The Junket were formed in Kettering in the mid 90's by Rick on guitar/vocals, Steve Rees on bass/vocals and Rueban Bobcat on drums, and they signed a deal with Deceptive Records, who released their debut album 'Stamina' in 1998, reaching number 4 in the Indie charts, and garnering airplay on BBC Radio 1 .'You're The Same' was extracted from it and released as a single in 1999, followed by the non-album single 'Threefourzero'/'The King Of The Lettuce' later that year. Following a label change to Philter Records, they released their second album 'Lux Safari' in 2000, trying out a different style to 'Stamina', experimenting with a lot of other instruments and sounds, and they were pleased with the result. Their albums had done well in Japan, and so a tour of that country was arranged, supporting Japanese band L'arc en Ciel, who had sold over 7 million copies of their own recent album. The band were in the process of writing and recording their third album when they split up, and in 2004 Captain was formed from the ashes, with the recruitment of Mario Athanasiou on guitar, Clare Szembek on keyboards and Alex Yeoman on bass (see their own post here). Before the split they'd recorded enough music for the album, which was to be called 'Alcohol By Volume', and so as an epitaph to the group, here is that final record from 2002.
Track listing
01 Anger's On
02 Secret Surround
03 3:AM
04 The Blue On You
05 Low Pacers
06 Last Ditch Apology
07 G101
08 Underachieving Is A Crime
09 Asha Breathes
10 Loving It And Losing It
11 My Endeavour
12 U.I.C.
