Or Long-View as they apparently had to be renamed due to a clash of monickers.
I was dragged along to see Elbow at the Astoria back in 2003. More to the point I was dragged from the pub after only a single pint because I was told both support acts were really good.
I don't recall who the first support act on was, but Longview I remember very well.
I liked them better than Elbow. This didn't please my mate Tom who was (is) a big Elbow fan. Despite his earlier claims that Longview were really good, when I said I liked them better than Elbow, he started on a "they're not that good" argument.
I bought the album and since then nothing. I thought they could go a long way, but now it seems supporting Elbow was their pinnacle.

One excellent record from 2004/2005 that I discovered via the Word CD if I remember correctly and then nowt. The last blog on their MySpace page is from Feb 2008.

Wonderful album in 2005. Dropped by Rough Trade. More please!

A couple of really good singles 2 years ago, news of an impending album, then the website disappears, no album, where are they?

A wonderfully odd little band, released lost classic Hillside Album on Creation in 98, another sterling effort on Alan McGee's disastrous Poptones a few years later. Then an ep on their own label and that's your lot. Not a peep for seven years. Teenage Fanclub crossed with Pink Floyd they were sold as. Not a bad description.

One single - Silent Film. Just great. Can't find hide nor hair of them on the interweb.

Also White Buffalo. I have one song (Hope, Faith and You) from a Q cd from about 12 years ago. Stunning song.

Anyone who can point me in the direction of more from either would be appreciated.

SHOULD have packed it in, shouldn´t they? They used to be one of my favourite bands. I thought Up was great, but I don´t think that many fans agree with me. And even that was eleven years ago now (eleven? jeez, time flies). With Accelerate they clearly made an effort again, but it didn´t do it for me.

Would still like to go for a walk with Peter Buck and talk books and music though.

Sorry Mr Rothon for turning the question around, but great bands screwing it up is irritating, isn´t it?

Two great albums then vanished up their own arseholes.

Even their parents didn't buy the second album Motive. Went down in a blaze of apathy. Motive changes hands for silly money nowadays, containing as it does one of the most moving songs I've ever heard, called, appropriately, Moving.

One perfect (if you like Scott Walker/Divine Comedy flavoured orchestral pop) album & accompanying singles in 1997 for Rough Trade, then sod all... Googling him just comes up with loads of forums of people asking where he went, the only common thread being a band called Lorca he seemed to have joined a few years later, never to be heard of again...

His album's here on Spotify if that description floats your boat... http://open.spotify.com/album/3EZEosVwVwad7Two87a1Kg

although it seems something is rumbling -
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/10108758/Let-Change-The-World-With-Music...

The Roxy Music reunion album has been promised for years but hasn't materialised despite what seems like a fair amount of recording having taken place. I suspect that either

(1) It's been deemed not up to scratch and will be left to wither quietly on the vine, which after all is better than releasing something just for the sheer hell of it.

(2) Bryan Ferry doesn't think it's up to scratch yet and has locked himself in the studio with it (or a succession of studios and producers). In this scenario, expect a release date in 2015 or thereabouts.

It seems they have finished, Partridge has fallen out with Moulding or vice versa and it looks all over, Andy doesn't seem keen on producing solo stuff maybe it's for the best since their recorded legacy is I think only bettered by the Beatles.

Some girls, one of which was called Charity Hair. They played lovely jangly stuff with loads of harmonies. And on the album cover, one of them was flashing a lot of stocking-top. Radio 2 played them a lot. Then they got dropped. Their entry on Allmusic contains a huge number of horrible trojans which have buggered two computers of mine, much to the consternation of many IT wonks who fear now to go there.

Who have been previously debated.

If I'm coming up with shite like this then it must be time for bed.