Young Marble Giants. Everything about them was cool.
- Welsh, like John Cale and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. Outside the mainstream and going their own way. Uninfluenced by other bands hanging out in Camden Town, say.
- Only recorded one album, like Josef K, The Monks, Life Without Buildings, Madvillain and The Postal Service.
- Everyone talks about Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine and Siouxsie Sioux but no one mentions Alison Statton. Possibly because she’s now a chiropractor.
- Kurt Cobain’s favourite band (alongside The Vaselines).
- Colossal Youth and Young Marble Giants refer to the massive kouroi statues of ancient Greece, most likely sculpted according to an original Egyptian design. Something to do with Apollo.
- The lyrics are quite odd. What is noddemix?
- They supported Cabaret Voltaire in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver and New York, then split up.
- Stuart Moxham was a fan of Vini Reilly’s early work.
- He was also very interested in dub reggae.
- Your friend with the Unknown Pleasures t-shirt has never heard of them.
