catherine wheel

Catherine Wheel"it would really make my day/ if you would just move away"

Who?Survivors against massive odds, strugglers against apathy, relatives of the bloke out of Iron Maiden. Started out as shoegazers, then got murkier, grittier and dirtier. Still the world never quite got round to noticing them, still they didn't give up. If medals were given for persistence, that would be really patronising and would be a bit of a mean thing to do. Still, the Wheel would turn up and play for the ceremony, you can bet.

Essential?I want to touch you, and the seven minute meisterwork Black metallic - a hymn to beauty as fragile as the concept it captures. Personally, i dont think their recent stuff has ever recaptured their early joy, but people who like that sort of thing point at the stuff they did following the tour with the Smashing Pumpkins as being their best

Yes, Anna, they were from...Norwich, and benefitted from that city's Wilde Club in their early days

In a nutshell, then:Shoegazers fall in with the wrong crowd, treat effects pedals badly, make sweet flavoured grunge

Never mind the music, give us trivia:That thing about one of them being related to one of Iron Maiden

In more depth:Catherine Wheel official site

- well, at least the lack of calls from TOTP gives 'em time to produce a smart website

Try these, too...Jacobs Mouse
Ride
Revolver - the one with the bloke who went on to be in Death In Vegas
Mudhoney's quieter moments
The More Fiends
And - if you must - Travis