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anyone under 50 who owns a gramophone = Terrible People

my old basement http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01506/30/99/1506459903_l.jpg

how many homosexuals are in attendance.

and on the cover it was them playing in someone's living room?

Yeah, I'd prefer a fun dance party where everyone's jiving and the room is swinging. Woo let's have fun!

I suppose you have a point if we accept that any of the following premises are true:

- Something can be cool and horrible at the same time.
- Living room party protocol demands that everyone must stand still and in silence throughout.
- Listening to a 'cool' person playing 'beautiful' music is not fun. Or at the very least, less fun than any other kind of music. Like mingers playing vomitcore.
- A 'social thing' and a 'silly ritual' are mutually exclusive. There are no social things that are also silly rituals.

Living room gigs are a great way for an unknown band to get out there and play. I only did so many of them in 2006/2007 because it's a way of getting to play to new people every night. There are only so many DIY promoters to play shows for, and it's a good way of staying on tour and 'making a name for yourself' when you're not big enough to get proper gigs.

Anyway, what's 'gay' about them? If you'd bother to watch me play (which of course you won't, so don't bother with the easy retort) you'd discover that I don't stand there taking myself seriously. House gigs are just a laugh where you get to play your songs, drink beer, hang out with new people and make new friends (as opposed to a normal gig where people don't really talk to complete strangers, in general).

OTHER POINTS:

Also, Scouting For Girls-lite? Uh, no.

Yes, there's a Ben Folds poster in my room. Sorry. Was it meant to be Belle & Sebastian?

Sitting on the floor looking awkward? Sitting is comfortable.

Gay jokes? How old are you? Five?

And now I'm spent, so you can continue taking the piss.

My experience of living room gigs is much better.. cobbling together as many hi-fis as possible to make a makeshift PA system, people perched on amps, microphones taped to brooms.. and definitely no sitting down or heartfelt songs.

Gigs in people's living rooms = "oh cool a bunch of friends, some music, w00t this whole set-up is full of win."

Gigs in (phenomenon increases as they get bigger) venues- "ooh wow this is so deep. I have to justify paying loads of money for this and standing around for an hour and a half watching by finding this a deeply meaningful experience."

If anything? (I mean there is a happy middle ground where you go to a nice small gig but let's not nitpick here)

it was pretty much amazing.

Except no one was sitting down and it was full of drunk sweaty people.

Grow up, the vast majority of you.

if they were banned i wouldn't really be that bothered. Of course, i've been to a couple of good ones, but i had to get very VERY drunk to not want to leave, and that's nothing to do with the bands playing, i just find the idea of standing in a room with loads of people you don't know whilst bands you like play their songs badly, well, it's not very exciting, is it?

It doesn't matter how "good" they are - a singer-songwriter in a living room is not fun. And sure as fuck isn't entertainment.

with exciting bands ... i don't think luke would have quite the same effect as someone like apologies, i have none

Welcome to another classic drownedinsound 'I think it's cool and clever to personally rip into an artist I don't like' thread. Ignorant dickheads is all I can say to users such as;

Too_black_too_strong - Seriously, over 11000 posts on `Drownedinsound - get a fucking life instead of continuously posting the links to Luke's videos and writing 'lol'). What do you achieve? Are you trying to provoke a reaction? Are you secretly hoping someone will say "My god, you are so correct, I think I love you, let's go out on a date". Bitching is weak and this makes you weak. Don't do it.

Heartbeeps - Is Luke not allowed to like Ben Folds? Go on, I dare your pitiful ignorance to say he sounds like Ben purely because he uses a piano. Also, it's such a shame that you think you're clever enough to come on here and personally slag Luke and then totally not realise the cryingly obvious hyperbole of his threat towards the clearly wrong and illegal action of downloading. At the end of the day, with illegal downloading, you can say ''If I like it I'll buy a cd'' but that's bullshit. Maybe a few people ACTUALLY mean that, but at the end of the day you're a classic example of a lazy thief who uses cheap justifications to steal. Don't do it. The artist didn't say you could so don't be so fucking disrespectful and inconsiderate. Would you try and get into a gig for free by trying to push past security guards? No you wouldn't so shut the fuck up with your shit excuses. If everyone does it, musicians won't be able to have a career and dedicate their time to being creative and bringing the world great music. At the end of the day, you will prevent many potential artists from showing the world their beautiful and creative music.

