Phil Collins: 'a fat, bald, chocolate-eating bastard'
Young Knives, usually so respectably absent of feeling, have shown they can do more than just austere; laying into two of rock’s heavyweights.
Appearing live at Dingwall’s in London last night, it was probably the fact that frontman Henry Dartnall chose such done-over targets and barbs that shocked most.
Introducing a new song, Dartnall made his first cumbersome incision: “This is called 'Up All Night' - it's like the Razorlight song but not played by twats."_ Cue laughter and applause.
And, as for Phil Collins, well, he’s just a "fat, bald, chocolate-eating bastard", according to Dartnall; whose obvious reference point was this Cadbury’s Dairy Milk advert.
In a snippet of real news among the rubble of slight, the band informed the crowd at the intimate show that their new record, scheduled for release in March next year, will be called ‘Super Abundance’.
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to those boring twats. the young knives are probably one of the worst bands i've seen live.
thinking of a song title and then just repeating it over and over again does not a good song make.
hot summer hot hot summer summer hot summer summer summer hot hot summer summer hot summer summer hot hot hot hot summer hot summer
*rage*
yes but its not like thats the whole song
when i saw them live they were quite good too.
to be honest
i don't like super abundance as an album title.
don't get me wrong i love young knives but i just don't like the sound of it.
and live they may be slightly out of tune but that's what makes them amazing, they have such energy and at Underage Festival they blew away so many of the other acts.
and they seem really genuinely nice blokes too.
And...
...the song is called Weekends and Bleak Days. Not 'Hot Summer'.
they said the exact thing
in Reading on Sunday.
scripted, i tell you! :D
Good old Reading
We know where it's at.
But who are they to say anything?
They're fat twats, who no-one gives a fuck about, apart from half the writers on the NME and a few thousand indie children. When said children grow up, these lot will be back in the office.
Awful band.
I've got no love for any of the bands they slagged
but I really dislike the Young Knives and taking unimaginative swipes at easy targets makes them all the more dull.
hahaha
what a fool
in all fairness
it was probably just a joke, something not to be taken too seriously, y'know?
the young knives
are a great band with a sense of humor. I don't know why they get so much hate, probably because more than 3 people have heard of them and they don't play doom-post-acid-folk-jazzcore.
That's it!
THATs why some people don't like them! Nothing to do with personal taste or the fact that this band haven't written half a good song :)
I agree
isn't their latest single them repeating the same sentence over and over. Some twoddle 'like rabbit real snake terra firma'.
no one has any taste on here
APART FROM ME
^ this
and the rest of their songs follow a pretty similar formula too.
yeah
i was unimpressed.. but to be honest, seeing it live they put a lot more effort in than they do on record.. its just totally lifeless on rek, innit.
this band suck so much.
how dare they insult phil 'sussudio, one of the greatest songs of all time' collins?
until they write a song as good as that, they can go fuck themselves.
Phil Collins...
...is miles better than Elton John. He has started to resemble an enraged London cab driver though.
sounds like
a pretty dodgy sense of humor though
What's
wrong with eating a bit of chocolate eh?
This joke was used on saturday in southampton too!
not the razorlight one though..
I assumed it was all part of their off-the-cuff onstage banter. I feel a little cheated now.
They were quite good fun though.
Surely...
the most embarassing thing is that this story is lifted pretty much word-for-word from NME.com...
You didnt even bother to correct the spelling of Dartnell to Dartnall
Terrible Band
And so annoying, it's like someone singing- I know a song that'll get on your nerves over and over, that is how bad they are.
Although Razorlight are just as pityful The Young Knives, they're just having a bash at a well known hated band to make them look cool.
I saw them once
in Middlesbrough (Channel 4's 'worst place to live' apparently) ages ago. There were about 8 people in the audience, including me and the support band on after them. The lead singer flipped about on stage and danced like a maniac during most of the songs, claiming near the end "just because there's no-one here doesn't mean I shouldn't make an effort does it!?".
They're fucking ace. Great pop music and funny too.
V Good band
And do you honestly think they would script onstage banter, how many times have you said something funny to one lot of people had a laugh and so repeat it to an entirely different group of people, come on everyone does that...
In defence of Phil
I just wonder if these dim wits (who nobody has heard of) will be selling out stadium tours in 30 years too?
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