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being the home of many fine beers there should have been a plethora of tankards and bottles to throw at him. I had no idea that morons outside of the UK liked him, shame he didn't gaffe in Italy so the crowd could string him up Mussolini style. Cuntwat.

in that he does seem to have the business/creativity balance worked out, though it has tipped in favour of business of late. Dave is doing a wonderful job of proving a natural successor to springsteen and neil young when the time comes

http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/theageofrockets

"Your name will appear in the song like "Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Sally Shapablap)" If only 1 person does this reward I will send them all 3 versions of the song in question and he/she will get to pick which version is named after them. I will also spend this 300 on recording specifically for that song so when people ask you why your name is on there you can say I paid for the orchestra on that song. Then people will say "REALLY?" and you will say really nonchalantly say "yeah, it's no big deal, they are friends of mine so i hooked them up""

They seemed to have taken down the one where they offer to do a film commentary of your choice though, was very tempted by that...

I had no idea that was Anthony from Bivouac up there! He seemed to do it a lot, I found a video of them live at leeds in 1991 and he's onstage there, he also was onstage for the first foo fighters reading show. The Biv's were bloody brilliant, shame nirvana didn't take them out on tour with them.
1991 was a better gig definitely it would seem, only seen amateur footage of it but it had a lot more energy and no hang ups, I was at 92 just for the day and I only have a bootleg line-up t-shirt and L7's autographs to prove it :D

self edit why don't you man! Consdering recent output I believe a third of this will be more than listenable and the rest, at the worst, completely forgettable tossed off nonsense.

Thing is his prolific-ness-ity-ism is not a boon anymore, he could go on forever, while he has 44 songs written it's inevitable he'll write more over the course of the project, which some will merit a release, where to stop?

first festival/proper band experience at the tender age of 14!

couldn't remember who did the other tentat the sametime, thank you! the rockingbirds rolling revue :D

"A Girl Like You" is pretty much his bread and butter, the amount that it is used as incedental music on daytime tv etc years after its release is great and I'd hope that it paid for some treatment after his stroke.
Even so, were they right to challenge his ownership? Macartney has whinged about how he has to pay someone else every time he plays Hey Jude in concert...

Stillness Is The Move is the best Mariah Carey song she never did, it's a complete bollocks beyonce warble fest as opposed to the mostly fine output from this great band and it just grates my ears every time I hear it. No more!!! That's why I worry about this e.p.

the 'with the lights out' and 'outcesticide' sets means the tupac style well of unreleased cobain tapes has finally run dry, thank god!

Jason Everman he had joined the navy after leaving soundgarden and being in a couple of other bands and I don't think he ever got his money back...! Chad Channing was in a band called the Fire Ants when he was interviewed for kurt cobain's 10 year suicide anniversary. Fuck I feel so so old now!

Put it into perspective, grunge is to today's teens as punk was to us, something that happened fifteen odd years ago and people inexplicably still bang on about, fifteen odd years before punk older people were going on about Beatlemania and the teens of then had no idea what their parents were raving about then...

and deservedly putting Murmur in its place as well, Reckoning has always lived in its shadow!
Hate to clarify, Camera is the song about Carol Levy, one of the band's girlfriends who took pictures for their early artwork and flyers, she died in a car crash with the keyboardist of Little Tigers. So. Central Rain was about the band trying to call home after the area around Athens flooded and they couldn't get any news, they were out on tour at the time and chose to debut the song on their first Letterman appearance to let the folks at home know they were thinking of them.

goes to prove there isn't endless streams of cash in the Little Boots account if they couldn't buy her a place on the list...!

Am quite reassured that I haven't heard of a few entries this year though, despite the prescence of acts we knew were going to be shoehorned on there it is nice that they're honouring what the Mercury was actually set up to do

should have stuck it out with Parts and Labor, rather than quitting to become a soon-to-be-out-of-work journo, I feel both parties suffered from the split.

Am sure it's been documented enough but there's a lack of resource full stop in writing about music because everyone and their dog are now making music. I'd hate to think of the piles of cd's that our new album is sitting in the middle of, waiting to be heard and more than likely ignored. Blame something? Blame the cunt in their bedroom with their pirated copy of Ableton and their £100 guitar who spend twenty minutes recording some ambient funk pop then spend hours burning cd-r's and mailing them to kerrang and terroriser and huw stephens and zane lowe. That's your problem, considering the hours and hours of listening through such pap even the most patient person's ears will start tuning out certain frequencies after a while and after that point you're not even listening anymore. You could be hearing a song that will create world peace and save the whales but your mind and ears are too busy trying to protect you from another anticipated blast of acoustic screamo crunk.

I sort of understand now why the dozens of emails we've sent requesting to be reviewed have been ignored, you're probably recieving hundreds of these every day and emails are the easiest thing in the world to ignore. Even so, what can you do help the bands and artists that are actaully trying...?

what it says on the tin though, am more interested in JA definitely. the acoustic Jane Says is one of the few songs that will make me weep if in the wrong mood, pathetic really...

very worthy cause, mark mulcahey is really quite underrated and I think peter buck has been involved in his work, I thin this looks better than The National compilation!

