Jon Yeah, that’s pretty much how I remember it. Loads of NME coverage, but the reality was very different. I always think Cope killed off that whole “shambling” scene. He said in an interview that some of the stuff was OK, but that they were all sexless and should be singing songs about fucking or something (not a Big Black reference). Within weeks Bobby Gillespie was digging out his old Mary Chain leathers. There’s been quite a lot of C86 nostalgia in recent years with box sets and books, but it was all shite, a classic case of people taking all these influences and making lowest-common denominator, surface-scratching, poseur bollocks. Like An Angel was a belter though!
