...and the Native Hipsters

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Poor Prince 00:00 Tools
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She's Not A Gentleman 00:00 Tools
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Ten Small Men With Buckets 00:00 Tools
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Muscle Power 00:00 Tools
Larry's Coming Back 00:00 Tools
Middle Of The Road Rage 00:00 Tools
The Story Of Two Twins 00:00 Tools
Goodbye to the Hippo 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Flowers R Machines as well 00:00 Tools
Barry the Bouncing Bee 00:00 Tools
The Story of Two Twins (Go On If You're A Goon) 00:00 Tools
Ooo Technology 00:00 Tools
The Rhino and the Meercat 00:00 Tools
No Pussy Blues 00:00 Tools
You Must Be Sailing 00:00 Tools
Rolling Chimes 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Be Around (Paul) 00:00 Tools
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Maybe Man 00:00 Tools
Scientist 00:00 Tools
Feed the Pope 00:00 Tools
Why Dose it? 00:00 Tools
Stands, still the building 00:00 Tools
M.E.N. spells Men 00:00 Tools
...ban the Native Hipsters 00:00 Tools
Abbatoir 00:00 Tools
Hang ten 00:00 Tools
Friends of the Earth 00:00 Tools
Thankyou for Holding 00:00 Tools
Long Distance Running 00:00 Tools
I Can Change My Mind 00:00 Tools
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A Drink With The Girls 00:00 Tools
No Violent Pacing 00:00 Tools
Goodbye To Everything 00:00 Tools
Traffic Sucking Robots 00:00 Tools
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You Sleep I Dance 00:00 Tools
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Crossover 00:00 Tools
Stand still the building 00:00 Tools
M.E.N Spells Men 00:00 Tools
Clone The Pandas 00:00 Tools
There Goes Concord Again 00:00 Tools
Emma Kalemma 00:00 Tools
Caged433 (Not That Song Again) 00:00 Tools
Thank You For Holding 00:00 Tools
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….Ban The Native Hipsters 00:00 Tools
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She's Not A Gentlemen 00:00 Tools
Unlisted 00:00 Tools
Story Of Two Twins (Go On If You're A Goon) 00:00 Tools
Tropical Jeremy presents Mr. Magic by ...and the Native Hipsters 00:00 Tools
Larrys Coming Back 00:00 Tools
Soap Opera (Remix 2000) 00:00 Tools
The Story Of Two Twins (Go On If You'r e A Goon) 00:00 Tools
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One of the more bizarre “groups” birthed by the late-’70s/early-’80s British post-punk scene, And the Native Hipsters achieved notoriety in 1980 with the oddball single “There Goes Concorde Again,” a living room recording that the group had pressed into 500 copies. Upon hand stamping each of the singles and assembling the sleeves from posters of soccer player Kevin Keegan, the group sent them to the infamous Rough Trade shop. DJ John Peel picked up the single and began playing it constantly on his influential BBC programme, and the group had to press another 5,000 copies. Clocking in at just under seven minutes, the formless composition is more of a spoken word piece or whimsical experiment than a song, featuring Nanette “Blatt” Greenblatt’s perfectly-devoid-of-skill vocals, a wobbly funhouse synth, the occasional guitar pling, and not much bass. Greenblatt and William Wilding were pretty much the nucleus of the group, which featured countless members during its existence. Those who came and left included Robert Cubitt, Tom Fawcett (Design for Living, Fraff), Lester Square (Monochrome Set), Annie Whitehead (a noted session trombonist), Ludwina van der Sman, Chris Cornetto, and Simon Davidson. Though the original lineup only played one gig together (opening for Bauhaus), Wilding and Greenblatt continued to perform together sporadically. A couple official releases followed the group’s debut single, but none of them were able to garner its popularity. In 2001, interest in And the Native Hipsters was renewed from the inclusion of “There Goes Concorde Again” on the Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years box set. Wilding assembled a retrospective disc of the group’s work, culling material that had and hadn’t been released throughout the previous 20 years. http://www.nativehipsters.co.uk Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.