Urusei Yatsura (band)
Now defunct Glaswegian band who created angular pop / rock music in the same vein as Pavement. Founding members Fergus Lawrie and Graham Kemp met in the summer of 1993 whilst they were both attending Glasgow University. In the following drink-fuelled evening they convinced each other to join an imaginary band, which became reality when they also managed to recruit a bassist in Elaine Graham. They took their name from a then-obscure Japanese comic, and contributed their first recording Guitars Are Boring to compilation released by the Kazoo Club (based in Glasgow's notorious 13th Note). This in turn brought them to the attention of John Peel who brought them in to do a session. Over the years they released three albums: 'We Are Urusei Yatsura' (1995), 'Slain by Urusei Yatsura' (1997) and 'Everybody Loves Urusei Yatsura' (1998). Albums in America and Japan were released under the name of Yatsura for legal reasons. Urusei was mooted but is used as a slang term (meaning "fuck you") by the Yakuza, so was rejected. They split in June 2001, leaving Graham to work on solo material and the other band members to form Projekt A-ko.
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