and they're on emusic, win.
Awesome band
on Super-Fi, right? I've got a split 10" of them and Tractor - really heavy!
the very same
they've released some stuff on blood red sounds as well and they should be bringing out another ep soon.
East River Pipe
a little bit Sparklehorse, a little bit Eels and a tiny bit Lambchop.
Eels
I'm a huge Eels fan, love them to death. Now I'm excited to check out East River Pipe :)
i have hear of eels- silly
: )
Where to start with East River Pipe?
There are 6 albums on emusic...
east river pipe!!!!
poor fricky.amazing record!!!!
Start with
'What Are You On' and work backwards, I think. They're all fairly lo-fi, but they get lo-er fi-er as you get to the earlier stuff. 'Drug Life' is such a great little tune.
Turn
Irish trio. Saw them supporting Idlewild in 2000. Antisocial is a brilliant brilliant album. They've had aa couple since but finance themselves and one of them left to be in Idlewild, and then left them.
I remember Turn
Ive got a single somewhere.
Yeah Turn were great
The Check your ears ep was really good and Anti social a pretty good album.
Don't think any of their other records were released in England. I picked up their last/third(?) album on amazon really cheap. Only listen to it once, seemed a bit meh and dull after their early stuff.
'I try my best to stay calm as I watch you unload like a Berreta'
Jawbox
i'm sure people have heard of them, but no-one that I know really listens to them. Shame!
Jawbox are ace.
Can never find the stuff..
i got most of it
on eBay, but only on vinyl. The CD of 'For Your Own Special Sweetheart' went for something like £30 last time I looked
oooooh
they're super.
i will jump in at this point with japanese dream/noise perversionists xinlisupreme, of fat-cat non-fame. and someone else will probably jump in after me with 'yes, they're great' - i know they do have a few fans on here, but sadly far fewer than they deserve.
bowerbirds
and bound stems.. still waiting for bound stems to play a show over here..
http://www.last.fm/music/bowerbirds
http://www.last.fm/music/bound+stems
Bound Stems
Good band.
New Buffalo
?
The Nymphs
Inge Lorre their singer was hot and they had great songs like Imitating Angels and Sad and Damned. Seriously under rated. Courtney Love had nothing on her in terms of notoriety.
Marc Seberg
Ace french band from the 80s
Plenty
- Dog Fashion Disco. Well, 2 other people have heard of them
- The Freezing Fog. Excellent metal band from oop North, in a Sabbath/Cathedral style
- Future Kings of Spain. Released a blinding indie rock album then disappeared
- Amplifier. Why aren't this band massive?
- The God Machine
I love what I have heard of the God Machine
and would definitely buy the albums if they ever cared to put them out again
I love Dog Fashion Disco.
So does Medulla and SHANDYHOLMES that's 3 + you = 4 people.
Glad to hear some love for The God Machine
my campaign to get 'Scenes from the Second Storey' rated as a classic continues apace.
It is a classic!
It's just that no-one can hear the bloody thing unless they pay through the nose or source a copy through 'other means'.
Do you think if we chained ourselves
to the railings of fiction hq they'd re-release it?
It would mean setting quite a lot of cover for my classes but these things are important.
Talking of the God Machine
I bought a flat off someone who signed them to Fiction. He seemed stunned that anyone had heard of them!
Future Kings of Spain released a 2nd album last year.
I heard one of the new songs on Myspace but I didn't really like it.
Snowman
From Perth, just released a brilliant album called 'The Horse, The Rat And The Swan' and are moving to the UK soon
http://www.myspace.com/thesnowmanempire
ER
DISCOVERY.
mazin'
Merz
anyone?
P.S. not Merzbow
I remember him supporting Suede years ago.
I still see his name around. I think he had an album reviewed in the Sunday Times last week.
Saw
Merz support Suede in 99, really good.
Toured recently,
Jacob Golden supported :)
I predict massive internet bumming for
Charlie Everywhere.
The album's due, any time now. Pitchfork and Stereogum will wet themselves.
The Beatles
they are going to be HUGE.
baby chaos
they were ace man!!!
^ i remember seeing baby chaos
saw them several times. They supported Red Kross at the Marquee and Headswim were also on the bill. I seemed to think they were pretty decent.
Scandanavian Accent...
easily..
The Death of Her Money...
or...
Model Photographer
Comity
French math/post-hardcore, now sadly split up. Fans of Converge, Circle Takes the Square etc should definitely check them out.
Their debut album "The Deus Ex Machina as a Forgotten Genius" is actually the best metal album i've ever heard.
http://www.myspace.com/comity
Comity
French math/post-hardcore, now sadly split up. Fans of Converge, Circle Takes the Square etc should definitely check them out.
