The Pollards Of Lop Episode 2: 1990

So, thoughts on being 19/20 in 1990 and the discussion:

1) My memory is that I saw the none-more-1990 pairing of EMF supporting Adamski at Leeds University Union (in the smaller hall where you couldn’t drink, not the Refectory, which was the big venue). There’s an EMF fan site that doesn’t list the gig, but has them supporting Adamski in Glasgow around the same time, so I’m holding out that I’m right. (Adamski definitely played – it’s the EMF element that’s unverified). I was there to review the gig for the student newspaper – I think the first thing I ever wrote for them.

2) What I can’t specifically remember, as per Tom’s question, is whether the Walk On The Wild Side sample made Can I Kick It? particularly welcome at indie discos. I associate it with the kind of night where you’d get the dancier end of baggy (ie Mondays remixes), a bit of LFO and a bit of NWA. As opposed to somewhere where you’d get Ride and Neds, and maybe The Replacements and Julian Cope if you were lucky.

3) Oh, and indeed in my first week at university (Oct 1989) getting told I had no business wearing a Stone Roses T-shirt because I came from London. I do think I had the T-shirt more because I liked it as a T-shirt than because I was deeply devoted to the band…