Menswear

eviltimeban · 23-11-2012 03:22PM #1

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 · 23-11-2012 03:39PM

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

eviltimeban · 23-11-2012 03:56PM

lordgoat wrote: »

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

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

mosstin · 25-11-2012 11:45PM

lordgoat wrote: »

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

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

Prettyblack · 26-11-2012 11:02AM

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 · 26-11-2012 01:43PM

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 · 28-11-2012 05:21PM

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

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