Chopper_Shadowpants

Just a pity his own music sounds like Brian Wilson defecating pon' Elvis Costello... Im also not too keen on how he advertises himself everywhere as 'MAXIMO PARKS! duncan lloyd', even on press releases. He has basically written a soundtrack to a Maximo Park publicity campaign tour.

Im pretty sure Albert Hammond Jnr didn't write 'STROKES DUDE!' all over his work when it came through the office.

If your going to go solo, go solo!

i get it now!

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Never trust a geordie! Haha. Sweet mixtape though. Its a good running idea as an article.

Mackems? They are nowhere near Mackem. The colloquial term of Mackem depicts a Sunderland birth. For a Newcastle based band, consisting of one lad from derby, one from york, one from India, one from stockton-on-tees and one from god knows where. If your going to generalise they should be 'Geordies', because they are based in Newcastle and have been for a while. Or since Paul Smith is the forefront of the band you could call them 'Smoggies', as a Middlesborough (more or less stockton) reference.

We're passionate about that up here you know!