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Bellshill, Glasgow, United Kingdom (1989 – present)

Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock/power pop band from Bellshill, Scotland near Glasgow, formed in 1989, and were formerly known as The Boy Hairdressers. They have two generally known humorous nicknames “The Fannies” and “The Bellshill Beach Boys”

Teenage Fanclub are revered by power-pop fans for their devotion to chiming, Byrds-esque guitars and harmony vocals. Songwriting duties are shared between the three permanent members of the group:

* Norman Blake,

* Raymond McGinley, and
* Gerard Love.

In 2006, the band held two special concerts (in London and Glasgow) playing their 1991 masterpiece Bandwagonesque in its entirety.

There have been a succession of drummers, including:

* Francis MacDonald (a prime-mover in the C86 scene, later of the BMX Bandits), the drummer in the original lineup, and in a later period
* Brendan O’Hare (later of Telstar Ponies, Thrapple , Mogwai and Macrocosmica)

and

* Paul Quinn, who was later replaced by the returning Francis MacDonald.

Keyboardist Finlay MacDonald (no relation to Francis MacDonald) has also been a member.

Tagged as:

indie, power pop, scottish, indie rock, alternative
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NatD wrote:
last month

Teenage Fanclub have just been announced as this Sunday headliner for this year's Indietracks Festival! You can read more at http://tiny.cc/8c8h8

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caro_g wrote:
last month

baby lee <3!

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iformusic wrote:
May 2009

Hi, you like Teenage Fanclub... You can also find good unseen Posies videos at www.iformusic.com by (sEb)

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felipeteles wrote:
May 2009

favourite band

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tropicalrobot wrote:
May 2009

everybody go get out (stay in front of the screen that is) and search norman's "baby lee" bbc live recording! rumor has that it'll be on the yet to be titled new record. anyone in the know? it is one golden song!

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caro_g wrote:
May 2009

is it just me or they get better with every listen? :)

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Rebrebs wrote:
May 2009

hmm

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darkhorse025 wrote:
May 2009

hahaha to the last three comments. i love tfc fans.

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mietpistole wrote:
May 2009

a genre - indie until 39

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juliano40 wrote:
May 2009

indie - a genre until 93

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Candlewhack wrote:
April 2009

indie - not a genre

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JeremyAce4 wrote:
April 2009

Yay! Yay! Yay!

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rozao wrote:
April 2009

i love this band ! perfect

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colinclary wrote:
March 2009

i just totally love this band!

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Hellraiser917 wrote:
March 2009

aint that enough is perfection.

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distractedk wrote:
March 2009

Genius, perfection.

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Pilvi- wrote:
March 2009

the bandwagonesque cover is a fantastic piece of art :o i like it, i think it's cool.

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Reinnnnn wrote:
March 2009

A melhor som do mundo!!!!!

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A-dissaffection wrote:
March 2009

you need to get out more. Perhaps they just concentrated on the music...some of the best bands in time (fannies inluded) have had crap sleeves cause it didnt matter.

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frode1974 wrote:
February 2009

The Grand Prix cover ain't bad. Bandwagonesque on the other hand looks like it was designed by someone playing with the clipart in Word Perfect... :-)

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