Teenage Fanclub

Few Glasgow bands of the early nineties balanced noise and melody as neatly as Teenage Fanclub, who came out of the city's C86 scene in 1989 with a sound built on fuzzy guitars and close vocal harmonies. Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley and Gerard Love shared lead vocals and songwriting for years, and the band give each writer equal time in concert. Often filed under alternative rock, they have absorbed a far wider range of styles than the label suggests.

Their 1990 debut, A Catholic Education, was a noisy, chaotic record that differs sharply from what followed, and their 1991 album Bandwagonesque, released by Creation in the UK and Geffen in the US, gave them their first commercial success. Its single "What You Do to Me" reached number 31 in the UK, and the album topped Spin magazine's end-of-year poll for 1991, ahead of Nevermind. Thirteen drew mixed reviews, but "Radio" matched that chart position. Grand Prix became their first top ten album in the UK, and Songs from Northern Britain brought "Ain't That Enough", their biggest hit to date. In 2000 Howdy! followed, and in 2002 they released Words of Wisdom and Hope with Jad Fair.