June 1993
Lucy Cooke
Presenter
3rd June 1993
The month kicks off with Teenage Fanclub in session on BBC Radio 1’s Evening Session, hosted at the time by our good friend Mark Goodier.
Teenage Fan Club
4th June 1993
The next night Blur head to the capital in support of the Modern Life is Rubbish album, to headline the Astoria.
Blur Astoria June 1993
5th June 1993
NME review Blur’s appearance last week in Leicester where they encored with ‘Advert’ and ‘Parklife’. Is this one of the earliest airings of ‘Parklife’ we wonder?
8th June 1993
Still on tour, promoting ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’, Blur appear at Bristol University
19th June 1993
Steve Lamacq sees Elastica for the first time at the Camden Falcon, supporting Compulsion.
“The venue only held about 150 people but it was absolutely rammed. I was stuck by the PA by the door, so had the worst view, but it was clear that the music was terrifically exciting. It was this mixture of bootboy punk-pop and art-rock. After that I tracked down Justine and we met in a pub a week or two later to see if they’d like us to put a single out for them.”
Verve score 8 out of 10 for their ‘Storm In Heaven’ album in NME, while the Manic Street Preachers get a 6 for ‘Gold Against the Soul’.
20th June 1993
Elastica record a new set of demos for EMI Publishing which includes ‘Stutter’.
26th June 1993
Radiohead announce they are pulling out of the Phoenix Festival, to prolong their American tour
28th June 1993
Blur release the ‘Chemical World’ single. The track reached number 28 in the UK Singles Chart and came backed with three exclusive tracks "Young & Lovely", "Es Schmecht" and "My Ark". "Young & Lovely" was hailed as one of the greatest "lost tracks" by Q in 2007 and was finally played live when the band performed for Steve at Maida Vale in 2012.
