PLENTY
Enough BURNING SHED
Tim Bowness and friends relive their melancholy youth.
In the mid-80s in the north west of England, young, bighaired Tim Bowness, like many with artistic aspirations, formed a band. Or rather, bands: but we’ll keep the focus on Plenty rather than A Better Mousetrap and After The Stranger, from whose ashes they coalesced. Bowness and his friends Brian Hulse and David Jones bonded over the music of The Blue Nile, Talk Talk, David Sylvian and Prefab Sprout, demonstrating the requisite degree of feyness. Milan Kundera books stuck out of their pockets, angled just so. They discussed Dennis Potter and were allowed to fancy Joanne Whalley. They certainly read Melody Maker cover to cover. Ah, different times.