Bonus points to those of you already familiar with Angelfish, one of Shirley Manson's bands before she joined up with Garbage. Her band before Angelfish, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie obviously wasn't any good because she wasn't the lead singer.
Unsurprisingly, I learned of Angelfish's brief existence due to Shirley's involvement in Garbage. The surprising bit was that the band and its one album were actually pretty good. Most people's pre-fame (side note: why does spell check say this hyphenated word is wrong and suggests "pee-fame" as a replacement?) bands aren't. Which makes sense, because they probably would have gotten famous beforehand if they had been any good. Even more surprising though was that the band consisted of a subset of the members of Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie. I'm pretty sure that means the two guys who weren't involved were holding them back.
The fact that I'm posting this now in no way precludes me from doing a post about Garbage later, just so you know. Because Shirley Manson is awesome and still completely crush-worthy after all of these years.
I'll let her tell the story of this video's relevance to music history herself in the intro to the song...
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