Album review: Bis This Is Teen-C Power

[julietk]

(One of the things on my 101 things list is to listen to & review some old albums.)

Comments

[friend_of_tofu]

I seem to be unusual in not ever having liked Bis much, which is a shame as I generally approved of Manda.

[julietk]

I dunno, I seem to remember them not being terribly popular among my friends with anyone other than me! Hm, possibly other people liked Kandy Pop.

[plumsbitch]

Yeah, this. I approved of Bis rather than liked them , I think.

But! But! Retroalert! Collide-a-scope!!1!

We also used to go there muchly. Gods, and drunkenly, IIRC the booze was fatally cheap, especially if you weren't a student any longer. Up loads of stairs, amazing view over the Thames?

[julietk]

Yes! I went there every single Saturday of my Upper 6th (so 1995/6), & once or twice thereafter. I remember the boozes being cheap, although I didn't actually drink that often due to:
a) that still being *money*, & as a 6th-former I still wasn't exactly loaded, & spent most of my cash on music anyway;
and b) the fact that from about November 1995 onwards I was driving us up there to save all the hassle of nightbuses and nearly freezing to death, and so forth.

(I grew up in Bromley, S London. The nightbus was the N47, which is still my nightbus now, though these days it's 20 min to get home rather than 90. I used to *love* driving over Waterloo Bridge (still love riding over it :) ), and then we'd stop at the McDonalds drivethrough on the Old Kent Road on the way home, & I'd eat chips and drive one-handed.)

[lnr]

I remember Kandy Pop on TOTP (which I guess means it must have been out of term, since I didn't watch much telly in Oxford). I suspect it would be rather more to my taste now than it was then.

[julietk]

Hm, yes, I guess maybe it was December 1995, then? (Or just into January, but more likely December.)

[lnr]

Looks like the EP it was on was recorded in December 1995, and apparently they were on TOTP before it was released, so late December must be about right.