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Oxford, United Kingdom (1992 – present)

Comet Gain is a British indie rock band with heavy influences from Dexys Midnight Runners and northern soul. The band includes ex-Huggy Bear bass player Jon Slade and included future Velocette members Sarah Bleach and Jax Coombes.

Comet Gain was started in David Feck’s bedroom in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1992. He roped in housemate Phil Sutton, (The Soft City) to play drums, and then persuaded Sarah Bleach and Jax Coombes, who lived round the corner to join. He found guitarist Sam Pluck, little fella with a nice anorak, looked a bit like a girl. …er… in London and thus was born the first stage of the …er…Latest Soul Vision! Yes! They all met and played for the first time at the Monarch pub in Camden in 1993. You could do that then. Incidently Feck also met future CG singer Rachel Evans that same night. Foresight and planning!

Mr Wiiija, Gary Walker, saw them and signed them up, and before you could say ‘You know’ three times, they had put out a single ‘Aliens at War’/’A Kind of Loving”, which single handedly sounded like the TVPs, a bit. They then released the original version of ‘Kids at the Club’, backed with a song ruined by Feck and Phil’s awful rythm section, called ‘Goodbye Song’, for which at least one of them is still sorry.

But then, came a record beloved by Twee pop fans everywhere - though in those days they were called Cuties (well they were younger then!) that was also championed by DJ Danny Rampling at his club…no that’s not right…

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Top Tracks

1	Beautiful Despair full track	79
2	You Can Hide Your Love Forever	71
3	Love Without Lies	56
4	Asleep on the Snow	55
5	Jack Nance Hair	44
6	If I Had A Soul	32
7	Young Lions	31
7	Hard Times	31
9	Strength	30
10	Brothers Off The Block	29
11	The Fists in the Pocket	28
11	Beatnik	28
13	Fingernailed for You	27
14	If You Ever Walk Out Of My Life	26
15	Bored Roar	25

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12 days ago

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Borovnian wrote:
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Eureka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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cekeremez wrote:
last month

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Miss_Shankly wrote:
October 2009

Really good the other night

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KCKate wrote:
October 2009

Okay, I failed by not trying this band earlier.

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talktothehand wrote:
October 2009

Love that 90s sound

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let-down wrote:
October 2009

FOOTSTOMPERS.

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ecnelson1389 wrote:
September 2009

I got Broken Record Players recently and fell totally in love and am now slowly moving on to other stuff. City Fallen Leaves is good too so far!

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KCKate wrote:
September 2009

I want to get into Comet Gain. Where do I start?

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catfight1980 wrote:
August 2009

I'm glad 'Love Without Lies' is in the top songs-it's one of my favorites!

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feoysolo wrote:
July 2009

realistes is a really good album

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i_enjoy_music wrote:
July 2009

Lost_Souls_UK - I do... now, does anyone else love Transmission Lost?

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BleachandGum wrote:
June 2009

i love comet gain!

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Biff_Bang_Pow wrote:
June 2009

Oh, I forgot how much I loved this band!

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LivvyUTG wrote:
May 2009

They reeeally just get better & better with every listen.

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Jerzu_RF wrote:
May 2009

Yeah, it';s the compilation of their singles and b-sides. I'm not even sure if you can find any unrelased songs here but still you get If I Had Soul, Prwell Liberty Dance or their cover of Clean's Beatnik

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nicoinfurs wrote:
May 2009

what exactly is that new release, a compilation?

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AgitReader wrote:
April 2009

Check out our interview: http://www.agitreader.com/features/comet_gain-04.20.html

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heroicmedicine wrote:
March 2009

April 8th @ the Black Cat Backstage in Washington DC Tickets available at: http://www. ticketmaster. com/event/15004252CA255E59?artistid=1297742&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60 April 9th @ Kung Fu Neck Tie in Philadelphia tickets available at http://www. ticketweb. com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=987284 April 12th @ Williamsburg Music Hall tickets available at http://www. ticketmaster. com/event/0000424B7E204358?artistid=795908&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

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mystoneybaby wrote:
February 2009

eeeeee *_*

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