Whatever happened to.....?

[aMUSEd]

this thread is about bands you liked but that faded away and got forgotten....what happened to them or their members?

I'd like to start with one of my alltime fave bands - the Young Marble Giants - you never hear much about them these days but they were a big influence on me - basically for their creativity in being able to make such profoundly beautiful and intelligent songs out of just a few simple elements - taught me a lot.

I also liked their humour - and the singer's voice was gorgeous (Alison Statton)- I have all their stuff on vinyl still

Anyone else remember or like them? - I found out a bit about what happened to them but not much:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/ ... aphy.shtml

never knew Kurt Cobain was a fan

[BONES]

Damn! I thought this was going to be a thread about BUZZCOCKS. Incidentally, they were still going strong last time I chacked.

[shamann]

I'm a big Young Marble Giants fan. Really like The Weekend, too.

Haven't followed the BBC link, but here's all I know about what happened to them:

YMG morphed into Weekend for one ablum (La Varieté)
Singer became a solo jazz singer.
Stuart whatsisface appeared on a Sixths album in the mid-90s. Think he does record label stuff.

That's all I got.

Whatever happened to any of the following:
Circle Jerks
Dead Milkmen
Hoodoo Gurus
Magazine (other than Barry Adamson, where's the rest of them)
Terrence Trent D'arby

[aMUSEd]

Magazine were a great band too - don't know what happened to Devoto etc though. Adamson is a solid bassist.

Didn't know about that Weekend album - have to search for a copy - is it similar to YMG or did they branch out?

[Voidoid Surrealist]

Sadly, Dave Blood of the Dead Milkmen commited suicide last March.

Devoto was working as a photo librarian for the past ten years, but hooked up with Pete Shelly again in 2002 to record "Buzzkunst". Dunno what he's up to now...

[dystonia_ek]

Jouissance. 'Sunlight Penetrates the Crown' was a masterpiece. Michael Sefton, if you're out there, get in touch.

Also missed:
New Blockaders (recently retired, this time permanently according to Richard)
Contrastate (split up in 1997)
Coil (disbanded after Geff died last november)
HNAS (split over 'artistic differences' members now working solo and in Mirror, Mimir, Current 93, and a host of other projects)
Metamorphosis (dissapeared - where are you?)
Unkommuniti (instigator Tim Gane is now busy with his newer band Stereolab)
Ramleh (seem to have just fizzled out - Gary Mundy also plays guitar in the dreadful Breathless)
Nails of Christ (absorbed into The Grey Wolves)
Noizeclot (vanished into thin air - I've enquired about reissuing their old tapes on CD but haven't had any response from the ex-proprietor of their old label)
Metgumbnerbone (Sean/Sedayne is now doing ambient/trad folk fusion stuff. The Rupenus brothers were also in TNB. Don't know what happened to the other members)
Masstishaddhu (trio of Metgumbnerbone/TNB members, one-off project)
Etat Brut (also vanished - their 'Steel' cassette on Aeon was excellent, like early Test Dept in a way but scarier)
John Watermann (deceased)
MB (not deceased but it's not the same anymore)
Zero Kama (Michael now publishes occult books through his Ananael press and no longer dabbles in music)
Core (seems to have been a Cranioclast side project, short-lived)
Vivenza (now seemingly a right-wing/third position political activist in France)
Dagda Mor (seems to have just stopped a few years ago)
Inanna (retired project of Mikael Stavostrand, now doing minimal tech/glitch as Mitek).
and tons of others...

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[androidlove]

when the velvet underground got back together i could hear why they broke up. long live wheatus!

[smp]

Jouissance. 'Sunlight Penetrates the Crown' was a masterpiece. Michael Sefton, if you're out there, get in touch.

Also missed:
[...]

Coil

[long list of bands I have never heard of]

At least I know the answer for Coil. Jhon Balance died in an accident late last year. I believe the other guys all agreed to pack it in after that out of respect.

If this was news to anyone, Brainwashed - the Coil website - will bring you up to speed.

'Twas a sad day, that one...

-s

[smp]

Terrence Trent D'arby

He went on to front INXS for a brief period. Then he faded once more into obscurity (who would have thought fading away was a career upturn? )

-s

(still, at least Terence was a better INXS frontman than Jon Stevens )

[Morgaxx]

Chacked....Where I come from Chacked is a variation of Chorked, which means to puke... Hope you are well...

[Kriminal]

The Scorpions

[soulkraka]

Whatever happened to any of the following:

Terrence Trent D'arby

I believe that his ego slowly consumed him from the inside out.

http://www.sanandamaitreya.com/intervie ... stone.html

[Voidoid Surrealist]

I wonder what happened to...

The Elastik Band
The Outer Mongolian Herd
Coroner
Severe Warning
Sacred Death
Damien
Tempter
Abomination (not the ones from Brazil)
Coven
Pink Fairies
Amebix
The Dogs
Seige
Suicide
Silver Apples
The Bees
Trojans of Evol

...or what any of those people are doing now...

[meeks]

Whatever happened to any of the following:
Circle Jerks

Lead singer in Venice and can see washing dishes in a dinner, also reported that he got called a hippie at a punk concert...so the story goes as was told to me last week.

[meeks]

The Scorpions

You mean KROKUS