Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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An indie space rock band who shared their name with a couple of other groups as well as John Carpenter's SF comedy flick and The Grateful Dead’s most famous live opus. They arrived in the late 1990s, perhaps a little too late and a little too inflexibly to catch light during the Britpop era and disappeared after releasing one fine album ‘Twenty-Twenty Sound’ from which this was the main hit (albeit in the form of a house remix which were de rigueur at the time).

I have re-cut the video promo (which is remarkably similar to 'Song 2' by labelmates Blur, from a couple of years earlier) with the original audio as it appeared on both the album and the ‘I Am The Sun’ EP.

They were a polished live act and I was lucky enough to catch one of their few ever gigs at Northampton Roadmender during the summer of 2000 and even schmoozed post-gig with the enthusiastic drummer and chatty frontman (who I think subsequently did some touring as guitarist for the Pet Shop Boys),

I can’t remember much, save they weren’t delighted with that most establishment of English record companies EMI, for whom they were perhaps a bad fit, which probably explains their departure and disintegration the following year.

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