I Google Pastel Collision twice a day. You?

Okay, so between 1994 and 1998, me and my friends made some indie pop records under the names Pastel Collision and Kaleida. They were summery and indiepop, some with jangly guitars and trumpets, some with drum machines and sequencers in a lo-fi St Etienne, budget-Eurovision kind of vibe. We were/are pop fans; we wanted to make music that sounded like, in another universe, it might actually be in the charts. We were from London, Preston and Manchester (England). We played 13 gigs in our lives. We got played on John Peel, Mark Radcliffe and Terry Christian’s radio shows. Once, we were record of the week on Radio Belgium. We had a lot of big ideas, a specific pop ideal and a budget of buttons.

Small buttons.

Go forward a decade. I don’t google myself or our records much – no more than once or twice a day, say – but I keep finding them being discussed and even loved on web pages from all over the world. Yet unlike every other band in the world, there’s zero info on us on the www.

Maybe there’s five or ten or 15 people in the whole world who might want to know more about Pastel Collision’s pop world.

If you’re one of those people, welcome. I’ll start putting some stuff up – pictures, videos, general info, full lists of opponents – as soon as I possibly can (between 24 hours and another 10 years.)

If you’re not one of those people – well, maybe I’ll do some lists and stuff about some great summer pop records that may save you waiting for years before you randomly hear them.