The Popguns were an indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band which played a part in the British

United Kingdom

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 jangle pop

Jangle pop

Jangle pop is a genre of alternative rock from the mid-1980s that "marked a return to the chiming or jangly guitars and pop melodies of the '60s" bands such as The Byrds, with their electric twelve-string guitars and power pop song structures. Mid-1980s jangle pop was a non-mainstream "pop-based...

 scene. Originally from Brighton

Brighton

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, East Sussex

East Sussex

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, they formed in 1986

1986 in music

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 by vocalist Wendy Morgan, guitarists

Electric guitar

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 Simon Pickles and Greg Dixon plus bassist

Bass guitar

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 Pat Walkington and were joined by Shaun Charman, the former drummer

Drum kit

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 for The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four to more varied forms...

 in 1988

1988 in music

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.

History

Their first release, Where Do You Go?, came in the form of a split flexi disc

Flexi disc

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 (with How Many Beans Make Five?) given away free with an issue of a local zine

Zine

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 in 1988

1988 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....

. The next year this was followed by the single "Landslide", (released by Medium Cool Records

Medium Cool Records

Medium Cool was a United Kingdom independent record label that existed between 1986 and 1989. Specializing in jangly guitar-pop, it released records by bands such as The Raw Herbs, The Siddeleys, The Rain, The Waltones, The Popguns, and The Corn Dollies....

), which reached number 20 on the UK Indie Chart

UK Indie Chart

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, and made it to #46 on BBC radio

Music radio

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 DJ

Disc jockey

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 John Peel

John Peel

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's annual Festive Fifty list for that year. The singles "Waiting for the Winter" (1989) and "Someone You Love" (1990

1990 in music

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) featured on their debut album, Eugenie (also 1990), released by the record label Midnight Music. The single "Still a World Away", preceded second album Snog, which was followed by the EP

Extended play

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s XXX and Crazy (all released in 1991). Charman 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

French language

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 version of their last single, "Harley Davidson" - was released by Tall Poppy Records.

Albums

• Eugenie (1990), Midnight Music
• Snog (1991), Midnight Music
• Love Junky (1995), 3rd Stone
• A Plus de Cent (1996), Tall Poppy

Compilations:

• Another year, Another Address...the Best of the Midnight Years (1996), Cherry Red
  Cherry Red
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Singles, EPs

• "Where Do You Go?" (1988), La-Di-Da - flexi-disc split with How Many Beans Make 5?
• "Landslide" (1989), Medium Cool
  Medium Cool Records
  Medium Cool was a United Kingdom independent record label that existed between 1986 and 1989. Specializing in jangly guitar-pop, it released records by bands such as The Raw Herbs, The Siddeleys, The Rain, The Waltones, The Popguns, and The Corn Dollies....
  
  - UK Indie #20
• "Waiting for the Winter" (1989), Midnight Music
• "Someone You Love" (1990), Midnight Music
• "Still a World Away" (1991), Midnight Music
• XXX EP (1991), Midnight Music
• Crazy EP (1991), Midnight Music
• "Star" (1994), 3rd Stone
• Get Out EP (1995), 3rd Stone
• "Harley Davidson" (1996), 3rd Stone