Birdland - Sleep With Me (1990)

[@christopheryoung7534]

Norwich Arts Centre 1989/90, Feckin Rock Rave awesomeness. Happy Times!

[@fromthemakersof5529]

Beautiful 😎

[@SionClovesthis]

responsible for 2 of the best 5 gigs i ever saw. 25 minutes of pure bouncing blonde brilliance

[@helenkay6888]

Bought the Sleep With Me single, saw them at the Bierkeller Bristol early 90s. Bloomi'n excellent.

[@stephen3511]

Good times.... great music.

[@readingandrighting8178]

Saw them at Fat Sam's in Dundee 1990, great gig but the bass guitar thrust like a pike into the audience that missed my head by an inch will be ingrained in my mind forever.

[@svenstrange]

Such a great band!!!!!

[@kArtoffelkooperative808]

wow

[@newforestpixie5297]

in our roof is a box of comics & magazines…including 10 or so NMEs from 1989 & 1990. Birdland have the front cover (01Feb1990) & receive snidey digs from the papers’ staff during a Wedding Present interview & in the Angst column. In those days i was into House of Love , PWEI Wedding Present ,Mock Turtles & Wonderstuff & being a plumber rather than being a youngster in further education hadn’t heard of Birdland. It sounds as if they - like a few more bands of the time were a year or four ahead of the trend with their guitar pop. I hope they found some kind of continued success in the business ! 😃👍❤️from woods near Bournemouth

[@revol148]

@newforestpixie5297 I recently bought three huge boxes of NME's from the late 1980's to the early 1990's - there were so many bands which I completely forgot about - Birdland being one of them although for good reason which I cam sure you disagree with me on that. Good work with being a plumber - I did the opposite and wasted 3 years being a student for a worthless qualification at the end of it ! I guess you are now living in a seaside mansion in Sandbanks (or Canford cliffs?) whereas I'm mortgaged up to the hilt in a two bed flat in Bristol !

[@mrsecondsoul3278]

This topped the Indie charts in early 1990

[@luisfelipecamargobackinful4642]

Between Happy Mondays and Stone Roses

[@philjones2561]

The Astoria London with the free giveaway vinyl which I've still got , great times

[@mark_monsta]

Yup there for that .... Senseless Things support ?

[@ConestogaCreek]

Reminds me of "Under my Thumb" quite a bit but pretty good

[@luisfelipecamargobackinful4642]

Also Unbearable by the Irish band Wonder Stuff.

[@amc167]

Great Tune

[@wimdenhaan1106]

👍👍

[@jamsee1]

Rocks!!!

[@greva2904]

This lot caused so much trouble at one gig (in Cambridge I think, inviting audience members on stage and then kicking them in the head when they tried to get up on stage) that after the gig the bouncers locked the doors, went backstage and kicked the crap out of birdland.

[@punkoid76]

Specky Cyclist I was at that gig, they were really good live and didn’t need the attempts at recreating the real sense of danger that was pervasive at the punk gigs of the 1970s. Think the support band were called Drop 19 or something, I was there with a really hot indie girl I dated for about ten months, but even she didn’t distract me from how good Birdland were live, saw them a few years later in Newcastle after their notoriety had waned and they were lousy, different drummer and bass player and a grunge sound that just didn’t suit them, the Middlesbrough gig was fairy packed, the Newcastle gig was more than half empty. They were a wasted talent.

[@chrisbinckes2732]

ha ha the best memories are spew coloured and adhere to the concious state like 'glue' i still think that birdland and even more so previous brian jones lookalikes 'zodiac motels' could have gone further if someone not unlike a/loog-oldham with a keen hold on media manipulation and situationist-type controversy tho the kicks in the head are a bit ornery for publicity... could have got them on the tabloid shock horror headliner gravytrains well when i saw zodiac motels up at the timebox north london they really were the thing still cant figure out why no one else shared my frenzy... must have been the quality housing estate subs i wuz imbibing...

[@Coxy-b34]

Sounds about right.

[@MrSausagess]

Saw them live they were good guitar player kicked me I think when I climbed on the stage. Was wankered can’t really remember the specifics.

[@brassneckweddoes]

Tim Burgess should be in this band with his haircut.

[@milky0ne]

We all had that haircut in 1990

[@gto1066]

A great rehash of Unbearable by The Wonderstuff who rehashed In the Midnight Hour by The Jam. Love postmodern pop.

[@baronvonvakeman6947]

no idea which came first, but they both sound a lot like 'i'm free' by the stones

[@Coxy-b34]

@@baronvonvakeman6947 Unbearable by the Wonderstuff certainly came before this.

[@patrickstocks3986]

27 years ago

[@mat900ft]

If I remember correctly, these were one of those bands that the NME and Sounds hyped up with single of the week and cover shot, only to mercilessly rip them to shreds when it became obvious that they just didn’t have the songs, and most of their readership weren’t onboard

[@horrortackleharry]

That's the early 90s British music press in a nutshell.

[@realvilla]

This shalt not read the NME

[@Coxy-b34]

Your memory is 100% accurate.NME trying to outdo Melody Maker at the time and discover the 'next big thing' I believe.Quite pathetic really.

[@x-vector7245]

The only reason I'm aware of Birdland is that for some reason I've still got a copy of NME's 15 September 1990 issue lying on a shelf. The band featured in a two-page article called "[rock 'n' roll] Niggers with Altitude", referring to the balloon trip they were interviewed on and a cover of the Patti Smith song "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger" they'd done.

[@kArtoffelkooperative]

[@fallguybirdy7998]

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[@StuartBenson-ih3dn]

Utterly pointless music. Unless the point was “let’s make a really shit and derivative record”

[@ianomcplayer1991]

Rip off of the wonder stuffs unbearable

[@Padicus70]

You can't whistle a haircut.

[@dgsroy]

Unbearable!

[@sparks1976]

Even has the cowbell lol