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Thousand Yard Stare are an English band from Slough, Berkshire active during the early 1990s, prior to the Britpop explosion. Supporting popular bands on the indie circuit such as James and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, the band also released several EPs. Recently reformed the band played at Nottingham Rock City Wake Up Indie Alldayer on October 17th 2015 with more dates to follow. ==History== The band's debut effort, the ''Weatherwatching EP'' was released in November 1990 on Stifled Aardvark Records, the band's own record label. Both the ''Easter 89'' and ''Tumbletown'' EPs were demo tapes made up by the band and sold at gigs prior to their first official release, the 12" vinyl only ''Weatherwatching''. In a response to this record, ''NME'' nominated Thousand Yard Stare as "brightest hope for the future". Following in June 1991, the ''Keepsake EP'' reached the top spot in both the ''NME'' and ''Melody Maker'' independent charts. That summer the band performed at the Reading Festival, further raising their profile and leading to their stint as support for James in October and November of that year. In the Autumn, the band began the sessions for their first album, Hands On, the first fruit of which was another EP. ''Seasonstream EP'' was released on Stifled Aardvark Records in 1991, their last independent release on their own label. The ''Seasonstream EP'' began with a track titled "0-0 a.e.t", (which means "No Score After Extra Time"), a football metaphor laden song that featured Martin Bell of The Wonder Stuff on fiddle. 0-0a.e.t appeared as the first track on the Hands On LP. This single again topped the Indie music charts, and reached number 65 in the UK Singles Chart. With the backing of the major label Polydor, Thousand Yard Stare went on to release a further three EPs, and two studio albums. (''Hands On'' and ''Mappamundi'') were both produced by Stephen Street, who had already produced records for The Smiths and Blur. However, neither of the albums made much of an inroad into the mainstream market, and the band became eclipsed by the burgeoning Britpoppers such as Suede, Blur and Elastica, and ''Mappamundi'' proved to be their final release. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thousand Yard Stare (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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