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by benners

so i've seen the name mentioned on here a couple of times, and people haven't been too complimentary.

i've seen their current video on mtv2 a couple of times now, and for a bunch of 18 year olds they look alright... and like the live shows would be pretty good.

then i looked on their myspace, and they have like a bazillion hits. are they actually good (ie. live) or just a myspace/emokids wet dream and actually a bit shit.

benners | 10 Oct '06, 18:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i wouldn't say they're "shit"

as they're a very professional band. But I really dont like them. And I dislike their fans a gachunga times more.


hehe

having done a bit more 'research' i was thinking that the fans might be a bit intense. like you're not allowed to like them unless you've seen them 43 times. every angsty kid under the age of 16 is a diehard fan.

or some such.


they're not

good, at all. They're awful, just absolutely awful.


i just listened to their myspace

it's pretty bad. Although the bit where it turns into a trance song is pretty funny.


One of the worst bands I've ever heard

Just awful, awful, awful, they make me feel ill.

The people in that video all make me cringe. So very horrible.

Notice the zero rating I've given - that's one less than Razorlight, so they must be awful...


one of the most horrible bands around

right now, only thing worse than them in bring me the horizon. i love how before "NU RAVE" started being thrown about everywhere, their synths were "mega drive", and now they're "LIEK TTLY RAVE WOAH". shitty fashioncore band for the scene kids, i'd avoid at all costs.


they're alright i think

just very, very silly.


I just watched the video

it was ok. From the descriptions I've read, I thought the trance elements would be louder, like BOOOMMMCHAHAHAHAHAHAHABOOOOMMMM!!!!! not that little tinny synth sound.


what the fuck?

"they look alright... and like the live shows would be pretty good.

then i looked on their myspace, and they have like a bazillion hits."

i don't want to go all traynor on you, but why the fuck does how many hits a band's myspace has affect whether you like them or not?
fucking hell.


because

if their myspace page has a bazillion hits, it's a fair indication that they're adored by emo-spotty-myspazz-teenagers.

i consider myself neither emo, spotty, myspazzy or teenagery.

ok, maybe a little myspazzy.


again, what the fuck?

what does it matter who else likes them?
you're not signing your life away on a contract to transform into people you disapprove of, you're just enjoying a band.


read

it doesn't matter who else likes them, i already said i thought they were alright.

i'm asking what other people think of them and if they're any cop live and shit.

you could start a fight in an empty room couldn't you :)


the

keyboard bits sound like they were stuck on as an after thought; maybe after they heard horse the band.


arrrr

Horse the Band! They are ace!


BIRD!!!!!!!!


I'm

not sure whether their new single is the best thing I've ever heard....or the worst. One hting is for certain, it made me laugh.


.

They are not good, which generally makes them fucking awful!

Ive seen this live as well :(, I was wating for 65dos to come on though, who then never showed up, all in all that was a bad day.


Horse!!! Yes!

what makes horse good at what they do is that they are not at all serious. enter shikari obviously saw horse, thought 'awesome!', totally missed the joke and then replicated it (poorly.)

oh enter shikari please find the nearest exit.


I know them

Yeah, I know 3 of the people in that Video...I've died a little inside. They are followed by the worst children imaginable....I kid you not.


don't expect

anyone over the age of 16 to take it too seriously

it's just a bit of good clean fun. they're giving the kids a good time and that's absolutely fine in my book.

some of the responses on here are utterly atrocious. some bitter old curmudgeons.

christ on a bike. it's like some of you never had fun as a teenager.


i listened to them on myspace

a while back cos a friend was raving about them after download. i thought they were wack

i do like that video and song on mtv2 tho.


they are awful

yeh.


Change of Heart

HMM...

yes correct. they are fucking depressingly awful. saw them at a little local music fest. WAs ssooooo fucking crap thought i was going to die.

I thought it sounded like shit screamo played over some 80s shit-core. and the fans appeared to be 8-13 and 40+. And they kept bumping my fucking drink. Fucking kids.


