Back to early 1990s Manchester again today with Intastella, a great band that produced some really good, swooping, atmospheric pop and were unfairly lumped in with the Madchester crap that was kicking about at the time.
Another one with not much about unfortunately, but we do know that the band were formed in 1991, consisted of members Stella Grundy, Martin Wright, Martin Mittler, Spencer Birtwistle and Lil' Anthony (Anthony Green), released a load of great singles and three albums and live on in myspace. As they say themselves, they
"made music we liked and created music we had not heard before. Although we were inspired by some Manchester bands, we never tryed to sound like any of them. We wanted to make pop music."The bit of music we're going to have today is this, Intastella - Point Hope, a magic bit of indie pop.
There's an interview on the BBC Manchester bit of the internet here and if you've got more money than sense, you can buy their best of here.
The 12" Mix of 'Soon We'll Fly' is their greatest hour... all ice cream van/music box sounds, gentle piano and lazy beats. "I believe in changes...". Check it out! That best of, BTW, was pretty much everything they did and a damn good overview. I bought it when it was released, thankfully!
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