Gggg - you're right, Luke could have just grinned and bared it and it MIGHT have died away (there is also the chance you immature pricks would carry on polluting threads and giving this website a bad name by continuing to post such tripe), but is that justified? If you were in the school playground and someone would continuously be overly rude about your big ears would you just grin and bare it? You might, but at the end of the day it is wrong and if everyone had such a passive attitude no injustice would be solved in this world. Pathetic.

Finally, on the subject of house shows - the whole 'self-indulgent' aspect of it - isn't it just a downsized version of a concert - everyone glaring at the 'superpower' on stage and the self-indlugent artist getting money from this. If you think that is 'gay', then you disagree with concerts. Furthermore, all house shows vary, You can't generalise.

I got William (the band) to play in my front room for me 21st. it was pretty sweet.

So Luke Leighfield to me seems dangerously near some sort of Musical Apocalypse.

person who started this thread by looking at other peoples profile pix and then posting it is the failure in my book. limp stalker

Some people might enjoy having 'a gig', whether it's by a Cool Band or a singer/songwriter, in their front room to a bunch of their mates. Leighfield gets to tour out of it and meet new people and get fed and boozed - it's much more preferable to slogging it out in pissy Barfly venues to people who don't care I guess. It's a totally positive, fun thing even if it's not really the type of music you're into.

anyone's living room
just make sure theres a party and i'm there

but it will be more like a house party with loads of people crammed into the room and people shouting their heads off for a little while.

it could be fun.

than the best piss-taker

he's really sweet and he wears great jumpers.

i certainly think so
ps,@mass;LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

you're such a bitch

Because Neutral Milk Hotel can make anything awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0SukD_mkL8

Isn't that like going to ANY gig in London? Fuckers never dance because of the arms folded BULLSHIT that is a London gig.

try putting one on. we've done a few this year and it's been lovely. had the bobby mcgees and babar luck play in our front room.

Bitching and hate of my music aside, is anyone contemplating putting on a house show / trying to get a house show to play at? Does anyone have any cool stories about house shows that they've been to?

There's a cool snippet of Lightning Bolt playing in some guy's kitchen on 'The Power Of Salad' DVD. I think the police stopped it though. A few people I know put on gigs in their cellar and they always sound like good fun. If you've got the room to do it and don't mind strangers coming into your house it's a brilliant alternative to paying to hire a venue.

scenes

Am I wrong? Personally never been to one. I hear there is alot in Dalston though.

p.s that guys music is drab

p.p.s no offense

You can't get drunk because you're at someone else's house...which is fine, but mostly everyone else is quite drunk because it's their friend's house. I went to one by a singer-songwriter type, who was trying to create a kind of Wayne's World/Jools Hollands type cross-over in his flat - I think Hot Club de Paris and someone else reasonably well-known played. It's kind of like any gathering - better if you know a lot of people there, as opposed to hiding in the corner with your two friends who don't know anyone else either.

A more general point is by their nature, they're going to be pretty staid and invariably acoustic. A lot of the people there are going to be either intolerably smug or over-excited and like 'wow, this is the best thing I've ever been to' and over-doing it. The number of Swedish people will be depend on how twee the music is (1 - not very twee, 3- very twee). There will be many people wearing glasses.

So yeah, not at all my scene.

Thanks for this thread. And say thanks to your "manager" for me. Seriously.

xxx

you will continue to undermine attempts to be the "arbiter of all that is right" that you so desire to be.

this is what happened in mine

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aTr3Vdxv374&feature=related

Some of the best shows I've been to or played have been house shows.

Total standout: La Quiete, Catena Collapse, Mock heroic and Dan form Cat on Form at my house about four years ago. One of the best weekends of my life.

I went to see Pete Doherty play an acoustic set in a tiny crack den in Whitechapel. I went with a mate who's borderline obsessed with him and everything to do with him, but it was intense and I had a pretty great time. He only played for like 40 minutes and he was out of it but it was sweet.

I also seen Future of the Left play in a flat in Camden a few months ago. Was allright.

was something else. Apparently he does quite a few, so you would most probably be able to catch him again.