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Artist: BMX Bandits: mp3 download
Genre(s):
Rock
BMX Bandits’s discography:
Down at the Hop
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
A prima light of the transitory C-86/anorak go of the mid-1980’s, the BMX Bandits stood at the epicentre of the Scottish bulge music scene for over a decennary; however, scorn portion launch the careers of talents ranging from Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius to the Soup Dragons and Superstar, the radical itself never grew beyond the confines of a torrid cult next. They were basically the vehicle of singer/guitarist Duglas T. Stewart, a Bellshill native and onetime member of the Pretty Flowers; he formed the band in 1985, sardonically selecting the make “BMX Bandits” knocked out of his belief that they would fall aside later but one and only gig. Instead, the group became a popular local attracter, and ahead long sign to Stephen Pastel’s 53rd and third gear label.
Recorded with a line up of Stewart, bassist Sean Dickson, guitarist Jim McCulloch, drummer Willie McArdle and championship singer Billy Wood, the BMX Bandits’ charming 1986 debut unmarried “E102″ launched them to the cutting edge of the C-86 insurrection, contempt organism denied a smirch on the NME magazine compilation cassette of naive jangle-pop which gave the motion its name. By the follow-up, “What a Wonderful World,” both McArdle and Dickson had exited, and were replaced by ex-Boy Hairdressers bassist Joe McAlinden and drummer Francis McDonald; Dickson presently founded his own band, the Soup Dragons, the first of many BMX Bandits spin-offs to overshadow the original group’s success.
After a series of subsequent singles and roll changes (including the exit of McCulloch, world Health Organization joined Dickson in the Soup Dragons), the BMX Bandits — Stewart, McDonald, McAlinden, mate Boy Hairdressers alum Norman Blake, and guitarist Gordon Keen — released their long-awaited debut LP, the banteringly C-86, in 1990. A capricious concert album, Totally Groovy Live Experience!, appeared subsequently in the year, simply another hiatus followed as Blake and McDonald formed Teenage Fanclub. Blake returned to the Bandits flock, still, for 1991’s Headliner Wars, too recorded with ex-Vaselines frontman Eugene Kelly; subsequently the 1992 EP Gordon Keen and His BMX Bandits, Keen and Kelly bust off to form Captain America, subsequently rechristened Eugenius, and McAlinden founded Superstar.
Subsequently in 1992, the BMX Bandits signed to the Creation label, where they issued their finest try to date, the exclusive “Grave Drugs.” 1993’s Life Goes On was the first Bandits LP recorded with the regular of line up of Stewart, McDonald (subsequently a brief tenure in Teenage Fanclub), his bassist brother Finlay, and guitarist John Hogarty; ex-Soup Dragon Sushil Dade was subsequently added to the roll for 1995’s Gettin’ Dirty, a move into more lucullan sonic soil drawing crystallize aspiration from the Beach Boys.
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