TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)

byJoe Silva
March 18, 2021

Since you can’t peel back the YouTube algorithm, there’s no telling how we wound up staring at western Canada circa the mid-80s.

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Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)

byJames Thornhill

Few music discovery anecdotes start with “I was rugby tackled by a man in a cinema because he liked my T-shirt”, but discovering Lancashire oddballs Element starts like that for me.

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Big Yoga Muffin ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ (Echo, 2000)

byNeil Mason

You’d say that Big Yoga Muffin took the biscuit when it came to daft names, but saying that sort of thing only leads to further unnecessary confectionery puns

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WIN

byNeil Mason

A proper best-kept secret, 1980s Edinburgh outfit WIN are the greatest band most people have never heard of

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The Devils ‘Dark Circles’ (Tape Modern, 2002)

byBob Fischer

Somewhere, out there in the infinite multiverse, is a parallel reality version of Duran Duran.

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Vic Twenty ‘Electrostalinist’ (Lucky Pierre, 2005)

byNeil Mason

I first came upon Vic Twenty when they supported Erasure at Leicester’s De Montford Hall in 2003 and I was prepared to be disappointed.....Of course, I was wrong.

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