Just had a relaxing few days on the Isle of Skye (my girlfriend has some relatives up there) and have overdosed a bit on B&S (haven't really been listening to them for a number of weeks). Made up a tape of IYFS and my fave EP tracks plus the surviving tracks from my stricken Tigermilk copy. This tape was rotated with Aretha Franklin in the car over 600-odd miles. Sheer bliss!!! JOSEPH FOSTER asked:
Could someone enlighten me as to a band whats called 'loop'? i bought a loop T-shirt once, not knowing about any band.
Loop were around at about the same time as Spacemen 3 (Jason from Spiritualized's former band) - who they had a bit of a 'disagreement' with (probably the result of some fiction in the NME). The Spacemen claimed Loop ripped-off their sound. They had 4 LPs I'm aware of: 'The World in Your Eyes', 'Heaven's End', 'Fade Out' and 'A Gilded Eternity'. They did a cover of Suicide's 'Rocket USA' which was their only track I believe sounds anything like Spacemen 3 - 'though I'm sure they shared a lot of fans with them. I did prefer the Spacies. I've still got the first three Loop LPs. At first they were Paisley-shirted long-haired psychedelic space/drone noiseniks and quite popular with goths and indie-kids (this was the late '80s). They mutated into leather wearing miserable noise rockers (who only the hardline goths and rock monsters seemed to appreciate). I once saw them at the venue in Edinburgh and it has to be the loudest thing I've ever heard in my entire life (bar the time I had to stand practically in the bass bins through an Inspiral Carpets gig during the Madchester craze). Oooh my poor ears. Gawd, I feel my age. The Laird of East Fountainbridge. "An Egg is good for you" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------