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Hard-Fi will headline the Leftfield Stage at Glastonbury Festival this Saturday (23 Jun).
Richard Archer, the band's frontman, has revealed the processes at work behind with their appearance:
"It was through the Love Music Hate Racism people. They book the Leftfield stage and knew we weren't going to do any festivals. I was thinking 'lets just concentrate on getting the album out', but then they asked us if we fancied doing it."
Cheers for that, LMHR! I still, y'know, would, but I know I suddenly feel better about not going.
“We'll play two or three new ones. At the moment we're actually mixing the record, we've only got two rehearsals before Glastonbury so it's going to be a bit like the Stones in '71, a bit ramshackle."
Hmm...a choice quote there from Archer. Shall we leave it? Let's leave it.
"But I promise you this, we'll be proper fucking 'aving it!"
Relief.
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Hard Fi compare themselves to the Stones?
nvophepfhepfe
ROFLMAO
and various other acronyms.
and things just get worse
cunting christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahhahHAHAHAHAHA
i hate this band so much.
I read that as
"t nerve of phome ppl"
I bet
Hard-fi's new album won't take 3 years to come out, unlike labelmates Distophia!
That's disappointing
I'd totally forgotten that HardFi existed.
I'd heard Belle and Sebastian rumoured for this.
I thought the whole point of the
Leftfield Stage was to have bands that had a political edge or did something worth.
damn you and your misleading headlines
i thought there was going to be a replacement for the who
Hard-Fi
are not that bad. Leave off.
Love Music
Hate Hard-Fi
same
oh well, the bootleg beatles are on then, I think i might actually have to go and see them
UMMM
they're slaves to the cash machine. how more political do you want? they're telling it like it is man.
i feel
alot worse now i know they are playing
Meh
another band to ignore.
If this is how Love Music Hate Racism
show how they love music, they must also be absolutely gutted that Bernard Manning is dead.
Brill.
My heart rate increased when I saw this:
":O MAYBE ITS THE STONES, OR RADIOHEAD OR MCCARTNEY AGAIN OR SOMETHING!"
:'(
Booo
I was guite excited when it was mooted that there would be a new headliner for sat night as all the other options range from a scale of pretty bobbins (Iggy) to the truly awful (the wang), thinking ooh who could it be? White stripes? Interpol? LCD? Fiery Furnaces? TVOTR? No it's one of the worst bands around. Nice one LMHR.
^
Best comment ever
got it
took a while, too many double negatives this late in the afternoon.
Hard Fi - well, they're wanque aren't they.
Anybody else notice
how they've ripped off Girls Against Boys, fused that with some Clash-lite style and hey presto, it's a Carling sponsored extravaganza!
"it's going to be a bit like Bucks Fizz in '83, terrible."
yeah
why arent lcd playing?
could someone have a fuckin word?
^^^
they're not that good either. Leave alone.
Not invited
Thats what Mr Murphy said on his message board. Seems stupid to me, they were great fun last time even though there was only me and about 10 others dancing.
My band
usually get on average 2 rehersals before a gig. Does that mean that we are allowed to compare ourselves to the Stones?
I was dancing!
It was fucking brilliant! Maaaan. Hard-Fi didnt play because they were ill or something. hehehe.
HAHAHAHA
How to they get to headline???? They've only had 2 or 3 "hits". That and they're shite. Apart from Hard To Beat.
Yeah,
but surely the leftfield stage should have bands who deviate from the norm....
So what's the number of hits got to do with it
Also, they like reggae. This means they are leftfield.
whatever happened to the band
the band....leftfield
hmmm
i intend to steer well clear of the dance tent for the most part
even for scotch egg?
he is on straight after shitmat, whose cd I have is amazing (if happy hardcore is amazing)
although lyrics are certainly not everything....
I shall quote Hard-Fi's 'poetry' from their track 'Hard to Beat'...
ahem...
"You had a dirty look, you caught me on your hook
Turn up the thermostat, I want to see you sweat"
also..
"Read all about it, have you heard the latest?
Boy in a band dates a hollywood actress
But baby, you and me, we came up from the street
No time to hesitate, we've got to push our weight"
and not forgetting..
"Like a fist, can't resist you, oh no
I tell you something "
And who said rock and roll was dead??
is it a choice?
Between Hard Fi or racism? Mmmmm... tough call...
another reason
why I'm not bothered about missing Glasters this year.
cunt.
Good...
...to see Chris Coleman has work after being sacked by Fulham..
Haha
That made me laugh.
I agree:
Lyrics aren't everything:
"I never had a job,
Now I have a job,
Heaven knows I'm miserable now"
Yes I completely agree.
Fuck off the lot of you. Hard Fi aren't brilliant but they're not bad. If you don't like them, go to a different stage or go and listen to two guys singing songs with long words out of a the back of a tent.
pffffft
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