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the dawn parade
probably the band i miss most in the entire world.
'the hole in my heart' and 'good luck olivia' are two of my favourite songs EVER.
probably the band i miss most in the entire world.
'the hole in my heart' and 'good luck olivia' are two of my favourite songs EVER.
:-(
why were they good?
all the best bits
of springsteen and morrissey's songwriting combined with the youngful anger of early manics and some fucking awesome tunes.
that is a well written description
but i just thought they were the utterest of gash.
the singer seemed smug, not angry
and without having much to be smug about, since he couldn't really sing very well. and their last song they did live went on for about 6 minutes and contained about 4 chords, strummed basically. weird.
technical arguements are pretty much redundant with me
as is "he can't sing" as, hell, i'm a conor oberst fanboy.
i like greg's songs because i think he's really good at capturing moods with them.
and also because, despite my almost-relentless cynicism, i'm really just a big soppy romantic at heart.
LOL!
i liked that post
you are emerging from a stroppy period. not period obviously, but epoch. so i won't slag them off any more. i only saw them once anyway and it was supporting THIRTEEN SENSES so pisstaking may be in order anyway
i saw keane supporting the dawn parade once
still the funniest thing ever.
don't forget..
the leather trousers.
that aside, the dawn parade were amazing.
greg is spending lots of time playing with q-base (or whatever it's called) at the moment and doing an hours worth of vocal exercises a day, so some new music type thing might turn up eventually!
yes, so i have heard
i wish he'd get a move on.
and hopefully not massacre the songs with bad string samples like half of into the nightlife has...
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well god knows what he is up to, but rumour has it that until recently the polpyphonic spree were living in the beard he grew* so maybe they are helping him
*this rumour was almost entirely made up by me during lengthy conversations with mr a. gibbons house mate of greg and therefore in the know regarding beard activity!
beard?
oh lord.
:'(
don't worrry...
it was short lived and has now been shaved off.
but i do have a picture of the brief moment when it was a handelbar moustache... which i keep for when i need a laugh
Brilliant band.
Why couldn't I have been older for the 'nu-bury revolution' (lol?).
Although it was probably only MBA and The Dawn Parade heading it up...
Seriously though, 'Caffeine Row' is an amazing song.
Yes good times they were.
Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era... The kind of peak that never comes again. Bury st Edmunds in the 2000s was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something, maybe not, in the long run. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
la la la
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Yeah
I'm loving the Repeat Records CD thing. So many good songs on it.
The chorus of Morrisey's Tongue is one of the best i've heard for a long time.