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[Music] Obscure 80s indy music
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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If you thought Billy McKenzie was part of the 80s answer then you've not understood the 80s problem shirley
Not obscure as the others above, but Liz Fraser’s vocals alone make these worth including:
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Tragic. Killed himself after his father died, wasn't it?
I shall now post some classic 80s Billy McKenzie:
https://youtu.be/eDbXbuqPqmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUOqjJgMPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbP7NMm5Jm8
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Ok I'll play
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OK, back on track with more obscure 80s indy music. I saw this line up in the early 80s in Vancouver. The original singer (on here) is English. I absolutely love Moev. Madeline (the singer) wenty on to form Family Plot with her husband.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CUoImkz9w
Family plot below from 2.30. Brilliant vid. Pretty sure I saw Family Plot and Art Bergman at that festival!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggbZCaCJ5Tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CUoImkz9w
Family plot below from 2.30. Brilliant vid. Pretty sure I saw Family Plot and Art Bergman at that festival!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggbZCaCJ5Tc
redoubtable seagull
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- Oct 27, 2004
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Some more obscure American niceties
Bitch Magnet
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Blazing Apostle
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White and Torch and Lover Speaks xxx
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Oh and not all 80s Vancouver music was underproduced....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCFThqmQaI
I saw them a few years earlier when they were more....restrained. Note the total lack of tattoos and camera ****ing phones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCFThqmQaI
I saw them a few years earlier when they were more....restrained. Note the total lack of tattoos and camera ****ing phones.
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I missed these completely at the time (86 to 93 are my wilderness years). My little brother introduced me. As a lifelong batchelor, he perhaps was hinting at something? I shall never ask him. Anyway this is from the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWGh7UBhgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWGh7UBhgw
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Another band we used to follow round the pubs of South and West London were Sad Among Strangers. Had a decent pub following but no commercial success.
Lawnchairs are everywhere....
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I saw Actifed play Brighton a couple of times and thought they were ace - back in the days when goth was known as posi-punk or whatever. They released a couple of 12" EPs which I played to death. Still sound decent enough now...
Saw the Farmers Boys many times - part of the ‘Norwich scene’ along with The Higsons. Lead singer used to have a Casio organ on an ironing board. I also have their giveaway postcard somewhere - The Joy of Cress - featuring several cress action shots if I remember correctly