Belle and Sebastian - Mayfly

Coming from a different tradition to Franz Ferdinand, the Delgados, and most definitely to Pink Kross and the Space Kittens, by 1996 Belle and Sebastian were coming through and, while still a cult concern at that point, and a few years away from unexpectedly winning the public vote award at the Brit Awards, it's all here.

Spare Snare - Bugs

The sound of summer 1996

THE SECRET GOLDFISH Pink Drone

The Secret Goldfish were signed to the Glasgow label Creeping Bent, which was Clare Grogan and Stephen Lironi's label.

Some of their songs, such as 'Dandelion Milk Summer', were more towards the twee/C86 end of things, but 'Pink Drone' (released as a single as 'Punk Drone') was epic.

Pink Kross - Peel Session 1995

Pink Kross!

I remember this Peel Session, they were a great live band as well. They ended up headlining the No Fi Fest in Manchester at the Star and Garter in 1998 after Yummy Fur pulled out and, during all the frenetic pogoeing, the floor began to move in some very alarming ways indeed.

Didn't collapse though. Always good that.

space kittens pussy machine

The Space Kittens were closer kin to, perhaps, Pink Kross, than they were to Bis or even perhaps to Lungleg. Much more the hardcore, punk end of things. They were a fantastic live band, as this clip of a reformation gig shows.

03 In The Company Of Women The Yummy Fur - Sexy World -

And here are the Yummy Fur themselves.

Lungleg get a mention in this one and, if you ever get hold of a copy of the Sexy World LP and flip it over to look at the back then you'll see it's made up of tiny snapshots of a substantial number of people who were in bands in Glasgow at the time.

Franz Ferdinand - Maid To Minx (Lungleg cover) 2014

In which contemporary Glasgow meets 90s Glasgow.

The links between Franz Ferdinand and the Yummy Fur are well known, with a number of members of Franz having passed through the later period lineups of the Fur. The Yummy Fur were led by John McKeown, whose sister Jane played bass in Lungleg.

Lungleg formed shortly before the Yummy Fur, in 1994. Their first 2 EP's were released on the London label Piao!, and they went on to record an LP for the Glasgow label Vesuvius in 1997, which featured an early version of 'Maid To Minx'.

In 1999 the band reworked and re-released the single for Southern Records.

The clip below is the 1999 version and, by the by, the artwork for Maid To Minx the album was created by Jaime Hernandez, of Love and Rockets fame.

Sucrose - The Delgados

'Sucrose', from the bands debut album Domestiques was the one that had an absolute blinder of an extra track on the CD single, and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the track except that it might have been a cover version.

Why did I not keep it?!?

Lost in France trailer - special screening and reunion gig 21 February l...

Aaaahhhhh!

It's like one massive flashback to my fanzine writer years.

To that time in the mid-late 1990s when ALL the best bands were from:

A) Glasgow
B) Newcastle
C) Lanarkshire in the wider sense
D) The North East in the wider sense

End of.

Lost In France will be showing in Manchester on Tuesday 21 February at 20:15 at Home as part of a live satellite broadcast from Glasgow Film Festival. As it should be!

Chemikal Underground had such a massive impact on the Glasgow music scene and it's great to see that someone has documented that.

Note: I know I spelled Chemikal Underground right, but autocorrect corrected it, so I've now corrected it back again