to think how much money has been invested in this band so far. They're going to need some big sales figures.

*runs off to ebay to sell his copy*

this has nothing to do with how, after a sizeable advance, heavy NME support and a ton of turn of the year press, their last single peaked at number 93. It's been quite weird (and, yes, not a little fun) watching how their year has progressed - their first single got delayed by about six weeks, their second by about two months, and this album was originally supposed to be out in May.

By the way, if you can stand it, go onto their Myspace, look at who their number one friend is and wonder what they're trying to tell us.

since I was a Stone Roses fanboy, so my facts may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they'd just about finished their debut (Garage Flower) in about '86 before shelving it and moving on to record what most people view as their debut proper (s/t).
Sooo... y'know... maybe in 2011 they'll come back with a classic pop album. Maybe...

http://boredofdictators.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/joe-lean-and-the-jing-jang-gone/

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Battle were doing quite well with singles up to the release of their album, then they decided to scrap the debut LP, put half of it out as a mini-album and re-record the rest with new songs. The album proper came out quite a while later and was roundly ignored. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_%28band%29#Break_the_Banks

The Observer Music Monthly gave it 2/5.

It think you have to commit mass genocide and make a record worse than Nickelback covering Limp Bizkit to get 1/5.

Just when you think there's no justice in the world, something comes along like this.

states that the album was completed last year, so surely if management/Vertigo/Mercury weren't happen then they would have quietly scrapped it then? My theory would be that they were stuck with this terrible album but tried to blow up the hype with huge press plugging (BBC Sound of 2008, NME Tour etc.) but when they started to get bad single and live reviews and were unable to build up a fanbase, have decided to start over.

Still, I'm sure nothing will change - they're a terrible band (and my friend who has interviewed them claims that, with the exception of Joe Lean, they're rather unpleasant people).

she said she's never met anyone so self obsessed.

"so, where do you live"

"Oh i don't have a home, per se, one day i'm in London, the next Paris, then New York, Madrid..."

"My fans are all so lovely, when i'm feeling down i just remember them and how my music has helped them and it makes it all worth it"

She said she had to really stop herself from laughing because he seemed to really believe what he was saying and didn't want to be rude as he was quite nice, but his head is just on another planet.

you can be certain it will be by next year - unless they reinvent themselves as a *brand new* band.

Congratulations on rubbishing sessions that probably cost a small fortune to produce in favour of a complete overhaul six months later.

Can someone please leak it, i wanna hear it.

is surely too close for the stock to have not been manufactured. i find the idea of half a million copies or whatever gathering dust in a warehouse somewhere pretty amusing.

scares me.

I reckon (and hope).