Teenage Fanclub

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In the late 1980s, Scotland's Teenage Fanclub – appearing here as part of the 10th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – formed in a riot of loud guitars, irreverence and highly erratic if promising Americanised rock music. Big Star and The Byrds were their primary touchstones, and through lauded albums Bandwagonesque(1991), Grand Prix(1995) and Songs from Northern Britain(1997), the band made a strong case for sticking closely to rock tradition in an era when dance music and the Madchester scene still ruled.

Interestingly, while critics deemed it okay for Primal Scream to do impressions of The Rolling Stones (Primal Scream's Screamadelicawas released the same year as Bandwagonesque), Teenage Fanclub's nods to Big Star, Love, The Byrds, Neil Young and The Beach Boys had them labelled in some quarters as unimaginative. What happened next? Oasis were heralded as the future of British rock. Oh, dear.

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Lloyd Cole, Monday, Dublin