Thus is the kind of thing that I unstinctively went for in 1986. Polite Indie that was on Creation. Liked Television, The Velvet Underground. Poetry and Penguin paperbacks. Was made up of people who either wrote or could have written for the NME. Had good fringes shirts jeans and shoes,
This wasn't a hit as it should have been and Alan McGee was obliged to look elsewhere. I saw Weather Prophets at the Hammersmith Clarendon. Supported by Pop Will Eat Itself, The Servants and a notably lairy and unhinged Happy Mondays. I liked the Weather Prophets but instinctively knew they were too polite to go where they wished to go, It doesn't stop me loving this any less.
I was right there with you, Bruce, fringe 'n all. I saw The Weather Prophets supported by the Happy Mondays, too. In Leeds, the closest place to go for gigs from York while I was studying there. My main memory is of the Mondays having all the lights on the stage turned off. And Bez. Wish that The Servants had been there, too. The Sun, a Small Star is still one of my favourite janglepop singles.
ReplyDeleteI don't really remember The Servants playing but they were on the bill. It was only a while afterwards I realised it was Happy Mondays. But they made an immediate impression. They weren't polite. They didn't neccesarily want you to like them.
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