rude club - men in suits

This one is a slow builder, but I'm surprised I didn't open the blog with it seeing as at the time this was one of my favourite things ever. I bought this from a townie girl at school on CD bizarrely enough, I had a copy of Locust by the same band which was alright, and she had bought this "by mistake" appparently, so for two days lunch money it ended up being mine, and in an unrelated incident she got pregnant and dropped out of school. Rude Club were part of the toilet circuit collective of Camden indie bands of the mid to late nineties, and it definitely sounds very much of its time with squawly guitars and slightly grating female shouty vocals, but they were definitely bigger riffers than some of your Fluffys and Tampasms, and the initial roar of guitar that follows the playground noise sampling, slightly overlong intro is HAMAZING. Trust me.


Normally this would be a picture of the band or the single artwork or something but google yields nothing and I don't have a scanner. These are just men in suits.

Anyway, the lyrics hint at seediness which was essentially a pre-requisite for girl fronted shouty indie bands at the time, lots of talk of money changing hands for favours etc, the guitars are loud and this song is generally good fun to smash your bedroom up to, download this now and set to doing that perhaps? I can't find much detail about them on the interweb which is unusual but they only had a few singles on Parkway Records so I guess maybe that's something to do with it. I think they were a London band although there's a myspace which claims to be run from Manchester but it's not actually the band's page so who knows. They made a great racket, from 1995 through to 1999, and then due to an argument between the two founding members and their bassist the singer decided she had had enough of the music business and set up a small minibus company offering lease and hire arrangements at reasonable prices. The drummer now works in Tesco in Camden and he once approached Chris Gentry for an autograph in 2003 causing both of them great embarrasment. The bassist is a successful middlemanager at KPMG.

rude club - men in suits.mp3