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wasn't that easy to hear something interesting
or vibrant or a bit different, if you lived in
the sticks (not in London) in the UK. In 1992
there were a few specialist radio programmes and
the occasional late night music programme on a
terrestrial TV channel. That's it.
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 Tighten
Up video |
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Sometimes, just sometimes, a Saturday morning
ITV pop chart show type programme would show brief
clips from indie music videos.
"Hello!
We're The Moonflowers!" sang The Moonflowers
at the start of their clip. They’d got into
the indie charts with their cover of ‘Tighten
Up’ and released a very homemade looking
video to accompany it.
The
clip that was shown was brief but it showed the
band doing daft dancing in someone’s room,
somewhere. They looked like scruffy students.
It was a scruffy tune. It was a danceable and
summer-ish and wonderful in a 1992 way. And I
never forgot it.
But
I did take my one good eye off The Moonflowers.
I lost track of their activities.
It
turns out that they were a Bristol based band.
Members included: Sonic Ray, Adam Christian Pope,
James Elmore, Paul Waterworth, Smokin Sam Burns,
Jesse D Vernon, Gina Griffin and Toby Pascoe.
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MF. Pic: moonflowers.org.uk |
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They
formed in December 1987 and produced psychedelic
experimental rock until the late nineties, when
they split. New bands were formed, but I don’t
think they got into the charts a lot.
The
Moonflowers drummer Toby Pascoe killed himself
in 2002.
Anyway.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Because,
at last, The Moonflowers have a presence on the
web, so you can find out for yourselves.
Jesse
D Vernon from the band has put together a website
http://moonflowers.org.uk/
that tells the Moonflowers story and lets you
download some of their music.
On
the 25th of July 2006 Jesse also put The Moonflowers
on Myspace. The page contains the Tighten Up video
so you can see for yourselves what it’s
like. And ask him your own questions.
http://www.myspace.com/thelegendarymoonflowers
Moonflowers
are so called because they bloom in the evening.
I
read it on the internet.
CR
for Extrageographic 7/Aug/2006
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