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Bursting onto an already-healthy music scene in 1991, Kent band Midway Still made an instant impact with fans and press alike, recording a Peel Session before the release of their debut album, Dial Square, in 1992, and receiving high praise from the NME who described them as the “UK’s answer to Nirvana”. One more album followed in 1993 and then … nothing. One of the great disappearing acts of the time, they even inspired a gig about the music of their time called Because Midway Still Aren’t Coming Back – of all the bands they could have chosen …

There were a handful of sporadic gigs in the 2000s, and then the band released their third album, Note To Self, in April last year – the first in 17 years, and in my opinion more than eclipsing the glory days of the 90s. I caught up with the band just before their show at the Underbelly.

I even hung around in Hoxton for a few hours although I was lucky enough to be treated to sets from Station Agents and Bonfire Nights before Midway Still took to the stage with an hour or songs old and new. Making me feel rather old, it was almost 20 years since I first saw them live, on the bill of a charity gig at the Town and Country Club in Kentish Town with such luminaries as Mega City 4, the Frank and Walters and the Senseless Things. The band put on a great set and despite the lack of recent giggage didn’t sound very rusty at all.

The best place to catch up with the band’s current doings is on their Facebook page.