The Bodines were a British pop group from the mid to late 1980s that comprised guitarist Paul Brotherton, bassist Tim Burwood, drummer John Rowlands, and guitarist/vocalist Michael Ryan.

[2] In 2023, Mojo magazine ranked the song "Therese" as the 37th greatest UK indie record ever, calling it "a breathless romantic gulp of twin guitar twirl.

Like their contemporaries Primal Scream, The Mighty Lemon Drops and The Weather Prophets, the Bodines went on to sign up with a major label with great hopes of transferring their success to the mainstream charts.

[5] The Bodines's debut album, Played (produced by Ian Broudie, later to enjoy success as a recording artist as the Lightning Seeds)[4] scraped into No.

A couple of years later, Ryan reappeared with a new band called Medalark Eleven (misnamed after Harlem Globetrotters' Meadowlark Lemon), assisted by Gareth Thomas on bass and Adrian Donohue on drums.