Their debut album "The Deus Ex Machina as a Forgotten Genius" is actually the best metal album i've ever heard.
http://www.myspace.com/comity
Tiger Bear Wolf <3
B.C Camplight
iamchemist...
...an odd little Glaswegian keytar weilding guy.
I think the myspace is just myspace.com/iamchemist. Well worth a listen
can't get on with b.c. camplight at all
mt. egypt
but this applies to all skaters-turned-folk musicians.
The Young Sinclairs
Brilliant psychadelic band from the states. Albums out soon i think
I wish everyone listened to
Matson Jones. They were on Sympathy For The record Industry, and they were like some sort of punk string quartet, two cellos up front instead of guitars, but in no way twee or anything... :-) There's a bit more info and an mp3 here, courtesy of myself... http://thisisoffset.co.uk/?p=42
Engine Down
I have genuinely never met anyone who knows them apart from the girl who introduced them to me 5 years ago and subsequently my mates. 'Demure' is, apart from track 3, the most perfect album I own. Easily up there with Faraquet 'The View From This Tower' and others I can't think of right now.
Unfortunately earlier and later release(s) weren't up to its standard but they're not a million miles from later Shipping News and have members of Bughummer, The Sleepytime Trio and Denali. Not too easily definable though.
steel pole bath tub
early 90's US i would say post-hardcore act. friends with jello biafra (need i say more) liked to use samples/tapes. always reminded me of a punk EMF!
and they were fucking excellent live. really really good.
Tulip is the LP to get.
I remember Steel Pole Bath Tub .
manicured noise.
Tereu Tereu
www.myspace.com/tereutereu
The Mutton Birds
Anyone heard of them?
international airport
signed to domino.and then nothing heard of since..........
offshoot of apendix out i think
the New Zealand band
from a few years back? yep.
mutton birds that is
other worthy kiwi bands include The Chills, Straitjacket Fits. dont think they are still together.
foals
you should check em out... kinda afro beat
Who is the indiest then?
Did we find out?
Indiest
I don't know... it's a close one :P
The Adam Brown
Ambulance Ltd
I know them
ace band
The Dead Brothers
now sadly defunct :"(
say hi to your mom
awesome indie pop
Dobermann
Just started listening to them. Ace.
dobermann from leicester
????
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
& also a band called 'Arsenal' born from the ashes of Big Black
Sunscreem
are hardly obscure, and I am big fan, as is my sister. Despite some fame in the early 90's I have never heard of them mentioned here, and apparently they are still going.
also
Jack Butler - have reached moments of brilliance, but seem to have fallen into that not uncommon situation whereby the artist is rated more highly than its existing output - so keep trying guys!
^ sign of sick computer
sorry about that!?
Sunscreem
are hardly obscure, and I am big fan, as is my sister. Despite some fame in the early 90's I have never heard of them mentioned here, and apparently they are still going.
also
Jack Butler - have reached moments of brilliance, but seem to have fallen into that not uncommon situation whereby the artist is rated more highly than its existing output - so keep trying guys!
Byrne
released a mini album Slowly and Gloriously which was quite Radiohead-esque circa the bends but gentler.
and then disappeared off the face of the earth.... :(
radiohead!
I keep trying to get my friends into them but I think they're way too obscure for people.
they're pretty rad. you guys would like them. look them up. I bet, living in the UK, very few of you have ever heard of them.
:/
heard of them?
we should be friends! how the hell did you find out about them?
Heavenly
they were on Sarah records donkey's years ago, lovely jangly indie pop. Think they probably split up in 1992 or something though.
big leaves
were bloody ace.
Multiplies
from Glasgow. They released 1 single I'm sure, done 1 radio session, then fucked off back into obscurity.
That's the way it should be done.
Also lots of shit from those Angular Record samplers. Sweetie - who and where are you????
and Matson Jones
but I know a few people who have heard of them, up yours indie scum!
the moons
http://www.myspace.com/moonsuk
love multiplies! yay!
Multiplies
2 of us became Dananananaykroyd
1 of us became Remember Remember
Not quite obscurity, but aye, pretty whirlwind :)
heavenly <3
me?
why thankyou
my financial advisor is dead
amazing experimental post punk trio
campag velocet
i think they're broken up now but they're from london and put out a couple of awesome records (bon chic bon genre in '99 and it's beyond our control in '04) they have a sort of happy mondays/primal scream vibe about them, but more fucked up (sounding) than either of those bands.
nobody that i've ever encountered has heard of them. then again i do live in america.....
and roses kings castles
but thats got the babyshambles drummer in so it may not count.
haha!
i saw them play live in amsterdam. and liam gallagher was in the audience. weird.
were they good?
i got a signed sparkling bootz single.