This thread was inspired by the Dead! Dead! Dead! thread - regarding bands that for some reason seemed to disappear before they ever get anywhere
Like, for example, I remember being very excited about Komakino a while back, but where are they now?
Same goes for Chikinki, Lick your Ticket is incredible, and whilst they haven't disappeared, their new songs are absolute tripe
I remember a band called Kain/Kane were said to be Britain's hottest new band a few years back, whilst what's happened to Dogs Die In Hot Cars? Please describe yourself was Summer 2004 all over
Anyway I guess some of these haven't technically 'disappeared', but you know what i mean - - any more?
Gay Dad
Delays
You See Colours
was coma-inducing
^
aye... album before that i quite liked tho... saw them live a few months ago... were only decent...
I still really like their debut.
Such a good sleepy album
The second was pretty much the worst thing ever though
I hated You See Colours when I first heard it
It did grow on me though, just a shame it had nothing on the debut. No song remotely came close to the genius of Wanderlust or Long Time Coming.
I remember...
...Tony Wilson proclaiming a few years back that TERRIS were going to be bigger than Guns n' Roses. He was wrong.
or
s*m*a*s*h
tiger
geneva
terris
mika?
S*M*A*S*H!!!
God, i'd forgotton all about them. They weren't that bad really. 'Lady Love Your C#nt'.
Ah, great days...
S*M*A*S*H...
...are back gigging again I believe.
Still awesome.
Still the best vocabulary around.
geneva
did a pretty big album in 1997, then another one in 2000, so hardly disappeared before they even took off!
They split up shortly after releasing their second album in 2000 when their label Nude went bust, the singer started a band called Amityville, but they weren't particularly good, they split up in about 2004, then he got married to someone who went to my university and I assume he just sings in the shower now.
...
they were the first band to pop into my head too. Probably helped by the fact the lead singer used work for the NME
Apartment
Weren't they going to be massive according to XFM?
Kerrang! were always good for hyping bands that had no hope as well.
Kain
changed their name to 'Raising Kain' I think, then disappeared.
I remember seeing Komakino live a few times. They were pretty good.
There was a hyped-up Kane that changed their name to Cortizone also
but no one cared about them either
kain/raising kain
were god awful libertines-esque shite
hmm
Apartment/Performance/Battle all the same to me
yeah
but they kinda went their own way and started their own label.
Their album came out last week
they have not disappeared... criminally overlooked imo.
Ultrasound are a good example of this
They were going to be massive. (Awaits a weight-related joke)
bravery?
not really hype, but were very popular
also
~Black Wire
although we can attribute this to them recording their debut album in a bread-bin
i think the bravery were hyped
far more than they were popular. the public never seemed to care, but that bbc survey predicted they'd be that years biggest band.
hahah
yeah.
they had one hit single, and the rest totally failed to dent the top 40.
The one hit wasn't even the best song on the album
"Unconditional" was much better than "Honest Mistake". Apparently part of the problem is that they spunked so much money on the Unconditional EP that they couldn't afford to get the rest of the album produced to an above-mediocre standard.
And another part of the problem is that they were preening twats who'd forgotten to write any songs.
Honest mistake was better than unconditional
I disagree completely
even before "Honest Mistake" was played to cunting death on daytime radio, I thought "Unconditional" was better. Not that it matters much.
Are you starting something?
Unconditonal was way better
no question.
Vex Red
probably would have done much better if it weren't for Ross Robinson
Vex Red say different.
Virgin was pretty much what caused them to split up after they dropped them. Then they started wannabe NIN/Placebo bands that did about one tour and disappeared.
Scenes?
:D
sepfuckingtembre?
WHY
i never heard them
i remember when scenes first toured, they were billed as vex red in a lot of places.
and that their website was www.sexscenes.net, which can't have helped them at all...
wut?
i just found this on wikipedia:
"At recent Septembre and Toluene shows, former members announced that Vex will be reforming in autumn 2007. It is however likely that Sammy Lee Tomlinson will replace Ben Calvert as the drummer in the new line up. Keith's involvement in the reunion has not been confirmed."
?!??!?!
Ben Calvert
is now in Killing Joke.
ooooooh
that would be awesome :D
Sunna?
Sunna's album
is great. Shame. I think their drummer is now dating Imogen Heap.
Terris
cover of NME halfway through the first verse of their debut single. Album sold about three copies (even though it was pretty good) fucked up a Leeds festival appearance and never heard from again.
How about
The Departure.
The Others
...
The Departure's debut
is still one of my favourite 'indie' albums, up there with The Rakes. I think they're coming back?
one guitarist has left
and i fear for them in these post-post-punk times..
still, i have lots of love for the departure.
Komakino....
...are still playing about a fair bit
I would've said The Little Flames, but there seems to have a little resurgence of interest again lately.
The 23-20's
weren't they going to be the British White Stripes?
i remember them!
very vaguely.
