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V98 Festival Leeds, we were going to watch The Seahorses perform on the stage that evening, but at lunch time we headed into Leeds centre and ended up playing football in the middle of the pedestrianised area with an oversized (1m?) beachball in the pissing rain. Then Chris walks past us and we all chased after him, he ended up taking refuge in a shop if I remember correctly. Great times.

John treated this guy like garbage.

Ironically, that semi John bought looks quite/a little similar to the Hofner Verithin that Joe Strummer played in the 101ers ! So, it was punk ;)

Met them backstage,great bunch of humble down to earth guys,and john... he seemed obsessed with led zeppelin on the blaster hardly said a word......blinded by the sun best single by far,great times.

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I was lucky enough to see them at T&V festivals during 98 & in later year's also seeing Chris at my hometown town hall "Cumbernauld" to this day i still listen to that album 👌

Great first album and saw them at the Apollo manchester with third eye blind ,outstanding. Didn’t get the 2nd album at all though, however after watching this it’s clear that John was disappearing up his own at the time

So sad they didn’t last

In my opinion Do It Yourself was the best album of the 1990s, my daughters boyfriend Joe knows one of the band members out of the seahorses, were Yorkshire lads aswel, where i live theres a good live music scene especially down at the little un pub run by an ex Tiny Dancers band member, another band that should've made it big!

An incredibly humble gentleman, phenomenal singer and songwriter. Squire had to blow it.

The seahorses wouldnt have been anything without the voice of Chris Helme, plus he contributed fabulous songs

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There's some great songs on the first album. The mixing drives me nuts though, with John's guitar always pushed to the point it half drowns out the lyrics. It wasn't only a live performance problem with him insisting on being too loud. I'd love for it to be remastered to better serve the songs.

I remember Chris Helme really ripping into John Squire not too long ago in an interview. Calling his songs 'muso bollocks' if I remember correctly. I'm glad he's got over whatever problem he had with him, and seems to appreciate the opportunity he was given in joining one of the greatest guitarists of the 90's. Edit: Posted the above without watching the whole interview. Now I know why he said that.

Just been to see Chris live doing an acoustic show - absolutely amazing. He is criminally underrated as a songwriter and a singer

John squires thought he was too big for this band that he had created. Shame it was short lived ..loved their stuff ..had to be played fucking loud though.

The problem with John Squires was, he wanted musicians to play along with his music. And what he ended up with was a band. If he had rolled with it, they would of been massive. As a band they were superb.

thank God for this, really appreciate it man for the efforts reaching Chris Helme and tells us all the rare story, cheers from seahorses and john squire big fan in indonesia

I always thought that Blinded by the sun was Seahorses' best song and their only song you can fairly call a hit song. But i had no idea it was written by Chris, i always thought it was John's. I saw them once live, supporting Rolling Stones and i thought that apart from "Blinded" the only interesting thing about them was John's guitar playing. Little did i know back then, i was a complete idiot! Maybe it was that too big shadow of a Stone Roses that blinded me. Now I absolutely love the Seahorses, they're one of my favourite bands 💖 Blinded is still their biggest song in my eyes tho and one of the greatest songs ever written,i'll never get bored with that 😍

Saw the seahorses at glasto and the secret gig at Blackburn king George's hall. Good times

Chris is slowly morphing into Jerry Sadowitz.

I saw the seahorses perform at 1st avenue in Minneapolis. Killer show. It’s a shame John couldn’t let Chris contribute more songs on 2nd album, but John wanted majority of Publishing. The Seahorses music has better longevity than Johns solo work.

Cracking interview 👍

Compared to earlier interviews it seems like almost 25 years on Chris has more respect for John and I would hope it's the same the other way round. The Seahorses were a great band and their songwriting together complimented eachother. As mentioned here if the songs were good enough to go on the first album and have stood the test of time maybe if John was more open to collaborate on album #2 maybe they'd have got somewhere. Equally, sounds like Chris has a few regrets too. Would be good if they all got in a room together to see what happens, sounds like they'd both have a lot more respect for one another

He did right to dig heels in.

Chris is his own person and knows what he wants. You shouldn't placate to anyone no matter who they are. If u aren't feeling it then u have to speak up.

Was a big seahorses fan,,,, and,, John found some great talented musicians,,,, Chris, Stuart, and Andy,,,,, it's a shame,, the way it all went,,,,,,,,,,, I spoke to Chris and Stuart, after the seahorses broke up,, and totally sound lads,,,,,, wish them all the best,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The emotion that comes out in the song 'memories' defo got to Angry Bob and that says alot.

only found your channel recently. Great content mate, keep em coming!

Feel for Chris but it sounds like John either stopped respecting him or more probably saw him as a threat as I understand they never got on so Chris was just a backing player for him. Loved the Seahorses and Blinded by the Sun was the sole reason for buying the album

The Seahorses, OCS and the Verve circa 1997 were the main reasons I stopped listening to British “rock” 🤦‍♂️/indie music and moved on to stuff like Black Sabbath and Hawkwind. I never looked back lol 😂

Awesome vocalist.

If Chris hadn't have stuck his heels in then he would have been "guns to hire" in John Squire's band. Integrity and honesty 👏👌

Makes me wonder if the seahorses were dominated by the fact that the seahorses were unknowns so John could push them around, his behavior in his next band Skunkworks with members of the Verve was interesting he left due to "songwriting and personality differences" translation he tried his rubbish with the two Simons but because they were on a level pegging they just told him to get stuffed.

I loved the seahorses and still do. Seen Chris doing solo stuff live and he’s fantastic and cracking voice

Three great songs from Andrew Cushin, which one do you think is best?

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If I was in Chris’s shoes, I’d have done exactly the same!!!! Shared the same studio when they did you can talk to me, riverside in ossett West Yorkshire, October 97’ I think 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I like this guy. Very modest. Good singer too.

Chris was dead right to dig the heels in. I love John but judging by what i heard he acted like a bit of a dickhead during that time

Is was great thank you for this, would be interesting to here from the other members of the band!!

Great brand great bloke

What a sound fella.

The Seahorses were Boss, easily one of the bands of the 90s, blinded by the sun is one of my all time fave songs

Good interview, and great to see Chris’s face. My daughter actually supported Chris when he played a solo gig in Hull many moons ago - a really nice bloke!

You Can Talk To Me always gets forgotten about as it was a stand alone single, I think it even got top 10 or at least top 20 in the UK. But a lot of Britpop era bands did that release stand alone singles that many people end up forgetting about. But it's a great song to be fair. The whole Do It Yourself album is pretty damn strong album, Blinded By the Sun is one of it's top 3 songs for sure. They had some great b-sides too that you can find on RUclips. Helme was a pretty damn good singer and the songs were strong. Shame they didn't do more.

Brown was right. Squire just wanted to be his own Elvis

Me and a couple of mates were in our early 20s and after been roses fans (mainly squire fans) we couldn’t wait to see you at Glastonbury. We loved the seahorses as much as the roses if not more. We followed you all over the country through ‘98 . Gigs that stood out were rock city at Nottingham just before v98. Then the v98 night itself was one of the best nights of my life because the verve folllowed you on at the height of urban hymns and it still stands out as biblical to me that night . For what it’s worth I liked the 2 or 3 new songs you were playing around the time of v98. By the way . We were squireittes but we thought Chris was brilliant. Seen you a couple of times over the years since and spoke to John about those gigs and actually got smiles from John so I believe he loved his band too.

Chris looks like he has heartburn..

Link to full interview on the pod if anyone intersted smarturl.it/TheSeahorses