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I'm taking this all the way to Brussels.

in the interest of balanced comment, bear in mind that the band's contract will allow their label to release a best of if they (the label) so desire. it's not indicative of poverty on the part of either band member, they may wll not even have had the right to approve the tracklisting.

i'm not a rabid fan, leaping to their defence, but they were a better band than most of the dross they seem to have spawned, and which is now dominating the indie-discos and charts of this green and pleasant isle.

cheerio

"Boring question, I know, but a necessary one"
"Not that it matters particularly, but are you conscious of creating an image?"

Influences and image ARE important, especially for a new band. People WANT to have preconceptions, to help decide whether to bother listening. You shouldn't be apologetic about bringing these topics up!

old ladies on the bus, but then i'm nice like that.

but i don't think this'll ever be the dominant model for delivering music to people, there are too many holes in it. it's a market economy, if enough people go for this idea, it'll work, but there'll still be enough people who are willing to pay for music without adverts for it not to impact on us.
now, on with the quest.

"no typo" was woefully inaccurate

no typo.
they're not reinventing the wheel, but as long as MOR bands like this are selling decent numbers of records, there's a little more chance of more leftfield alternative acts getting deals and airtime.
if radio 1 and major labels were concentrating on 2unlimited-style tat, the chances of DiS-style acts making a living wage would be that musch slimmer.
so good on the pigeon detectives, as long as i don't have to listen to them.

you don't HAVE to get your music this way, so it's not really worth getting angry about...

IMHO this thread doesn't do DiS any favours - most regular readers of this site probably don't like the twang, we're not their "target market" and we know it.
some of us probably find the band's music derivative/bad enough to rile us, and can justify why this is the case.
i just don't think there's any excuse for some of the mindless comments made in this thread, from a community of people who are generally pretty tolerant and liberal.
although most of the culpable posts have been made by people who don't post all that regularly, the danger of an open forum like this is that a few dodgy posts could come to (mis-)represent the views of the site and the people who use it.
yes, the twang are rubbish, yes we are passionate enough to care, but let's be reasonable about how we tell people that.

like a hoover.
their blandness is sufficient to rouse me from my apathy for long enough to say "meh" before slumping back down.

he was a "cum actor"

but i don't like this review. it just doesn't read very well.

if you're indiana jones, but not indie andy jones?

please.

broadcast TV is a dying medium. when you can stream any episode of any programme you like from t'internet, you don't need a TV. If you don't need a TV, you don't pay a license fee, without which...no BBC. No BBC radio stations. It'll take a while, but they're just shuffling the proverbial deckchairs.

despite the awarding of points.
nobody who ever reads DiS would expect Panic! At The Disco to triumph in this battle. You're not comparing like with like, and you know it, so what's the point?

first 5 songs on the album are all gold. (like terry's, not quality street)

you should invest in a couple of pop-shields though. you can use your mum's tights, stretched over a coathanger. i think she left a pair under my bed, if you want them?

to use just jack's stylingz.

if there were enough people going to see bands play there, the owners'd be coining it, and it probably wouldn't be knocked down (unless they'd make even more money out of offices and restaurants).
that's the end of the story. venues aren't charities.
there was a great story in the local paper up here in brum about a bunch of people who'd got a petition together because a tesco was being built in their area...and they wanted an ASDA.
you can register your dismay at the prospect of occurrences like this, but we live in a capitalist society (despite mr brainlove's best efforts!) and sentiment takes a backseat to finance.

you can hear stuff streamed from there. they've launched a paid download service, which is why they've undermined the quality of their free downloads, a decision taken by a large corporation which may or may not backfire. last.fm does it better, but is less well-known at the moment.
for bands it's no great shakes, myspace still lets you find a load of new people, and then you can use your profile to direct them to your own website, where you can offer downloads at whatever quality you like, or to iTunes or indiestore or last.fm or wherever else you like. most myspacers won't bother, because they're not music lovers, but then who cares about those people anyway?

new music does not massively outsell the older stuff, not physically or in downloads. big selling current records do "shift a lot of units" but the lower reaches of the singles chart over the last few years could be reached with a couple of thousand sales. these will be easily outnumbered by downloads of pink floyd, the beatles and all the other massive selling catalogue artists that keep major labels afloat.
perhaps a "new releases" chart will evolve in tandem with an overall sales chart.
the chart is clearly NOT the best way to DiScover new music!

all their songs are basically Bond themes anyway.

to hear seymour in action, surely everyone here already knows how special MBA are?
on another note, this is a terribly written review. a thesaurus does not a writer make.

This is wrongness of the first order.
I have witnessed some apalling live bands in my time, but nothing as pointless, tuneless and irritating as Kate Goes.
It's not just the lack of songs, charisma or ideas. It's not even the girl's irritating voice, or the fact that one of them wore plastic coconuts on her chest, which made her resemble Baloo.
No, what really raised my hackles was the over-riding self-consciously twee "ooh, aren't we wacky, wearing a scuba mask?" sheen about everything they did.
No, you're not wacky, endearing, charming, eccentric or anyof the other things you clearly think you are, you are intolerable students, and this is a joke that wouldn't have seemed funny in your 6th form centre, played out in front of an audience of paying punters.
Misty's have the songs to carry off a bit of eccentricity, and a frontman with character. Kate Goes, on the other hand, are a pointless affront of an abomination of a band.
Urgh.

only one little thing, mike, do you have multiple personalities? you're the best writer on this site imho, but you don't need to refer to yourself in the plural - writers in Q do that, and it annoys me there, but i don't have to read their articles, whereas i do want to read yours...
i know it's a journalistic convention, but this is an unconventional place, isn't it?

some My Chemical Romance fans will pause at DiS, read the article, be intrigued by the site, and hear some new music as a result.
Surely if DiS has any purpose it's to help people who care about music find more music to care about?

doesn't look like ticketmaster or aloud.com

i use to to hear what a new band sounds like, it's often a hassle to download a sample from their website, but you know you'll hear a song from their myspace and get an idea about what the band are about at the same time.

more irritating is the fact that a large number of myspace friends is another check box that A&R like to tick before considering a band worthy of their attention. some bands just aren't that in to computers!

this review is.
feeder don't provide anything of interest.
this doesn't mean they can't/won't have more hits, it's just a fact.
that's why people still harp on about the drummer's death after all this time.

otherwise what are all these bands giong to write about?

i hadn't thought of Supersonic as a festival, but you couldn't possibly be complaining that something like it can happen in brum? surely rejoice instead.
and at least you don't have to pitch your tent under spaghetti junction.

where? when? who?

he played our demo without us asking him to, and then wouldn't play our single when the label asked him to.
so someone there made a decision based on the music and not the industry crud that goes with it. maybe this show'll operate a similar policy of quality control, and we'll get to see new acts we'd otherwise not.
better if it was on terrestrial though, there's precious little decent music TV for us paupers!