Cyclo2000 wrote:Have we had a mention of The Soup Dragons yet? Bellshill me thinks, one hit, a cover of the Stones I'm Free, a song about a haberdashery salesman. The Jesus and Mary Chain are from East Kilbride, one major hit, Just like Honey, a song about a honey substitute sandwich spread popular at the time.
ok, here goes, my brief history of that part of glasgow's music scene. after postcard records around 1982 you had the pastels, steven pastel, brian superstar, bernice and martin hayward. the later three left leaving steven who was joined by aggie from edinburgh band buba and the shop assistants, who then became just, the shop assistants.
bobby gillespies first band the wake had releases on factory records (and factory benelux, mentioned elsewhere). he left around 1983 and started primal scream and not long after he also became the jesus and mary chains drummer. the pastels, buba and the shop assistants and primal scream all played together on 16th december 1984 in daddy warbucks in west george street (burnt down, now where waxy o'connors is?).
over in darkest bellshill the pretty flowers and various other bands were doing similar stuff. the pretty flowers were duglas stewart, francis mckee, later of the vaselines and many others including sean dickson (soup dragons) norman blake (teenage fanclub). both sean and norman had other bands at the time, sean with a band called adventure playground and norman had a band called the faith healers. after adventure playground sean was in the soup dragons who started around 1985 and norman was in a few bands, the most well known was the boy hairdressers before starting teenage fanclub. soup dragons member sushil dade went on to form future pilot aka. francis mckee went on to form the vaselines with eugene kelly who was in a band called the famous monsters (eugene is the brother of charlie kelly who was in another factory band of the time, secession). eugene then formed captain america who had to change their name for legal reasons to eugenius. minor pop star kurt cobain was a massive fan of the vaselines, eugene joined them in an early reading festival apperance to perform an old vaselines song.
by the mid eighties most of these bands had become friends and so a 'scene' was born. bobby gillespie and others started a club called splash one which played host to most of the bands of that scene plus many other bands, including an early appearance from sonic youth (1986), one of old punkers wire's first reunion gigs (1985) 23 skidoo and a riotous 15 minute gig from the mary chain. splash one was held around once a month in daddy warbucks (it may have been renamed by that time, '85/'86, cant recall.
my lunch hour is now over, thats all i can recall of the top of my head.