ADORABLE
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L to R Robert Dillam, Stephen 'Wil' Williams,
Piotr Fijalkowski, Kevin Gritton
Alternative rock, shoegazing
Says Pete Chambers " Here's a Cov band that almost had it all in their hands"
Piotr Fijalkkowski - Vocals / Guitar Robert Dillam - Guitar Kevin Gritton - Drums
Stephen 'Wil' Williams - Bass
Great Indie Songs - Breathless / Sistine Chapel Ceiling / Submarine / Kangeroo Court
Formed 1990/ 91 out of small time Coventry bands - Bubblegum Flesh and The Candy Thieves. Influences - Echo and the Bunnymen (and Ian McCulloch).
Signed to Oasis Label Creation in a Coventry pub.
Pete Chambers writes - "continued arrogance and record company squabbling killed off initial momentum" Dropped when Sony took over Creation Label.
Albums
Against Perfection (Creation / CRE 138) - Mar 1993 - Charted No 70 Album Charts
Fake (Creation / CRE 165) - Sept 1994 (Failed to chart - dropped from Creation label)
Footnotes - Best Of 92-94 (Cherry Red / CDMRED327) - Jan 2008
Singles
Sunshine Smile (Creation / CRE 127) - Apr 1992 12" Rave reviews in NME - No1 in Indie Charts
I'll Be Your Saint (Creation / CRE 133) - Jul 1992 (Top 5 in Indie Chart)
Homeboy (Creation / CRE 140) - Oct 1992 (Top 5 in Indie Chart)
'Homeboy/Summerside' (fanclub only tape)
Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Creation / CRE 153) - Jan 1993 (Top 5 in Indie Chart) NME Single of the Week
Favourite Fallen Idol (Creation / CRE 159) - Apr 1993
Kangaroo Court (Creation / CRE 172) - Apr 1994
Vendetta (Creation / CRE 177) - Sept 1994
Piotr then formed Casino and then Polak
Wikipedia explains further -
" The 12" single of "Sunshine Smile" ("I'll Be Your Saint" & "Breathless" on the b-side) was pressed up to be released on record producer Pat Collier's 'Money To Burn' label the band received a gushing review in the NME. The single was never released.
Signed to Creation Records in 1992, after a UK tour supporting Curve they released their first single a re-recording of "Sunshine Smile" in May of that year. Distancing themselves from the Shoegazing movement, by attempting to be more outspoken than traditional shoegazers, Adorable were briefly seen along with other bands Suede and The Verve as being a part of a new movement tagged 'New Glam', a label attributed to Fijalkowski's assertion that "we want to put the glamour back into pop".
"Sunshine Smile" was NME's Single of the Week, and topped the Indie Singles chart as well as entering the mainstream UK single top 100 charts for three weeks. A backlash in the press against the band's outspoken image immediately followed, and the band were never to be interviewed in the mainstream UK press after their debut single. The band released "I'll Be Your Saint", "Homeboy" and "Sistine Chapel Ceiling" (NME single of the Week), which all went into the Top 5 in the Indie charts, but failed to enter the mainstream Top 75. The Album "Against Perfection" released in 1993 went to #70 in the album charts, and the band toured the USA, Europe, Australia & Japan.
The second album "Fake", was seen as a far more introspective album, which Fijalkowski himself suggests was the result of the band feeling vulnerable. Although the two singles "Kangaroo Court" & "Vendetta" again entered high in the Indie Singles chart, the album failed to dent the mainstream Top 75, and strained relations both within the band and with Creation resulted in the band announcing their split onstage in Brussels in late 1994.
In subsequent years, the band has been re-classified as being part of the shoegazing movement.
Subsequent to the band's demise, Robert Dillam moved to Scotland where he joined The Zephyrs and is teaching computer networking. Stephen Williams remains in Coventry and is currently the Assistant Director of the International Office at the University of Warwick, whilst Fijalkowski went on to form the band Polak, who signed to One Little Indian Records and now uses the anglicised version of his name; Pete Fijalkowski.
From Adorable's My Space
"Within two pints of Adorable meeting Alan Mcghee for the first time in a pub in the centre of Coventry in January 1992, the conversation got quite heated when we asked him about the dropping of My Bloody Valentine from the label. Mcghee likened his relationship with MBV as that of a girlfriend and boyfriend, but said that he couldn't tell Kevin Shields face to face that his services were no longer required at Creation. I made Mcghee promise that if and when he came to drop Adorable from Creation he would have the guts to do so to my face.
So was born an uneasy relationship between Adorable and Creation records, that was never really to thaw over the next two and a half years. Things started promisingly enough, our first single 'Sunshine Smile' got NME single of the week, lots of evening session play on National Radio One, number one in the indie charts and three weeks in the national top 100 charts, but had we had the advantage of a crystal ball we would have seen that this was to be our UK high point, and that it would be downhill all the way from thereon."
The Candy Thieves
Before Adorable, three of the band were in The Candy Thieves
Adorable - Contented Eye (HD) (Homeboy)
Adorable - Have You Seen The Light
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