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Biography
During their brief recording career from
1984 to 1986, The June Brides were among the most beloved
independent pop groups in their native U.K. Hailing from Lambeth,
the quintet released four singles and one LP; their lone album, There
Are Eight Million Stories, stayed at the top of the Independent
Albums Chart for a month and remained in the charts for 38 weeks.
The band also appeared on the cover of NME, and was cited by Morrissey
as his favourite group of 1985. Among their scores of gigs, they
shared the stage with - among others - The Go-Betweens, The
Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pastels, and The Mekons.
Following The June Brides'
premature demise (owing to persistant record label difficulties and
internal fractures rather than a loss of public interest),
singer-ongwriter Phil Wilson signed as a solo artist to Creation
Records, releasing two fine singles that were a marked departure
from his former group's sound.
In recent years, the June Brides
and Phil Wilson discographies have become increasingly sought
after by indoe pop fans worldwide, and retrospective investigation has
revealed these records to have been inspirational to musicians who have
gone on to form Belle and Sebastian and Manic Street Preachers.
This spring, Bus Stop will be
proud to release a two-CD anthology of the complete June Brides
and Phil Wilson studio recordings, including rare and previously
unavailable live, demo and radio session tracks, the first time any of
this music has been issued in the US.
I produced the
Chills, Phil Wilson for Creation, Primal Scream's first album. I really
liked him [Phil Wilson]--great songwriter, very nice man, very good man.
Interesting stuff, very strange stuff. When I say strange, I just mean
that he's got a certain character to it which you can hear how it
relates to what everybody else conceives of as standard functional pop
music--"this will do the job, right?" And yet it's got this
slight angle on things.
- Mayo Thompson 2000
I first saw The June Brides playing
in a squat in the Old Kent Road opening at one of The Jesus and Mary
Chain's first London shows. The June Brides walked onstage and the
singer said 'Hi, we're the Kinks' and went straight into the first
song. For someone to say that in 1984 I thought was
fantastic. They did make great pop records.
- Robert
Forster
The
June Brides came from a post punk generation of musicians who were
actually more interested in music than appearing in Heat or Hello
magazines. They were art for arts sake. Old skool indie and
all the better for it. Phil Wilson was a very good songwriter and
probably still is to this day. They should have been on Creation
not bloody Pink Records. There fault or mine? Probably me
being pedantic at the time. They were a really good band.
-
Alan McGee March 2002
Discography
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In the Rain/Sunday to Saturday 7"
Pink Label (PINKY01) 1984
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Every Conversation/Disneyland 7" Pink
Label (PINKY02) 1984
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In the Rain/Sunday to Saturday/Every Coversation/Disneyland 12"
Pink Label (PINKY09) 1985
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There Are Eight Million Stories LP
Pink Label (PINKY05) 1985
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No Place Called Home/We Belong 7"/12"
In Tape (IT24) 1985 12"
includes On the Rocks + Josef's Gone
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This Town/Cold/Just the Same 12" In
Tape (IT30) 1986
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"I Fall" (live) on Alive in
the Living Room compilation LP Creation
Records (CRELP001)
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"Comfort" on Imminent
Episode One compilation LP Food Records
(Bite1)
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"No Place Called Home"
(live) on Communicate! Live at Thames Poly compilation DLP
Thames Poly (TPSU0001) 1985 CD
reissue Overground (OVER28) 1992
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"On the Rocks" on Just A
Mish Mash compilation LP In Tape
(IT47)
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"Every Conversation" on
Seeds 1: Pop compilation LP Cherry Red
Records (BRED74)
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"Every Conversation" on A
Different Kind of Tension compilation LP
Pressures of the Real World Records/EMI (PRLP1)
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"In the Rain" + Television
Families" (live) on A Tribute to Tricky Ricky compilation cassette
Rouska (RUSK03)
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"In the Rain" video on
Shelter Video compilation
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"This Town" (acoustic) on
Ideal Guest House compilation cassette Shelter
(Shelter1) 1986
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"This Town" (acoustic) on
Chemical Imbalance compilation 7" Chemical
Imbalance (CI001) given away w/Chemical Imbalance magazine
(other artists were Sonic Youth, Broken Talent, and The Chant)
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"Every Conversation" +
"In the Rain" on
Beauty compilation LP Pink Label
(PINKY15) 1987
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John Peel Session 12" Strange
Fruit Records (SFPS023) 1987
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For Better or Worse CD Overground
Records (OVER40) 1995
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