@GregOrCreg ; You took the words right out of my mouth. This is *exactly* what the NME was like in the mid-90s, hyping up some new indie band as The Most Exciting And Fresh Thing Ever every couple of weeks. And in most cases, when you actually heard them they were some pleasant but utterly derivative and unremarkable guitar act (e.g. The Bluetones). Thing is, I remember them being criticised for that *before* I started reading it, and I still read it for a couple of years before I got bored of the obvious cycle and the build-them-up-knock-them-down thing. So, yeah.
You are right. However, they did not talk about them at first. In April 1989 I lived near Brunel University so would go and see anything on there really, walking distance, cheap doors and drinks. Stone Roses? Who are they? Went along and we saw them lug their own gear on to the small stage, about 60 people there, some from Manchester telling us who great they fookin' were. They played and blew us away. Totally. Brought the just released album ASAP. Hang on I thought, I read the music press, didn't see them featured. I had some recent back issues of NME and sure enough, buried in a short review that album. 6/10. Late in the year, after they and the Mondays were on Top Of The Pops, with the NME creaming themselves over these bands, they 're-reveived' The Stone Roses album. 10/10. Then I understood what a mate said about 'after reading the NME, I feel dirty'.
I was just a bit too young for Indie etc. when they came along - so I did read it all after the event (about three or four years after). In fairness though, I do remember the NME/Melody Maker saying how they underrated them at first... Anyway, I'm jealous of the fact that you got to see them at possibly their best moment: just before the massive shows and well before they disappeared and returned in one of the most disappointing events of my adolescence. And I wouldn't dream of seeing a reunion gig...
Ben Sullivan I then got to see them at Dingwalls in the June. Then at Ally Pally - that one not so good. Next was the Brixton Academy in '95, another rather damp squib. But I did go and see them last year in Finsbury Park, though I did go with realistic expectations which they just about met. Ian still thought learning to sing consistently would somehow dilute his artistic purity. I was lucky with Brunel and Dingwalls it's true.
The 90s were awesome! So were Colon - their '96 album, 'Flower Power' was the most DANGEROUS and LOUD thing around. i remember being in town and hearing their number 3 single 'Love You Too' blasting out of the speakers in Woolworths and one old lady was so blown away by the raw power of it's lyrics, i heard her say, 'Oooh, what a lovely song.' Yeah, i felt like screamin' at her, it's really F***IN' LOVELY!!! But i didn't because it would've been rude.
A prime example of why The Fast Show was so great. So many people thought it was just the catchphrases and tried to copy it (Little Britain and Catherine Tate being the main offenders there) but sketches like this show how on the nose it was.
take out the laugh tracks, post this on an NME forum and within a week you'll have a bunch of indie students with tight jeans and sideways haircuts running round Camden Town wearing Colon t-shirts.
The Word was early 90s, TFI Friday was mid-90s comedy interviews and music, Jo Whiley (the TV show) was interview and music (I think). Jools Holland had a lot of different genres, including indie
@@Gubalicious I'd say NME music magazine is parodied perfectly in this. They'd treat Oasis as something as wild and innovative as the hiroshima bomb in 1945
My local indie scene gets talked about like this, like they’re some scary Grindcore band, but what you actually get is some pale, skinny bloke with an acoustic guitar singing about his ex!
Legend has it that the drummer nearly broke 2 drumsticks during their set at T in the Park 2010. The members of Shed 7 who followed them on the Radio 1 stage often speak of the "chaos" as the crowd was so "hyper". "It was a hard thing to follow," said lead singer Rick Witter, "our guitarist Paul nearly got a splinter."
The singer of "Colon" is Tony Way who appreared in a lot of Ricky Gervais comedies, Doctor Who, Edge Of Tomorrow and a lot of other rolls. This seems to be his earliest credit on IMDB.
Noel Gallagher has said he was asked to appear in The Fast Show. I'm guessing this was the sketch they wanted him for. (Looks like they got Paul Heaton instead.)
The random multi-angle/close up colour/black and white/colour editing is so accurate. I had VHSs full of performances and interviews like this in the 90s.
The 90's were weird. I was an 80's kid and all the lads loved metal growing up and then that morphed into grunge so when we hit our teens we had this indie scene and it was hard to get excited about bands like this. Like the band 'Dodgy'. I remember getting their album for Christmas and wondering what had I become?
