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Period Pains

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Origin
  
Reading

Labels
  
Damaged Goods

Years active
  
1996–1997

Genres
  
Indie rock, punk, riot grrrl

Past members
  
Chloe Alper Felicity Aldridge Laura Warwick Magda Przybylski Laura Viney

Period Pains were a British all-female indie punk band formed in 1996. They achieved notoriety in 1997 after releasing the single "Spice Girls (Who Do You Think You Are?)", a play on the Spice Girls single title. The track was an attack on what they saw as the Spice Girls' shallow attitudes, and was heavily plugged by John Peel and Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1. The UK's tabloid newspapers also picked up on the band As a result, it made the UK Singles Chart with practically no advertising, and reached No.4 in Peel's annual end-of-year Festive Fifty. They then recorded a session for Peel, which was released as an EP.

Contents

They opened the Reading Festival in 1997 on the Dr. Marten's Stage.

Singles and EPs

  • "Spice Girls (Who Do You Think You Are?" (Damaged Goods, 1997) [#87, UK Singles Chart] (3-track single)
  • BBC Sessions (Damaged Goods, 1997) (5-track Peel Session EP)

    • Compilation Appearances

  • "Daddy, I Want a Pony" on And The Rest Is History (Zerox, 1997) (LP/CD compilation inc. Kenickie, Helen Love, Symposium, Midget, Bellatrix, etc.)

    • References

    Period Pains Wikipedia
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