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I’ve spent decades loving a band you’ve probably never heard of. But there are 199 others who get it | Zoe Williams

Remember My Life Story? They managed to fill one of London’s most iconic venues on Saturday. So what if it’s also one of the smallest, writes Zoe Williams

They were witty and splashy and knowing and pretentious, intensely melodic and defiantly unbothered by the impossibility of making any money if you went around with a 12-piece orchestra. Looking back, they nearly made it a bunch of times – their debut album, Mornington Crescent, was No 2 in the indie chart in 1995, whatever the hell that meant, and they signed to Parlophone the year after, which is where all the hip cats were. Imagine a gig before music existed as an industry, when it was just some people who had found themselves in a room and knew all the words, but only one had a mic.

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