JoshCole

Modest Mouse nice and deservedly high. I'm pleasantly impressed.

there it is.

Britney?!?!?!

Seriously though where is Modest Mouse?

somebody had nicked the frontwheel off my bike and attempted to wrench the backwheel off too.

very very cool!!

i cannot understand where all this vitriol about Nottingham is coming from...it's a brilliant city, and like someone else said, any big city has twats. Any Arena show in any big city will have wankers. People are wankers. There's no city entirely free of them. Nottingham has fuckloads of cool things to offer and it's got character!

Secondly it was a white shoe not a bottle. It hit him square in the face and he'd have been flat out had it been a bottle.

Didn't see anything nearly hit Regine though.

Win's initial reaction to throw his guitar down and swear at the entire, enormous Arena mid-song (thereby stopping singing for half a minute and marching off stage immediately afterwards) was dramatic but fair enough. He clearly saw red.

But when a pink glowstick fell feebly at his feet a few minutes later (hardly the worst thing in the world) and he said "if one more fucking person throws anything we're never playing Nottingham again", I went from feeling sympathetic to coming fairly close to throwing my own shoe at him. It was massively cringeworthy and a weird overshadowing of what was an awesome performance.

They really were fantastic last night and i'd like to think Win's trawling deep into the crowd made him feel a bit better.

but it's still a fantastic album. Massively tempted to go watch him in New York in December.

Electrelane were awesome, though i agree there was too much emphasis on instrumental stuff.

I left before Beastie Boys came on so couldnt comment there!

which includes Best Legend as a category.

And the nominations for Best Legend are...

"Mandy"?

Go slag off Yo Chomsky or whatever it is you do.

I don't know where my review made it sound as though the bands were meant to be performing to my expectations. How dreadful would it be if, as you imply, I saw myself as more important than the other punters?! That would be horrible.

Just because they aren’t headlining London venues surely doesn’t make them exempt from negative criticism? Just because they’re not being thrust in your face by advertising doesn’t make them infallible? That seems a pretty hypocritical approach. What you’re advocating is: Lets either a) ignore or b) promote small bands, then, if they’re crap, cut them down once they’ve made it big because more people have heard of them. That would be positive censorship in the extreme!

Some responses are positive and some negative – unanimously positive reviewing would be pointless and tedious. I had hardly any preconceptions about any of the bands playing at Gringo, having seen none of them live before. I'm sorry I didn't like Sailors or Owen (though he is ace on record – Korea is a tune), but my negative criticisms are no more pointless or throwaway than any positive comments.

it is just personal response not fact. If this makes it stupid arse sack of shit reviewing then so be it – DiS lets you have your say after the review anyway, so it’s not as though one negative sentence has to be the end of the story. I’ve no pretence at laying down the law about Sailors or Owen – but I can hardly issue a disclaimer after every criticism: ‘reviewers own opinion may not reflect that of all other persons present at said show’. Hopefully people go make up their own mind about Owen and Sailors anyway.

Anyway it was such an amazing show and day so I wish you’d focus on the positives. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a festival or gig where I’ve enjoyed so many bands to such a great extent.

i agree that that was wrong and i apologise. However i might as well say that i wasn't even telling the truth because i do really like your stuff and i'm looking at the Lightning Bolt, Low and Sodastream ones right now, framed on my wall, and they're all wicked. (also have Ted Leo one in the back of my car waiting to get framed!)

But from my perspective your comment about me being an arse and writing a stupid sack of shit review was just as personal as me criticising the posters (which is why i did it). I slaved over those words, so while it's obviously your right to criticise them, i couldn't help but be a bit hurt when i saw those comments, and i guess i have as much right to come back with an equally personal comment.

So while i'm sorry, i didn't mean it anyway, (whereas you presumably meant what you said!).

I did hear that Talibam! were great though.

Let's be reasonable here. Did you just call me the new Stalin?

And Samba is always fun.

Low for that matter, or the Buzzcocks for that matter, or Built to Spill for that matter.

It really was a good line-up.

...

But come the end of the day i had not particularly enjoyed any bands,

so as much as i could have emphasised how great Dot to Dot is for Nottingham (and given it a positive review on that basis regardless of musical quality), or focussed on how brilliant it is that so many people turned up and that the festival virtually sold out on the day, the line-up was not amazing nonetheless, and the bands that i looked forward to most were disappointing.

So that's where i stand, not unreasonably, but perhaps slightly harshly.

He is my God.

don't hurt me

but then again, i suppose they're no idlewild.

When I found out that MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE is going to be there I was in compleat ECSTASY!!!! I have love them from the very start!!!!
The only reason they are a support act is they are good friends with The MCR. Dont get me wrong The Muse is a great band,(saw them play when I saw MCR in the Phoenix, Arizona). But MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE is the SUPREME group (they knew they had to bring them in to get the people in to see the show.
Jen
(When I say the start I mean the very first cd. I am close to the same age as them.)

they had a relationship.

is one of the funniest ideas ever.

i agree that there are too many headliners.

The Who and Arctic Monkeys and Fatboy Slim and maybe Bjork seem the only genuinely 'worthy' headliners here.

Chemical Bro's, Manic's, Kaiser's and Killers should all be headlining the Other Stage at best.

Lily Allen, Winehouse, Super Furry's, Bloc are not headliners.

Oh i don't fucking know, it's not a very good headline line up however you look at it.

heard Chromeo were playing too. Maybe more announcements to come, here's hoping.