@@AlisonBryen afraid so. Everyone owned parachutes and if anyone denies it they're a bloody liar. Just like 90's men who claim they never owned jagged little pill by Alanis Morissette
@@A-small-amount-of-peas My husband has Parachutes, as well as The Man Who by Travis (yawn), but I can stand here smugly and honestly proclaim those albums are not mine. I do own Jagged Little Pill though, so fair dos on that one. 🤷♀️
It was the mismatch between the attitude and the product. Britpop was supposed to be about hedonism and exuberance, yet most of it was just saccharine 60s-sounding shit destined to be played in IKEA stores on Sunday afternoons. This sketch captures that perfectly.
Although up it's own arse at times it was still vastly superior to all the AI generated shit that is today's chart music. Even this parody is superior!
noel gallagher was going to do this sketch back then , they wrote the sketch for noel because he was a big fan of the show, but because oasis were touring he never got to do it.
Colon - 'kick in the sun' lyrics Nancy, I fancy, I'm fallin' in love with you I hope you understand, I just wanna hold your hand The world is such a big big place, and you make it a little bigger You've got such a nice face, and you've also got a nice figure The sun is shining baby, baby! Let's go and have some fun (Have some fun baby)
I wish someone would record a full length version. The sun is shining, baby, baby I know you are the one.. Verse 2 Nancy, entrancing The only one for me-e-e I been around the world You will always be my girl We'll never be to far apart Cos you're a part of me-e-e The rest of our lives are ahead The world is ours to see-e-e The sun is shining baby, baby! Let's go and have some fun (Have some fun baby) The sun is shining, baby, baby I know you are the one.. The sun is shining baby, baby! Let's go and have some fun (Have some fun baby) The sun is shining, baby, baby I know you are the one..
This probably also hurts a few people like PWEI and Primal Scream who reinvented themselves over and over, but had their roots playing twee indiepop in the C86 scene. The obvious takeoff here is Teenage Fanclub, with the Byrds/Big Star type guitars and fey lyrics, after a huge buildup that makes you think they're going to be the next Mary Chain.
Well said. Teenage Fanclub were possibly the most overrated indie band ever to secure a record deal. Even their best song 'Starsign' could be called indie by numbers. There was so much hype around the first album that I decided to buy it without borrowing a friend's first. Got halfway through the opener, put it back in the sleeve and that's where it's stayed for the last thirty years! And yet there were bands like Spirea X, The Telescopes and The Heartthrobs, real talent imo, who didn't sell nearly as much as TF. There's no accounting for taste.
No word of a lie, if I could I'd go out right now to Virgin Megastore to get a tape of Colon's 'Kick In The Sun'. Probably grab a Calipo on the way home as I'm SO HARD CORE.
I like how they set up the rhyme to deliver the titular line "kick in the sun" but cut before they get to it. I assume it would be something along the lines of getting your kicks, in the sun.
It reminds me of Gary Crowley who used to do a late-night indie music show on ITV, I think, sometime in the late 90s/early 00s. Everything was "the best band ever."
I believe the lead singer is Tony Way who went on to start in lots of Ricky Gervais shows like Extras and After life. Think he also had a part in The edge of Tomorrow
Thanks RUclips algorithms. I love this skit and the comments are hilarious. I hear that Colon's front man is now one of Sheeran's many songwriters. How times change.
Just another example of the brilliance of the Fast Show, the third series is so good I'd say it's best series of any sketch show ever. Shame they didn't actually release the song, it's quality
It's actually quite a decent, pleasant song, which is kind of the point. It's not that the music was awful, per se, it's that it was hyped up as the Most Exciting, Most Original Thing Ever when much- if not most- of that Britpop-era "indie" was derivative, safe and unremarkable guitar music.
Still got the debut Colon album "Scraping it off the bottom of my shoe". Not as good as the raw and insane "Flower Power" album that needed full volume and some Watneys red barrel.
fair play to you, its not a bad song at all. I think the parody stems more from the hype and revolutionary impact we've been promised by Colon (through the host) prior to
This branding around indie music continued after this, particularly around the 00s. This band are dangerous... theyll change your life. Nah, its just good pop tunes... which is what we're after. Great sketch.
