i have since 'em twice - reading hexagon 1996 & Stafford V2000. The 2nd time the lead singer was 10 mins late coming on claiming he didn't feel very well and kept sniffing an awful lot. make of that what you will.
i don't think they're much cop but i do like 'the riverboat song'. hey shoot me.

I can honestly say that I have never even HEARD an OCS record. Individual songs, yes, album, no. Deliberate avoidance since the age of 16 or so.

I like the abuse the girlfriend gets on a regular basis, Mike. And she still wants to retain the damn thing? I don't know. Mind you, I'm lucky if I have a girlfriend who's even heard of any of the bands I'm into. At least you must have that luxury to some extent.

ditt
ooooo

"They are shit. They were shit. They have always been shit.

Kula Shaker, Sleeper, Shed 7, Gene: all good"

woooahh!!! woah woah WOAH.....hold it right there..
It was all going so well until that point
sigh
*looks for brick wall to smash own head into repeatedly*

Is this what it's fucking come to now, ten years on? where Shed 7 are looked back on positively (even in the tiniest way)........wtf........OCS v duh Sheddoes, it's like comparing two different types of dog shit, which smells worse or something..

and then, KULA FUCKING SHAKER..........!
stop this! now!!!!

[i'll allow you the old Sleeper singles, but that's it...]

You ought to mention that Desc realllly don't sound like OCS.

except now you don't have to!

saw them last month, they were rather good, must say.

And Ocean Colour Scene.

Britpop did suck! I can proudly claim to own a grand total of zero Britpop records, unless 'The Bends' counts which, let's face it, it doesn't. All the Britpop "era" did was make me pine for the glory days of the Smiths and the Cure and push my musical tastes further USA-wards.

Hehe, funny you say that actually..
I was thinking the other day of how Britpop-era music press used towould look down on the 'indie' music that had preceded it in the last 80s/early 90s & all its big, once-feted (by the very same papers) bands, with disgust and derision and as wholly inferior to (eg) Cast / Heavy Stereo / whichever rotten-end-of-Britpop toss was on the covers that week.

Fast forward to now, and the hyper-speed revisionism towards the 'general opinion' on Britpop (but meanwhile, oh no those deadly early-90s Morrissey singles, now *they* were great etc etc snore.. ). It's all the same again, just moved ten years on. And even Franz Ferdinand - all this mighty trumpeting in the press of their involvement with the glasgow underground/etc/etc for years - and, uh, how much coverage exactly *did* (to pluck out one name) the Yummy Fur get from nme all that time? Well...more than they'd have gotten the last few years if they were still going, I'll admit, but..
uh, i'm wandering off the point....I know the fickleness and trend-led nature of the press too....but it doesn't stop it being so awesomely disheartening, more than ever maybe
That "...brain in common" point was spot-on. I dunno...

no they're not, they're second on the bill to UB40...how you doing Andy?