dan_thw

Well I can say for at least one of them you are 4 and a half years out.

anyone with 40 mins free listening time, have a listen!

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opinions are opinions and all. and i'm not getting peeved because they are my mates, that is completely irrelevant. i just think it deserved a bit more of a fair assessment on its own merits rather than being viewed as some kind of middle point between re-hashing the past and being an indicator of potential greatness. i don't think it is either of these things. i just think its a really good EP. maybe 7/10 is a fair enough score when compared to the great records. but then compared to most other stuff recently, and especially most things british recently it is definitely a 9. as a nation we produce and consume so much shit music, i think the good stuff deserves a bit more credit and support. though don't get me wrong, 7/10 is a good score, and this is clearly a positive review in many ways. and dom, you make a good point about going overboard. sometimes hype can be a bad thing. but again that is something outside the actual music itself.

anyway, whatever. well done for doing some good songs favours for sailors. now go away and take that next step forward by recording a full length album that fulfils your potential!

it's a bit disappointing really, especially the last paragraph.

7 is a stingy score, and given for the wrong reasons. it's better than that, and better than most british music released for ages.

i hope when my band's album comes out later in the year it actually gets a fair airing rather than some half arsed inaccurate comparisons and a sat-atop-the-fence mark out of ten.

you clearly like this record, it's a shame you haven't allowed yourself to admit how much!

[just my opinion...!]

are / were absolutely brilliant. Their last album 'Keep Guessin' is probably the most underrated indie rock album since the turn of the century. Really looking forward to what this new band sounds like!

didn't see you there RIGHT DOWN THE BOTTOM!

This is going to be a FAWCEOME weekend!

counting crows still living in the 90s. Now there's a surprise!

remains one of the best gigs I have ever witnessed.

ATP take note - get them over here for a Whatever And Ever Amen show. BUT NOT AT FUCKING KOKO!

club is 11 - 3.

would be that he (or she) was 5 or 6 years old.

Biffy Clyro are genuinely one of the best British bands in recent years. I'm as disappointed as the next guy that they have become the rock version of Snow Patrol, but this compilation is great. 8/10 at least. Probably 9.

and on a par with "Space : Greatest Hits".

I picked up Maverick A Strike for £1 in MVE on Berwick St about five years ago, mainly for use at BBQ's with old friends from school (see also "Bring It On" by Gomez, and "Parachutes" by Coldplay).

I'd imagine this would be available at the majority of charity shops in any given town in the UK for £2 or less.

And aren't about nine of the tracks on this on that anyway?

What next? "The Essential Eagle Eye Cherry"?

to read that as Television.

possibly the best British male singer songwriter of the last ten years.

should have been the headline, no?

but don't go to their first show on friday because it clashes with my band. Go and see them twice on Saturday. And come and see us at 8:10pm (friday) in the Ocean Rooms basement! 4 or 5 Magicians. I assume we were number 21 on the list!

its C) Your Local AA Meeting.

Yep.

good call. It is certainly odd that he hasn't played, and surely he's a big contender for curator in future? Maybe he has been asked and just doesn't want to do it? You basically said this. I'm agreeing with you in different words!

to do The Soft Bulletin as a Don't Look Back please! And Mercury Rev to do Yerself Is Steam. Actually lets have it on the same night. In the Royal Albert Hall.

i'm going to look for it!

comprised entirely of Britpop bands. It was absolutely incredible. I think there is definitely a market for it!

or you are indeed mental.

Beck
The Presidents of the USA

best heckle ever!

isnt that in london?

Hampshire '08!

Girls Against Boys and Meat Puppets at the same time needs to be executed.

Brighton mask-rock legends Phil Collins Three played their last gig at the weekend just gone as well.

it's like reviewing a kebab. It's always a bad idea in the morning, but you wanted it at the time and it tasted GREAT. Life has things like this all over the place, including music and Be Your Own Pet.

Maybe you don't eat kebabs.

I'd assume that there would be a couple more UK dates too between London and ATP. Unless they are gonna head off back to Europe before coming back. Who knows!

because that's what it will deserve.

That's not to say that The Young Knives aren't one of the best British bands getting mainstream attention right now, because they are. But they aren't THAT good.

Music, in general, really should be better I think, and it's a bit depressing that bands like The Young Knives, The Cribs, and maybe a couple of others I can't think of right now, are the cream of the crop of bands getting mainstream exposure. Both decent bands for sure, and both bands I like and go and see live every now and then, but to say their stuff is worth more than 6/10 or 7/10 would be ridiculous if you are rating against classic albums.

I don't want to tail off into a rant but everything is so wrong about British music, mainly due to the way the industry (the press, radio, tv and everything) is set up, and has been for as long as I can remember.

It's time there was a bit of a change I think.

someone book them to play Brighton and get my band to support!

fleetwood mac performing rumours in its entirety.

Camden Roundhouse
Thursday 8th May
£35 + booking fee
Doors at 7:00pm
No support

she should have done "I Never Talk To Strangers" with Woody Allen.

with simply "TIMES NEW VIKING" written on it. I assume it's this album.

If so, it's absolutely brilliant. Probably the best thing I've heard since ... umm ... dunno but it's freakin' awesome.

Also, I love the absolute FUCK OFFness of the fact it is recorded ridiculously loud!

First actual 9/10 album since 2006 that's for sure.

I'm absolutely shocked that not everyone has included Airbag, possibly the best alternative pop song both musically, and melodically, ever written.

this is the definitive best fifteen songs given that criteria in their best running order...

1 - Airbag
2 - The Bends
3 - Paranoid Android
4 - Just
5 - My Iron Lung
6 - Lucky
7 - Pyramid Song
8 - There There
9 - Idioteque
10 - You Never Wash Up After Yourself
11 - Stop Whispering
12 - Fake Plastic Trees
13 - Steet Spirit
14 - The Tourist
15 - Motion Picture Soundtrack

the Brighton, London and Oxford gigs clash with my bands tour, the others are all too far away.

BOOOOOO

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