I was just going to say that! But i thought i'd better check that no one else had said it first on the grounds that it's so bleedin obvious! I always thought that teenage fanclub were very limp and pansy sounding, i don't hate them just can't understand anyone else obssesively following them!!
twitchygiraffe As a major Fannies fan I disagree totally ;) This sounds more like a lame lightning seeds song... Great sketch though! had me in bits back in the day
Yeah your right! I hadn't considered the lightning seeds in this but slightly more teenage fanclub I think! Their best song for me would have to be god knows it's true which is a tune and a half!!!!
@@nolls14 I have nothing against Teenage Fanclub at all…but this could have been on Songs From Northern Britain. It’s definitely got an Ain’t That Enough vibe
I'm at that difficult age... Too old to get young persons or student concessions and not old enough to get old persons concessions. £3.50's a lot, but it's worth it to have my preconceptions challenged so brutally. It's like hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time.
Yes, The FAST SHOW WAS BRILLIANT COMEDY SHOW. Used to love watching it, such funny and odd characters, and catchy slogans: Suits you, sir! BRILLIANT!!! etc! My favourite was Jazzz Club. LOL LOL LOL!!
Well my phone is definitely listening to my conversations, never heard of this show until my dad mentioned it to me last night. Now this morning my RUclips decides to put a 13 year old video of a show id just heard of in my feed. Coincidence... I think NOT
I'm a fan of Teenage fan club,I've actually seen them, but at the time people made them out to be a harder sound than they actually are, there tracks used to show up Skate CD compilations, very Strange...!!
My all-time favourite sketch. A brilliant takedown of mid-90s Brit Pop 'next big thing' indie music journalism.
@DnB and Psy Production Yes! Hilarious sketch. So many "bands" summed up so perfectly!
It’s just a joke, isn’t it?
@GregOrCreg ; You took the words right out of my mouth. This is *exactly* what the NME was like in the mid-90s, hyping up some new indie band as The Most Exciting And Fresh Thing Ever every couple of weeks. And in most cases, when you actually heard them they were some pleasant but utterly derivative and unremarkable guitar act (e.g. The Bluetones).
Thing is, I remember them being criticised for that *before* I started reading it, and I still read it for a couple of years before I got bored of the obvious cycle and the build-them-up-knock-them-down thing. So, yeah.
@NotATube
Not just the mid 90s, this could easily have been the NME's promo blurb for the Arctic Monkeys
I hear Colon have reformed without the bassist and drummer. They are headlining Glastonbury as Semi Colon.
At one point they had over 20 band members passing through Colon, it got pretty full.
I thought it was only the bassist and drummer.
Now they are drum and bass.
And they sold their Transit van and bought a Commer
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@@CycolacFan 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
It's like Zane Lowe unwittingly based his entire career on this skit. Brilliant.
What happened to him?
Took a big fat cheque and works for Apple.
12 years have passed. How's life?
@@sb_dunk it’s ok I guess, just been thinking about zane for the last 12
It’s all kicking off in here, thought I could smell the 90s for a moment.
That's exactly how the NME used to talk about the Stone Roses...
You are right. However, they did not talk about them at first. In April 1989 I lived near Brunel University so would go and see anything on there really, walking distance, cheap doors and drinks. Stone Roses? Who are they? Went along and we saw them lug their own gear on to the small stage, about 60 people there, some from Manchester telling us who great they fookin' were. They played and blew us away. Totally. Brought the just released album ASAP. Hang on I thought, I read the music press, didn't see them featured. I had some recent back issues of NME and sure enough, buried in a short review that album. 6/10.
Late in the year, after they and the Mondays were on Top Of The Pops, with the NME creaming themselves over these bands, they 're-reveived' The Stone Roses album. 10/10.
Then I understood what a mate said about 'after reading the NME, I feel dirty'.
I was just a bit too young for Indie etc. when they came along - so I did read it all after the event (about three or four years after). In fairness though, I do remember the NME/Melody Maker saying how they underrated them at first... Anyway, I'm jealous of the fact that you got to see them at possibly their best moment: just before the massive shows and well before they disappeared and returned in one of the most disappointing events of my adolescence. And I wouldn't dream of seeing a reunion gig...
Ben Sullivan I then got to see them at Dingwalls in the June. Then at Ally Pally - that one not so good.
Next was the Brixton Academy in '95, another rather damp squib.
