'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

Ah, Artery, now there's a blast from the past! My old oppo Murray's band. Quite unlike Cocker's lot from what I remember though; while Jarvis was going through his Scott Walker period at the time, the Artery I remember were second division goths not unlike the Danse Society or the March Violets. Nothing remotely "pop" about them, though nothing like as useless as Christian Death or Specimen.