Talulah Gosh

City of Origin: Oxford, England, UK

Period of Activity: Mid-1980s

Members: Eithne Farry, Amelia Fletcher, Mathew Fletcher, Peter Momtchiloff, Elizabeth Price (former), Rob Pursey (former), Chris Scott

Related Artists: The Carousel, Catenary Wires, Heavenly, Marine Research, Sportique, Swansea Sound, Tender Trap

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Social Media: Bandcamp

You never forget your first love, you know? My first year of college, I picked up a copy of an old Rough Trade compilation because it promised to have one of My Bloody Valentine's earliest songs. "Paint a Rainbow" was pretty much as good as I'd hoped for, but a couple songs later was Talulah Gosh's self-titled song. And that was almost as revolutionary to me as the first time I heard "Radio Free Europe", hearing Amelia's voice for the first time, or Peter's reverbed guitar and Chris' descending basslines at the end of each line. I'd heard C86 for the first time a few months prior and thought bands like the Shop Assistants and Primal Scream were good, but it was nothing like this. They're noisy, they're jangly, they've got a bunch of songs where Amelia and Elizabeth (or later Eithne) are falling all over each other vocally, and most importantly, their only speed is F A S T. And I'm not the only one! You can hear echoes of Talulah Gosh in pretty much every single indiepop band who has ever looked at a fuzz pedal. An absolute desert island pick, if ever there was one!