allwaystired

I'm not sure people are too worried about the supports.....

Can't find tickets for Leeds anywhere. Any suggestions people?

It does get me down a bit really, because it's the sort of thing that makes me wonder whether anyone really cares about music at all. It akes me think it's all just hype, image and trying to be seen as 'cool' by those around you. Interesting that you mention their last gig wasn't evn sold out. I bet if they played Brixton now they'd sell out a few nights, packed with chattering people. I never saw them in the 90s and despite being a fan, have no real desire to see them this time.

I'll probably get shot down for saying this, but does anyone else find it weird how people are going on about this Pavement reformation? When they split I don't remember a huge outpouring of grief. I'm a fan, and find it odd what big news it's become. A good example are people who work with, who asked me if Pavement were any good (i.e. they'd never heard them) about 3 weeks ago, and are now "desperate to go to ATP". I genuinely don't understand the mentality that goes on. Is is that everyone wants something to get excited about, regardless of whether it means anything to them or not? Has anyone else noticed this?

Always a good show with Ash, looking forward to it massively. Looking at some of those drives though, I don't envy them! Strewth. Sure it's a gimmick, but isn't that the point of the tour? Surely it beats the inevitable tour of Academy venues in major cities that most bands do? Variety is the spice of life and all that....

oh, and if the line "stood to my left is Nick Grimshaw, sat on the stairs to my right is Edith Bowman" isn't enough to send chills down your spine, you really are in some deep shit.

I can see why Oasis could 'split the vote' (personally I love them, but accept why people wouldn't) but I would suggest anyone that doesn't see how incredible Mogwai are is clearly cloth eared. Still, I don't really care, I just feel sorry for people who listen to a band like the Arctic Monkeys. Life is really too short to mess about with that sort of thing.

The reason 'Red Right Hand is the best song they've done this time around' is because it isn't one of theirs- it's a cover version you dope!

What a tediously boring band. Nice to see them meeting Zane Lowe. A delicious c#nt soup.

"That's why Zane Lowe's show works."

Fuck that. It works if you want a grown man shouting over your records and being hypocritical in every fucking thing he says.

Lamacq leaving is a further nail in the coffin for a station that has already seen Nick Grimshaw take a spot in their 'alternative' schedule. It's a pale pastiche of the alternative it once was, with about 3 decent DJs ploughing an increasingly lonely furrow.

A stinker of a single. A stinker of a band.

That single is a stinker. As are most of their songs really.

Where is the carpark? can't place it!

I went to the party Warp had when they left Sheffield. Incredible. Squarepusher played, was still going at 4 a.m. when the police showed up. I'll be at this without a doubt!

hahaha! Not an event that leant itself to phography really was it?

Excellent review. Sums it all up really well. One thing I would add however, is that the new songs tend to go down as well as the old at Oasis gigs, which is always really encouraging and refreshing to see.

And I couldn't agree more with this quote too:
" =Blur might be slightly less derivative and boring than Oasis, but they somehow still contrive to be utterly irrelevant to all but the most anally retentive retards on the planet. Damon, please get in touch. I’ve got a fist, you’ve got a fucking punchable face. Why don’t we meet up?"

To put my (probably unwanted!) two pennies worth in, I feel it's all down to a slide in quality music journalism. Anyone can now review stuff and stick it up in a blog, or on a website. Like music, 99 per cent of it is utter shite. Unlike music, that shite serves to dilute (and hide) any good music journalism.
I'm 28, and I used to love the days of buying a record unaware of what it sounded like, based on an NME review, a note in a record sleeve, or something similar. It was a big part of music, and I would also say it made a pretty insecure lonely teenager feel pretty happy- in the way that it rewarded me so hansomely for the fact that I put time into discovering stuff.
I think it's absolutely tragic if people like me don't experience music in this way.

Good point: It will hopefully lead to more music being sold

Bad point: The more association music has with clothing, the more twats it attracts, and the shitter the music gets.

Swings and roundabouts.

Robert Wadlow. Though I would enjoy being the only person in the comments section to get it totally wrong.

Is it shocking to say I actually didn't mind 'Americas Sweetheart'? I bought it for £2 and think it was worth that as it had about 4 tunes on it I liked. Having said that, I can't remember a) what it sounds like now and b) where it is, which aren't good signs.
Still, it's not THAT bad surely?!

Couldn't you let us know slightly earlier- can't really risk waiting until Friday morning to buy a ticket!

It just goes to show, you can't be too careful.

Fantastic shop. Should be food for thought for the 'I don't buy records anymore' brigade.....

8correction* "CAME out and actually DID a rap show. Strewth. i'm so tired I can't type...

i thought it was a real let down in terms of how much he 'rocked it up' to fit in. When i saw Jay Z years ago it was him, a mike, decks, and Memphis Bleak, playing an arena.
it seems that in order to fit in and be accepted by 'guitar music' fans all rappers have to court them, by adding guitars to their records and pandering to them. There are loads of examples of this.
it would have been a much braver, bold, better show if he can out and actually done a rap show, as he normally would.

last time I saw Cypress Hill, they featured a MASSIVE bongo solo. If I wanted that shit I'd go and watch Incubus. I'd love to smuggle shedloads of airhorns and whistles in to this event and hand them out, just to piss off the organisers.

