All Ears: Space Raiders ‘Glam Raid’

Hailing from the musical hotbed of Middlesborough, named after a bag of crisps and signed to Fatboy Slim’s Skint label, Space Raider are, hands down, one our our favourite bands of the Nineties.

Their storming ‘(I Need The) Disko Doktor’ single entirely soundtracked one especially messy trip to Ibiza, while there were a firm favourite live, leaving us nothing short of gobsmacked at the high level of arsing around on display. Clearly very drunk, there was lots of dancing and waving of toy guns and light sabres as they unleashed their irresistible big beat beauties. Most entertaining.

It’s a shame there’s hardly a whisper about them as the wisps of time waft onwards. But that’s kind of the point of us being here. We’d like to be thought like a musical stick that pokes you in the direction of lost lovelies like Space Raiders.

We first stumbled across them while do the single reviews for The Maker, a most enjoyable job as we always enlisted the help of a guest reviewer. One of my favourites was the lovely Mary-Ann Hobbs, who just froths musical enthusiasm. Normally, we’d turn up with a pile of singles and work our way through them with the guest. Rather fantastically, Mary-Ann turned up with her own pile, in which was this, the Space Raiders’ debut.

We were both mad about it, so I guess it must have been single of the week… if it wasn’t they were robbed. We came away with Mary-Ann’s copy, swapping it for something or other. Can’t quite recall. And in a beautiful moment of something or other, we now have a new site where you can buy the actual records we write about right here. Yup. Think of it like a music redistribution service. More details below.

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- You can buy this very record, a white label promo previous owned by Mary-Ann Hobbs, from our sister site, ripingvinyl.co.uk.
- Or if you prefer, pick up their debut long one, ‘Don’t Be Daft’ from 65p from Amazon Marketplace. While you’re there might as well get the follow up ‘Hot Cakes’ seeing as it’s being knocked out for 1p.
- Oh, and can we find a single picture of them/ No we can’t. If anyone’s got one, knock it this way. They really did deserve better.