Cranes

Cranes were only really known to me as a half-remembered name from the gig guide sections of early 90s music papers. Other bands made actual inroads into my album collection around then - MBV, Pixies, The Stone Roses, loads of anonymous electronica - but Cranes inhabited a shadowy and partly hidden world that existed between the pages of Melody Maker, which I never read. I didn't know who Blur were either, and reading that Creation had spent £250,000 on Loveless just increased my sense of apathy. I really wasn't paying proper attention.