20 YEARS AGO: Midget - Artwork (By G. Beasley)

Released 20 years ago this week in January 1999, this fierce offering from Midget was released on the indie label Curveball Records. Midget were an indie guitar band from Lincolnshire who formed in 1996. 

The song was a non-album single and didn't feature on the trio's mini-album 'Alcopop' or their other releases, 'Jukebox', 'Individual Inconsistent' and 'The Milgram Experiment'. 'Artwork' was aired a number of times on Radio 1's classic alternative show The Evening Session, and it was after hearing it there that I knew I had to find a copy. With its terrific bassline, and almost bringing to mind a heavier Super Furry Animals, this heaving track could lift any audience off the ground. The track reached number 85 in the UK singles charts.

Two of their other singles made the lower end of UK Top 75 in 1998, but after more singles and albums, they disbanded in 2001 to work on individual projects. 

They reformed in 2006, and played their first London gig in nearly six years at the Social, although nothing has been heard from them since. Singer and guitarist Andy Hawkins went on to become a producer at the Pravda Studios in Leeds.

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