Comments on: BIS WEEK: How Bis Are Responsible For Twilight http://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2010/01/bis-week-how-bis-are-responsible-for-twilight/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2010/01/bis-week-how-bis-are-responsible-for-twilight/#comment-687955 Mike Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:00:51 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16983#comment-687955 If anyone is looking to get a cheap copy of this Bis single, I am selling a copy at http://indierock45s.blogspot.com. Lots of other Bis 7"s available too. If anyone is looking to get a cheap copy of this Bis single, I am selling a copy at http://indierock45s.blogspot.com. Lots of other Bis 7″s available too.

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2010/01/bis-week-how-bis-are-responsible-for-twilight/#comment-672599 Pete Baran Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:54:02 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16983#comment-672599 You are absolutely right Kit, in particular with Pop Will Eat Itself it was also their biggest hit (fanbase pissed off with record company, note to fanbase, there are better times to show solidarity). Perhaps with Bis the line should have been first unsigned band without a hit single. It was more the lack of hit single that was the nail in TOTP coffin rather than the unsigned bit, though the HOOHAH about it also didn't help. You are absolutely right Kit, in particular with Pop Will Eat Itself it was also their biggest hit (fanbase pissed off with record company, note to fanbase, there are better times to show solidarity). Perhaps with Bis the line should have been first unsigned band without a hit single. It was more the lack of hit single that was the nail in TOTP coffin rather than the unsigned bit, though the HOOHAH about it also didn’t help.

]]> By: Kit http://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2010/01/bis-week-how-bis-are-responsible-for-twilight/#comment-672571 Kit Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:17:39 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16983#comment-672571 * this was also a smart marketing catchphrase rather than an Actual Fact - PWEI for one had appeared unsigned in 1993¹, and it seems unlikely that in 30 years no-one else had ever been on the show while either between labels or at least on a record-to-record contract (which was the Scottish tykes' situation, having signed four or five one-off deals at this point) ¹after being dropped by RCA - perhaps one A. Drude also popped before the cameras when Island gave him a pink slip around the same time? * this was also a smart marketing catchphrase rather than an Actual Fact – PWEI for one had appeared unsigned in 1993¹, and it seems unlikely that in 30 years no-one else had ever been on the show while either between labels or at least on a record-to-record contract (which was the Scottish tykes’ situation, having signed four or five one-off deals at this point)

¹after being dropped by RCA – perhaps one A. Drude also popped before the cameras when Island gave him a pink slip around the same time?

]]> By: Garry http://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2010/01/bis-week-how-bis-are-responsible-for-twilight/#comment-672521 Garry Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:44:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16983#comment-672521 Not forgetting, Sci-Fi Steven is a secret vampire at night. Not forgetting, Sci-Fi Steven is a secret vampire at night.

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