Teenage Fanclub
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Teenage Fanclub: The Forum, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, February 1996
ONE HESITATES TO USE the word "heartwarming" about the endurance of the unassuming Scotsmen who go by the name of Teenage Fanclub, but at a ...
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Teenage Fanclub: A Catholic Education (Paperhouse)
Review by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 23 June 1990
TEENAGE LAMENT ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 11 August 1990
"FUCK, AYE!" The leering Gaelic battle cry is spat out for the twentieth time in a hour by the whippet thin Teenage FC drummer. ...
Teenage Fanclub: A Snog On The Rocks
Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 3 November 1990
Are TEENAGE FANCLUB the best pop band to emerge in the UK for years or are they just four pissed up Scots taking the piss? ...
Teenage Fan Club, Gumball: International One, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 24 November 1990
YOUR DRUMMER looks like some kinda freaked golf player, your bass player looks like an American touring circuit pro, your encore sees half the Fannies ...
Teenage Fanclub, The Pastels, BMX Bandits: New Cross Venue, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 12 January 1991
HOOTS MON and eat your heart out Andy Stewart. The sporran-studded Hogmanay Jockstravaganza started early last year with this pre-Xmas gathering of the clans. ...
Teenage Fanclub: I Was a Teenage Fannie
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, November 1991
Has rock'n'roll gone soft? Live they sound like the outbreak of World War III, but off-stage Glasgow grungers Teenage Fanclub discuss new-world realpolitik and go ...
Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque (Creation! All formats)
Review by James Brown, New Musical Express, 2 November 1991
O STUPOR-MEN! ...
Teenage Fanclub: The Glitz And The Grunge
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 1 December 1991
WITH THEIR first single, 'Everything Flows', last year, Teenage Fanclub's grinding raunch and bluesy solos announced that here at last was a British group unafraid ...
Teenage Fan Club: Bandwagonesque (DGC)
Review by Simon Reynolds, The Village Voice, 3 December 1991
AS A BRIT who spends a lot of time in the U.S., I could hardly fail to notice the scathing scepticism of American hipsters when ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, Melody Maker, 1 February 1992
When Teenage Fanclub step into the studio, the rules are simple: use old guitars, old amps and old recording equipment "to make a record we ...
Teenage Fanclub: Sells like Spirit
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, July 1993
From the budget-priced Bandwagonesque to best mates with Nirvana and Saturday Night Live — it was but a short Sunday drive for Teenage Fanclub in ...
Teenage Fanclub: Norman's Song Quest
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 9 October 1993
TEENAGE FANCLUB have unleashed their new album, Thirteen, already resigned to a critical savaging — because it's not the latest word in designer grunge. TED ...
Teenage Fanclub, Superchunk, The Posies: The Institute, Birmingham
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 23 October 1993
WILD, KEEN, HAIRY HIP KIDS ...
Teenage Fanclub: Diary of an LP
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 23 October 1993
It's that occasional series again: this time, a peep at the diary of TEENAGE FANCLUB's Raymond McGiniey during the making of Thirteen. TOM DOYLE is ...
Teenage Fanclub: Teenage kicks all through the night
Report and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 12 November 1993
Caitlin Moran sits quietly in Teenage Fanclub's dressing-room and is blinded by the delights. ...
Report and Interview by Siân Pattenden, Select, February 1994
Teetotal, or total pissheads? Who drinks what, and what does it say about them? Select goes on the ale (strictly for research purposes, of course) ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 1995
MAYBE IT'S OPTIMISM born of the knowledge that they have a marvellous new album in the can, but Teenage Fanclub reckon that Spring has arrived. ...
Teenage Fanclub: Wild and crazy guise
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 12 May 1995
There is a time when Teenage Fanclub stop making jokes. Luckily, it coincides with making music ...
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, June 1995
THE BUCKFAST BEATLES, THE Belshill Beach Byrds: whatever you want to call them, the Teenage Fanclub are back. And their new album (their sixth, if ...
Teenage Fanclub: Shepherd's Bush Empire
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 5 June 1995
YOU CAN tell a lot about a band from their choice of cover versions. As their tumultuous set rampaged to a close, Teenage Fanclub ripped ...
Teenage Fanclub: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 6 June 1995
Wonderful formula won ...
Teenage Fanclub: Pyramids Centre, Portsmouth
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 June 1995
FUN GUYS, THE BOOGIE MEN ...
Teenage Fanclub: Grand Prix (Creation CRE173)
Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, July 1995
Top Gear! ...
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 1 September 1995
Britpop may be bland, but the Reading Festival shows we are over the dark days of last year ...
Teenage Fanclub: Kentish Town Forum, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 16 December 1995
SHOULD YOU happen to care about affection and chrysanthemums and heartache and damp bedrooms lit with a warm glow, then Teenage Fanclub will not only ...
Teenage Fanclub: Sporty, Scary, Posh & Ginger
Report and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 1997
Thursday, May 30, 1996 ...
Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Teenage Fanclub: International Arena, Cardiff
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997
TO DAI FOR! ...
Teenage Fanclub: Radio Byrdsmen
Interview by Joss Hutton, Bucketfull of Brains, Spring 1997
Joss Hutton talks to Teenage Fanclub about their long-awaited new album Songs From Northern Britain. ...
The Dawn of Creation (and the middle and the end)
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 December 1999
SO THE party's over. Alan McGee has picked up his ball and moved on, to pastures new — multimedia and, no doubt, highly lucrative. Although ...
Teenage Fanclub: Howdy! (Columbia)
Review and Interview by Nick Hornby, MOJO, November 2000
Sixth studio album from the Glaswegian sunshine pop band, latterly of Alan McGee’s now defunct Creation label. ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2000
EIGHTH LONG-player from Glasgow's finest, produced by Norman Blake & Co ...
The Retro Grade: Welcome To Calibernia
Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
Teenage Fanclub: Howdy! Cosmic Rough Riders: Enjoy the Melodic SunshineKingsbury Manx: Kingsbury ManxPhoenix: United ...
Teenage Fanclub/Jad Fair: Barbican, London
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 25 April 2002
"IS THIS A JOKE?" shouts a disgruntled heckler midway through this unsatisfying evening. "Get off". It doesn't seem to be a joke. The Barbican's Only ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2003
How TEENAGE FANCLUB became Kurt Cobain's favourite band, looked set to conquer the world, then decided they had better things to do… ...
Various Artists: What a Concept! A Salute to Teenage Fanclub
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
HOW DO WE love Teenage Fanclub? Let us count the ways on this fine tribute album, which consists of 24 mainly Yank versions of Fannies ...
Review by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, May 2005
I SEE kaleidoscopic images, swirls of psychedelic color, a sunny day in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, with hippies everywhere, long-haired teenagers and twentysomethings blowing ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, May 2005
WHAT'S IN A NAME? If Howdy! suggested a flash of cheerfulness that meant well but was gone in a second, then Man-Made deliberately slows everything ...
Teenage Fanclub: Love In A Cold Climate
Retrospective and Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, July 2005
Ladies and gentlemen! Gasp, as Scots prestidigitators the Teenage Fanclub turn base indie guitar slag into romantic pop gold! Gape, as their death-defying story is ...
Teenage Fanclub: "We were never famous, so we're still getting old"
Profile and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 4 September 2016
Indie survivors Teenage Fanclub and their sweet, sunny, smart songs still have a fervent following. So what has prompted the sadness on their new – ...
Go All The Way: A Thing Called Power Pop
Overview by Dave Laing (Australia), I Like Your Old Stuff, 25 March 2017
"Pete Townshend coined the phrase [power pop] to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didn't stick to the Who, but it did ...
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