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Genres
  
Indie

Genre
  
Indie rock

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Associated acts
  
The Rubbish, The Word Association

Website
  
www.milltownbrothers.co.uk

Members
  
Matt Nelson Simon Nelson James Fraser Barney Williams Nian Brindle

Origin
  
Colne, United Kingdom (1989)

Albums
  
The Best Of, Long Road, Slinky, Valve

Record labels
  
A&M Records, Cherry Red Records, Stanley Records

Similar
  
The Waltones, The Mock Turtles, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Man from Delmonte, Jamie Wednesday

Profiles

Milltown brothers which way should i jump


Milltown Brothers are an English Indie band from Colne, Lancashire.

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Career

Their first release, in 1989, was the "Coming From The Mill" EP which became single of the week in the NME magazine, and featured the songs "Roses", "We've Got Time" and "Something On My Mind". The same publication tipped Milltown Brothers for stardom in the 1990s, along with The Hoovers, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, The Charlatans, The Mock Turtles and New Fast Automatic Daffodils.

The band's second indie single was "Which Way Should I Jump", with "Silvertown" as the B-side. After the band signed to A&M Records worldwide in 1990, "Which Way Should I Jump?" was re-recorded and charted in the UK Singles Chart at number 38, and reached number 10 in the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock chart.

An album, called Slinky, followed. It peaked at number 27 in the UK Albums Chart. The next single released from the album was "Here I Stand", which was also used as the theme tune for the television programme, Preston Front. It peaked at number 41 in the UK Singles Chart. They were supported on the tour to promote this album by the Beware the Green Monkey, fronted by Bruce Thomas with Paul Chapman on bass.

In 1993 the band released the album Valve. It was not as successful as Slinky and they left the A&M label. It took ten years for the band to work together again, but in March 2004, they released their third studio album, Rubberband, which was released on their own label and made available at their website.

In 2015 Milltown Brothers released their new album Long Road in the summer of 2015 it was released on their own record label.

Line-up

  • Matt Nelson - Vocals / Guitar
  • Simon Nelson - Guitar
  • James Fraser - Bass
  • Barney Williams - Organ / piano
  • Nian Brindle - Drums
  • Albums

  • Slinky (1991) (#27 UK)
  • Valve (1993)
  • Rubberband (2004)
  • The best of (2009) (unofficial)
  • Long Road (2015)
  • Songs

    Which Way Should I Jump?Slinky · 1991
    Apple GreenSlinky · 1991
    Here I StandSlinky · 1991

    References

    Milltown Brothers Wikipedia