The Bambi Slam — Long Time Comin'

JUL 01 1988 · 12:00

The Bambi Slam — Long Time Comin' (1988) Era: UK Indie/Post-Punk Second Wave (1987–1988) - Late-period Blanco y Negro/WEA promotional era, coinciding with the band's sole full-length LP release and the height of British indie press attention before rapid dissolution. This video is a rare surviving primary visual record of a critically noted but commercially overlooked UK indie act at the peak of their brief career. As one of the few documented moving-image artefacts from The Bambi Slam — a band that dissolved by 1988 and left minimal archival trace — it holds significant value for historians of British post-punk, proto-shoegaze, and the Blanco y Negro label era. The moderate, warm, performance-centred aesthetic also makes it a strong case study for comparative analysis of low-budget UK indie promo conventions. Context: The Bambi Slam occupied a distinctive niche in the late-1980s UK indie ecosystem, signed to Blanco y Negro — the WEA subsidiary that also housed The Jesus and Mary Chain — and releasing their sole LP in 1988 before rapid dissolution. The band's Canadian-British makeup and unconventional instrumentation (guitar, cello, bass, drums) set them apart from contemporaries. They did BBC sessions for John Peel and Janice Long and toured alongside acts including My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, and The Cult, situating them at the precise crossroads of post-punk noise-pop, proto-shoegaze, and alternative rock before those movements fully crystallised. The 'Long Time Comin'' video serves as a primary visual document of this transitional cultural moment — a British indie promotional artefact from a band the press briefly championed before they vanished. Director notes: The music video for 'Long Time Comin'' is confirmed as a 1988 production tied to the band's debut LP on Blanco y Negro/WEA (UK) and Warner Bros. Records (US). IMDB lists it under The Bambi Slam's known credits, dated 1988, but provides no crew information. No production company, commissioner, or director has surfaced in any available public record.