But I did go and see them last year in Finsbury Park, though I did go with realistic expectations which they just about met. Ian still thought learning to sing consistently would somehow dilute his artistic purity.
I was lucky with Brunel and Dingwalls it's true.
Stones roses were shit
@@blustulagu So were Oasis. They still are.
The 90s were awesome!
So were Colon - their '96 album, 'Flower Power' was the most DANGEROUS and LOUD thing around. i remember being in town and hearing their number 3 single 'Love You Too' blasting out of the speakers in Woolworths and one old lady was so blown away by the raw power of it's lyrics, i heard her say, 'Oooh, what a lovely song.'
Yeah, i felt like screamin' at her, it's really F***IN' LOVELY!!!
But i didn't because it would've been rude.
You're deluding yourself Colon are sellouts, always were! Appendix were well better! 'Mansion house' was a sublime masterpiece of an album
When two members left (Dick & Scrote) they took a while to recuperate but Semi-Colon were at the front of a list of great copiers (some photo).
Didn't Dick and Scrote go on to form Banjo String with the drummer from The Bushy Carpets, Crabs?
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This thread is gold.
A prime example of why The Fast Show was so great. So many people thought it was just the catchphrases and tried to copy it (Little Britain and Catherine Tate being the main offenders there) but sketches like this show how on the nose it was.
It was such a clever show, the catchphrases were just a bonus
@@davidscott2771 Suits you sir
Great programme. Almost every sketch was hilarious and hit the target.
Weren't the Fast Show brilliant???
"Jeremy Kwee" is one of the funniest fastshow clips
Yeah, Paul, Charlie and Caroline really had their fingers on the pulse of Britain at the time.
Little Britain and Catherine Tate just yelled shite.
I heard they are releasing a best of album, Colonography. Inside the Colon, their best shit.
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Colonoscopy, surely? 🤣
"No-one's heard anything like this before". LOL!!
take out the laugh tracks, post this on an NME forum and within a week you'll have a bunch of indie students with tight jeans and sideways haircuts running round Camden Town wearing Colon t-shirts.
that was 8 years ago
@@plejady i don't even remember watching this video or my comment
@@Barracuda007 I'm not gay but my boyfriend is - you said
James till tea-time then Curve!
@@StonyRC I remember that. Still got the t shirt!!
Epitomises the indie programmes of the time perfectly. I LOVED the Fast Show, we will never see it's like again
Suit you, sir!
Where's your washboard?
Does anyone have any examples of these Indie shows? I've been trying to find them in RUclips but it's rather difficult.
The Word was early 90s, TFI Friday was mid-90s comedy interviews and music, Jo Whiley (the TV show) was interview and music (I think). Jools Holland had a lot of different genres, including indie
@@Gubalicious I'd say NME music magazine is parodied perfectly in this. They'd treat Oasis as something as wild and innovative as the hiroshima bomb in 1945
My local indie scene gets talked about like this, like they’re some scary Grindcore band, but what you actually get is some pale, skinny bloke with an acoustic guitar singing about his ex!
Legend has it that the drummer nearly broke 2 drumsticks during their set at T in the Park 2010. The members of Shed 7 who followed them on the Radio 1 stage often speak of the "chaos" as the crowd was so "hyper". "It was a hard thing to follow," said lead singer Rick Witter, "our guitarist Paul nearly got a splinter."
They need Clam on bass
I saw Colon at the Dublin Castle....I've been gazing at my shoes ever since
Did you pay the full 3.50 or get a concession?
The singer of "Colon" is Tony Way who appreared in a lot of Ricky Gervais comedies, Doctor Who, Edge Of Tomorrow and a lot of other rolls. This seems to be his earliest credit on IMDB.
And Gary from Mongrels. A sadly missed show.
I think this is the same guy who had a comedy sketch show on BBC3 about ten years ago called Titty Bang Bang?
Ahaha, I thought it could be him! Hilarious!
And Ali G In Da House 😂
That's a pretty good Paul Heaton impression.
Gary Crowley of the NME / The Beat back in the 90s
Best Teenage Fanclub tribute act ever.
this is just so clever. Oasis lookalikes playing a soundalike beatles song, i love it.
Oasis then.
Noel Gallagher has said he was asked to appear in The Fast Show. I'm guessing this was the sketch they wanted him for. (Looks like they got Paul Heaton instead.)
