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Creation bands feature in NME’s Top 50 Albums Of The Past Decade
Primal Scream and Super Furry Animals feature in the NME’s Top 50 Albums Of The Past Decade list. Exterminator by Primal Scream, the final album ever released on Creation, came third with Super Furry Animals 2001 album ‘Ring Around The World’ featuring at 29 in the list.
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YouTube Classics #10 – My Bloody Valentine
Not so much a classic as a recent recording, but what the heck! With less than 3 weeks (and counting) until My Bloody Valentine curate ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas at Minehead. As a teaser for the event here are the band performing last year in Japan.
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YouTube Classics #9 – Felt live at Subterraneans, Greenock, Scotland
Filmed just before the release of their 1987 Creation album ‘Poem of the River’, here’s a video of Felt performing in Scotland. Featuring two tracks ‘Declaration’ and ‘Riding on the Equator’ with 10 seconds of a familiar track at the end. This video is rather dark but the sound quality is pretty good, unfortunately there…
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News – Andy Bell guests on SPC ECO album
Andy Bell of Ride & Oasis has guested on a new edition of the SPC ECO album. SPC ECO includes Dean Garcia and Debbie Smith of Curve in its line-up.
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YouTube Classics #8 – Slowdive live at The Marquee 1991
YouTube does produce some amazing treats if you’ve got the time to search, this latest video was originally shown in the autumn of 1991 on BBC2 and was just a few weeks after their performance at the Slough Festival.
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YouTube Classics #7 – Ed Ball on Transmission
Interview from late night TV in early 1990.
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YouTube Classics #6 – House of Love on Snub TV
I loved Snub TV, why can’t they bring it back? Anyway, from 1989 featuring an interview and live versions of Destroy The Heart and Man to Child.
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YouTube Classics #5 – Teenage Fanclub on Rapido
First shown on BBC2 in 1992. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BX-MztnqMQ
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YouTube Classics #4 – The Weather Prophets on The Whistle Test
Almost Prayed from The Old Grey Whistle Test.
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YouTube Classics #3 – The Bodines Live @ ULU 1986
The third and final Creation single by The Bodines before they signed to Magnet was the 1986 single ‘Heard It All’ backed on the 12 ” by ‘William Shatner’. Here both songs can be heard recorded live at the ULU in 1986, the quality is that of a bootleg, but I often find these capture…