Menswear

eviltimeban

Yesterday, NME reported that (much maligned) Britpop band Menswear's debut album from 1995 just went platinum:

http://www.nme.com/news/menswear/67344

Which was certainly a strange story. However, it proved to be a hoax:

http://www.holymoly.com/music/news/menswear-platinum-disc-was-hoax-one-band-member-not-finding-it-funny65167

.... perpetrated by one of the guys in the band! What's interesting is that it was picked up by most music websites and reported as news.

Anyone remember Menswear? I (rather guiltily) like some of their singles.

lordgoat

i always wondered if they were Men-swear or Mens-wear...

eviltimeban

lordgoat wrote: »

i always wondered if they were Men-swear or Mens-wear...

Strictly speaking, they were "Menswe@r". :-)

mosstin

lordgoat wrote: »

i always wondered if they were Men-swear or Mens-wear...

Either way they were ****ing ****.

Prettyblack

mosstin wrote: »

Either way they were ****ing ****.

No worse than Sleeper or Marion or Shed Seven or any of those other second rate Britpop bands...

Pighead

Prettyblack wrote: »

No worse than Sleeper or Marion or Shed Seven or any of those other second rate Britpop bands...

They are way worse than Shed 7!

Not sure why the poor old Shed's got ridiculed so much during the 90's. They were a cracking singles band and released some great tunes.

Speakeasy, Ocean Pie, Where Have You Been Tonight?, Getting Better, Going For Gold, Bully Boy, On Standby, Chasing Rainbows, She Left Me on Friday and The Heroes are all perfectly decent tunes. Even Disco Down is enjoyable in a naff kind of way.

Marion were also way way better than Menswear.

pickarooney

I saw them supporting Pulp once. They weren't very good.