Two of these superb bands have since become bone-fide indie darlings: Dinosaur Pile-Up and Picture Books in Winter, which just goes to show that, despite the obsession with puns, clunky metaphors and the occasional 'WTF?' band, ANBAD is tip-top when it comes to unearthing bright young things. So come on in - the water's lovely. And full of dinosaurs, apparently.Labels: ANBAD Time Machine
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Labels: Band Clear Out
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Labels: ANBAD on tour, French
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Anyway, I watched it all the same, knowing I'd hate it. Experiencing something in the knowledge that it will be unpleasant in order to see just how bad it is must be a trait unique to humans. It would certainly explain Phil Collins' career.Labels: 80's/90's, Pick 'n' Mix, polarising
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This, of course, is the point, but it does also mean that some great bands are hidden away in the past, buried too far beneath all the other hundred of bands that have flirted with you each day to be dug out and appreciated.Labels: ANBAD Time Machine
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Anyway - Today's New Band, She's Hit, achieved this feat through the most unlikely of sources - a comically mis-read URL. Their Myspace address is www.myspace.com/sheshitglasgow - and if you can't spot the bowel-movement-from-hell gag in that, the you, sir, are the sort of person who sat at the front of class and tutted loudly to please the teacher when someone farted in class.Labels: 80's, Creepy, relaxed muscle
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Make the customer pay more by giving them even more than they bargained for and everyone's happy, right? Except of course, the customer, who's been diddled out of more cash than they wanted.Labels: ANBAD on tour, Band Clear Out
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As a valued ANBAD reader/subscriber/twitterer/etc, you'll be all too painfully aware of the dubious joys of doing things the hard way. We've brought you all sorts of bands over the last 18 months or so - some of which have been wonderful, some of which have vigorously divided opinion and some of which have just been plain awkward.Labels: ANBAD on tour
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Today's New Band are Agaskodo Teliverek. They are a rare example of a band trying to find their own, genuinely new sound. Everything is thrown into the mix in order to see what works, keeping what does, and disposing of what doesn't. As such, there's no set guidelines for their songs, which zip around with gleeful abandon.Labels: creative overload, instruMENTAL, polarising
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That's my excuse for the tardiness of today's post out of the way, at least. Today's New Band - now that's a different, more problematic issue. If the music is too fast, too weird or too noisy, chunder make occur. On the other hand, those parameters could narrow the options down into James Blunt territory. We must tread carefully.Labels: Best whispering melodies, Creepy, French
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So: Today's New Band. Their name is Frantic Clam. Some of you will like the name, some will think it stinks and most will hopefully be too busy listening to their great, driving, songs to care. Labels: "good indie", I love tinnitus, Jaunty
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Labels: actual brilliance, creative overload, mind enema
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However, it's been a corker of a month on ANBAD, with as dizzying and bewildering an array of great new bands as there's ever been. So we're bravely going to avoid placing any frumpy Scottish singers and list the Top 5, in no particular order:Labels: Round Up
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