Stone Roses sound-alike
Yep. To all aspiring bands: Being edgy is like being funny. If you've got to insist you are, you're not.
It's a bit like the guy who says "I'm a bit of a geezer!", he is mostly just a twat! :)
@DnB and Psy Production I will Nick ANYTHING
The random multi-angle/close up colour/black and white/colour editing is so accurate.
I had VHSs full of performances and interviews like this in the 90s.
By Christ, this is dangerous.
The 90's were weird. I was an 80's kid and all the lads loved metal growing up and then that morphed into grunge so when we hit our teens we had this indie scene and it was hard to get excited about bands like this. Like the band 'Dodgy'. I remember getting their album for Christmas and wondering what had I become?
As long as you didn't slide even further and get in to Coldplay in the 2000s you're not a lost cause...
@@AlisonBryen afraid so. Everyone owned parachutes and if anyone denies it they're a bloody liar. Just like 90's men who claim they never owned jagged little pill by Alanis Morissette
@@A-small-amount-of-peas My husband has Parachutes, as well as The Man Who by Travis (yawn), but I can stand here smugly and honestly proclaim those albums are not mine. I do own Jagged Little Pill though, so fair dos on that one. 🤷♀️
It was the mismatch between the attitude and the product. Britpop was supposed to be about hedonism and exuberance, yet most of it was just saccharine 60s-sounding shit destined to be played in IKEA stores on Sunday afternoons. This sketch captures that perfectly.
Shed7 were acceptable… if you liked the Beautiful South or any incarnation of th Houemartins, then sadly there is no hope.
That headache-inducing editing is on point
The British music scene in the 90s summed brilliantly
Although up it's own arse at times it was still vastly superior to all the AI generated shit that is today's chart music. Even this parody is superior!
this video gave me Nam flashbacks of Dodgy's "Good Enough"
Mid 90's Brit pop yeah, the TFI Friday era. Not early or late 90's though.
Naturally, there was just one music scene in Britain in the '90s
@@lucasm3879 late 90s was considerably worse. Travis and Embrace etc. Brit Pop with any remaining edges smoothed out
Being an old indie kid from back in the day, I loved this sketch.
noel gallagher was going to do this sketch back then , they wrote the sketch for noel because he was a big fan of the show, but because oasis were touring he never got to do it.
oh man that would have been awesome
Colon - 'kick in the sun' lyrics
Nancy, I fancy, I'm fallin' in love with you
I hope you understand, I just wanna hold your hand
The world is such a big big place, and you make it a little bigger
You've got such a nice face, and you've also got a nice figure
The sun is shining baby, baby!
Let's go and have some fun
(Have some fun baby)
Dangerous and LOUD lyrics!
@@firebeardnc6012 by christ it's loud!
I wish someone would record a full length version.
The sun is shining, baby, baby
I know you are the one..
Verse 2
Nancy, entrancing
The only one for me-e-e
I been around the world
You will always be my girl
We'll never be to far apart
Cos you're a part of me-e-e
The rest of our lives are ahead
The world is ours to see-e-e
The sun is shining baby, baby!
Let's go and have some fun
(Have some fun baby)
The sun is shining, baby, baby
I know you are the one..
The sun is shining baby, baby!
Let's go and have some fun
(Have some fun baby)
The sun is shining, baby, baby
I know you are the one..
It's basically Sally Cinnamon
@@michaelocyoung I like these new lyrics. Just need the line KICK IN THE SUN’ somewhere
Sounds like Simon Day lifted the lines directly from the NME and Select Magazine's reviews of Menswear, Baby Bird, and Shampoo albums!
Shampoo were quite good though
@@attentionaddicts So were/was Babybird. Menswear were shockingly bad though.
Nuisance was a classic album!
Britbop bandnames were fucking warcrimes
@@Ukraineaissance2014 Some of the 'baggy' era band names were even worse!
"They would rather DIE than compromise!"
This probably also hurts a few people like PWEI and Primal Scream who reinvented themselves over and over, but had their roots playing twee indiepop in the C86 scene. The obvious takeoff here is Teenage Fanclub, with the Byrds/Big Star type guitars and fey lyrics, after a huge buildup that makes you think they're going to be the next Mary Chain.
