3. The God MachineScenes From The Second Story

They’re an incredible band, on Fiction and maybe even slightly discovered by The Cure. They were Americans but lived in London and were involved in the Camden scene with Silverfish, Ligament and all these kind of bands. It’s almost metal, but it’s also really bleak. A wonderful band, they made two records and then the bass player died so I never got to see them live. Martin our drummer saw them play. When we started Mogwai they were one of the bands we all bonded over. We were all big God Machine fans and actually used to do a couple of covers of their songs. The records have definitely held up and stood the test of time. I think I found them, you’re about the same age as me so you’ll remember this, but whenever a major label like Fiction tried to punt a new band they’re pretty much give the records away, so you’d get singles and 7" for 49p. You could try out a lot of bands. When I moved my records a few years ago I had so many 7" of horrible bands that are just cataclysmically awful that I bought just because they were 50p. But that’s how I discovered The God Machines and they’re a big Mogwai band, there’s no argument about that.