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The Teastains, Leadmill 18th July 1994

The Teastains are everything we expected them to be - and much more. Hopelessly ridiculous and overwhelmingly colourful, I only wished that I seen it all on a bouncy castle a few weeks back. They were Blur plus two members and minus the egos. It was all a bit of fun, but as someone said to me before the gig, The Teastains will probably be the ones to break out of Sheffield because they don't care as much as the other bands. I hope he's right. The music industry needs some life injecting into it and The Teastains would be a cheeky antidote for all those grey and faceless indie rock bands. Anita Liu, SAM, Issue 7, August 1994

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If you've driven along London Road lately, it is possible that you may have caught sight of a rather derelict-looking building just a few metres down from the Music Factory. If you happened to pass it on a Sunday afternoon, you might have noticed several deranged teenagers perched on the top of window sills, waving to everybody and everything in sight and grinning like half a dozen Just Williams. If so, you stumbled across The Teastains, seven of Sheffield's most charismatic 'musicians', in rehearsal. It's hard to describe The Teastains. I could say they're lunatics, I could say they're sweethearts, but to be honest, they're just plain mad - in the nicest possible sense.

At their rehearsals, The Teastains like to play pool more than they like to play their instruments. But that doesn't matter because they're only eighteen and so they've got all the time in the world!

The day after I'd survived a visit to one of their band rehearsals, Sam, Gavin, Matthew, Iain and I hi-jack the sofas at Red Tape studios for a proper in-depth cross-examination.

"We've all had our brush with fame!" Sam says almost straight away. "I saw Steve Davis having breakfast with Dennis Taylor in the Grosvenor Hotel!" .

"Sean Bean lives on my road", Gavin announces. Iain has Rowan Atkinson's signature in a gold frame and Matthew claims to be the youngest person ever to do a jingle on Radio Sheffield: "I had to say 'Winston Cooper is great!" he tells me.

The Teastains story began three years ago when they were still at school together. Apparently, they were a serious abysmal case back then! "It was ridiculous." Sam says, "We used to write about really daft things. All my lyrics were like 'I like rice 'cos it's nice!"

They must have improved somewhat as they were awarded Best Stage Act at last years Sheffield Sounds Competition and were just one point away from winning the whole thing. Its Gavin's fault that they called themselves The Teastains........................... "When we were at school we all loved taking photographs and one time Gavin got a teastain on a photo and it looked quite good so we named ourselves after it." Sam explains with all the logic that comes with it..... Anita Liu, SAM, Issue 5, June 1994

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Band members:

Sam - vocals

Gavin - drums

Matthew - guitar

Jim - trumpet

Rupert - guitar

 

Image: Karl lang