...

christ, if watching a band you don't like (I assume you were tied down or something? couldn't, like, go the bar or walk away and do something else, no?) makes you think you might die, then god help you if you ever have any real upheaval in your life.

get a grip, child.


ianMD is a little baby girl

Would you DIE for them? Would YOU DIE FOR THEM?

Enter Shitari or whatever they're called are so fucking shit. they actually make me sore in the brain thinking about them.

Their music is so uninspired that only the most braindamaged of individuals would consider it new or 'hip' or 'groovy cool' or whatever you youngsters are saying these days

Now ian MD, I'm a big fan of car-crash television, seeing totally shit bands and also baiting fools such as yourself for a bit of light entertainment.

Now, will you step down? or will you DIE FOR THEM!?


enter shitari!

BRILLIANT!!!


They're

the WORST band ever to crawl out of the screamo/attention seeking scene EVER. I really fucking hate them. It's just god awful, the stuff they play is simple enough but they think they're clever by using a million effects and bloopy noises, which doesnt work at all and then they go and scream and make me die inside.

They're fuckingshit, really.
I hope they die.


I'm going to see them on Sunday

I was supposed to have been meeting my girlfriend. She dumped me :(
I may kill myself. I feel like I have to go now that I have a ticket.


they sound like

panic at the disco being in a carcrash with a ford tranny van of shit trance singles from the 90s


MOVED

See this gig has been moved to The Astoria as rumoured....i don't like the stuff myself but you have to take your hat off to them!

ROCK


aye

certainly, the best DIY unsigned band business plan in the country, perhaps.

rolls off the tongue that like.


well if

it isn't some suspicious Sandi Thom-esque undercover major label operation...

then i totally respect these kids... fair play to 'em.


I think they're gash

But that's just me.


its not

its me too


They are shit

Hate them!
Asked them to doa chairty gig at my local venue and they refused!!!!


you know what...

all the other stuff... that's just folks opinions and they're entitled to them. folks don't like ES, all well and good. folks like 'em, thats good too. free country and all that.

but you, Mr 'now186', i'm calling FUCKING BULLSHIT on your nasty childish little post there.

nobody 'refused' to do a charity gig.
it just couldn't be done.

the band have done charity stuff, ARE DOING charity stuff and will continue to do so.

ES get offered anough shows to play TWICE on every night of the year. some stuff they say yes to, which means some stuff they have to say no to.
its the way stuff works. people can't be in two places at once, and they simply can't do everything.

but to say they 'refused' is just plain shitty on your part.

question; how much of the money taken on the night would the charity actually see??
see, i'm learning a lot very quickly about 'promoters costs' at the moment ("sorry guys, I know there was 500 people in the venue, but even at £5 a ticket I'm going to lose money so i can only pay you £50")

you want nasty, I do nasty really well.


shit

well the words no came up!!!! so that could easily be classed as refused!!!


...

we both know that saying you not able do something and 'refusing' to do something are two entirely seperate things.
bare faced lying on the internet can make one become the other very quickly.

posting "I asked them to do a charity gig but they couldn't do it" wouldn't have had the effect you wanted, right? to try and back up your dislike of the band with some type of 'proof' that they're bad dudes too.
and that is a particularly nasty, shitty thing to do.


well.........

I'm a good friend of the band. Just to let you know, me and many of the guys ran a promotions company in St Albans which donated all profits to charity.

So unless you are a serial fundraiser, don't critisize.


Names

ian md. What does md stand for? Medical Doctor? Hmm, I don't think so, that would require a vague wisp of intelligence and rationality.

Music Disaster? Hm, this could well be true, given your taste in music...

But I think the most likely explanation is MASSIVE DICKHEAD.

Because that's what you are. hahahahaha lol lol omg omg omg


um it stands for

"must destroy"
you know
the record label


respect them

just cos they've got big and they're yet to sign to visible noise or whatever shitty label will have them? i dont care if they're playing wembley they're still gash and confirms what you already knew, that kids like a lot of crap music.


i listened to all the songs on their myspace thingy last night and found some others

to see what the fuss was about and i can truly say they are a bit dull. The hardcore side of things is generic beyond belief and the electronics are rudimentary and boring. Kids eh?





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