1) Eyeliner and haircare products should not be fretted over as much or more than the music! Every band should study the attitude, looks and substance of Bring Me The Horizon. And if they try to replicate it they should be electrocuted via their genitals.
2) Gimmicks are fine, make sure you have an answer to the eternal question "well what else you got?"
3) Soundbites like "my dick is like a diving rod" and "I don't do cute, I do hot" will cunjour oh-please-just-fuck-off-and-die responses from potential fans. Engage brain.

judging by previous interviews I've heard, the worst i heard was Jo Whiley on the evening session resorting to asking about his skiing and golf careers!

their debut "swift feet for troubled times" was a little classic for me a couple of years back (it's on emusic if you have the free credits I recommend it) but songs like "the woods" were captivating and some of it felt like baroque pop with a gentle motown feel. It's twee as hell obviously...!

There's a radio session they did here which shows their more fun side, most recommended :)
http://bootlog.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/kids-on-tv-and-ohbijou-fuse-cbc-radio-2006/

I found the singer Angel er whassername's solo album "mind raft" on emusic the other night and was pleasantly surprised, marvellous stuff indeed :)

I was massively disappointed by this album the first couple of times, teeth gnashingly kick the cat disappointed but after a while it really does work its magic and sink its hooks in. I'm a lifelong Pumpkin fan and the comparisons are just really really lazy journalism, I really don't see much of a comparison apart from on the surface. There are two completely duffer tracks on this, Panic Switch and the last one Surrounded but the rest of it stands up/surpasses the last album but a 3 is the hallmark of someone that listened once and judged. Is it cos the NME gave them a high mark and Warners are pushing them a bit more than a band of their stature should be (the guitar hero thing, AOL airtime, lots of PR?)

that the awful term NuGaze has been bandied around for the best part of three-four years and has managed to stay, for the best part, under the radar after the excreble NME tried to make a thing of it a few years ago, so hopefully based on that it will not suffer any 'flavour of the month-flash in the pan' backlash. Unless all those Doherty wannabe's start now buying £20 behringer delays and start bandwagon jumping...

failing to mention in the smashing pumpkins story the ACTUAL story that Jimmy Chamberlin has left the band... slightly more band related news than the PETA thing surely...? Billy is now bragging about having 44 songs to record right now, I assume he has a biscuit tin or something to bang on...

well I was indifferent before but am now strangely intrigued by this record, good review. I'm not sure I ever see YYY's headlining Glasto or anything but am glad their new direction isn't the car crash spectacle that bloc party created

the album - every Trail of dead album in fact - seems to take a while to 'click', I shelved Madonna for six months after the first couple of listens. This one, well, it's been ages since I've had nearly a whole album of songs following me round during the day when I'm not listening to them! Agree about the production completely, sometimes it's too much and you just want a bit of subtlety (there's a piano only version of the final track going around that's wonderful, see also conrad's solo acoustic shows) and the change of producer has left things a bit uneven, but it's still a successful album and my god! think about what they'll do next time!

including the infamous northampton roadmenders show where he lost his wedding ring in the middle of the crowd and had everyone scrabbling on the floor to find it, then two reading festivals before that, bloody amazing band!
I think I can qualify that even without mr Yow's off stage antics the band would still be amazing and the records are a testament of that. They were offered Top Of the Pops when they charts with the nirvana split single!

again with these albums that were criminally ignored:

age of rockets: hannah
mobius band: heaven
windsor for the derby: how we lost
notwist: the devil, you + me
black angels: directions to see a ghost
parts & labor: recievers
elbow: seldom seen kid
screaming tea party: golden blue

is one song that I can listen to on repeat ad nauseum, it's utterly enveloping and enchanting, drop it into a playlist after the raincoats "fairytale in a supermarket" and you have five minutes of wonder. Gah, bloody nirvana name dropped bands...

It must be a slight generational gap, you young'uns have grown up with the manics being a sort of stereophonics style dadrock band, but honestly for a while they were the most exciting british band around and have stacks of tunes that other bands would kill for. This is going to be f***ing brilliant.

I'm a few listens in and it hasn't quite clicked yet, having said that it's a great dense sound collage and you hear different things everytime you listen, however I do miss the powerhouse drumming of previous records and judging by the the two times they've been over their new drummer is perfectly capable of recreating that! So the change seems to have come from the songwriters and the songs aren't immediately as anthemic as a result. It's still a good record though and at the rate they're producing them it's intriguing to see where the next one goes

what has become apparent is that there are/were a lot of blogs being run out there with the ethos of "put up madonna's new single, watch as the visitor counter goes berzerk and my ad revenues pour in", I completely agree wholeheartedly that this sort of practice is wrong and needs shitcanning, though it doesn't help the label/PR/band endorsed tracks and albums...

