Sounds From The Junkshop #27 - Hurricane #1
"One day I'll fly away, head for the sun, one day I'm hoping maybe that I'll feel like someone..." - Hurricane #1 - Keep Walking , 1997 This, I suspect, is going to be quite a convoluted SFTJ so you might want to nip out and get yourself a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits. Don't worry, I'll still be here ready to go when you get back. All ready now? Good. Okay, so before Hurricane #1 there was Ride who were one of the few shoegazing bands of the early '90s that I actually used to quite like. I almost certainly first discovered them while having one of those evenings suitably, erm, relaxed shall we say on "magic parsley" round at one of my shoegazer mates' houses in my mid-teens that I mentioned in the Lush SFTJ last month. Any road up, Ride were a four-piece from Oxford who were signed to Creation (back when it was known as the premier shoegazing label in the days before Oasis). Unlike a lot of bands of the genre though, they were...