Munurmunuh

Thinking of your username, are we seeing nominative determinism in action here?

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Was it necessary to take those comments quite this badly?! 😢

I found this post from 11 years ago

From what I recall trying to read up a few years ago, Les Calamités had been around earlier in the decade, strongly influenced by cheerful jangly English bands this and that, and in turn being not uninfluential on bands such as the other. They broke up for a while, but someone got a couple of them to reform and they had a top 40 hit in France with that more heavily produced track. My favourite song of theirs is La Supermarché, which presumable shows the influence those couple of English bands whose names I've forgotten if I ever knew (Talulah Gosh are mentioned in one of the comments)

I bought the Tranvision Vamp album and after one listen was so horrified with myself that I sold it to a friend for £1.50

The one you know, Crash by The Primitives The one you probably don't, Crash's elder twin, Vélomoteur by Les Calamités

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Everything got resolved in the end

I'm not finding much about it online, but apparently it ran from Apr 86 to Jul 02

I recall an unexpected number of reference to Alan Lancaster, too. The article that I remember most clearly was a guide to touring pre-1989 Poland. Rule no.1: never attempt to outdrink a Pole.

When people enthuse about their L-2000s - which they often do, and vigorously - they're not usually mentioning old school tones.

Making Music magazine! I loved that back in 86/87, endlessly rereading my pile of back issues. Ridiculously readable for a free magazine 😚

Just found the best BBP34 demo on YouTube, 35 very special seconds

It took me a while to get my head around the fact that I too prefer humbuckers on a guitar and single coils on a bass. Presumably the sonic information coming from two coils is creates something very slightly blurred, which my ears think improves thick crunchy guitars playing multiple notes but takes away the focus of a single line deep down in the bass register?

...and some guy on TB keeps banging on about his.... 😜

When browsing the Bass Bros site just now, I saw they've a mid 80s MIJ Yamaha BB-VIs, which they've mislabelled as a BB-IVs. (I don't know what the extra EX suffix means - "export", @AndyTravis?) I guess the "s" stood for short, but the scale length is something like 31½". And it's RED.

Pretty hacked off at having missed out on the opportunity to get to know the music of The Crucifixion Pyjamas. I bet Semi-Detached Kitten Asylum were perfect for getting a bleary-eyed festival crowd going.

Thought to look up the line up. What was interesting about the Cure that day was that they had recently lost a band member and so performed as only a 4 piece - was good to hear the old stuff like A Forest with a bit more of the traditional sparse texture rather than the late 80s wash. What also stuck in my mind was Robert Smith played Fire In Cairo just him and a 12 string acoustic, I was delighted when I found it on YouTube: Quite impressed how well the festival crowd knew the words to an ancient album track

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Why is this bass line at a different pitch to the faint track in the background?

GAK's 80s MIJ BB-VI has had another £100 knocked off its price, now £499: sober-looking BB-VI If only it were like this one: black, with a reverse P

German mini-LP: very promising Creation album: fantastic, still First Fontana album: bobbins