what next.....

[h-26]

any chance of one right in the middle? 

Anywhere specific?

the centre of the universe ......... derby!!!

well, it's slap bang in the middle of england

[andy@info]

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh that is exactly the kind of news we need in 2010. Puressence would have made the brits watchable

Judging by the lack of people on this forum, I think most of you have deserted Puressence and started to watch JLS instead...

....in fairness Andy it helps if it works both ways and there has been virtually nothing in terms of news however minimal relating to the band....to paraphrase Mr M...."we need something to believe in"....

There's been no news to give you mate...

[andy@info]

Derby?

[pigtail]

Ahhh, Clapham. I have some very fond memories from there. And evenings where I don't remember a thing... 

And I'm sure people will be fine with your accent, if you only understood London accents you'd struggle here 

oh that sounds interesting! i'll let you know when i arrive and maybe you can show me some good spots! :-)

[ac171]

No kevin because there's no K in JLS. A pure line dance would work in an episode of red dwarf definitely, but nowhere else for me.

Does anyone else ever get the urge to write ssence in tipp ex on the back of their pure dab?

[dandoozle]

Am i correct in thinking Puressence will be playing in the recently opened SoundHouse in Bolton in May?

Can you confirm any further details than are on their site?

 

[Emel]

Am i correct in thinking Puressence will be playing in the recently opened SoundHouse in Bolton in May?

Can you confirm any further details than are on their site?

The Bolton gig isn't 100% confirmed as yet...if/when it is, it will be announced in the usual ways...

 

[andy@info]

Am i correct in thinking Puressence will be playing in the recently opened SoundHouse in Bolton in May?

Can you confirm any further details than are on their site?

The Bolton gig isn't 100% confirmed as yet...if/when it is, it will be announced in the usual ways...

 

Still awaiting on the promoter to give us the green light. I think the date is Saturday 29th May.

[Magpie]

I am not sure this warrants a new thread, plus I am not sure that there isn't a thread already about it, but there's a nice little piece on page 50 of the NME this week about Puressence. I say nice, I only got to about the 3rd line before the shop owner started giving it his Arkwright impression!

Apologies if its been mentioned before.

[andy@info]

I am not sure this warrants a new thread, plus I am not sure that there isn't a thread already about it, but there's a nice little piece on page 50 of the NME this week about Puressence. I say nice, I only got to about the 3rd line before the shop owner started giving it his Arkwright impression!

Apologies if its been mentioned before.

Really?

[Magpie]

Yes mate, page 50 of the one all the people who won nme awards on the front...I think a new one comes out on Wednesday so have a gander sharpish!  Like I say I didn't get the chance to read it but its in the review section, there's a picture of the first album sleeve and its starts off saying that they missed the britpop gravy train...it was shaping up to sound pretty positive though. I think its a retrospective review of the first album.

[Emel]

Hmm can't see it on the website, and I don't know anyone, who knows anyone....who buys the NME to check...

[Hannah]

I knew I'd forgotten something when I went to Tesco.
I'll try to remember to pop into Smiths on my way home.

[Emel]

I knew I'd forgotten something when I went to Tesco.
I'll try to remember to pop into Smiths on my way home.

Good show!

[Hannah]

UNSPUN HEROES - DIGGING UP BURIED TREASURE FROM THE DEPTHS OF OUR COLLECTIONS
THIS WEEK... Luke Lewis eulogises some Manchester sons sadly overlooked by the Britpop boom.
 
Formed in 1991, Puressence are the great lost Manchester band. Arriving just too late to capitalise on the Madchester boom, where idols The Stone Roses articulated the E-fuelled transcendence and bravado that characterised that scene, Puressence sketched the bleak comedown that followed, all icy atmospheres, cavernous reverb and self-doubt.
That sense of loss, of arriving out of time and after the event, coloured everything the foursome did. The artwork of their debut album came plastered with images of rusting urban decay - a nod to their hometown's post-industrial slump, with shades also, perhaps, of desolate communist Poland, where singer James Mudriczki's family had fled from, a generation before. (I thought it was Tony's family that came from Poland but nevermind eh...)
And it was Mudriczki's voice that made Puressence so unique - an unearthly, soaring instrument that belied his geezerish demeanour, and meshed enthrallingly with guitarist Neil McDonald's echoing guitar lines, recalling U2 circa 'October'.
Those qualities came together in devastating fashion on opening track 'Near Distance' - a startling, ever-building epic, punctured with incongruous scally dialect ("Some little scabby young thing sucks me dry"), making it surely the greatest song ever written about searching for meaning in the wet streets of Manchester.
Of course, this being the height of Britpop, such expansiveness tended to be mocked as "bluster" by an unsympathetic music press. But here again, PUressence's timing was out. Not long after, the qualities that made Puressence so unfashionable - soulful Northerners playing the Big Music - became a recipe for lasting success for the likes of Elbow and Doves.
It didn't help that the band became overly slick on subsequent albums, losing some of their chilly, forbidding uniqueness. But this magnificent debut album - by turns both plaintive and gutturalloy anthemic - still stands as a towering miserablist masterpiece.