A dance band from Halifax?

Over a mighty meal of fish and chips the subject of a dance band from Halifax arose. Is that an oxymoran? Dance band and Halifax?

I was given the following clues:

Had an album with a green sperm on it (or was it just a tadpole)
Sang a song that ended up being a B-side called unchained monologue (not be confused with unchained meody/unfinished sympathy/bittersweet symphony....

Any guesses? Apparently the singer could be confused with Sarah Cracknell?

The Bitchford Ramble is back!

Hey Bitchford Ramblers!

Babs is back rambling. I've been on an urban ramble, what would Freddie Laker say? Luckily he wasn't involved in this one, which was kindly provided by "Walk Walk Walk: an archeology of the familiar and the forgotten"

The first one was on a cold February night. Stinks and I fortified with Jeigarmiseter (a sort of sugary eastern european drink, that i'm not sure one is meant to drink prior to walking), went on our merry way with a band of other ramblers (i'll have to get the correct collective noun for that), around Bethnal Green.

I think the the aim was to take note of things one wouldn't necessarily want to look at usually.

My two favourites were thus: The shop sign for the motorcycle mechanics "Banjaxed Motorcycles". What's so special abopu that you ask? Well in my house banjaxed is used a synonm of exhausted. my mother is often seen thrown on the sofa with the vacumn cleaner lying at her feet, declaring "I'm Banjaxed". Therefore i would not take my motor to be fixed at Banjaxed Motorcycles. I'm sure they are a very reputable firm, but when words are given certain connotations, you....

Oh and the second thing was the discovery of a fightclub near Spitalfields Farm, where someone will wee on you for about a pound!