Talulah Gosh

Talulah Gosh was an English Twee band from Oxford that existed from 1986 to 1988.

Founding members were singer and guitarist Amelia Fletcher ( * January 1, 1966 ), guitarist Peter Momtchiloff (born 1962 ), bassist Rob Pursey ( b. 1964 ) and the guitarist and backing vocalist Elizabeth Price ( b. 1966 ), the drummer was Amelia Fletcher sixteen year old brother Mathew (* November 5, 1970, † June 14, 1996 ( suicide) ) clamped. Pursey and Price left the band after a few months and was replaced by Chris Scott and Eithne Farry (born 1965 ).

The band name they chose after a homonymous headline of an interview of the New Musical Express on Clare Grogan, the lead singer of Altered Images. They gave their first concert on March 7, 1986, in May they played a live session on BBC Radio 1 in December of the year, they released their first two singles Beatnik Boy and Steaming Train at Glasgow label 53rd & 3rd. With their melodic guitar pop they attached to one of the punk of the late 1970s on, Fletcher's bright voice and the backing vocals of Price and Farry also clearly showed the influence of girl groups of the 1960s such as the Shangri -Las and the Ronettes. Not least thanks to the exuberant reporting by the British music press ( Melody Maker they titled again even as the best band in the world ) were Talulah Gosh alongside bands like The Field Mice and Primal Scream to spearhead Twee and indie-pop school, which must be mixtapes represented as a separate subculture - since the release of C86.

Talulah Gosh time published its existence only four singles and EP Steaming Train. The highlight of her career was in January 1988, a live session with John Peel; in the fall of 1988, the band broke up. Only after many of their tracks appeared for the first time. First appeared Vol.69 Rock Legends, a compilation of their singles, the two radio 1 sessions then in 1991 under the title They've scoffed at The Lot. In 1996, appeared the CD Backwash with all studio and live recordings of the band - a total of only 25 tracks. This CD received in the criticism of the New Musical Express which only very rarely awarded maximum score 10

The Fletcher- siblings, Momtchiloff and the former bassist of the band, Rob Pursey, founded after the dissolution of Talulah Gosh, the band Heavenly, which also soon reached cult status in indie circles.

Discography

Singles

  • Beatnik Boy, 1986
  • Steaming Train, 1986
  • Talulah Gosh, 1987
  • Bringing Up Baby, 1987
  • Test Card Girl, 1988

EPs and Samplers

  • Steaming Train, EP, 1986
  • Rock Legends Vol.69, singles compilation, 1988
  • They've scoffed at The Lot, Radio Sessions, 1991
  • Backwash, Collected Works, 1996.
  • Pop band
  • English band
Elizabeth Price (artist) NME C86 (album)
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