ON THIS DAY ... in 1985 - INDIANS IN MOSCOW

25 photos from Helter Skelter in London on 21st March 1985

INDIANS IN MOSCOW - DISCOGS

Indians In Moscow were a wonderfully inventive indie noir band with goth-friendly images and seriously catchy songs, and in ‘Naughty Miranda’ one of the most wickedly disgusting set of lyrics ever:

“I … just killed my father,

He … died in his bed,

The room filled with laughter

I hope there’s a price on my head.

They call me Naughty Miranda

They say I’m such a bad girl

I slit his guts with my blunt-edged play scissors

And sucked out his brains with a straw

His succulent blood and can nourish my goldfish

I’ll keep all the bits in a drawer.

There’s nothing in the larder

But I want something to eat

I could always start on my father

It would save wear and tear on my feet.

Some people say I’m bananas

I’m sure I don’t know what they mean

My goldfish are really piranhas

Things aren’t quite what they seem

They call me Naughty Miranda

Things aren’t quite what they seem

They call me Naughty Miranda

Give me that knife or I’ll scream.”

Introduced to the Nation via The Tube tv show there was huge interest in the band initially but this momentum never sustained itself and the band only released the one excellent album, which only found a CD release in 2011 and remains hard to get hold of, but there’s good playlists of that and two other collections on youtube

INDIANS IN MOSCOW albums - Youtube

Adele went on to form THE FEVER TREE who released one single but also had a live show on Channel 4 from that series of gigs recorded at the Camden Palace (where I think Flesh For Lulu and Thor were also recorded). Sadly, and weirdly, this has yet to surface online.

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