Talk:Shed Seven
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Surely the backlash section should include the great NME headline: "You Can't Get Shitter Than A Thick Rick Witter" (Note for non-UK residents, this is a pun on the slogan of a chain of automotive garages called Kwik-Fit: "You Can't Get Better Than A Kwik-Fit Fitter").
I would include it, but I can't find a cite for when it first appeared, other than the dim recessses of my memory...
[edit] Why revert back so far?
Al lot of good changes were made to the article, which were considered badly written on 8th June. Not sure why you chose to revert to an earlier version of the article, which has ommitted a lot of good information that was well written from articles before 8th June??
[edit] Moved here from article
[edit] Trivia
- The band were originally labelled by the NME as being New Wave of New Wave.
- Some old Brockley Haven tracks were reinvented in the form of 'new' Shed Seven songs, such as the Speakeasy B-side "Your Guess Is As Good As Mine", and the 1998 single release "She Left Me On Friday", which is known to be a variation of the Brockley Haven song "Sexy Legs!".
- Brockley Haven gained a notorious reputation on their local scene and, as such, were banned from playing in many of York's music venues.
- Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter has a long-running feud with Kula Shaker's Crispian Mills over an incident at the BRIT Awards in 1997.
- In Q magazine's 150 Greatest Rock Lists Ever special edition (July 2004), Alan Leach featured at number 9 on the "11 Rock Stars Who Have Suffered From Stage Fright" list.
- Change Giver was voted in at number 29 in NME's list of the 50 Best Albums of 1994, at number 38 in Melody Maker's "Top 40 Albums of 1994" list, and at number 48 in Select's "Top 50 Albums of 1994" list.
- A Maximum High was voted in at number 20 in Select's "Top 50 Albums of 1996" list, whilst "Chasing Rainbows" made number 21 in the magazine's "Top Singles" list of the same year.
- In 1996, Rick Witter was named as "the coolest bloke in indie pop" in a special edition of Smash Hits entitled "Cool School". He had his photos taken alongide Louise Redknapp.
- In 1999, "Disco Down" was voted as the 19th best single of the year by the readers of Melody Maker.
- Oasis, The Bluetones, Ash, Supergrass, Dodgy, Cast, Longpigs, Mansun, Catatonia, Clint Boon Puressence and Stereophonics have all had support slots at Shed Seven gigs.
- Despite having supported Shed Seven at some early gigs,Oasis singer Liam Gallagher had a long-running feud with the band saying, "They're a fucking shit band and they've had too much press. They're just trying to be like The Smiths and that singer sounds like Bjork".[citation needed]
- According to Helen Love's song "Long Live The UK Music Scene", Shed Seven, along with Chris Evans, will save the UK music scene.
