Yeah Yeah Noh

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Yeah Yeah Noh
Origin	Leicester, England
Genre(s)	post punk
Years active	1984-1986
Label(s)	In-Tape, Buggum, Strange Fruit
Members
Derek Hammond John Grayland Adrian Crossan Sue Dorey Tom Slater (1985-1986)

Yeah Yeah Noh were a post-punk group formed in Leicester, England in 1984. They released two albums and five singles while still together, and have had two compilation albums issued since they split in 1986.

1 Biography
2 Discography
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 Albums
3 References

[edit] Biography

Yeah Yeah Noh was formed by Derek Hammond (vocals, guitar) and John Grayland (guitar), with Adrian Crossan (bass) joining them for the first single. Sue Dorey (drums, vocals) was then recruited to complete the line up, debuting on the second single. Two of the band members, John Grayland and Sue Dorey (along with Damian S), published Printhead, a free magazine focusing on independent music in Leicester and its environs. The magazine released Let's Cut a Rug, a compilation LP of songs from local independent bands.

Signing to In-Tape records, the band debuted in June 1984 with the Cottage Industry EP, featuring humorous and satirical lyrics and post-punk/jangle-pop music. After a further two ep's, the releases so far were collected on the album When I Am A Big Girl.

After adding Tom Slater on guitar, the band moved towards a more psychedelic sound and introduced more serious songwriting for first album proper, Cutting The Heavenly Lawn Of Greatness...Last Rites For The God Of Love in 1985. The band released a further single but split up in 1986. Hammond announced that he was forming two new groups, The New New Seekers and The Time Beings, but neither materialized, and he continued to work as a music journalist under the pseudonym D.J. Fontana.

The band's Peel sessions were collected on the Fun On The Lawn Lawn Lawn album in 1986, and a retrospective Leicester Square was issued by Cherry Red records in 2006.

[edit] Discography

(chart placings shown are from the UK Independent Chart)^[1]

[edit] Singles

"Cottage Industry" (1984, In-Tape, IT008) #23
"Beware The Weakling Lines" (1984, In-Tape, IT010) #8
"Prick Up Your Ears" (1985, In-Tape, IT012) #6 came with The Yeah Yeah Noh Bumper Annual book
"(Another Side To) Mrs. Quill" (1985, In-Tape, IT020) #10
"Temple of Convenience" (1985, In-Tape, IT023/ITT023) #12
The Peel Sessions EP (1987, Strange Fruit, SFPS026)

[edit] Albums

When I Am A Big Girl (1985, In-Tape, IT016) (mini-LP, compilation of first three ep's) #22
Cutting The Heavenly Lawn of Greatness...Last Rites For The God Of Love (1985, In-Tape, IT021) #4
Fun On The Lawn, Lawn, Lawn (1986, Buggum, BAAD2) (compilation of John Peel sessions) #13
Leicester Square: The Best of Yeah Yeah Noh (2006, Cherry Red, CDMRED183)