Guy Lochhead, 08/12/10
Short-run Scottish indie shoegaze four-piece who released one single, ‘Don’t Slip Up’, in 1985. They were one of the first bands to be signed by Alan McGee’s Creation Records, which got pretty well known in the mid/late-’80s by signing artists like Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus And Mary Chain, who Meat Whiplash opened for at their 1985 North London Poly riot-gig. Meat Whiplash became Motorcycle Boy when Alex Taylor (of indie jangle-pop group The Shop Assistants) joined in 1987. ‘Don’t Slip Up’ is a brilliant, totally blown-out slab of early shoegaze that deserves the long period it spent in the UK Indie Top-40, but that’s not really enough here…