Here are a new of my favourites:

Least Auklet – be at your side

Haling from Liverpool in the early 80’s, Least Auklet fitted snugly into the emerging 80’s pop-miserablist scene. They supported Echo and the Bunnymen on their “We’re a mite pissed-off” tour and seemed to be headed on for greater things.

However, things soon fell apart during their ill fated “Bring down Thatcher by staring at your shoes” tour, as the bands extreme taciturness mean’t that they never told each other where the venues actually were, and so everything disintegrated in an orgy of indifference.

The lead singer is now running a Chip Shop in Doncaster, while the drummer is the COO of an international investment bank

Artlenburg – Sure that everyone will

These wacky Latvian trip-hop ambient funsters exploded onto the club scene in the early 90’s. Charming the ectasy-ravaged ravers with their chill out anthems based on on traditional Latvian folk ditties.

However, they soon became disillusioned with the “commercialism” and “fakery” of the music business, and the fact that they couldn’t get laid.

They were last seen in an igloo somewhere above the Arctic Circle, playing their music as a “ambient tribute to the desolation”…. mainly to seals

Lady Chapel – I Myself Deny It

Following the tried and trusted English musical formula piloted by The Primitives, Transvision Vamp and the Ting Tings of an attractive blonde fronting some anonymous indie-musos wearing black, Lady Chapel’s indie-jangle-pop enchanted many.

Their meteoric rise, and and subsequent precipitous fall from grace was sadly mirrored by lead singer Jayne Janie’s tragic death in a freak space hopper accident