For me, Elastica were the pick of the Britpop crop... and until last year one of the last new bands that I really got into (the reputation that I have of being stuck in a musical rut that started in 1977 and ended in about 1985 does have an element of truth about it!). This recording of the band from BBC Radio 1's 'Sound City '95' festival catches the band in Bristol less than a month after the release of their first album. I think that the Anson Rooms is/was the Student Union venue of Bristol University, but here I could be wrong.
This gig has appeared on a couple of bootleg CDs but this version is as I recorded it off the radio.
Elastica then, utterly derivative and so much the better for that. Listen to the first album to hear one that sounds like Blondie, one that sounds like Wire, one that sounds like Adam and the Ants and one that is a little similar to the Stranglers it was said.
Their candle burned brighty but for a short period of time. They lost momentum as a result of a five year gap before the follow up album was released, in which time things had moved on... and the second album was nowhere near as strong as the first.
Elastica have not reformed. There was some talk a few years ago of a reformation, albeit without Justine Frischmann, but it came to nothing... which is probably for the best. Better that they be remembered for the their brief flash of brilliance that illuminated an otherwise dark and dreary music scene.
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