22-20s
I've got their album. It's not bad.
See also, My Red Cell.
Anyone remember Do Me Bad Things? Now they deserve to be forgotten.
My Red Cell changed their name to something else
recently, I think.
I quite liked them though.
my band played with the new my red cell band
but we left before they played. They are called Inner City Pirates.
they are
Innercity Pirates. we have booked them.
But...
different line up and different sound. Good album and nice lads who deserved better.
different line-up, different sound
and they've all taken to wearing tight white jeans and prancing around like idiots.
shame.
^ this
absolutely fucking dreadful band. beyond all hope.
I LOVED Do Me Bad Things!!
Shame on me I know!
do me
bad things are now
winners and
junkyard choir i think
the 22-20s
apparently split up because they got bored of their own music. Don't blame them. Keyboard player Charly has replaced his brother Rob (not sure if this is permanent), playing keyboard in Supergrass, and has a new project called playing smooth mainly piano based love songs, one of which is featured in hit US TV series Lost, and is nothing like the 22-20s whatsoever. www.myspace.com/charlyspace
Aha
So Charly is also Gaz's brother? What a family.
yeah
a bit like Hanson. Also I just realised I put "called" then didnt write anything. This is because I can't remember what his band is called. It isnt "playing smooth mainly piano based love songs" though.
Oi!
The 22-20s were fucking fantastic, leave them alone.
komakino
were taken to court by their old manager.
they are now recording with paul draper.
i believe battle have just been dropped.
Komakino
are headlining Nottingham's DiS night next month.
timhulio
sold his lovely fender twin to a member of komakino, they took it home and sold it again. How interesting was that fact?
Ten Benson
Although I quite liked some of their stuff
Llama Farmers
Campag Velcoet - again good band
Chicks
Loads it still makes me sick when I see Fratellis advert - 'most important album you could own' - it sdoesn;t even say that in nme review, I looked it up as if did would have gone mental, but yeah loads, nme used to have that feature didn't they start of the year, who was gonna be big, just like a few bets
how incredible
that two people posted Chicks at the same minute...
Llama Farmers are still around
though they're called Letters now. I think it's pretty much the same lineup.
100% same line-up
no Llamas songs tho
Fear of music
were highly hyped ( mainly because they were so young ( remember Chicks ? )) then were more or less forgotten by the press.
But they're back...
For complete diappearance
the Smiles
the Young Offenders
Desman
Serafin
not completely
serafin still gig occasionally.
do they have christian on drumming now?
god stoney sleep>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>serafin
yeah
after he quit razorlight he joined them.
I know
but for how long ?
to be fair
i'd rather have Simple Kid than the Young Offenders.
yeah
that's why you lose control...
Oh and...
When NME was frantically trying to find any sort of garage rock phenomena, we had
The Vines - in 30 years time people will have claimed to be at this gig like sex Pistols, Cavern Club etc, hmm...
The Datsuns
The Beat Up?
was there a band? The Beatings?
originally the beatings
then the beat up
recorded with kevin shields
had good guitar sound
the beat up
are they still going ?
i seem to remember
the beat up put an album out last year (or was it 2005?) that got some rreally good reviews at the time. i was going to investigate it, but never got round to it
early 2005 I think
It was interesting...
one of them
is now in creepy morons i think?
first club gig i ever went to was:
The Pattern,
The Beatings and
Har Mat Superstar
at the Night & Day Cafe in Manchester.
fun times.
har mar stripped off during his set, ending up straddling his microphone stand with only y-fronts on. my dad swore to never take me to another gig.
dunno
about the datsuns, they have had three albums, the first one being excellent. no-one could possibly still care about them still tho im sure
Datsuns
MF from Hell was awsome!
younger younger 20-something
There was also another Kane around in 2000 that had an immense single called 'get up 52' that was huge - in canada, I saw ages ago they'd changed their name but forgot what it was, but seriously amazing band
Black Wire
have never really been hyped up a lot have they? If anything, i would have thought they were bigger now than they have ever been. Played Chalk a couple of weeks ago and playing again soon i believe. They left Crash 48, which was basically some kid in a bedroom, and picked up a drummer. God knows where it will go from here but the drummer works live.
22-20s split a while back...
Komakino are still plugging away. I saw them support TCTC a while back.
Battle are just shit
Terra Diablo
seemed like they might've made something of themselves.
Kill Kenada in a similar way, not disappeared as such, but never really appeared either.
My Red Cell were alright!
shite!
remember Halo. jings
Halo
have changed names twice...
Currently the Exhibition ( if they haven't changed again ! )
HALO!!!
I had EVERY SINGLE THING they released....all the singles...and all the versions of the singles
<3ed them!
who remembers
The Hiss
The Star Spangles
The Open (is there anyone they haven't supported?)
whoever said the Departure - I remember loving 'all mapped out', never heard another song though
22-20s were the trailblazers for the Lincoln nuBlues Revival! no?