The Twang announce massive tour: everyone, it seems, is still avin' it.

they're doing Rock City, as their show at Nottingham Trent Uni a few weeks back was apparently nowhere near a sell out, and Rock City holds a good 5-600 more people.

I've never seen a band captured so completely in one image.

Please review it just for the sheer comedy value.

Anyway, how old is that man in the photo? I'd say 38 was generous.

the other day & I was shocked of how old they actually were.

Played in my town (Derry) a few weeks ago, around 40 people turned up to see them. After a VERY disappointing gig, we were walking out of the venue, when the singer was standing at the door on his own, probably fishing for compliments.

My friend said to him "You're the most exciting thing to come out of Birmingham since UB40" , and the singer said "cheers".

It wasn't supposed to be a compliment.

Lager lads, you know.

Also, I imagined they would make good music if they were that little bit older.

They were fucking shite when I saw them.

no offence here mate, if they are that bad, why are you guys giving them press (for the record I have managed to not hear a single song as yet).

...but many people do come here to read the news, and many people who come here do like the Twang. They'll be interested in the dates.

people are sheep. Can you imagine a whole field-load of bank clerks with hoodies singing 'and all I needed was a hug' and getting all emotional together...yeeesh

...who the HELL wrote their bio?

http://www.drownedinsound.com/bands/10220

Half an hour of the most awful, awful sounds I ever heard.

i saw them support james and thought they were ace .. ok so they act cocky but they did put on a good show, both either way and wide awake are good songs .. maybe they have been overhyped in a lot of ways which makes people make comments like on here

Fucking Hell! I thought that link was going to be to the "Sound of 2007" story.

and surely not true!

fucking shit

Everytime I have been to an indie gig in Nottingham, someone pours beer on me!!!

... why is it that bands shite-gobbling bands get more comments on here than the ones that inspire and excite. Its seems that we all prefer to take a good swipe at the "knobshiners" than bigging up the good stuff. Wierd.

the wrong gigs!

with tons of kids and fat wives. thats what they are

It's scarily surprising how much everybody in Birmingham actually Loves UB40. Thankfully being a mere resident of Brum I don't share in their excitement.

and im trying to be complimentary

how many kids he has??? if hes 38 he was probably be able to have kids since he was 13 maybe so if he had one baby every year that would be 25, lets just hope they dont follow in his footsteps.....cos he is a monkey banjo

...at the new Opera House in Bournemouth after it was closed for refubishments. The Proclaimers played shortly afterwards. Not a good start whatsoever.

Who is 'avin' it?: NME
Where are they avin' it?: The Twang's collective arsehole.

& my boyfriend is there and he uses my head as a pint holder.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

cos all being well they'll have crawled back under the rock they came from by this time next year

i had no idea the other tour sold out, but now i am enlightened and feel much better for it.

they shouldn't be, here, there or anywhere at all. they really fucking suck.
they just get plugged by bloody jo whiley and co all day, so as you say people who 'drive vans and fix houses' buy their dogshit record.

if i fix vans and drive houses?

Nottingham sold out.

There may have been numerous "complimentary" tickets dished out, but I can assure you it didn't sell out, and I have this on pretty good authority.

I would rather lick piss off nettles than listen to the twang.

and a top 3 album to boot

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pricks

I fail to see the relevance in pointing out chart posistions to prove how good a band supposedly are. A high slot in the charts is no reward to the fans its a reward to the band and the fans may only use it to counter the arguements that said band are shit. In this case the Twang. I couldnt care less if they got to number 3 in the charts you have a bunch of guys who take themselves too seriously. These bands do get to these posistions in the chart but a music lover who has been through the depths of genres will instantly identify that the Twang are blodey terrible.

