Steve Mackey , a fellow Sheffielder and supportive fan, was also studying in London by this time and was asked to join as a bass player. In 1989, Fire Records approached Cocker about re-signing Pulp, promising a £10,000 recording budget; still wary from their prior experience with the label, the…
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With a now wide-open schedule, Buck-Tick went back into the studio in the fall of 1989 and recorded their next studio album. They played their first concert since Imai’s arrest at the Gunma Music Center in their home prefecture on December 20. Nine days later, they played a Buck-Tick Phenomenon…
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The band originally formed in 1989 in Essex , England under the name Blinder .
The group performed live for the first time in summer 1989 in the goods shed of the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel & Wakes Colne .
their most successful concerts were two support slots for It Bites in 1989 (one of which was to a capacity audience at the Hammersmith Odeon ).
Keenan and Jones met through a mutual friend in 1989. After Keenan played Jones a tape recording of his previous band project, Jones was so impressed by his voice that he eventually talked his friend into forming a new band. They started jamming together while searching for a drummer and…
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Blur were formed in December 1988 when bassist Alex James joined Damon Albarn’s band, Circus, and they changed the name to Seymour after J. D. Salinger ‘s Seymour: An Introduction .
Buck-Tick’s first major label single ” Just One More Kiss “, became their first hit in October 1988. The band made their first live television appearance the following month performing it on the popular music program Music Station . The song was also used in a series of television commercials…
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Already in the band were drummer Dave Rowntree, who had joined in October, and guitarist Graham Coxon, Albarn’s childhood friend from Essex , who was studying at the University of London ‘s Goldsmiths College along with Albarn and James.
Taboo , the band’s fourth studio album, was previously recorded in London in September 1988 with producer Owen Paul . The band had also played a gig there, at the Greyhound music club, and amongst those who attended were members of the band Der Zibet , who were also recording…
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