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The first two BMX Bandits album recorded in 1989 and 1991.
C86 was recorded shortly after debut single E102, and back to back and in
the same studio as Teenage Fanclub's A Catholic Education....at that time
the two groups shared two members in common, Norman Blake and Francis
Macdonald. The title C86 was an ironic jab at being labeled as part of a
dying scene. And wasn't it just....how strange it's back again :-)
Star Wars marked the arrival of Eugene Kelly (The Vaselines) in the group's
line up.
Star Wars has not been available for over a decade.
Both albums on one action-packed CD give a unique picture of the opening
salvo in perhaps Scotland's greatest pop career!
Brian Hogg (author of the Guinness History of Scottish Rock & Pop, and the
classic "All That Ever Mattered"), perhaps puts it best:
"O.K. Here's the brief. There's a group, without which, there would be no
Teenage Fanclub, no Eugenius, no Superstar, no Soup Dragons, no Future
Pilot. Just to confuse the argument, it's a group of unique, original vision
which deserves appraisal on it's own terms and not be hidebound by
preconceptions. They are the BMX Bandits.
In 1989 the Bandits forged their debut album, sarcastically titled 'C86'
after the notorious NME anorak compilation. An electric set, it ranged from
the rumbustuous 'Right Across The Street', through the bossanova swing of
'Rimbaud And Me' to the ironic folknik hoedown of the title track. Such
performances were a cheeky riposte to those eager to pigeon-hole the group.
A second album, 'Star Wars', appeared in 1992. Eugene Kelly, formerly of the
Vaselines, supplemented the above quintet on a collection displaying a more
cohesive sound. The highlights included the lovely 'Extraordinary', a moving
version of 'Green Grow The Rushes' and the haunting title track which merged
a call to arms chorus with a Brian Wilson-styled melody".
**Available for the first time in over a decade, two absolute classic albums
back to back....oo-er!
**Beautifully remastered by the lovely Nick Robbins!
**Memories from the wonderful Duglas T. Stewart and other Bandits....AND the
earliest Bandits recording, Disco Girl 2, the original demo by Duglas and
Norman Blake!
**A must for all fans of beautiful music, rare humour, and rock out bliss
(if you catch my drift).....the birth of a legend!
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