Well said. Teenage Fanclub were possibly the most overrated indie band ever to secure a record deal. Even their best song 'Starsign' could be called indie by numbers. There was so much hype around the first album that I decided to buy it without borrowing a friend's first. Got halfway through the opener, put it back in the sleeve and that's where it's stayed for the last thirty years! And yet there were bands like Spirea X, The Telescopes and The Heartthrobs, real talent imo, who didn't sell nearly as much as TF.
There's no accounting for taste.
I want Rhys Thomas, Paul Whitehouse and Tony Way to release the complete song. It actually kicks the arse of some pop tracks of the time!
I'd love to hear the rest of the Mr Wells song too
@@gurrrn1102 Ha ha forgot about that one. Thanks mate.
If Paolo Hewitt and Gary Crowley had a child.
Being a teen in the 90s loved this sketch
I never got this as a kid. Looking at it now it's very clever. Also for a piss take that song is ridiculously catchy 😁
Colon were amazing! Everyone copied them - oasis, the beach boys, and even the beatles. There'll never be a more dangerous pop combo.
This is perfect, everyone I know who likes Indie music thinks it's hardcore, then I listen to some of their songs and it's like this.
That's pure shite but never mind eh!
I always wonder on the older comments what the person has done with the last 10/15 years since they commented.
@@Teddy-ez9qq Or if they're even alive
@@miscellaneousviewing7916 Lol, no.
@@miscellaneousviewing7916 I'm afraid you haven't.
This is what Alan Partridge would have sounded like if he had been an indie DJ .
This was so 90's accurate
I heard they're revisiting some of The Who's work. Their next release is their take on their rock opera and is entitled "Colon OST Tommy"
Go get your coat…………😂👍
Underrated comment
That took me a while, I have to admit . . .
Did Scouting For Girls base themselves on Colon?
It's uncanny!
No word of a lie, if I could I'd go out right now to Virgin Megastore to get a tape of Colon's 'Kick In The Sun'. Probably grab a Calipo on the way home as I'm SO HARD CORE.
I like how they set up the rhyme to deliver the titular line "kick in the sun" but cut before they get to it. I assume it would be something along the lines of getting your kicks, in the sun.
I remember seeing colon two weeks before they broke up. The guitarist has actually formed a band with former 'blouse' frontman Purves Grundy.
Gary Crowley on The Beat, Mark Radcliffe on The White Room, Zane Lowe on Gonzo.
sincerely love Colon , this has been in my head as much as any Big Star or Spacemen 3 song , top marks Colon :)
Never sure if Zane Lowe on Radio1 based his entire act on the opening monologue….
It reminds me of Gary Crowley who used to do a late-night indie music show on ITV, I think, sometime in the late 90s/early 00s. Everything was "the best band ever."
I believe the lead singer is Tony Way who went on to start in lots of Ricky Gervais shows like Extras and After life. Think he also had a part in The edge of Tomorrow
Thanks RUclips algorithms. I love this skit and the comments are hilarious.
I hear that Colon's front man is now one of Sheeran's many songwriters. How times change.
Love this sketch. Tony Way is so Paul Heaton here :)
When Kerrang adverts would be like "We'll be playing the loudest, most anti-social music" and then they'd cut to Do you wanna be my girl..
"I just wanna hold your hand"
What a Beatlesy lyric that is.
This has the NME to a tee - bands that spiel like The Sex Pistols but sound like Northern Uproar.
90s NME: a bunch of pseuds, desperate to find the next punk / acid house. Seems even funnier now in retrospect than it did back then 😂
It could literally be a Teenage Fanclub song.
That song is superior to 99% of the Indie landfill which spewed onto the airwaves back then
This is essentially BBC Radio 6
Colon are now eligible for the Rock N Roll hall of fame GO COLON!!!!
Sounds like teenage fanclub
Me? The 13th Duke of Wybourne? Here? At a Colon gig? At 3 o’clock in the morning? With my reputation? Will the BBC never learn?
Nailed the set and editing.
saw it when it was new (in my teens) didn't get it, was waiting for the punchline. Watched it again now, totally get it of course.
Late response, but my thoughts exactly
A top pisstake of Gary Crowley (The Beat music show) & the NME / Brit Pop crowd back in the 90s.
good to hear that it's not just me getting old!
Best Fanclub song that never was
I've had a few good times in the Dublin castle - long may it run man- long may it run
On concession?
