david2206

A) The United Kingdom

from the day before the festival:

"I won't be playing ZOO8 festival tomorrow. Sorry for anyone expecting to see me down there. Basically the deal is this: I'm a working musician, I earn little money and my budgets are shoestring. I can't afford to take risks with running a whole paid-up band and crew and fuel down to Kent for a risk of not getting paid. No blame for anyone, I just can't afford those risks. Apologies."

deserves a lot less than 3.

did AQA pay you to write this article?

those articles linked above contain some terrible journalism.

good on them for actually trying to stand up for themselves. (even if they look slightly ridiculous)

your music taste is 'gay' anyway, so what does it matter?

ps. I like 'Love Ire and Song' a lot, think it is a real grower of an album, is very mature and honest, has some very decent themes that run throughout that solidify it as an artistic statement, and is a big step up after 'sleep is for the week', which i felt had quite a few filler tracks and had some downright dull moments.

called the 'hand picked hotels'.

wit.

i have a railcard, yet - can't get the discount before 9.30 in the morning (ie on peak trains). thus, i either arrive late on friday, or pay extravagant amounts of money.

to seeing the hold steady. their keyboard player looks like ron jeremy.

travel is turning out to be a right nightmare. stupid fucking trains costing ridiculous amounts at peak times.

... but until recently didn't you have to be a member of a university to sign up to facebook? and then they made it so you could join a company network, and now anyone can join?

if so - this research may be totally missing a very obvious point?

come from my hometown, and used to headline most of the local (admittedly rather shitty) rock nights at the bad local club. they were so bad, yet always headlined - i think you may have just made me understand why they always headlined.

and they made one of the worst music videos ever known to man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBENqq2O5zQ

"We have confirmation that the story the NY Daily News ran about Radiohead potentially signing with the Starbucks label is completely false.

Move along folks..."

the same people who are shutting down the astoria? not that i really love either venue, london will be much worse off with two less venues.

too. fits the mood of the song.

but hasn't thom done the whole 'getting wet' thing in videos a few times before?

best song of the year so far. in my opinion, of course.

srsly?

was shit. who chose the music? the 80's with no smiths, the 90's with no radiohead. infact, the show pretty muuch summed up why no one watches it anymore; because it is shit, and because it has always been about shit music. the only thing that used to get it any ratings was the ladies dancing with not much clothing on.

nowadays, we can watch shit music with scantily clad ladies dancing on numerous 'music' tv channels.

hot chip, thom yorke (is that too recent?) , and would so love to see 65dos or upcdownc nominated.

and blatently arctic monkeys, corinne bailey rae and the kooks. but hopefully they wont win. would be so boring if arctic monkeys won; i dont believe those who nominate are brave enough not to have them in the shortlist though.

was up there with the best of atdi, but not better than it.

FTM was horrible.

you know ... the lostprophets one which had that bit which sounded really like some song from the 80's.

you know the one. yep. good point from me.

peter crouch and tool?

ya geddit? d'ya geddit?!

is much better than get cape. and much more interesting.

have you heard his lyrics?

plus, get cape. wear cape. fly is an awful name