Alex-in-Ciderland

Most of the American bands that DiS types are into are from monied middle class backgrounds, invariably college educated and frequently Ivy League.

From Jawbreaker to Bright Eyes via Sonic Youth, REM, Archers of Loaf and Pavement.

Nobody cares other than the media, and try finding a a broadsheet journalist who isn't privately educated and/or Oxbridge. Good luck!

Nobody cares what a musician's parents did, just as long as the music is good. Social class is an accident of birth, nothing more nothing less. Most middle class people seem to realise this, it's high time that The Enemy and other exponents of vapid Castlecore got the message too.

They make Portishead seem like Black Flag.

I've just listened to thi album for the first time and I'm going with an 8/10.

Sounds very 'Green' or like All Systems Go (Remember them? No. Exxxxxxxxxxxxxactly).

I've had a ticket for the Bournemouth show since July.

and not aimed at the reviewer.

from monied backgrounds, but are terrified of their readership discovering this so the play up to this ridiculous class war lite.

about a band that so few care about been inflicted on so many.

I hope these new songs are as good as the album cover.

Memories of the last ever (pre-reformation) Lemonheads show (I forget the year)
Smashing Pumpkins ruling and Courtney Love going mental plus Foo Fighters headling the NME tent in the dumbest scheduling decision of all time in 95'
The third wave emo extravaganza in 02' Get Up Kids, Dashboard Confessional, Saves The Day et al
Me nearly dumping my girlfriend of 3 years when she started demanding to go back to the tent just before Rocket From The Crypt played
Pissing off Miles Hunt by demanding he play 'Size of a Cow' during a silent bit in the woeful Vent 414's set

...and soooooooooooo much more.

Chinooks they'd be in Afghanistan.

Reeds School - early/mid 90s - Mega City Four hoody?

Just wondering!

HeartAttack
Fracture
Punk Planet
Plan B

R.I.P

Skyscraper is the only music magazine I still buy.

It's a stunning venue that's starting to attract some pretty great tours (Brian Wilson, Muse, Morrissey, Bat for Lashes, Henry Rollins) and with getting on for 400,000 people in the Bournemouth/Poole/Christchurch megalopolis it should have no trouble selling out.

Erroneous bollocks......and Kenickie were lame.

A veritable handful make it. Even amongst critically acclaimed and relatively popular bands like Pavement they needed to work day jobs through much of their run. Mark Ibold is a barman now.

television a few years ago about the decline in album sales in which a procession of Canadian teenagers expressed utter bafflement at the concept of owning two or more albums by the same artist. To them the entire point was that you got into the current phenomenon, rode the hype wave for a year or however long it lasted and then moved on to something totally new.

I wonder how common that has become amongst those who are too young to remember an age before illegal downloads and the instant gratification of cherry picking individual 'choonz'.

I think people need to stop thinking of music as a career.

solutions that you were referring to, surely?

it still is.

Other than those 3 tracks where 'The Others' take on vocal duties it's good and indeed at least 4 of the songs are FUCKING GOOD.

haven't seen them since Reading 1994, but the rest? Fuck off.

No idea who curated that line-up, but they're not a snowboarder.

Oh and him from The Enemy looks like a weasel with Down's syndrome

This is DEFINITELY bad news though.

to sell records and not give them away'.

Just as well. You can't even give their last two albums away.

As close to you as Oxford is to me.

This album is a 2/10 at best.

LOL

*Bass intro, innit?*

sonic one that their fans inhabit.

dyslexic/hard of thinking demographic nailed.

so get that sand out of your vagina you prissy little tart.

REMEMBER READING 1996!

Reading 94'/95' > Any Reading since