- Venue:
- ICA, London »
- Artists:
- Pure Reason Revolution »
What the fuck?
Seriously, what the fuck is this shit?
Pure Reason Revolution could be the most pointless band in the history of the world, ever.
People in indie dens probably shouldn’t throw mortars or be caught up in style over substance, but there is nowhere else to start. Bands on major labels, with managers who aren’t blind and dressing rooms which contain mirrors should no longer have such rubbish Stones-feathered haircuts done by their mums. Did seeing Jet on What Sadie Did Next teach us nothing? And to make matters slightly less bad, they hide behind some great projections because they look like sweet-bracelet wearing BiS fans who’ve grown into stage barrier hugging Cooper Temple Clause nerdlingers.
Clearly Yes and Tool DVDs taught Pure RR something or other. As did being in Barfly circuit haunters Gel. The results, however, are utterly baffling and as atrocious as bombing a city of innocents trying to kill one man whose miles away being a mole in a hole.
After the sixth minute of the first indulgence (which went on for some 10 minutes, as did the rest of it!), it’s only clear that this is the biggest waste of corporate lucre since someone signed The Datsuns for one album, for a million quid. They make pop songs, which stand no chance whatsoever of ever getting anywhere near the radio. I’m completely at a loss unless the sole reason they’ve been signed is because the a&r wants to fuck the girl singer?! Seriously, can someone out there please explain the point of big bland cheesy sounds over plagiarised prog and regurgitated post-rock, when you make music which will never make sense to any short attention span Outkast fan.
If you’re an aging rocker and fancy taking your tarty bleached biker wifey to something she might deem cool, then this band are for you, and you only. Everyone else, fear not! Count your lucky ducks as they’ll be dropped quicker than you can say Menswe@r’s second album!
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These lot do seem completely pointless though. Rather souless, if you want to be academic.
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Gel lead singer is now in Pure reason revolution ( i think... ). PRR are awful !
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It's about opinions, you know - read other PRR pieces on this site and tell me they're all like this.
See: positivity.
As for comments about this site going downhill, I've got to ask what articles you've been reading; the quality, to my mind, has improved these past six months or so, and continues to do so.
But, like I said, it's all about opinions.
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Don't bother signing up for a single post that comprises another meaningless rant against some guy/girl you've never met and have a differing opinion to.
Worthwhile posters are welcomed; this is pointless.
Go vent your spleen elsewhere, street teamer.
I assume you are one...?
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Welcome aboard.
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But this :'it just takes a little more thinking to understand it than some people sadly have' is quite stupid !
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A long time ago I accepted that some people will like what we do, others won't. The same goes for any band - it's all about opinion.
I feel uncomfortable with people trying to turn the show at the ICA into some kind of PRR Vs redjetson show, as it was absolutely not. There is no bad feeling whatsoever between our two bands and we're really very very happy that PRR invited us to play with them - we're really grateful.
It's a shame that 'fans' want to try and turn it into a competition. Of course, people may not agree with the DiS review and that's fine.
The above review has nothing to do with redjetson and as Mr Diver said, it's all opinion. If your opinion is that PRR are awesome and we suck, that's perfectly valid, but please don't try to make out that our bands are in competition. We just want to play some shows together and hopefully the audience will get something out of it.
Why can't we all just accept that people have differing opinions and get along?
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As for inconsistency, you may notice their reviews have been written in the past by different people.
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they were really good, and i went to this gig on the basis of their performances supporitng mew....
...AND their single, 'bright ambassadors' (which got 5/5 in a DiS review)
This is an awful review.
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I want to read the opinions of someone who writes well. Depending on how well they write is how much I will consider what they say.

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