Sounds From The Junkshop #31 - Spacehog
"Lands are green and skies are blue but all in all, we're just like you" - Spacehog , In The Meantime , 1996 I've mentioned in SFTJ's past how it was a bit of a rarity in the mid-'90s for bands from Leeds or Bradford to be chart-bothering material. I started listening to guitar music in the early '90s and as far as northern music went then the focus was very much across the Pennines in Manchester. Although the Sisters of Mercy, the Mission and the Cult were all technically Leeds/Bradford bands (or at least had members hailing from there), it was unlikely to say the least that you were going to run into Andrew Eldritch or Wayne Hussey on the Headrow or see Ian Astbury doing his shopping at the Kirkgate Centre. New Model Army were still doggedly hanging on at this point although they were very much at the tail end of their success by now while the Bridewell Taxis and Cud never really rose above cult status (though as mentioned in the first Footnotes secti...