Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey

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But I can understand why, say, the June Brides didn’t want to be on the tape, and how some of the less established bands might be pigeonholed by it, especially when the scene seemed to have run its course. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Some ended up in the arts and academia others found themselves in retail or the corporate world, and a few are still playing to this day. That’s how long Primal Scream’s “Velocity Girl” lasts, and the song was enough to have crystallized an entire era and established an undying narrative. Others still have a link to the music industry however most are now firmly to be found on Civvy Street doing something unrelated.

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saw the original compilation reissued in a 3CD expanded edition from Cherry Red Records; [4] the 2014 box-set came with an 11,500-word book of sleevenotes by one of the tape's original curators, former NME journalist Neil Taylor. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. The tape may have caught flack since its release for being too twee and effeminate, but those critics either fail to see the progress it represented or haven’t listened to the complete 22 tracks.Lots of these bands featured women, and often in roles women were rarely seen in: bassists, drummers’.

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They plied a chaste, asexual brand of beat-pop that borrowed heavily from Josef K, Orange Juice and The Smiths. This is a book for those of us, now in our late 50s or early 60s, who grew up devouring the NME as a means of nurturing our music tastes as well as broader cultural interests. The UK music press was in this period highly competitive, with four weekly papers documenting new bands and trends. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel.com/projects/826456098/c86-and-all-that-indie-1983-86-a-history) helped finance the C86 book, CD and ‘exclusive’ t-shirts three years ago and have received nothing, while Neil continues to sell these items (and make extra money) on Facebook/Twitter to anyone with a Paypal account. The book casts an eye over a period when indie was a passion not a brand, and places its rise firmly in the context of the turbulent political times. What runs large through the book is how carefree pretty much all the artists were in the late 80's and how many carried that freedom through to their later lives.