"there can be no poetry after auschwitz? WH Auden? I thought this was a reference to that...

and an enjoyable read, think merzbow is the coldplay of the noise scene, he's been around so long that he has become synonimous with horrible noise, and if he's eeking a living from over-inquisitive radiohead fans buying on impulse then fair play to him! Can you actually enjoy the music though...?

I'm in a curious vantage point as i was asked to do a noise set for a friend's show the other day, and I'm ashamed to admit that after weeks of cunjouring up hideous sheets of screeching metal noise and sub bass vomiting via the laptop, on the night I bailed and did a two song set and some toned down sub bass noise for a few minutes, pathetic!
Amy Blue has done two "noise" records here, enjoy...:
http://www.last.fm/label/The+World+is+Fucked+Recordings

our first e.p. has been on archive.org, torrent sites, last.fm, etc. and we did a creative commons licence on it and it got d/l's of about 15,000 at the last count (this was under our own name, not the one that pretended to be new leaked smashing pumpkins songs, that one did about double), now on the brink of releasing our first proper album and we're worrying about selling 200 cd's to recoup our recording and manufacture costs, we just have no idea how many of those people who sent us emails and messages to say how much they loved the e.p. will want to buy more of it or if it'll leak (is it worth leaking? is it good enough to leak?) and how much damage that will do in relation to how much good it would do... the record has become to all intents and pruposes an investment of both time emotion and money and we're no longer in a position like the article's author to say "fuck it" and go for the easy giveaway and be rewarded in praise. I envy him, he must have a good job...

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE BLACK OR WHITE.
This is slightly better than the mooted Gish tour, there's an album that doesn't really need a look back. the two night thing is frankly another cash bleeding tactic for the Corgan Retirement Fund. Most of the die-hard fans I know will be sobbing into their overdrafts to go to both nights and teH b0lly is just exploiting this fact now. Also, two nights, a potential five/six hours worth of music? The O2 show was great but at least half hour too long to deal with one dominant personality.

The new single is possibly the first single of theirs I've had to really object to, tis a tuneless wonder. I'm still a fan, they will still make good music but I no longer feel the need to rush out everytime they release something/tickets go on sale...

my two year old doesn't and I would personally love to destroy her Wheels On The Bus singalong cd as it's been on for the best part of two weeks now. Arrrrg! But it's not responsible parenting.

I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of them or level an accusation of being "cream puffs" at them for doing this, they'd probably beat the crap out of you...
Lovely idea, especially off the back of all those nursery/kiddie versions of radiohead, pumpkins and metallica etc that were around last year

I was most surprised how good they were on Jools the other night, haven't heard anything by them since the first couple of singles and all of a sudden they're a texan U2! odd. Hope M83 will sound as he intended in these huge venues

this situation sounds a little bit grim, infected area round the heart, eeshk! hope he'll be ok

best thing about blink definitely, hope he'll be ok and it's terrible about the others that were killed, fucking planes! hate them anyway.

they've been getting some stick for being too anthemic and not noisy enough from some mongs stateside but they're all good with me. except that guy's beard... eewww

shaddapayerface nobber.

Anyone else worry that guy garvey may slowly turn into stephen fry though?

cliff's gibson has gone up to 15,000, if I had the cash i would be mighty tempted by ike turner's fender mustang y'know, how cool would that be? play guitar, go home, drink until stupefied, beat up wife, blame guitar...

"because I can't get any more cartoonish in real life" he may have been reported as saying. allegedly.
GLOW has quite an awful chorus, there's live versions up at archive.org from the recent shows, which were actually quite good bar a cover of mungo jerry's 'in the summertime', massive LOLure.

they asked The Enemy to do another set :D anyone in the tents that deserve upgrading to the main stage?

oooOOOOOOOOOH! AWAAAAAWWWWGGGHHHHH!!!!

One of the very very few mainstream bands I don't detest even if I don't like their music much, good support though...

but I'd rather DiS/Quietus turned into a Pitchfork than a Popbitch. It's a useful site, I like the content, i read the reviews, I look at band profiles when I've not heard of something, I was very proud when someone asked to set up a profile for my band because they liked them! Lipster just makes me feel sad, it's really lowest common denominator heat/nme stuff that's already being done so there's no need to duplicate it for the sake of ad revenue...

that's not very helpful is it? Hope Raz gets to keep his thrash Hits, apart from this site and more work on the drownloads then the rest can go as far as I care...

judging from what I saw on tv when they played Glasto it looked completely dull, he was sitting down for most of the show it a really cockish way...

Jason says that they'll be finishing the record with Chris Cody who did TV on the Radio's last album. Sure that will make some of you feel better...

trail of dead have yet to put out a truly bad album in my opinion, the last one was a bit patchy but I still go back to listen to parts of it, I have no problem with the records before that. you lot are very unforgiving. What i will say is if I have to sit through another ToD show where Conrad's voice is beyond fucked I will stop going. He's sounded like a deaf elton john the last couple of times and it's been a tad unpleasant.

This next album is going to be their best I reckon...