Munurmunuh Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 The one you know, Crash by The Primitives The one you probably don't, Crash's elder twin, Vélomoteur by Les Calamités 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnPatroller Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Ah the Primitives! 😍 I used to love them when I was at school. But I used to love Transvision Vamp back then as well so hardly a yardstick of musical integrity .. <misses point of thread> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 10 minutes ago, MHMSWC#03 said: Ah the Primitives! 😍 I used to love them when I was at school. But I used to love Transvision Vamp back then as well so hardly a yardstick of musical integrity .. <misses point of thread> 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnPatroller Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Just now, Ricky Rioli said: 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 I was all over that shizzle when those albums came out 🤦♀️ As opposed as I am to misogynistic, sexist comments, I remain amused by once seeing them referred to as Transvision Tramp. Ouch ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbo Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I auditioned for the Primitives, sometime in the nineties. I didnt get the gig, but i had some fun. The guitarist was lovely. Oh, and i got to play "Crash." 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Elder twin, indeed : Vélémoteur was released in 1987 and Crash in 1988... For once, the French didn't copy a British tune. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegs07 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 8 hours ago, Ricky Rioli said: 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 I saw them live at Brixton Academy I think. A school friend was obsessed with Wendy James and persuaded me to go in return for him going to a gig of my choice. They weren’t great but it was worth the fun of watching his face as soon as Loop (my choice) started their set a few weeks later. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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