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David Naylor

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Oct 18, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/18/99
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Just seen Marine Research at the Charlotte in Leicester - and they were fantastic!
If only all female fronted pop bands could sound like them, we wouldn't have had to endure the dismal likes of Sleeper and Echobelly *shudder*.

Sometimes when you see a band with a bit of a legacy behind them, you get a tad worried that they might not be quite what you expected. Talulah Gosh were usually shambolic live, whereas Heavenly destroyed that myth, and Marine Research took off from where Heavenly left off. In fact, the only blame that can be laid down for any sound problems is obviously the Charlotte's sound engineer, who must be one of the worst in the world (he's the guy who took 30 minutes to soundcheck Super Furry Animals before their set, and couldn't work out the principle of a left handed guitar).
Instruments kept on disappearing momentarily - which got quite annoying during the support bands, but was really pissing everyone off by the fifth or sixth time....

The majority of the set was culled off the "Sounds from the Gulf Stream" album, and was very close to the CD version all the time. The stand out tracks for me were the single "Parallel Horizontal" and "Hopefulness to Hopelessness" - Number One's in a parellel world.

A criminally ignored band..... 

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Kris Srinivasan

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Oct 18, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/18/99
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I saw them in Sacramento and they were pretty fantastic, once I got past
the fact that they don't really sound much like Heavenly. Their new album
is wonderful too.

Kris.

James CHA

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Oct 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/19/99
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They have a website at http://listen.to/marineresearch and their
drummer has a website at http://listen.to/djdownfall

Go visit.


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Brian MacDonald

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Oct 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/19/99
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David Naylor <mmc...@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:


>A criminally ignored band.....

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>David Naylor
>mmc...@dmu.ac.uk
>http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~mmc96dn/

Haven't heard them, but I definitely keep hearing about them..
at least in the U.S... so I wouldn't say they're exactly ignored.

David Naylor

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Oct 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/19/99
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Ignored in the sense that considering the kind of stuff that gets played on UK daytime radio, your average Marine Research track would easily fit in. Yeah, Lamacq and Peel  play them in the evening, but daytime, nope....it would probably make them massive stars considering there is a large vacant space where female fronted guitar pop bands are concerned (excluding the likes of texas.....*shudder*).

It would fill a gap.....
Alas, good reviews in all the papers don't always guarantee airplay

Kris Srinivasan

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Oct 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/19/99
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David Naylor <mmc...@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
: nope....it would probably make them massive stars considering there is a

: large vacant space where female fronted guitar pop bands are concerned
: (excluding the likes of texas.....*shudder*).

There's a guitar in that "band"? Yech...

Kris.

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