Tse Tse Fly were an alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 group

Musical ensemble

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 from Leeds

Leeds

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, England

England

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, formed in 1988 by former A.C. Temple

A.C. Temple

A.C. Temple were an alternative rock band from Sheffield, England, formed in 1985. They released four albums before splitting up in 1991.-History:...

 guitarist Paul Dorrington

Paul Dorrington

Paul Dorrington is an English guitarist and bassist best known for his 1991-1995 tenure in The Wedding Present.Dorrington joined Sheffield group AC Temple in 1985, and recorded Rorschach Blot Test, a live compilation album featuring The Dustdevils and Kilgore Trout...

, along with Jayne Lockey and Simon Cleave. They released several EP

Extended play

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s and an album before splitting up in 1994. All three original members went on to join 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...

.

History

Dorrington (guitars), Lockey (vocals, bass) and Cleave (vocals, guitar) formed the band in 1988, although their first release was not until 1992, the Duckweed Smuggled Home EP, by which time Dorrington had left to replace Peter Solowka

Peter Solowka

Peter Solowka born in Leeds of Ukrainian and Irish descent was guitarist with the Wedding Present from its inception until 1991 after the recording of the Seamonsters album...

 in The Wedding Present. The line-up later included Mark Goodrham (guitar, vocals) and Ian McCrimmon (drums). They followed their first release with the Fox Under Diesel EP in 1993, before signing to Cherry Red

Cherry Red

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, who issued their only album while together, Mudflat Joey, in 1994. After the album's release, Lockey and Cleave both joined The Wedding Present, effectively ending Tse Tse Fly. Cleave was also a member of Cinerama

Cinerama (band)

Cinerama were a UK indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present.-Career:Originally formed in 1998 while on a break from The Wedding Present, Cinerama started as a duo of Gedge and his then-girlfriend Sally Murrell...

. A second album combining the first two EPs and four additional tracks was released in 2001 on Pehr Records.

Musical style

The band's sound has been described as "guitar-squall", with comparisons to Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 and that dog.

That dog.

That Dog is a Los Angeles-based rock band that formed in 1991 and dissolved in 1997, reuniting in 2011. The band consists of Anna Waronker on lead vocals and guitar, Rachel Haden on bass guitar and vocals, her sister Petra Haden on violin and vocals, and Tony Maxwell on drums...

, with Lockey and Cleave often alternating on vocals within the same song. Their sound also included what has been described as a "frantic trebly bass". They also used samples of sounds such as dogs and telephones. On their later releases they moved more towards psychedelic rock, and a similarity to The Wedding Present was also noted. Allmusics Mike DaRonco, reviewing Fox Under Diesel, described "the swirly guitar effects and distorted bass" which gave them an "edgier, almost psychedelic feel to their noisy pop."

Singles, EPs

• Duckweed Smuggled Home EP (1992) Ablution
• Fox Under Diesel EP (1993) Morphene
• "Fledgeling" (1994) Cherry Red
  Cherry Red
  Cherry Red is a London-based independent record label formed in 1978.-History:Cherry Red grew from the rock promotion company founded in 1971 to promote rock concerts at the Malvern Winter Gardens...
  
  
• "Scaffolding" (1994) Cherry Red