And nice to see this thread back. Anyone got any recommendations/ 2016 favourites? I'm a bit out of touch at the moment- can't get to the stereo any more now that my daughter's discovered what it is and how to use it: "Let it go, let it goooo"
According to this https://scopitones.co.uk/portfolio-item/concertography/concertography-twp-1987 it was ULU. It also tells me that I saw them 4 days earlier at Sheffield Uni
I was at this.
Also Nirvana supporting Mudhoney at Leeds Duchess.
Radiohead supporting Spiritualized at Leeds Warehouse
Pulp supporting St Etienne
Supergrass when they were still The Jennifers low on the bill at a Leeds Uni Freshers' Fair
The Cranberries supporting Moose
Primal Scream...
I didn't respond directly to him, but I had a meeting with his line manager to try to sort out a new process, and we spent a happy 40 minutes isolating the harmonics, filtering out the white noise and trying to avoid a silo mentality.
Because the thing is, he sort of has a point, we often...
I was sent the following email a few days ago, after I'd told somebody that the new process that they'd designed for overseas recruitment was illegal:
"Biomimicry
An Organisation Learns A Lesson From An Organism
[Here was a picture of an amoeba, which I unfortunately can't replicate]
The...
Oh, and this one, which is much more interesting.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharon-Signs-Cherry-Independent-1979-1985/dp/B01DD02BMI/ref=pd_bxgy_15_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=ENP3MFRNW3QHW0G9NFPD
And another multi disc cash in compilation. What do we think of this one? Bit predictable?
You can leave off replying til after the Middlesbrough game if you don't feel up to it...
Yes, I hope we got a sell on clause for Connor. We've got a couple more youngsters you can poach if you want.
I was probably at the same parties.
"Queens Hotel in the pouring rain, I am hooooome"
Used to encounter them at Leeds gigs in their cycling gear on occasion...
Sorry that we seem to have turned this thread into "reminiscences of Leeds in the 80s". Superbly random.
I was at the 1987 Leeds Poly Fall gig. I remember Brix playing guitar lying on her back during Copped It.
I also saw the Pixies and Throwing Muses at the Poly on what must have been their first UK tour.
The Husker Du gig was apocalyptic- I've still got a cassette of that somewhere.
I saw the...