Vinny

i just wanted to bring up the blog more than anything. perhaps should have taken the question somewhere else. take on bored bert.

...it looks very nice round here. like going from a 90s town house to a pad of steel and glass, smegg fridges and armitage shanks bogs.

beautiful!

the jimmy eat world lyrics nearly brought a tear to my eye. are their words really that bad? eck!

they quoted the dis piece?

...sean. eek!

...we wouldn't be doing our job very well would we?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YGpy0s8tw

bbc vs. sky

oooh no dean stop. that's my journalism coming in there.

x

i wanted to put the white stripes first jools holland outing but ran outta space, so here you go:

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...when did hugh edwards ever have a personality?

i know what you mean though.

must try harder, must try harder

a press release? you are having a giggle right? there's a difference between writing enthusiastically and writing to a commercial end.

my mate just said to say, "what do you do clean out the hospital toilets?"

all in good jest mind.

what?

...look at 'whatever people say i am that is what i'm not' (abuse welcomed).

sure everything's relative but when you can't hear anything but toothrotting sweetness it rattles my pancreas, and i don't like my internal organs being fiddled with.

radiohead aren't too serious anyway. at least they are uplifting with it.

not byline, punchline. grrr myself.

i need to go away.

nobodies adding their byline!!!

unfortunately that show was only seen by the punters who mistook The Hoosiers collective open mouths for urinals.

...converse classics?

When you type The Foals into last.fm you get with The Whip. Straight off the bat, these guys aren’t anywhere near that sort of talent. The Whip’s form of electro-indie is a million miles from Oxford’s finest minimalist guitar house. Instead these guys on stage are formulaic, repetitive and uninspired with an innovative streak that rivals the baked bean.

The Joiners has got an immense legacy for a venue that’s stuck on the backside of a pub. A legacy that’s been documented many times before by musos scratching their heads, looking round for something for an intro. For example:

‘Above the bar there’s posters advertisers long gone gig gems. Faded blue A4 photocopies announce Radiohead’s imminent arrival, green dog-eared adverts promote a Stone Roses first coming and formerly yellow, now dirty orange, pages invite you to come see the Manics pre-Edwards disappearance. All in the same font, all the same style, all from a musical era long gone.’

A band graces the stage tonight that doesn’t really deserve this venue’s pedigree. Yes they’ve worked for it I’m sure. In fact the lead singer is the former lead singer of Nylon Pylon, that arena slaying outfit from the early noughties.

It’s frustrating that this stuff is celebrated so much in certain circles. This is going-nowhere electronica. There’s a swagger to it but it’s even more forced and homo-repressed than Kasabian’s sheriff stride. The signature tune, ‘Trash’, a Suede rip off so blatant they may as well have Brett Anderson on stage, builds for ages without really progressing. To dance to this you either have to be coked up or sucking the lead singer’s man-piece.

Damning but just. There’s nothing worse than a band that’s trying it’s hardest but to ultimately no avail. The music is tired, old, dusty, pre-mp3 generation. There’s a lacklustre approach explicit in the band’s stances, like they’d rather be playing Pro Evo and eating biscuits. To be honest, so would I.

...everyone's entitled to their opinion innit.

...not such a bad thing!!!

...an incredible gig. it really did start christmas. did think a brazilian dance outfit could replace slade, the pogues and cliff richards with a new breed of pop christmas carols.

"let's make love and listen to 'do they know it's christmas at all!'"

dean.

shit the bed!

i woulda died to have seen all these acts in one night! how did i not know about it?!

grrrr!

x

i'm sure all they wanted was a little more artistic freedom to stretch there audio muscles even more.

they're not the types to turn round and say they want a bigger tourbus or an organic rider..although i'm sure they have one.

dean.

...'this is dead'? surely it should be 'this scene is dead'? ooops! my bad! mind you it's the subbers bad too :o) x

not to make myself sound too much like a novice but the hip-hop genre is still one that i need to completely embrace. thursday night has definitely made it easier for me to do that though. thinking about getting tickets for a lethal bizzle show now! haha!

stop your extremely harsh and hurtful comments dollygirl!

you're unbelievable!

...got anything constructive to say? your posts are always aimed at nash. what's with that big chip on your shoulder?

is being mainstream really that much of a problem though. muse are mainstream yet i'm sure dis would still report them. led zep sell out the o2 arena in secs and dis will still cover them. the spice girls sell it out and probably not.

i had my doubts on covering this gig. i was worried that the album wouldn't translate well live but as each song was played it transpired that with a little more tempo or a proper stripping down, the set became much more than the tracklisting.

her voice is amazing and i truly believe she has the ability to reach out to loads people and make a connection, something i love about music.

should dis be covering mainstream music? is she really that mainstream? already? plus, i sent a list of gigs to the someone who shall remain nameless at dis *ahem* DIVER *ahem* and kate was picked out of them to review. clearly the consensus is she should be.

i'm glad that the lil humble piece of writing struck a chord with you...shame about not getting a ticket though. was an amazing show.

they did yeah...

...i was gonna put in the review,"apparently unmissable but missed all the same".

i did stick my head round the corner of the support but wasn't impressed despite the hype and good words thrown about at the bar so i clapped my lips round the extortionate beer in the sitting area instead.

who actually rates good shoes?

i know it's obvious way to start a review but the heat as so intense it had to be include. people were fainting after the first and more were dropping around during the bloc. insane!