Their last album was disgustingly poor. My mate liked them, so bought it. We got halfway through it before he ripped it off the stereo saying 'this is dreadful. What a waste of a tenner'. I agreed totally. It was actually shocking how poor it was.

they've got some nerve posing like the stooges. I hate sheffields music scene, and I bloody live there.

I'm glad their stupid Jet-style rubbish has cleared off. Remember when there were loads of bands that sounded like this? Bleak.

Are we REALLY supposed to be excited about this? It's like something from s spoof!

to attend the award ceremony each act has to 'buy' a table, which costs (i think) in the region of £20,000. I can't really see Hyperdub (burials record label) being able to afford that!
I wouldn't pay it if it was me!

great. I hope everyone downloading realises that if THEY DON'T BUY THINGS, THINGS WON'T GET MADE. It really is as simple as that. Pretty soon the only music that will get funded and made will be a diet of shit R and B and Topshop indie. Stuff that is guaranteed to sell.

All because some snotty little student doesn't see why he should have to spend his money.

me too. I like albums. Can't we have all the singles on one disc? We promise not to call it an 'album'......

if i buy a copy am i likely to have some lunatic knocking on my door demanding to destroy it!?

utterly, utterly predictable. As usual.

I've read quotes in the past from Lydon stating his dislike of racism, and am sure in the past he has put his money where his mouth is. Obviously it is disgusting if he did make a racist mark and not defensable at all.
It just seems odd that he would say something like that. From the little I have read about him he seems to be fairly articulate and liberal minded.
As for his entourage.....I'd wager they are a bunch of twats sadly in thrall to dated ideas of what 'punk' is about, and probably are a bunch of racist bigots. If Lydon chooses these people to be around then that makes him as bad. I wouldn't associate with racist bigots- there is no reason to ever tolerate it.
I hope these people get what they deserve, and I hope this incident is widely publicised and condemned.

saw r u still into it live when they played Somerset House. The worst crowd I have seen at any Mogwai gig talked throughout. After that night I said I would never go to another gig in London again. So far I haven't.

young team, when it came out was absolutly one of my favourite records. When I bought the re-issue, I still love it loads, but they've domne way better records since. I'd rather hear a band play new stuff anyday.
There's too much nostalgia goes on the music world.

at the moment. live, they are the best they have ever been i think. I honestly think you could go to one of their shows not a fan and come out as a fan.

to be honest its about time that the festival cult broke. Whilst I feel very sorry for everyone that was going to this (the organisors must have known it was not selling well for months-cancelling it at such short notice is bullshit) festivals have simply become little more than a day out for people that don't give a shit about music. There are far too many of them, hopefully next year there will be a lot less.
At the end of the day the vast majority of festivals are way too expensive, treat ticket holders like shit when they get there, and are badly run.

maybe he'll put in a performance as "good" as he did on Jools Holland.

(By "good" I mean so dreadful my jaw hit the floor)

*interested*

I went last year and it was fantastic. The line up was way better. This year I think the line up is much weaker, just full of guitar bands I'm not intered in. Shame, as I was looking forward to going again.

He looks completly different to how he used to be! barely looks like the same person!

the old boy has also had a serious hip operation in recent weeks. Might have something to do with it. Either way he's not known for cancelling shows so I'll cut him some slack.

that is absolutley fucking dreadful.

does anyone else think this band are rubbish? I just don't understand why they seem to be playing everywhere....

wild horses wouldn't get me to this. I have no desire to see two smug hoxton trendies massage their ego by booking shit 'electro' music.
plus just IMAGINE how many twats will be in the crowd. It'll be like an episode of Skins.

to be fair the entire band (past members including Axl) seriously opposed the release of the greatest hits album (and presumably this re-release)and urged fans not to buy it.
it was shit too- loads of songs were edited to remove swearing and the sleeve and art work just looked like a rush job.

but....
its in HOXTON!!!!!! RUN FOR THE FUCKING HILLS PEOPLE!!! Look at the man in the picture!!! he might be stood near you!!!!

I'd avoid that are of the world like its plagued. Fucking Nathan Barley Scenester rich parent, "squat" living scum.

it seems like everyone is playing at the royal albert hall soon. sort of takes away the idea of it being special when you read bands that have been around for two minutes like the Wombats are doing it..

its just all a bit sad isn't it? bands whose only faanbase is little kids, screaming young people, no parents, safe sanitised environment for music....isn't this just the modern day equivalent of The Smash Hits poll winners party? kids don't like pop anymore, they like indie, hence an event like this springs to life.

I'm amazed that adults don't see it as simply that.