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The Popguns - Waiting for the Winter - 1989 Play Video

The Popguns - Waiting for the Winter - 1989

Recorded from late night/early morning indie music show Transmission

The Popguns - Someone You Love Play Video

The Popguns - Someone You Love

Third single from Brighton band The Popguns. Sound quality's a bit dodgy for the first couple of seconds but it gets going!

The Popguns - Landslide 1988 Play Video

The Popguns - Landslide 1988

Video of first single by The Popguns

The Popguns-Star Play Video

The Popguns-Star

Brighton's Indie Guitar Pop Pride. Considered In Their Very Beginning-When Signed On Midnight Records-As The Feminine Version Of Wedding Present, Thaugh Wendy Morgan Was Much More Different And....Attractive Than...

The Popguns - Still A World Away Play Video

The Popguns - Still A World Away

Single video from Brighton indie band The Popguns (1990?)

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The Popguns Biography

The Popguns were an indie rock band which played a part in the British jangle pop scene. Originally from Brighton, East Sussex, they formed in 1986 by vocalist Wendy Morgan, guitarists Simon Pickles and Greg Dixon plus bassist Pat Walkington and were joined by Shaun Charman, the former drummer for The Wedding Present in 1988.

Their first release, Where Do You Go?, came in the form of a flexi disc given away free with an issue of How Many Beans Make Five?, a local zine in 1988. The next year this was followed by the single "Landslide", (released by Medium Cool Records), which reached number 20 on the UK Indie Chart, and made it to #46 on BBC radio DJ John Peel's annual Festive Fifty list for that year. The singles "Waiting for the Winter" (1989) and "Someone You Love" (1990) featured on their debut album, Eugenie (also 1990), released by the record label Midnight Music. The singles "Still a World Away", "XXX" and "Crazy" (all released in 1991), were collected on their follow-up album from the same year, Snog. After which Charman soon left, leaving the group on a brief hiatus which saw them lose a significant amount of their media coverage. The single "Star" saw them debut for their new label, 3rd Stone, who released their third album, Love Junky (1995), which also contained the 1995 single, "Get Out". Their final album, A Plus de Cent (1996) - which features the French language version of their last single, "Harley Davidson" - was released by Tall Pop Records.

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The Popguns Discography

The Popguns albums.

  • A Plus de Cent - (3rd Stone Records/GB)
  • Love Junky - (3rd Stone Records/GB)
  • Snog - (Midnight Music/GB)
  • Eugenie - (Midnight Music/GB)

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