Sounds From The Junkshop #9 - Mega City Four
"Take these words I give to you, take some comfort, every word is true" - Mega City Four, Wallflower , 1993 Yup, it's that time again where your friendly music reviewer takes you back on a journey to the early '90s in search of overlooked gems. Given that we’ve already covered Carter USM, the Wonder Stuff, the Senseless Things and Kingmaker in this feature, I suppose it was inevitable that Mega City Four would crop up here as well and so they should - they were another very underrated band who were generally written off as too unglamorous by the stuck up pricks in the inky indie press at the time and whose back catalogue deserves a closer look. The thing is though that Mega City Four were actually a bit different from the other bands haphazardly chucked together under the “fraggle” scene of the early ‘90s. You listened to the Wonder Stuff or to a lesser extent, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin (a band who I have to be honest I liked a few songs by like Kill Your Television bu...