Bang Bang Machine ‘Geek Love’ (Jimmi Kidd Records, 1992)

As old-school

British indie-kids (i.e. were into indie before Britpop) know, this song was No.1 in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1992, the annual poll where Peel’s listeners would vote for their song of the year.

Hailing from Ev

esham, Wocestershire

in England’s West Country, this song was their debut single. The band would go on to release two albums Eternal Happiness and Amphibian before they called it a day in 1996.

How to describe BBM? This track -and this is meant as a compliment – is a shoegazing epic with goth overtones. Even considering what a rubbish year 1992 was for music (and if you disagree, leave a message saying why!)

it would be nice to think that this would have done well in the Festive Fifty in any year. John Peel said that even if they never made another record they would have achieved more than most of us do.

Bang Bang Machine -‘Geek Love.’ mp3

A Bang Bang Machine fan-site is here and their Wikipedia page is here. Try to buy the track if you can, on Amazon or ebay, there are no tracks available that I can see on iTunes (UK anyway).