Equally Cursed and Blessed was released on 12 April.
the same month in which “Brothers & Sisters” was released.
Catatonia were so popular at the time that in April 1999, Way Beyond Blue , International Velvet and Equally Cursed and Blessed were all in the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart .
the deal was signed at Trafalgar Square in April 1999
Preceded by the first single, ” Dead from the Waist Down ” on 22 March,
Released in March 1999, Blur’s sixth studio album 13 saw them drift still further away from their Britpop-era attitude and sound. Orbit’s production style allowed for more jamming, and incorporated a “variety of emotions, atmospheres, words and sounds” into the mix. 13 was creatively dominated by Coxon, who “was simply…
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In March 1999, Feeder returned with a new single, ” Day In Day Out “, which charted at No. 31. Two more singles followed, “Insomnia” in May (charting at No. 22 and resulting in their first appearance on Top of the Pops ) and ” Yesterday Went Too Soon ”…
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Mansun’s third studio album, Little Kix (early working titles included Magnetic Poetry and The Trouble With Relationships, ) saw Draper and Chad decamp to the south of Spain in March 1999 where they wrote and demo’d ideas for the album. Draper claimed that following the commercial and critical disappointment of…
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By February 1999, the Damned consisted of Vanian, Sensible, Morrison and new recruits Monty Oxymoron on keyboards and Spike T. Smith on drums. Smith later joined Morrissey ‘s live band and recommended that the Damned recruit Andy (Pinch) Pinching, a founding member of English Dogs , to replace him on…
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On 3 January 1999, Coldplay became the first unsigned act to appear on Lamacq’s Evening Session .