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Increasingly popular ska-country-whatever four-piece Larrikin Love have offered their fans the opportunity to win a ukulele, signed by singer Edward.
A blog on their MySpace page (click for link) reads as follows:
"So to today, and your chance to win a customised soprano ukulele signed by Edward Larrikin. Basically all you have to do having legally acquired your own personal copies of the 'Happy As Annie' single (and) send photos of you in the most unusual place proudly brandishing your copy.
"E-mail these to happy.as.annie@hotmail.co.uk. The most original five will receive a signed poster, badges and all that gubbins. From this shortlist a winner will be picked on Sunday 17th (September), and they will receive the signed instrument. Happy hunting!"
'Happy As Annie' is out now, and available from all good record stores. Probably. It doesn't sound like Rednex, honest (DiS review here). Well, maybe it does a bit...
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they were average but people seem to go bludey mental for them.
Do they still have a fat bassist
he's really clever and smashes toilet doors. I had their single in my head for a week so as production line pop they can't be going wrong anywhere
change the record prole
can't you find a different band to slag off this week?
oh, go on, get all defensive now and use loads of quotes around things and claim that everyone is against you and hates you.
Where did he slag the band?
"I had their single in my head for a week so as production line pop they can't be going wrong anywhere."
I agree. That's not a slight. It's a pat on the back, a favourable comment, and an accurate one.
The band aren't reinventing any wheels; they're simply making catchy pop that wears a myriad of influences on its ruffled sleeve.
I don't like them. At all. Ergh, etc. But I can hear what they're doing, and how they're doing it well; therefore, I can understand their success to date, in this current climate for indie-poppin' quick-fixes and dancefloor root-scooters. Whether they'll matter at all, to anyone, twelve months from now... well, that's not the point.
The point is that Prole up there didn't slag the band at all.
(lunchtime)
,,,
Apparently the recently deceased King of Tonga had a huge collection of ukulele's. A Soviet ambassador asked him if he'd like anything in the '70s and he jokingly asked for one of the tiny hawaian guitars (joking because the King was super-massive). The request must have gone on a file in the Kremlin and for years after that he got a Ukulele from every Soviet geezer who came to visit.
Read that in the paper and it made my weekend (i'm easily amused).
i would say so yes.
If Id said 'fucking libertines shit' then I'd expect rancour of the highest order from Collers - I even have it on my brain now - please someone sing me something gently in my ear or something. NOW!
On a serious point I'm not 17 (even if I act like I am) and can understand why people would want to mental out in a mosh pit to them and as some sort of aspirant God-knows-what, I'm looking at them from a thousand perspectives and not just as a boss eyed moron. They supported us once so therefore i'm in paroxyms of green eyed snarley monster-type proportions of jealousy, clearly......not. Fair play to anyone who can get their art out there whether I think its crap or not!
Anyway back to listening to some jazz or something.
And yes I'm slightly annoyed about their bass player
showing hospitality by smashing a bog door - but whatever!
these days
its fashionable to have a fatty in the band - arctic monkeys did, editors still do, im sure there are other examples i can't think of. usually bassists.
ha! I was the 'bonny' one in some band I was in!
AND the bassist! bollocks bollock bollocks - if only I'd hung on JUST. THAT. BIT. LONGER
Guys! Just kidding - all bass players as a rule should be a bit 'portly' though. It would vulgar for them not to be if you ask me, which you aren't, but that's the power of the internet, isn't it?
ISN'T IT?
Dull records, Great live
Everything i've heard from them on record as been preety bobbins but i have to say they played a blinder at the Leeds festival the other week.
they're
a band that completely don't tickle my fancy
the vocals don't sound like Rednex
but the first 30 seconds or so really could pass for them, you know..
no? just me then? hmmmmmm.
Chubby bassists
I never knew this rule existed ... it's all become so clear now, Magic Skool Bus have had one for 5 years:
http://www.magicskoolbus.com/main.php?g=21&;pg=8
They even post pictures of him eating food:
Thank fuck
Considering they can barely play their own basic instruements its a relief to see they are clearing up some clutter. Worst band ive heard this year IMO
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