Put it this way go to their gig and talk to members of the audience. Guarenteed the majority all left school at the age of 16. Its easy to sell out venues when you appeal to working class. So they can fuck off if they think this tour will add to their commercial merit to better massage their egos. Especially when they are probably robbing their working class fan base the price of an overpriced ticket.

i dont think the twang are amazing, i think they have some great songs and some not so great songs, i just dont think they deserve the shit they get on here

and this thread is a reaction to the size venues they've announced for their next tour, so i'm afraid is directly linked to their chart posistions so far, that's how booking agents work, you fucking narrow minded tool

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Your arguments are rude and have no point. Nobody gives a fuck how popular TT are with idiots who listen to what they are told to listen to or want some pathetic reincarnation of the worst that britpop had to offer. It's my opinion that they are shit. If you don't like it you don't have to go far to find people who disagree.

You're so see through, you've made that comment about 'liking some songs and not others' before. Why don't they deserve the 'shit' they get on here? What they definitely don't deserve is the stupid over-exposure they have received, blanket radio play and DJs telling the world how great they are with one hand taking a wad of money and the other hand with crossed fingers behind their back.

You are quite clearly either a member of the band, their manager or a family member. Are you worried that your reviews are turning shit? The best reviews I have seen have described you as mediocre. How sad. I'd get back in touch with the HP sauce factory, they might still have a job for you.

This band is truly awful.

whatsoever.

Mr Proofman...

I have the ticket figures for the whole tour - the only show that didnt sell out was newcastle (and that was close). The saleable capacity of the venue in Nottingham was 1000 people and the show sold 1000 tickets in advance of the show. This is what is called a sell out! Idiot!
As you live in Nottingham you could go and check with the promoters of the show if you dont believe me and they will confirm the information. Or check with the bands booking agent. He could also confirm.
But instead you choose to beleive your mates or some other nonsense. Please check your facts before you make yourself look stupid again.

as you're the one who is such a mega fan of the twang, you know which dates they sold out.

Stupid is a mild word, tragic is more like it.

people at raduo one like it as well?? it is a possibility?

I don't see any proof that a gig which clearly DID NOT sell out did sell out, as you were supposedly going to prove to me!
Unless you've written it in some invisible code that can only be viewed by yourself.

There's no point - they're terrible

and you keep replying so you must.

ilikemusic: "idiot" is probably too mild a term to describe anyone who appreciates lines like: "What was I doing with that milf? My chin is exhausted, man it was time for filth."

I prefer the description "absolute fucking bone-headed cretin." This could equally be applied to those who base their music taste on the recommendations of Edith Bowman and the N**. Thank you.

Find out your facts -
The saleable capacity was 1000 people. There was a guestlist predecided when deals are done between agent and promoter.
In addition record labels give their PR people tickets - this is what happens at every major gig! These do not have anything to do with the saleable capacity of a gig.

I thought you wanted to be a writer Dom? YOu are looking like an amateur. If you want to know the facts ask the people who booked the show or promoted it. Just because a PR person tries to give you a ticket doesnt mean a show isnt sold out.

The show was sold out. FACT. I ahve told you where to check my information. PLease go and check and then come and post and tell me if I am wrong. I am NOT. I have told you where to go to check. Just because you cant be arsed doesnt mean I am wrong.
You are a fucking idiot!

sell anywhere near 1000 tickets, and anyone who tells you it did is a liar.

For pointing out that someone is wrong?

IMHO this thread doesn't do DiS any favours - most regular readers of this site probably don't like the twang, we're not their "target market" and we know it.
some of us probably find the band's music derivative/bad enough to rile us, and can justify why this is the case.
i just don't think there's any excuse for some of the mindless comments made in this thread, from a community of people who are generally pretty tolerant and liberal.
although most of the culpable posts have been made by people who don't post all that regularly, the danger of an open forum like this is that a few dodgy posts could come to (mis-)represent the views of the site and the people who use it.
yes, the twang are rubbish, yes we are passionate enough to care, but let's be reasonable about how we tell people that.

