Career
1995 - "Down-Lift the Up-Trodden"
In '95 Cable released their first album for Infectious Records. Down-Lift The Up-Trodden was produced by ex Membranes frontman John Robb. and in the week of release was played in its entirety on the John Peel show. The band went on to play the Reading Festival and toured the UK with Glasgow's A C Acoustics. At the end of the tour the band were involved in a near-fatal car accident when their bus was hit by a drunk driver at high-speed, flipping the vehicle onto its roof. Drummer Neil Cooper quit the band at that point in order to concentrate on his own projects, and was replaced by Richie Mills
1996-97 - "When Animals Attack"
In 1996 Cable played over 100 shows with artists such as The Wedding Present, China Drum, Reef and Garageland (Flying Nun Records). They recorded another session for Radio 1, toured Germany and appeared at The Phoenix Festival. In '97 the band played a concert in Brixton Prison and shortly after flew to New York to record album No. 2 with ex Butthole Surfer, and Shimmy Disc owner Kramer. The album ‘When Animals Attack’ was recorded in 3 weeks at Noise New Jersey, and released the following spring. Album track Freeze The Atlantic was used as the soundtrack on a TV commercial for 'Sprite' which exposed the band to a much broader audience, and was later released as a single.
1998-99 - "Sub-Lingual" and split
In 98 cable played a sellout show at South By South West then returned to the UK to record album No. 3 with Paul Tipler (known for his work with Elastica and Stereolab). That same year they were nominated for Best New British Band at the Kerrang! magazine Awards. At the 1998 ‘Sound City’ festival in Oxford, John Peel joined the band onstage and the concert was broadcast live on Steve Lamacq's Radio 1 show. However, in spring '99 a long simmering legal dispute brought things to an abrupt halt, and on 19 May the band played a packed farewell concert at London Dingwalls, and split. Their 3rd album Sub-Lingual was well received by both the indie & rock press, albeit posthumously.
Matt Bagguley now lives in Oslo and plays in Je Suis Animal Other ex cable members can be found in Hudson Super Six featuring Pete Darrington, and The Lucky Nine featuring drummer Richie Mills. Mills also now fronts the band MiLLS in which he is vocalist and guitarist. Neil Cooper now drums for the alternative metal band Therapy?.
Read more about this topic: Cable (British Band)
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.”
—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)
“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)
“Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)