Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia… was founded in 1999. The band's original line up was the keyboard player Tim Croston, guitarists Pete Williams and James Shames, singers Emily Gray and Ed Carder and guitarist and drum machine operator Mark Halloran, all students at the University of Oxford. Bass guitar player Ollie Clueit joined late in 1999 before Carder left. The band's music had Gray deliver self-written monologues over guitar noise and samples guided by a beat, drawing comparisons to Arab Strap.[1]
The band's first release was a split CD single with Moonkat on the Jitter record label. One track, "Morning-After Pill", was played on BBC Radio 1 and XFM in London. Jitter then released a limited 7" disc with the tracks "Morning-After Pill" and "No Cigar", which prompted John Peel to offer the band its first of three Peel Sessions.[2]
The band recorded its first album, Indian Ink, that summer which was again released by Jitter on CD and 10" vinyl. Later that year, the band was chosen by Peel to support Pulp at a Radio 1 event in Birmingham and "Morning-After Pill" was voted number 11 in John Peel's 2001 Festive 50.[2]
Disbandment and aftermath
In 2013, Gray started to work with the group Distant Correspondent and she appears on several tracks of their first, self-titled album.[3]
Discography
Albums
Indian Ink (2001) CD and 10" vinyl LP
My Elixir, My Poison (2003) CD
Singles
No Cigar (2000)
Morning-After Pill (2001)
I Only Wanted Something Else to Do but Hang Around (2001)
References
^Nick Hasted (12 December 2001). "Smog, Old Vic, London". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^ ab"Keeping It Peel – Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia". BBC Radio 1. November 2006. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
^"Distant Correspondent". Hot Congress Records. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
March 19, 2023
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