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Unique. Unique. Unique. UNIQUE! NO Yes - Unique. Just roll the word around your tongue and tonsils (if still in situ) for a while. Enjoy it in its true sense. Undiluted. Pure. Freed of the normal day-to-day contamination from that great dissembler of language, hyperbole. It is after all a very special word for those very special people and things that are - er – unique. | Unique. Unique. Unique. UNIQUE! NO Yes - Unique. Just roll the word around your tongue and tonsils (if still in situ) for a while. Enjoy it in its true sense. Undiluted. Pure. Freed of the normal day-to-day contamination from that great dissembler of language, hyperbole. It is after all a very special word for those very special people and things that are - er – unique. | ||
Now consider Igginbottom, the Bradford band. Line-up? Two guitars, bass and drums. Two of the guys sing. It's a classic 1960's Mersey-style combo, then. Like The Merseybeats, 'The Searchers', 'The Swinging Blue Jeans' or ‘The Remo Four’ right? They'll be playing 1960's Beat R'n'B music, with a few Chuck Berry numbers thrown in, plus a couple of soppy, sloppy, soggy ballads to get the girls all gooey and ready for a wild snogging and writing session at the bus stop, whilst awaiting the 16 night service to Eccleshill, via Shipley. | Now consider [[Igginbottom]], the Bradford band. Line-up? Two guitars, bass and drums. Two of the guys sing. It's a classic 1960's Mersey-style combo, then. Like The Merseybeats, 'The Searchers', 'The Swinging Blue Jeans' or ‘The Remo Four’ right? They'll be playing 1960's Beat R'n'B music, with a few Chuck Berry numbers thrown in, plus a couple of soppy, sloppy, soggy ballads to get the girls all gooey and ready for a wild snogging and writing session at the bus stop, whilst awaiting the 16 night service to Eccleshill, via Shipley. | ||
In fact – no. Not the slightest bit correct. So put down that spotty-faced girl with the half-eaten bag of chips in her mac pocket, cease your fetid, futile gyrations and belay your lustful, lubricious, adolescent, sexual (but safely trousered) thrustings. Matters of greater import are afoot. What we have here is no 'three chord wonder' situation. What we do have here is a band that was, and is unique in the purest sense of the word unique. This is a band that took music a whole new way, gave it another dimension and direction, with a wholly new level of virtuoso musical ability musical sensibility, higher intelligence and forward vision. Arguably in this album and in their live work, Igginbottom defined a whole new genre of music. And they did this whilst still struggling to get into their very earliest twenties. There was no big-time record company and management team behind them, with big money and bigger plans and schemes and targets; no Svengali figure, and no big ideal other than to create and play the kind of music that they were happy with and would be proud to perform in the most exalted musical company. Of course, this is about the biggest idea that musicians can have, but achieving it, pulling it off and being acclaimed for it - well, that's quite another story - and a scenario that's littered with crushing defeat, odium, ridicule and ruination. Not for the faint-hearted, or those of meagre talent, neither of which descriptions could apply to Igginbottom. | In fact – no. Not the slightest bit correct. So put down that spotty-faced girl with the half-eaten bag of chips in her mac pocket, cease your fetid, futile gyrations and belay your lustful, lubricious, adolescent, sexual (but safely trousered) thrustings. Matters of greater import are afoot. What we have here is no 'three chord wonder' situation. What we do have here is a band that was, and is unique in the purest sense of the word unique. This is a band that took music a whole new way, gave it another dimension and direction, with a wholly new level of virtuoso musical ability musical sensibility, higher intelligence and forward vision. Arguably in this album and in their live work, Igginbottom defined a whole new genre of music. And they did this whilst still struggling to get into their very earliest twenties. There was no big-time record company and management team behind them, with big money and bigger plans and schemes and targets; no Svengali figure, and no big ideal other than to create and play the kind of music that they were happy with and would be proud to perform in the most exalted musical company. Of course, this is about the biggest idea that musicians can have, but achieving it, pulling it off and being acclaimed for it - well, that's quite another story - and a scenario that's littered with crushing defeat, odium, ridicule and ruination. Not for the faint-hearted, or those of meagre talent, neither of which descriptions could apply to Igginbottom. | ||
