Needle Time

  Various Artists - Return To Splendour [NING 03 UK 1994 24-Bit FLAC] Here is my third Fierce Panda set, which features the first recording by indie champions The Bluetones who went onto have reasonable indie success for fifteen years. Create! were three mates from Nottingham who could have changed the world ...but didn't. Thurman were stuck in the sixties and broke up two years later after one album, The Weekenders didn't stick around for long, nor did The Nubiles and Alvin Purple only managed one single. Having said that these are all excellent examples of the newer nineties wave of British indie music. Enjoy (more Pandas soon....) A1 The Bluetones - No. 11 B1 Thurman - This Way B2 Create! - Nothing Personal C1 The Weekenders - Seems Like You've Missed Sunday D1 The Nubiles - Tatjana D2 Alvin Purple - Billie

  Various Artists - Crazed And Confused [NING 02 UK 1994 24-Bit FLAC] All of the artists on the second Fierce Panda double pack seven inch went onto some kind of musical career, some briefer than others. Sideburns at the ready, the original and rare (pre-Parlophone) version of Supergrass's  Caught By The Fuzz stands out, I chose to ignore Ash back then (and still do), however there is enough about Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Noise Addict and Tribute To Nothing to make me want to explore more. The flipside tracks on each single are at 33rpm which does its best to hinder audio quality. A1 Credit To The Nation - Pump Your Fist (Live) B1 Ash - Punkboy B2 Noise Addict - She Said C1 Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz D1 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Eira D2 Tribute To Nothing - Before

  Various Artists - Shagging In The Streets [NING 01 UK 1994 24-Bit FLAC] When the majors started dabbling with indie labels in the later eighties, it was to herald the death of the independent spirit in music until new champions began to emerge in the early nineties. One of the most important was Walthamstow's Fierce Panda Records. The label was to eventually be the first home of the occasional major league band (Coldplay & Keane were both once on the roster), however it is for the series of twenty-one double pack seven inch singles that they should be best recognised. Each came in a wrap around paper sleeve with photocopied inserts in a plastic bag reviving the true indie spirit, some played at 33rpm emphasising the label's rough edges with a cheeky play on words as each releases headline title. They are all highly collectable, however I have just six or seven of them in my boxes of singles. Here is the very first .....others will follow! A1 S*M*A*S*H - Bang Bang Bang ...