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Elastica
Elastica were an English rock band formed in London in 1992 by guitarist/singer Justine Frischmann and drummer Justin Welch after their departure from Suede. The band was stylistically influenced by punk rock, post-punk and new wave music. The band's members changed several times, with Frischmann and Welch being the only members who remained in Elastica from its formation to its dissolution. Elastica quickly rose to prominence after the release of their debut single " Stutter" in November 1993, and the band's next three singles charted in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album '' Elastica'' (1995) was an immediate success and broke records for the fastest-selling debut album in the UK; the album also found success in the United States and produced the band's highest-charting US Hot 100 hit, " Connection". However, the band would later find itself in controversy over accusations of plagiarism, which were settled out-of-court. Development on a follow-up al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elastica (album)
''Elastica'' is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Elastica. It was released in March 1995 through Deceptive Records in the UK and DCG/Geffen Records internationally. The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. This is the only album to feature the original line-up, and guitarist Donna Matthews. Reception ''Elastica'' was well-received critically. The ''Los Angeles Times'' opined that "the smart, sassy savagings of losers and poseurs are a refreshing advance from grunge's gloomy self-absorption." ''The Independent'' concluded that "it is, yes, new new wave, and sometimes too close to old new wave: 'Vaseline' is Blondie and 'Waking Up' the Stranglers." '' Select'' ranked the album at number 9 in its list of the "50 albums of the year". In the U.S., the album was ranked as the sixth best album of the year by Mike Boehm in the ''Los Angeles Times'', and the album was also highly rated by ''Rolling Stone'', ''Spin'' and ''The Village Voice''. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connection (Elastica Song)
"Connection" is a song by Britpop group Elastica. It was originally released on 10 October 1994 as a single and included on their Elastica (album), self-titled debut album in 1995. The song debuted and peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart and became one of the few Britpop songs to gain popularity in North America, reaching number 53 on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, number two on the ''Billboard'' Alternative Songs, Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number nine on the Canadian ''RPM (magazine), RPM'' 100 Hit Tracks chart. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Damon Albarn mentions playing the synthesizer intro on a Yamaha QY10 handheld sequencer. The song was the subject of controversy due to its overt similarity to another band's work. The intro synthesizer part (later repeated as a guitar figure) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire (band), Wire's "Pink Flag, Three Girl Rhumba" and transposed down a semitone. A judgment resulted in an out-of-court settlement an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Menace (album)
''The Menace'' is the second and final studio album by English rock band Elastica, released in the UK via Deceptive Records on 3 April 2000, and internationally on 22 August 2000 through Atlantic Records. Background After the release of their eponymous debut record in 1995, the band started touring and in the process started partying ferociously and dabbling in drugs. The first attempt to record their second work was in France and Ireland at the end of 1996, but internal problems caused the departure of members (including vocalist/guitarist Donna Matthews and bassist Annie Holland) and the temporary dissolution of the group. Leader Justine Frischmann, who had recently broken up with boyfriend Damon Albarn of Blur, started to work on Brian Eno-influenced mood music with flatmate Loz Hardy of Kingmaker, resulting on tracks like "Miami Nice" and "My Sex", which ended up on the album. Frischmann reconnected with Annie Holland in early 1999 and formed a new line-up of the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stutter (Elastica Song)
"Stutter" is the debut single by the Britpop group Elastica and was written by lead singer Justine Frischmann. It was originally released as a single in the UK in November 1993 and in the US in September 1994. The song was later included on the band's 1995 self-titled debut album. The single, which received positive reviews from critics, charted in the US and Canada. Background "Stutter" was written by Elastica's lead singer, Justine Frischmann. The song is a little over two minutes long and contains just two verses and two choruses because Frischmann thought that any more would be unnecessary.Bennett, Andy and Stratton, Jon. Britpop and the English Music Tradition' (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010), pp. 60-61. The lyrics are about "the occasional problem of drunken male impotence." Release "Stutter" was first released in November 1993 for the independent Deceptive label. It was released initially as a 7" only and sold out within one day. Although it was a limited edition of only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Holland
Annabel "Annie" Holland (born 26 August 1965) is a British musician. She is best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of the Britpop band Elastica. Holland had an Elastica song titled in her honour. "Annie" was written by guitarist Donna Matthews and her friend Jane Oliver and is about going down to Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ... to visit Holland, which is where she spent most of the time when the band were not working. Holland left the band after the Féile Festival on 6 August 1995. Although she had some well-publicised arguments with Matthews about the future of Elastica, Holland left because she was fed up with the constant touring and was suffering quite badly from repetitive strain injury. At the time Elastica had been on the road for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Frischmann
Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and retired musician. After forming Suede, she co-founded the Britpop band Elastica before retiring from the music industry and pursuing a career as an artist. Early years Frischmann was born on 16 September 1969 in Twickenham, England, the daughter of Wilem Frischmann, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who is the former chairman of the Pell Frischmann company of consulting engineers, and a Russian mother. Her parents are both Jewish. She grew up in Twickenham, Greater London, and attended St Paul's Girls School, before studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London from 1989 to 1993. Career Music Frischmann began writing and studying music at age 11. She was a founding member of the band Suede with Brett Anderson, whom she met at UCL in 1988. She left the band in October 1991. In the 2018 documentary ''The Insatiable Ones'', Anderson cites her as a highly significant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Welch
Justin Steven Welch (born 4 December 1972) is an English musician, best known as the drummer in Elastica, Suede, and later the drummer in Lush. Welch is currently the drummer of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Biography Welch moved to London in his late teens and studied at London's Drumtech drum school. He played drums in a number of bands in the early 1990s, including an early line-up of Suede (where he would first meet Justine Frischmann) and Spitfire. In 1996, Welch also formed the Britpop supergroup Me Me Me with Blur bassist Alex James and The Lilac Time frontman Stephen Duffy, who released one single "Hanging Around". Elastica split in 2001 and Welch moved to Devon where he taught drums in secondary and primary schools. In 2012, he was in a duo with friend and former EMF frontman James Atkin called 'Asbo Kid'. He also played drums for Brighton-based band Das Fenster. In 2013, Welch briefly re-united with Suede for several gigs to replace drummer Simon Gilbert who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Up (song)
"Line Up" is a song by English rock band Elastica, released on 31 January 1994 as the second single from their eponymous debut album. It spent three weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 20 on 12 February 1994. Track listing UK CD & 12" single # "Line Up" # "Vaseline" (Demo Version) # "Rockunroll" (Peel Session) # "Annie" (Peel Session) AUS CD single # "Line Up" # "Gloria" # "Car Wash" # "Brighton Rock" Soundtrack appearances The song appears on the soundtrack to the 1995 film ''Mallrats ''Mallrats'' is a 1995 American buddy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Claire Forlani, Priscilla Barnes and Michael Rooker. It is the second film in the View Askewnive ...''. It also appeared in '' Not Another Teen Movie''. Charts References 1994 songs 1994 singles Elastica songs Songs written by Justine Frischmann UK Independent Singles Chart number-one singles {{1990s-rock-single-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Matthews
Donna Lorraine Matthews (born 2 December 1971) is a Welsh musician who was the lead guitarist of the Britpop band Elastica. Music career When she was 20, Matthews answered an advert in ''Melody Maker'' for a guitarist with a new band. She became a member of Elastica, subsequently becoming one of their songwriters and credited for many of their tracks. Matthews left Elastica in the spring of 1999 after the band's output had waned and she had developed a heroin habit. In April 2000 she briefly rejoined the band to play one track, " Connection", at the London Kentish Town Forum after being invited out of the audience by Elastica singer Justine Frischmann. After shaking off her drug addiction she formed an unnamed band with bassist Isabel Waidner and Catrin Jones. In May 2003 they produced and sold 1000 copies of a single, called "L.O.V.E." In May 2004, Matthews' new band, Klang (with Waidner and drummer Keisuke Hiratsuka) released their debut album, ''No Sound is Heard''. Klang hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britpop
Britpop was a mid-1990s United Kingdom, British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, with significant influences from British guitar pop of the 1960s and 1970s. Britpop was considered a musical reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the American-led grunge music of the time, and Britain's own shoegaze music scene. The movement brought British alternative rock into the mainstream and formed the larger Culture of the United Kingdom, British popular cultural movement, Cool Britannia, which evoked the Swinging Sixties and the British guitar pop of that decade. Britpop was a phenomenon that highlighted bands emerging from the independent music scene of the early 1990s. Although often seen as a cultural moment rather than a distinct musical genre, its associated bands typically drew inspiration from the British pop music of the 1960s, the glam rock and punk rock of the 1970s, and the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deceptive Records
Deceptive Records was a British independent record label formed in 1993 by Steve Lamacq, Tony Smith and Alan James, which concentrated on rock and alternative rock. The most famous group signed to the label were Elastica. Steve Lamacq left the company after the release of Elastica's first album to avoid accusations of partiality on the Evening Session, his BBC Radio 1 show. Owing to financial struggles, the label closed down on 4 February 2001. Bands and artists * Angelica * Collapsed Lung * Elastica * The Junket * Scarfo * Snuff * Earl Brutus * Jonathan Fire*Eater * Shriek * Spare Snare * Superfine * Unun * The Pin Ups * Lauren Laverne * Idlewild * Placebo * Ten Benson See also * Lists of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, ... Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Lamacq
Stephen Paul Lamacq (born 16 October 1964), sometimes known by his nickname Lammo (given to him by John Peel), is an English disc jockey, currently working with BBC Radio 6 Music. Lamacq was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting and to music venues. Early life Lamacq was born in Bournemouth, and first lived in Ferndown. He and his family later moved to the Essex village of Colne Engaine and attended The Ramsey Academy from 1976, which had been formed the previous year from two grammar schools. Early career Lamacq cites Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "wonderful" 1979 single "Electricity (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song), Electricity" as his inspiration to become a disc jockey, noting that he wanted to afford air time to similar, "curious" music. Prior to launching this career, he studied journalism at Harlow College, Essex, and worked as a junior reporter at the ''West Essex Gazette''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
