The Marmite Sisters Twenty Tracks

The Marmite Sisters were first described to me as a mixture of The Smiths and The Fall but what was even more interesting was the fact that they were still at school. As someone who was still at school and in a band (description: a mix of The Velvet Underground and The Jesus & Mary Chain but rubbish) it was encouraging to find like minded souls; especially in an environment where most bands in Leicester were unclean goths pretending to be Led Zepplin. For me at the beginning The Marmite Sisters sounded more like a C86 version of the Buzzcocks “Times Up” era and evolved into an entirely different and varied beast by the end of their lifespan. Listen for the evolution from Part Time Goths to Semi Detached and feel what it was like to live in the arse end of the east midlands between 1987 and 1995 - Ian Percival, April 2015.

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Smile

Back in 1991 I was in an indie rock band called Smile, I only mention this as a few weeks ago I stumbled across a demo we made. Listening to it I was pleasantly surprised to learn it was actually listenable though very derivative of Sonic Youth which wasn’t a shock as they were the only group we all liked. Deciding this needed to be digitised I then realised it needed a cover. I thought back to my 22 year old self and what he would have asked for if we’d been signed to Hut or Creation like we wanted to be. The brief would have gone “err, something 60s and psychedelic, a bit like Loop’s early sleeves”. I decided to make the sleeve in true 1991 style by truly missing the point and creating a 1991 version of what a “60s, psychedelic” sleeve would look like. I think we would have liked this sleeve…