Totally spot-on! I've used this in a post in my blog, cheers.
Just another example of the brilliance of the Fast Show, the third series is so good I'd say it's best series of any sketch show ever.
Shame they didn't actually release the song, it's quality
Third series is definitely the best of the three. Lost count of how many times I've watched it! It never gets old.
It's actually quite a decent, pleasant song, which is kind of the point. It's not that the music was awful, per se, it's that it was hyped up as the Most Exciting, Most Original Thing Ever when much- if not most- of that Britpop-era "indie" was derivative, safe and unremarkable guitar music.
Brilliant !!! Cracks me up every time ! 😆😆😆😆😆
One of my favourite things.
Still got the debut Colon album "Scraping it off the bottom of my shoe".
Not as good as the raw and insane "Flower Power" album that needed full volume and some Watneys red barrel.
I WANT A WHOLE VERSION GOD DAMN IT!
fair play to you, its not a bad song at all. I think the parody stems more from the hype and revolutionary impact we've been promised by Colon (through the host) prior to
"Everything you know is wrong".
If that wasn't an actual NME line it could have been, easily.
Expecting early Oasis, got Lightning Seeds-Lite.
The Fast Show was class back in the day.
If you want a measure of whether a show can be called "a British comedy classic", check to see if Tony Way was ever in it.
They sound like a Jollification-era Lightning Seeds tribute act.
Jesus H Christ, if The Beautiful South and Oasis met in a test tube! Lol.
Northern Uproar then
This branding around indie music continued after this, particularly around the 00s. This band are dangerous... theyll change your life. Nah, its just good pop tunes... which is what we're after.
Great sketch.
“The world is a big big place” haha very indie!
Great sketch from a great show…
best teenage fanclub track
Sounds like a track Teenage Fan club would release.
I was just going to say that! But i thought i'd better check that no one else had said it first on the grounds that it's so bleedin obvious! I always thought that teenage fanclub were very limp and pansy sounding, i don't hate them just can't understand anyone else obssesively following them!!
twitchygiraffe As a major Fannies fan I disagree totally ;) This sounds more like a lame lightning seeds song... Great sketch though! had me in bits back in the day
Yeah your right! I hadn't considered the lightning seeds in this but slightly more teenage fanclub I think! Their best song for me would have to be god knows it's true which is a tune and a half!!!!
@@nolls14 I have nothing against Teenage Fanclub at all…but this could have been on Songs From Northern Britain. It’s definitely got an Ain’t That Enough vibe
@@chrisjones5341 I love Songs from Northern Britain Chris ;) However , I'll concede your point. Slightly.
Can't believe they got mcfly to appear in this. 10 years before they formed too!
I'm at that difficult age... Too old to get young persons or student concessions and not old enough to get old persons concessions. £3.50's a lot, but it's worth it to have my preconceptions challenged so brutally. It's like hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time.
Yes, The FAST SHOW WAS BRILLIANT COMEDY SHOW. Used to love watching it, such funny and odd characters, and catchy slogans: Suits you, sir!
BRILLIANT!!!
etc!
My favourite was Jazzz Club. LOL LOL LOL!!
Colin Hunts office trolley!
Oh God I never saw this one when it came out. You can just imagine people like Zane Lowe sounding like this.
i loved oasis but i can't argue with this. spot on
This reminds me of that Channel 4 show, The White Room
Spot on.
this spoof act is as good as any of the indie landfill acts of the 90s
Strangely i was more reminded of Gregg Wallace doing the intro on Masterchef, which is considerably more worrying
Not sure we're even ready for this in 2022!
Just brilliantly accurate
Well my phone is definitely listening to my conversations, never heard of this show until my dad mentioned it to me last night. Now this morning my RUclips decides to put a 13 year old video of a show id just heard of in my feed. Coincidence... I think NOT
I like this song...
All you ever need to know about a "hotly tipped new band"
Gay Dad, Terris. Etc 😂
great tune! anyone know where I can get a Colon album? can't find them on amazon.
Not on Amazon, too dangerous.
My biggest fear: To like an uncomplete song
I'm a fan of Teenage fan club,I've actually seen them, but at the time people made them out to be a harder sound than they actually are, there tracks used to show up Skate CD compilations, very Strange...!!
@DnB and Psy Production No, but im a fan of the their Fanclub ; )