Sounds From The Junkshop #37 - The High Fidelity
"Come on, turn it on, turn it up and make it louder, lie on your back and think of England..." - The High Fidelity , Addicted To A TV The High Fidelity were one of those brilliant bands who were borderline uncategorisable but with a knack for tunes and experimentalism that set them aside from a lot of their peers. Unfortunately it also left them (as seems to be the case with a lot of Sounds From The Junkshop bands) as a band who didn't really fit in anywhere and just ended up kind of being ignored by the music press. The group were formed from the ashes of two earlier Glasgow bands - singer Sean Dickson had been with C86'ers turned indie-dance bandwagon jumpers the Soup Dragons, best known for their Madchester-esque cover of the Stones' I'm Free (although ironically the follow-up Mother Universe which fared a lot more modestly was a far better song) while drummer Ross McFarlane had previously been behind the kit for blink-and-you'll-miss-them Britrock/...