And get your hands on some cheap wine.

Late of The Pier - 'Bathroom Gurgle' / 'No Time' (Fantasy Black Channel - 2008)

Here are The Run Out Grooves we’ve mainly spent our first two years looking at some of the closing tracks from the most famous and critically acclaimed albums of all time and, more recently, some closing tracks, which are among the more notable tracks on those albums. Neither of these has given many opportunities to talk about less acclaimed records and closing tracks - as our 2000s month draws to a conclusion this week, I wanted to do just that.

Towards the end of the 2000s, there was a sub-strain of music now (and in fairness at the time), referred to as landfill indie - VICE UK had quite a boring lockdown and managed to knock up a top 50 landfill indie songs in late 2020.

In the same way that

Neil Kulkarni's Too Much Music

covered the myopic look at Britpop produced by BBC Sounds this month and has to point out that other interesting things were going on between 1993 and 1997 and that there’s more to mid-90s British guitar music than a list of three a-listers and then two dozen next tier bands this era is a looked at as a dodgy, mini-rehash of the excesses of Britpop some twelve years later, after the first two waves of post Strokes, bands had started on their third albums, and there were enough bands to fill those landfills.

Anyone looking at the VICE UK list will probably feel a twinge of nostalgia reading some of the names, and they are transported to your MySpace top eight tracks and E4’s Skins. I wouldn’t say I like that framing, though; I prefer to see that era of British indie music through a different lens: UK TV channels BBC Three and BBC Four.