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Freebase in your face, The World

Mike_Diver by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 10 comments 15:55 December 4th, 2006
peter hook

This is, maybe, the least-super supergroup I've ever heard of, but anyway...

Bass-lugging sorts Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Mani (Primal Scream/Stone Roses) and Peter Hook (New Order, pictured) are to make sweet, sweet music together under the name of Freebase. That's almost a play on words, almost.

Will it be a jazzy affair, compositionally adventurous and far from restricted by the pop sensibilites of members' previous exploits? Or will it simply be cack? Will anyone _care? Hooky does.

The pleasingly portly Manc - almost certainly a man who enjoys an ale and the odd pie, and therefore a man I can relate to - said of his new already-written-seventeen-songs project: "Everyone laughed at our face when we suggested the idea."

What, everyone in the whole world? Everyone? Probably not, eh Hooky? Now back to the bar with you. Mine's a Broadside, danke.

The Smiths New Order Primal Scream The Stone Roses
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I learned to play the bass listening to these 3

but this will be rubbish

cunt | 4 Dec '06, 15:59 | X | Reply

i thought

this was about the hardcore band freebase and that hooky had joined them. that would be odd.

edtsf @cunt | 4 Dec '06, 16:01 | X | Reply

Apparently Dickie Ashcroft's gonna be involved...

presumably on vocal duties.

I like Mani. He good.

Reckoning @edtsf | 4 Dec '06, 16:15 | X | Reply

Hmmmm

I shall speak to our old singer as last he had heard he was singing on this project.

He will be gutted.

Terra @Reckoning | 4 Dec '06, 16:27 | X | Reply

I did hear

they were going with an "unknown" vocalist.

cunt @Terra | 4 Dec '06, 16:57 | X | Reply

Hooky was talking about this

two and a half years ago. It's not as if they've all had massive schedules since then (well, Mani might have, come to think of it)

simon_t @cunt | 4 Dec '06, 17:00 | X | Reply

It was our old singer wooooo

Not now as far as I know?

Terra @cunt | 4 Dec '06, 17:02 | X | Reply

there's a hardcore band called freebase

on household name records, dead good they is too! This on the otherhand sounds as shite as Electronic

amyblue @Terra | 4 Dec '06, 17:52 | X | Reply

Freebase?

lets smoke some crack up in here

lovemusicfuckbaby @cunt | 5 Dec '06, 03:03 | X | Reply

"So...

when you chose the name Freebase did you conciously set out to undermine the punk band or were you just too callous to check?"

withpaperwings | 5 Dec '06, 11:10 | X | Reply

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