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"Not everyone was booing" or so one of the band was heard saying after. I say band, I mean a bunch of the worst coked-up, skinny-jeaned scenester kind. The sort of people you’d cross the road to throw boiling fat over and feel no remorse.
This is a public health warning. If you’re in or near the vicinity of this band, it is recommended that you either leave as soon as possible or attempt to make them leave faster. DiS would like to suggest you get handy with electrics and learn to create power cuts. Or buy a gun. Or piss in a cup and make it a glorious soaring missile. This shit should not be tolerated, let alone be given to a room full of drunk 'punters' who’ve paid £20 to miss most bands whilst queuing to see the Futureheads. This isn’t what they want when Mani is meant to be Djing (he does drop back in with 'Fools Gold' - nice one Mani!) and new great white hoax Klaxons are meant to be on doing their best Test-Icicles impressions.
Why doth they offend me so? Is it their inability to play anything coherent with any structure or point? Is it their meandering post-Libertines pomp? Is it simply the singers white jeans? A combination of all of this and all the worst dregs of the London SCENE make this one of the worst moments of my life. And it’s all made possible by the not-so-strange fact that the promoter of tonight manages this atrocity. This is what’s wrong with music today, everyone’s got their cock in a piece of the pie and they don’t care if they piss in their dinner.
In short: If I hear another Heat reading retard tell me the, somewhat rapidedly-aged-by-drink-and-drugs, singer is going out with the sixteen year old Peaches Geldof I'm gonna stick needles covered in AIDS all over Shoreditch 'til these fuckers are eradicated.
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and here's me thinking trafalgar was some imaginary band invented by the libs messageboarders just to take the piss.
heh.
You've given them the review they want.
pretty much
i'd put it in peaches though
TRAFALGAR
"I say band, I mean a bunch of the worst coked-up, skinny-jeaned scenester kind. The sort of people you’d cross the road to throw boiling fat over and feel no remorse."
I didn't think it would be possible for a reviewer to articulate the intense hatred I have for these pricks, but that's come pretty damn close.
I thought the band this
review was referring to were called Retro Combat Sounds?
i love the way
this article is full of bile. i've experienced similar feeligs after seeing some other utterly pointless shoreditch twats' bands. however, i'm intrigued.. although it's apparent that watching this band might be a masochistic trip. hah
congratulations, you've made it onto their myspace. no music there? wonder why.
i love you
this article just about sums it up. except...
i quite like them.
personally.
septic clit is back!
blast from the past...
Really?
Hey there, that's quite a bit of bile for 3 16 year olds (and a 20 yr old who should admittedly know better). No arguments about their image, attitude, or music- its all subjective anyway, and your opinion is as valid as anybody elses. However, you undermine your authority as a measured reviewer worth listening to by spewing the sort of hyperbolic rant typical of somebody who cherishes the anonymity afforded by a computer screen.
"The sort of people you’d cross the road to throw boiling fat over and feel no remorse" , "I'm gonna stick needles covered in AIDS all over Shoreditch 'til these fuckers are eradicated"... Get a fucking life, mate
DIS =
Stupid fucking spastics.
Ill judged, considering they are an even bigger bunch of scenester twats than Trafalgar. Yes... I've seen DIS staff BEGGING for things, kissing arse.
No music knowledge and half arsed social commentary. The AIDS comment should shut this website down.
Yeah, comments about AIDS are bad
and calling people spastics isn't.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh...
i wanna see
the AIDS comment come to life and shut the website down
I think this review is what DiS is about
opinionated take-it-or-leave-it gems that make the site better trhan most of the crap out there. There more I read and interact ('cos that's what you do on this site with message boars, ratings, meet up, ticket swaping...) on DiS, the better I think it is.
I thought it was a fucking hilarious review. Although I've never heard the band in question. But I don't care... it was FUNNY to read.
anoraks, notebooks and satchels
Drowned in Sound is full of cocks. Personally I think Trafalgar are take it or leave it average boys with guitars. However, the sheer bile at which they are slated with here is astounding.
"I'm gonna stick needles covered in AIDS all over Shoreditch 'til these little fuckers are eradicated".
Well done. You ignorant fuck. Tainting the whole population of one are because it has a certain reputation is disgusting. It's like me saying "I'm gonna kill every South African cos some of them are apparently racists". (For your information I live outside London, so it's not a personal thing, just a comment on your stupidity.)
Let me turn it around for you...
If I see another 19 year old, slightly ugly kid in an anorak with a note book quoting Michael Moore schoolboy politics, complaining about bands who dress in clothes they themselves can't fit into, shouting "why can't bands be more like Mogwai and Slint" I'm gonna stab them in the eyes with the biro they nicked from daddys study.
Like the Kaiser Chiefs now do you? Probably not. They wear skinny jeans and have funny hair cuts and don't record their songs in their bedroom with a towel over a microphone that they borrowed from Elliott Smith's mum.
Who released their first single...? Oh yes, it was Drowned in Sound.
That's True!
once i saw colin dancing in only a string vest and a diamond studded jock strap.
then he made out with a an old bit of bacon cause someone told him it was 'scene'.
This is what I meant by true not tommysuckscock
"DIS =
Stupid fucking spastics.
Ill judged, considering they are an even bigger bunch of scenester twats than Trafalgar. Yes... I've seen DIS staff BEGGING for things, kissing arse.
No music knowledge and half arsed social commentary. The AIDS comment should shut this website down."
although i agree with tommysuckscock too in that drowned in sound are full of cocks. but only on take your cock to work tuesday.
Excellent
Saw them at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, and I can safely say they are without doubt the worst band I have ever seen. I FUCKING HATE this image-over-music Shoreditch bullshit. If someone told them blue rinses were trendy, they'd up and get them. And the singer, what an arrogant fuck, coming back onstage before Belle and Sebastian. Wanker.
Excellent
Saw them at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, and I can safely say they are without doubt the worst band I have ever seen. I FUCKING HATE this image-over-music Shoreditch bullshit. If someone told them blue rinses were trendy, they'd up and get them. And the singer, what an arrogant fuck, coming back onstage before Belle and Sebastian. Wanker.
to be fair
they were the first lively band on stage on Saturday. better than the Mentalists, who were upsetting.
...funny review though.
Go to myspace.com/a_peter_rabbit
Its very funny. I have a skate video he made three years ago... I think he burnt his Missy Eliot and Keane Albums. He is Trafalgar's lead Guitarist and I am unbelievably jelous that they who do not write their own songs, indeed lack coherent structure (oh and not in the vaguely avant guard Stooges/Velvet Underground sense), or infact any sense of Time or Key or general musicianship, are signed, and on the east london circuit. I am 16 and they fall far, far below the average band.
Did u no
U may or may not no this but Trafalgar are the wrolds first manufactured Punk Band. This guy with a load of money got em 2gether as the members of the band have a load of money to and some other band writes there songs. Its a fucking disgrace that this band have been giving such a leg up...Wankers
hm
yeah but that's cause you're you.
"the world's first manufactured punk band"
er, Sex Pistols anyone?
A mon avis.
...These guys have been dressing and acting like this since they were 11 years old.
Sure they may suck, but I can honestly vouch theyre not trying to be something theyre not.
To be honest, this review really makes me lose respect for any reviewer writing for Drowned in Sound actually.
I would
I would very much like to fuck the one with the big black hair.
He should become a proper prostitue.
poo poo band.
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