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dont forget the ssw warm up parties....www.summersundaefringe.com

maybeshewill, minnaars, fists and charlie jones are all on the various warm up party bills...all for £4.

jordan, i'll ask for you. mike diver did it last year did'nt he?

you pair...honestly!!!

not northants....

and lo and behold....4 months later!!!!!!

fucking wicked single.
i've seen spiritualized nearly 20 times, the first line still perfected shine a light better than any other i've ever seen, including at the albert hall, and the hacienda.

adorable are the most under-rated of all the shoe gaze bands by far. i wish i'd been lucky enough to see them.

though this gig really is'nt worth £33. pierce is the only musician in the current line up also played on ladies and gents. the fantastic live band of that 1997 era have all been sacked or let go since then.

not playing this year.

tired irie and love ends disaster are, though both the fringe, and the main festival.

see here

www.summersundaefringe.com

pierce would have to reform the first line up to produce anything as good as that. what? you think pierce actually wrote it all?

aha chronic spoon

why on earth he wont take coachella's offer of £500,000 and reform spacemen 3. sonic boom is up for it, it's jason who won't commit.

the first line up was by far, far, far the best live set up.

JF are lovely. they were lovely to deal with, there was a lot of interest in their playing, and they were bloody good. book them now...

March 1
Leicester, Summer Sundae warm up. Not so much a gig as a meet and greet schmooze-up, the promoter assures us. Kyte (DiScover Club, July) play before us, and they sound amazing. My stupid fucking amp blows up again and I borrow Mr Kyte’s. Fun, if Marshall-sounding show tho. Envy & Other Sins in actually nice people shocker.

heheh....... was actually a good gig, with 300 paying members of the public. we sold out.

i dont book the bands. crikey no. i do for the fringe. speaking of which i need to email you simon about a sweeping the nation night at some point.

the bathysphere lot move to their own tent in the village. the rising stage thus becomes the dis stage for the friday night i believe.

i might go.

theres never ever going to be such a thing as a million pound record deal. its just major label rubbish. for instance, i know for a fact the subways got more than 60k for an advance.

envy are really, really, really nice people. cant fault them in the slightest. and theres lots of horrible stories about that band competition. from firebrand's awful appearance to the fact revenue tried to sabotage envy's kit prior to the tv final. stole all the bass string to try and stop envy from playing so well.

really nice blokes, clearly A&M are totally embarrased they won. A&M wanted revenue. further proof of exactly how utterly shite major labels are.

were ace. fruity had to sit down, and jim bob spent the entire set slagging off neil young.

and the infamous foo fighters set on the melody maker stage. with that twat climbing the centre pole.

they were £45. no booking fee if you bought it in hmv

new order, rage against the machine, blur, radiohead, ned's atomic dustbin......

and they were utterly, utterly lovely people, really nice bunch. whereas having witnessed the revenue and their god awful set at the the charlotte, i think the better band got the contract. shame A&M now seem embarrased about the whole tv program concept, and have announced they'd never do it again.

during kasabians december 6th, 2006 gig at demontfort hall they dedicated a song to the baby squad, leicester. LCFC's football hooligan element. i cant see them somehow being particularly fussed about the odd seal.

as far as im concerned. though theres more of a leicester scene in my eyes, but then im biased.......

they've played together several times in the last few years, the first was in 2003

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/music/2003/06/gardener.shtml

the last album came out on sanctuary, now sanctuary have gone bust, it's little surprise mr pierce has set his own label up. he's normally very keen to keep as much money to himself as possible.

the masses against the classes, is frankly rather fucking superb.

expensive tickets, limited alcohol sales, set in really odd agricultural showground buildings. and some awful ozzy bands.

it'll be good.

and i was mighty impressed. id never heard of them before. ta for reminding me dom.

so when he left, they chose to re-invent themselves.

in fairness. tired irie used to run a leicester club night about 2 - 3 years ago, they were playing with the edmund fitzgerald, red jetson, blood red shoes, cats and cats and cats and such quite some time ago, ian seems more on the ball then virtually anyone in the city.

ian's been reading pineapster too much.

seriously though, the irie are turning into a right stunning little band.

world dominance of leicester musicians continues.........

warning robots to squeeze either.........

i've still bought it though!!!

tis very good as well (someone leaked me a studio mp3).

ordered from rough trade, today would you believe.

record radioplay for LED.

i still dont believe it.......i could never believe it.

Can you get Sonic boom to join the Super furries? I'd reckon he'd be an ace addition.

sonic boom....the electronic alchemist from spacemen 3, is a former rugby school pupil........

i've already paid for it sadly.

messers gourlay and dowling

i'm going to sort a fri night out on the notts beers soon with mr jon dix and mr martin collins, i'll let you know when it'll e

anyone catch the love god that is matthew oakes, lead singer of the rock band love ends disaster on lamacq's 6 music show last night? twas rather amusing im told.

if i wasnt going to such a shite stag do on this day, not only would i be going to see LED play, i'd be able to give you a lift back to leicester.

bah, bah and thrice bah (hello dom and jordan)

i went to this in sutton park when i was 15.

there were two stages

the roadshow stage :

(comperes simon mayo, gary davies, jakki brambles)

acts :

take that (unknown warm up slot)
undercover
tony hadley
boy george
roy wood
jason donovan
cathy dennis
betty boo

main live stage

compere : annie nightingale & john peel

acts

aswad
del amitri
the farm status quo

audiences : 125,000 people
sutton park,brum

for some unknown reason, radio one appears to have completely wiped this event from its memory, and is somewhat embarrased it ever occured..................

were fucking ace on saturday night....i really really enjoyed them (dom if you havent seen them yet, you'll love them).

are from leicester.........not like me to hype a leicester band you see......but erm. if they're signed to sonic cathedral....then erm, i'm quite excited

jordan dowling..........describing firebug as a toilet venue......shocking........you never came to the attik did you? now that was a toilet venue

..........

where are they off to mr t?

and i always liked a clockwork orange

mr g you beat me to it. one of my fave ever films.

the soundtrack includes

motown junk : manics
bad behaviour : SFA
you've got a lot : catatonia
good enough : dodgy
in the summertime : mungo jerry
the other man's grass is always greener : petula clark
stem : dj shadow
butterfly 747 : moloko

one of my fave films ever, my brother was a student in swansea when they were filming it, and we saw them do the curry house scenes

i might be in leicester for that. im working away in kent, but back at wkends. i'll know a little closer to the time, but quite possibly yes. in which case we'll have a beer if i do. make up for drunken ramblings at summer sundae.

it has to be said....

sorry.

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though a smaller one, and thankfully one that seems quite well established and highlly regarded.

i went to reading from 1992 to 2001. i wont go anymore. its just too corporate and hardcore. and i dont want to go to the same festival as edith fucking bowman. i love some of the smaller ones, at least the innovative ones or the ones discovering new decent acts (like truck, secret garden, end of the road, etc.) as far as im concerned. v is for people that arent really into indie music, but want to be seen to go to a festival.

i do think there are far far far too many of them. i hope its a case that the stragglers drop off, but im worried that live nation will try to quash everyone. live nation already want european exclusivity clauses in band bookings to fight against bencassim, roskilde and the like