Talulah Gosh

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Talulah Gosh was an English twee band from Oxford that existed from 1986 to 1988.

history

Founding members were the singer and guitarist Amelia Fletcher (born January 1, 1966), the guitarist Peter Momtchiloff (* 1962), the bassist Rob Pursey (* 1964) and the guitarist and background singer Elizabeth Price (* 1966), while Amelia Fletchers became the drummer Sixteen-year-old brother Mathew (born November 5, 1970 - June 14, 1996 (suicide)) engaged. Pursey and Price left the band after a few months and were replaced by Chris Scott and Eithne Farry (* 1965).

They chose the band name after a headline of the same name in an interview for the New Musical Express about Clare Grogan , the lead singer of Altered Images . They gave their first concert on March 7, 1986, and in May they played a live session on BBC Radio 1 . In December of that year they released their first two singles Beatnik Boy and Steaming Train on the Glaswegian label 53rd & 3rd . With their melodic guitar pop they tied in with the punk of the late 1970s, Fletcher's bright voice and the background vocals of Price and Farry also clearly showed the influence of girl groups of the 1960s such as the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes . Not least thanks to the exuberant reporting from the English music press (the Melody Maker once called them the best band in the world), Talulah Gosh, alongside bands like The Field Mice and Primal Scream, spearheaded the twee and indie pop school, which at the latest since the release of the C86 mixtape as its own subculture.

Talulah Gosh released only four singles and the EP Steaming Train during its existence . The high point of her career was a live session with John Peel in January 1988 ; in autumn 1988 the band broke up. Only then did many of her tracks appear for the first time. First, Rock Legends Vol.69 was released , a compilation of their singles, the two Radio 1 sessions then in 1991 under the title They've Scoffed The Lot . In 1996 the CD Backwash was released with all of the band's studio and live recordings - a total of only 25 tracks. In the review by the New Musical Express, this CD received the very seldom highest rating 10.

The Fletcher siblings, Momtchiloff and the band's former bassist, Rob Pursey, formed Heavenly after Talulah Gosh broke up, and it soon achieved cult status in indie circles.

Discography

Singles

  • Beatnik Boy , 1986
  • Steaming Train , 1986
  • Talulah Gosh , 1987
  • Bringing Up Baby , 1987
  • Testcard Girl , 1988

EPs and samplers

  • Steaming Train , EP, 1986
  • Rock Legends Vol. 69 , Singles compilation, 1988
  • They've Scoffed The Lot , Radio Sessions, 1991
  • Backwash , Collected Works, 1996
  • What is it just a dream? , 2013

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