MischaP

do the same thing! joking aside, personally, i'd say the faint and communique are two bands who - while obviously not sounding exactly the same - do a similar thing musically with integrity and intelligence and without the attitude (and with better songs).

i have for this band is that there are so many others out there who are so much much better.

but fine - let's counter-act this. it's all well and fine to say they're exciting and original. but why? all i hear are derivative 80s synths, anaemic tunes, subjectless lyrics. i think the reason they're signed to a major is more to do with the zeitgeist and the current musical climate than anything else. they're guaranteed money earners, that's it. which is about as conventional as it gets...

...the only opinion formed before seeing the band was that i wasn't overly keen on what i'd heard of their recorded stuff. but i went with an open mind and was greatly underwhelmed - insulted, even. because there are so many great bands who put their hearts and souls and lives into music and get nowhere, whereas crap like this thrives. it's not their fault - it's the vicious nature of the music industry - but that doesn't make them any better. and sure, i could elaborate and expand - about their arrogant but underwhelming stage presence, about their atrocious lyrics, about the drawling, dreadful vocal stylings, the emotional detachment from everything they're playing. they've got a few catchy hooks here and there. that's hardly art.

...she was actually rather sweet. we shared a few words when he was off gathering laptop cables etc (she accidentally said 'fine' to me, then corrected herself because she's not allowed to say that, or 'good' or 'bad' because they don't exist) and had laughed /talked along with anton in the 15 minutes before the interview began. she's very young though.

mine (in person)went pretty much the same way:
http://gigguide.aloud.com/2008/03/brian_jonestown_massacre_part.html

scariest interview of my life...