Adventures in Stereo were a band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed by Primal Scream founding member Jim Beattie in 1994, after his previous band, Spirea X, split up.
After Spirea X split up in 1993, former members Jim Beattie and Judith Boyle resurfaced in 1994 with Adventures in Stereo, along with Simon Dine, who had been Spirea X's manager and co-producer. The band initially used music based on sampled loops created by Dine, but later moved to a lo-fi sound more akin to early Primal Scream than their previous band, with a Beach Boys influence, and have been compared to Stereolab and Broadcast. Beattie and Boyle split with Dine after the first few releases, initially with Dine also continuing with the Adventures in Stereo name for his own work, including the Yellow Album, released the same year as Beattie and Boyle's self-titled album, recorded with new collaborators. Beattie and Boyle continued with the name until 2000, with 2 further albums and a few singles. Dine, meanwhile, formed Noonday Underground.
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Links to Peel
Although his former band went on to enjoy mainstream success, Primal Scream co-founder Jim Beattie would subsequently appear far more regularly on Peel's show than the makers of "Screamadelica" did, with Adventures In Stereo.
In summer 1998, AIS played at the Meltdown festival curated by the DJ as part of a Creeping Bent label special. Although their set wasn’t broadcast on BBC Radio One, AIS featured frequently on the Peel wingding in the second half of 1990s, recording a session in 1997.
The band were part of a proud lineage of Scottish indie, an important part of Peel’s shows over the decades, with founder Jim Beattie having recorded two sessions as a member of Primal Scream in the 1980s and also played by Peel as part of Spirea X, along with AIS vocalist Judith Boyle. Early AIS member Simon Dine continued to be heard on the DJ’s shows under the Noonday Underground moniker until 2003.
Festive Fifty Entries
- None.
Sessions
- One session only. No known commercial release.
- Jim Beattie also two sessions with Primal Scream (1985, 1986).
1. Recorded: 1997-02-11. First broadcast: 20 February 1997. Repeated: Not by Peel
- A Brand New Day / When You're Gone / Down In The Traffic / Said You Said / Goodbye (not broadcast by Peel)
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Other Shows Played
- 1996
- 22 March 1996: There Was A Time (7 inch – Airline ) Creeping Bent
- 29 March 1996: Runaway (7") Creeping Bent
- 30 March 1996 (BFBS): There Was A Time (7"-Airline) Creeping Bent
- 20 April 1996 (BBC World Service): Runaway (7" - Airline) Creeping Bent
- 14 September 1996: When We Go Back
- 15 September 1996: Flip Side (7 inch – When We Go Back )’ Creeping Bent (JP: ‘You may have thought that it stopped in the middle somewhere, but it’s just that cheap radio you stole last time there was rioting in your town.’)
- 15 December 1996: There Was A Time (LP – Adventures In Stereo) Creeping Bent
- 21 December 1996: Underground Sound (CD-Adventures In Stereo) Creeping Bent
- 1997
- 04 January 1997: The Attic Walk (album - Adventures In Stereo) Creeping Bent
- 12 January 1997: Airline (CD – Adventures In Stereo)’ Creeping Bent
- 18 January 1997: We'll Meet Again (album - Adventures In Stereo) Creeping Bent
- 18 January 1997 (BBC World Service): Airline (7") Creeping Bent
- February 1997 (FSK): There Was A Time (CD - Adventures In Stereo) Creeping Bent
- 01 February 1997: When We Go Back (7") Creeping Bent
- 09 February 1997: There Was A Time (7" - Airline) Creeping Bent (JP: 'one of the most beautiful songs in the whole history of the world'.)
- 15 February 1997: Airline (7 inch) Creeping Bent
- 19 February 1997: Airline (7 inch) Creeping Bent (JP: 'Stan Collymore scored a couple of goals tonight in less time than it took for that record to play.')
- 06 March 1997: There Was A Time (7 inch – Airline) Creeping Bent
- 10 April 1997: Waves On (7") Creeping Bent
- 17 April 1997: Waves On (Various Artists CD – Bentism #1) Creeping Bent
- 28 April 1997: Waves On (v/a EP Bentism # 1) Creeping Bent
- 01 May 1997 (BFBS): Waves On (split 7" with Leopards) Creeping Bent
- 1998
- 04 March 1998: Down To The Sky (CD - Down In The Traffic EP) Creeping Bent
- 10 March 1998: Down In The Traffic (Single ) Creeping Bent
- 24 March 1998: Down In The Traffic (7") Creeping Bent
- 07 April 1998: Down In The Traffic (CDS-Down In The Traffic E.P.) Creeping Bent
- 07 May 1998: Said You Said (album - Alternative Stereo Sounds) Creeping Bent
- 12 May 1998: This Time (album - Alternative Stereo Sounds) Creeping Bent
- 19 May 1998: I Once Knew (CD – Alternative Stereo Sounds) Creeping Bent
- 21 May 1998: Everything (CD - Alternative Stereo Sounds) Creeping Bent
- 03 June 1998: Said You Said (CD - Alternative Stereo Sounds) Creeping Bent
- 09 June 1998: This Time (CD - Alternative Stereo Sounds) Creeping Bent
- 30 June 1998: Out Of Sight
- 2000
- 19 February 2000 (BFBS): Nobody's Scared (Compilation CD-Bentboutique, Chasing The Chimera) Creeping Bent
- 23 February 2000: Nobody's Scared (2xCD: Bentboutique, Chasing The Chimera) Creeping Bent
- 09 August 2000: Running (LP 'Monomania') Bobsled
- 10 August 2000: Birds' (LP 'Monomania') Bobsled
- 24 August 2000 (Radio Eins): Suntrips
- Spirea X
- 23 March 1991: Chlorine Dream (12") 4AD
- 18 April 1991 (Radio Mafia): Chlorine Dream (7") 4AD
- Noonday Underground
- 03 December 1997: How Happy (7" - How Happy EP) Underground Sounds
- 02 January 2001: Where Have They Gone?' (7") Motorway
- 30 January 2001: Where Have They Gone? (7") Motorway
- 29 March 2001 (Radio Eins): When You Leave
- 05 April 2001 (Radio Eins): When You Leave
- 10 April 2001: When You Leave (7" single) Sonic Syrup
- 03 January 2002: Hello (LP – Self Assembly) Guided Missile
- 10 January 2002: The Light Brigade (Guided Missile)
- 04 December 2003: The Plague (LP - 'We Got Monkeys') Moshi Moshi
See Also
- Creeping Bent
- Cover Versions
- Electronic Music
- John Peel's Scottish Sessions
- Label Specials
- Meltdown
- Primal Scream
- Scotland: Sessions
- Sessions (Artists A)