A reasonable post.
Agree with everything you have said.
People's views here were becoming embarrassing. If the same comments that have been made here about class had been made about race or gender there would have been uproar. Some people need to take a look at themeselves and their opinions. Thanks for the post myothercarsajag.

and singing songs littered with the word "fuck" about kicking your next door neighbour's head in does not constitute class, or any form of it in my book. Thanks.

Read all the above and then try to demonstrate you are not stupid.

argue with unreasonable people.
You know I'm right ilm, deal with it.

What the hell are you talking about?
Tickets are sold by a promoter. In this case 1000 of them. The record label buy some of them to give to PR, pluggers, retail etc and a guestlist is allocated to the bands playing. The rest of the tickets are sold to the public up to the legal capacity of the room. I repeat all available and saleable tickets wre sold. I saw the ticket figures and the settlements and was also at the show. It was fucking sold out and fucking packed. Stop being an idiot!

been given any evidence, just the conjectured outpourings of some dickhead using a pseudonym on an internet forum attempting to justify his extremely weakened argument.

Go check and stop being stupid

Let's examine the facts here shall we?
You lose an argument, so you call someone else a prick, stupid, thick and any other insult you can drag into the equation.
You won't (daren't) even disclose your real name, or who you are in relation to the band.
I think you're the one that needs to grow up a little ilm.

I backed my argument up with people you could ask and check with.
Please back your argument up with someone I could check with. A name would be useful?

You haven't even disclosed your own name ffs!

who to contact to find out your answer didnt I?

Have you checked yet?

I've made it perfectl clear to you that the gig did not sell it. Everyone else seems to understand bar you. I think you need to learn to read or something, y'know, get a grasp of the English language. It might even improve the quality of your insults.

"...did not sell out"

and then come back with the results when you've finished?

where is your evidence dom? It is a simple question?

I have told you where mine is.

Recent trends have been favourable towards thug rock, "pioneered" by Kaiser Chiefs and Kasabian, the second shit wave being the Fratellis, the View et al. This is unfortunately very comparable to the fag end of Britpop, when record contracts were thrown by an increasingly desperate industry at any four numb-headed lads who could pick up a guitar and a tinnie at the same time.

The Twang are the logical end. I suspect we'll see "indie" collapse in on itself in the next few years, and be replaced by some other genre in the hearts of the mainstream music consumer. As for the Twang themselves, put it this way, have you heard much from Hurricane #1 of late?

I'm just speechless. That argument is the single most retarded thing i've encountered on this forum, standing out as a beacon of shitness even in the embarrassment-fest that is this comments section.

Neither party came out of it looking good but i have to say Dom didn't do himself proud. I don't know ilikemusic from Adam, but i'd expect a contributor to behave a bit more reasonably and not get involved in a pathetic slanging/pissing match over something so pointless. Although i'm guessing ilm's noob status might have had something to do with it.

In general, i find the attitude to The Twang on this website quite sinister. I honestly don't give 2 fucks about them, heard their song on the radio once and it really didn't stand out at all. But it seems as though they're some sort of whipping boy that everybody can pile on top of and show no mercy to. Fair enough if you hate the Twang, i'm sure there's plenty of people who could tell me a number of reasons why they suck. But many people just see a chance to really lay into something without fear of reprisal. So they fucking murder it.

And the class issue which comes up time and time again is particularly worrying. Its as if many people project their fear and distrust of "the lower classes" onto something as inane as a throwback lad-rock band. We get it, they probably don't deserve the exposure they're getting when your favourite emo-post rock-gameboy noise band gets none. Big fucking deal, like thats never happened before. Just give it a rest on The Twang already

PEDANTIC tw*ts

One thing's still bothering me, did they sell out in Nottingham or not?

I have never read a thread quite this hilarious.

'You can buy a can of baked beans for 32p from Morrisons'

'No you can't, it's clearly 33'

'Yes it IS 32, I checked'

'But everyone knows it isn't'

'Check your fucking facts, here's the number of your local Morrisons'

'Fuck off'

'Trust you to bring class into it'