Matinee

Tender Trap are a London-based indie-pop band featuring Amelia Fletcher, Rob Pursey and John Stanley. The band started in 2001 in London with the idea to record two-minute songs without middle 8s or excessive choruses. The three were previously in Marine Research. Before that Rob and Amelia were in Heavenly. And before that Amelia was in Talulah Gosh. More recently, Rob and Amelia moonlighted in Sportique while John continued his double life as DJ Downfall.

The Would-be-goods story begins in 1987 when Jessica Griffin recorded a single under that name for cult label El records. The songs Hanging Gardens Of Reigate and Fruit Paradise, were written by Simon Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker, and recorded by Richard Preston at Strand-on-the-Green Studios, London.
Jessica followed this up with an album of her own songs, the camera loves me, with the Monochrome Set as backing band.