In April 2019, the song was re-issued as a 7" single for Record Store Day. The release was accompanied with a new music video, directed by Douglas Hart. [7] Personnel [ edit ] NME have also collaborated with Rough Trade Records to release C09 in 2009 for Record Store Day [24] and with Bose Corporation to release C23 in 2023 for South by Southwest. [25] The line between C86’s jangly, dreamy representatives and its more distortion-smothered counterparts is blurred by bands like 14 Iced Bears. An oddity both then and now, the group’s song featured here, “Inside”, alchemically combines droning noise, hushed melancholy, and a nearly nauseating aura of discordance that presages My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything by two years (a time when MBV themselves had barely begun to absorb the influence of C86). But 14 Iced Bears aren’t the only group on the box set that prophesied shoegaze: “Go Ahead, Cry” by 14 Iced Bears’ Sarah Records labelmate, St. Christopher,is underlain with an atmospheric smear of static that might as well be a wormhole to the next three decades of noise-pop. There were, though, no sirens trying to lure me to my death through song. The nearest I came was when sitting in on the first rehearsal since pre-pandemic times of the Birmingham five-piece Mighty Mighty, reconvened to play to an audience of just me. But five follicly challenged men on, or just over, the brink of turning 60 do not seductive sirens make. Still, they sounded just as sprightly and glorious as they had several decades earlier, even if they now needed to take fistfuls of painkillers afterwards to ward off the effects of a four-hour rehearsal.

Perhaps no song, and certainly no title, sums up Screamadelica-era Primal Scream better than Higher Than the Sun. “It’s like a massive jump on to another planet,” said Gillespie of this sonic approximation of a hallucinogenic experience, upon its release as a single in June 1991. They were as home with the newly emerging Smiths crowd as they were with our knife and fork hair cut brethren and tonight they sound oddly modern as the world has finally caught up with them and to be honest the rest of our noisy endeavours. Very, very, very badly encoded. The song sounds like an inept Fall cover band doing a version of a bad Wire b-side. And the mp3 sounds like a Victrola at the bottom of a well. (Yes, I know that this is a "The food is so terrible, and whats worse the portions are so small" kind of argument, but it is the truth.) Design (the Chesterfields) – bit of a tribute act feel (one and a half original members) but did the songs well I played next with the Membranes and I won’t be reviewing myself of course but returned to the frey covered in sweat to watch The Wedding Present who rushed thrillingly through their singles box set underlining their prowess at the sharp guitar rush added to classic song melodic flourishes that saw them perched as the bridge between the two ends of the indie scene at the time. They had the noise thing down enough to feel at home with the awkward squad and the song writing nods to the classic to straddle the other side. They even had hit records.This would follow Wire’s 2006 solo debut ‘I Killed The Zeitgeist’. Asked how it compared, Wire replied: “It’s a lot better than that. There’s some ‘Bitches Brew’-era Miles Davis in there, some obscure trumpet-led, and some songs that just sound like The Shop Assistants. That’s what ‘Know Your Enemy’ is, to a certain degree. It’s us reacting to albums in a row, ‘Everything Must Go’ and ‘This Is My Truth’, being massive albums in Britain alone – one sold 1.3 million copies and the other 1.5 just in the UK. Then we just childishly and churlishly go and accuse ourselves of being too successful, bloated and pleased with ourselves by writing ‘Know Your Enemy’.” This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Bogshed - who could not love a band with song titles like "Fat Lad Exam Failure". Their best work, for me, is on singles and eps, like Tried and Tested Public Speaker and Let Them Eat Bogshed, I'll combine those two to make an album.

Yeah Yeah Noh – Good but for me they were far better last year with a short sharp hit and run set – were better off on the smaller stage Cherry Red's 2014 expanded reissue was marked by an NME C86 show on 14 June 2014 at Venue 229, London W1; acts from the original compilation included The Wedding Present, David Westlake of The Servants, The Wolfhounds and A Witness. [28]

C-86 Song Highlights

Ex- NME writer Andrew Collins summed up C86 by dubbing it "the most indie thing to have ever existed". [16] Bob Stanley, a Melody Maker journalist in the late 1980s and founding member of pop band Saint Etienne, similarly said in a 2006 interview that C86 represented: It was very much a non-London thing. There were scenes outside London, with people who had been exchanging letters and fanzines. People didn’t feel the need to go to London to make things happen.” Sometimes conflated with soundalike sub-genre ‘jangle-pop’, C86 was the term given to a particular brand of introspective, lo-fi, Byrds-influenced indie power-pop. The name derived from a cassette tape given away with a May 1986 issue of the NME. As eclectic as C86 is, by no means does it try to encompass the entire British indie scene circa 1986. As Taylor recounts in his liner notes, “The aim […] was to take an aural snapshot of the moment. Were these acts representative of the state of a certain kind of indie music at that time? Very much so. Was C86 intended to be the be-all and end-all of independent music at that time? Of course not”. In fact, some bands refused to be included, fearing it would lead to being pigeonholed—like the June Brides, one of the major players in the admittedly loose-knit scene that C86 gathered together. That’s been rectified by the reissue, with the June Brides’ horn-punched, Burt Bacharach-like gem “Just the Same” serving as the first song on the box set’s first bonus disc. And some bands that were surely nowhere near being seriously considered in the first place— such as Happy Mondays, whose undercooked “Freaky Dancin’” is a minor skirmish of the dancefloor havoc they’d go on to wreak— serve more as a historical curiosity than a corrected omission.

The results were immediate but the impact is still reverberating. You can’t plan for cultural relevancy but C86 didn’t so much encapsulate a moment as create one. Up until that point, the flourishing wave of UK indie didn’t have anything to tie it all together. The compilation’s prescience was so on point that the genre it created borrowed its name. Various Artists (26) - C86". BBC Music. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13 . Retrieved 2016-07-04.Having celebrated various anniversaries for their albums ‘Generation Terrorists’, ‘Gold Against The Soul’, ‘The Holy Bible’, ‘Everything Must Go’, ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ and ‘Send Away The Tigers’, Wire sounded doubtful if they’d revisit any more of their records through reissues or tours. “I don’t think there are any left, mate!” he said. “There’s some good stuff with [2004 album] ‘Lifeblood’, because the [producer] Tony Visconti versions have never been released. There are about three or four of them. I think that’s about it.” The political aspect has been neglected. It was very, very open to women. Although it wasn’t overtly political, women felt involved because musicianship wasn’t at a premium.” Tonight’s gig is a snapshot of this as unashamedly older bands celebrated their lifetime creativity in a gig that broke many of the rules. In the smaller room the Wolfhounds sounded as poetically annoyed as ever over their garage band rumble and Band of Holy Joy delivered their bar stool observations. we couldn’t catch everything but it was nice to bump into David Westlake of The Servants who played a set and Simon Barber of The Chesterfields who was playing his old band’s songs with his new project Design.