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[diggedy derek]

This must have been mentioned already, surely?

I saw posters for this Barbados pop group in Bethnal Green, but considering Tubby Isaacs lives not so far from there, it's surely possible that this is his doing.

Me, I'm more a fan of foul-mouthed Jamaican ragga crew Leg Side Nurdle.

[E10 Rifle]

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I want to set up a country band called Cow Corner.

Short Arm Jab would be a good speed-metal type act I reckon

[diggedy derek]

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Short Arm Jab is perhaps more straight-edge punk I feel. You're thinking of Wild Slash.

Heavy Ball would make a great stoner rock unit.

[Purves Grundy]

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I intend to be the svengali for lewd boyband Good Length.

[E10 Rifle]

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Whatever happened to 'tasteful' 80s white soul act Inside Edge?

[diggedy derek]

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I remember them. There was a bit of rivalry between them and that more old school, deep 80s soul act wasn't there, what were they called – oh yeah, Genuine Edge.

[diggedy derek]

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Maybe Good Length could find a sparring partner in a up-and-coming, feisty girl group – Brand New Cherry, or perhaps even more racily, Dark Cherry.

[E10 Rifle]

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There was a bit of rivalry between them and that more old school, deep 80s soul act wasn't there, what were they called – oh yeah, Genuine Edge.

I remember them - used to go to a good club night that played that sort of stuff called Bowled Off A No-Ball

[Benjm]

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I'd rather get up close and personal with The Slips.

[diggedy derek]

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"Run Out (Without Facing A Ball)". Classic parentheses.

[E10 Rifle]

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Whatever happened to the whole Seam Movement scene, a sort-of softer antidote to hard-edged industrial German electronica in the late 70s?

[Benjm]

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E10 Rifle wrote:

Whatever happened to the whole Seam Movement scene, a sort-of softer antidote to hard-edged industrial German electronica in the late 70s?

It was a big influence on '90s italohouse act The Tamperer.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Ah, man, what a thread.

It's like the one about government schemes sounding like bands.

"Though they rejected the world music label, Chinese Cut ..."

My failure to complete that sentence is why I'm not working for The Quietus. Or indeed for anyone else.

[diggedy derek]

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You want to check out noisecore malcontents Skiddy Action, Tubbs.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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"Long derided as reactionary folkies of the worst kind, Duckworth-Lewis Method underwent a surprising renaissance after..."

[diggedy derek]

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Ah, but there is actually a band called The Duckworth Lewis Method isn't there?

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Yeah, it's me and E10.

We got turned down by Stay Beautiful.

[E10 Rifle]

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Yeah they were a bit like slightly twee US college indie act Middle and Leg

[E10 Rifle]

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DD, not quite. The Duckworth-Lewis Method was the name of a concept album by Neil Hannon out of The Divine Comedy wasn't it? Which I've got, natch.

(In many ways, this thread is a bit like what Stay Beautiful was like back in the day for wild-eyed devil-may-care types like me and Tubbs where, surrounded by vampish sexy glamour and banging pop tunes, we'd skulk in the corner drinking bottled lager slagging off Telegraph cricket writers and such. Like the nutters we were)

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Nutters indeed.

You right let me down by having a kid though.

[Sits]

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Whatever happened to those early 90s remix masters Scrambled Seam?

Perhaps they went the way of US alt-country act Leg Gully.

I was about to go for Third Man, but they must be real.

[Andy C]

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Yeah, Anton Karas even formed a tribute band.

[E10 Rifle]

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Whatever happened to tedious prog-rock outfit Hawkeye's Verdict, whose 1975 concept album Negotiating The Middle Overs was widely derided?

[Borracho]

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There was a band years ago called The Cooper Temple Clause.

I don't know what the Cooper Temple clause is though.

[Andy C]

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