dukebox

i see, there's a couple'a albums released on last visible dog as well, cool review anyway, you should check out alastair galbraith he does a similar sort of thing to pumice....

really cool album/nice review... i dont wanna be 'that guy' but ida thought theres probably more than 3 pumice albums...

"sounds like an Oasis record. BADICAL"

go listen to pearl jam or something and stop complaining about this band, you big wuss

are some kinda spanish metal supergroup according to their myspace. i wish i was at primavera :(

wearing earplugs to TNV seems kinda wrong.

this gig was awesome.

i thought it was the Calton Studios, maybe ive been saying it wrong all these years, sigh.

you know, if youre going to criticise something in such an over the top and generally insubstantial way you should perhaps have something better to offer, as it is he writes for the NME, one of the few places that might be considered worse than OMM...

maybe.

i noticed that, it doesnt alter the fact that noone reads the skinny though.

and yeah, none of the reviews you link are bad reviews just a bit middling, im not entirely sure though, looking at metacritic it seems to have been well received in quite a lot of places as well (im reasonably surprised by how many good reviews there are, i thought it hadnt gone down very well) who knows.

'bad' reviews, and there seem to be twice as many good ones on metacritic.

and nobody reads the skinny do they?

Ohio. thats equally funny...

Cherbourg sounds a bit more romantic than portsmouth, really...

would suggest otherwise...

os mutantes!

did they ever? was i just imagining the whole thing, hmmmm

somewhere called 'the vaults' in edinburgh?

beirut were ace tonight, although i didnt notice them playing most of the album, maybe they did, i got kind of bored of about half the album a while ago. It was nice to see they dont take the whole "ode to the balkans" nonsense very seriously live. good stuff

i liked calexico, my dad doesnt, hmmmmm

you should too

I've had to endure live sets by thee comrades more times than I'd care to remember; they've never risen above maximo park covers band status in my mind. They inspire self-loathing in me, really make me think about all the better things I could be doing with my time and my life.
I was mistaken for you on myspace the other day 'Crablin', I felt slighted.

that everyone who you know goes there regularly, its only difference from any of the other indie discos in edinburgh was that they put on 4 rubbish bands a night. The music was always exactly the same. I'm interested to see whether this changes or not, getting rid of thee comrades regular slot improves things greatly though, so heres hoping.

...I only had to change 3 words, Mr Huntly isn't really my type truth be told, and despite your rather desperate assertion, personal experience assures me he's not especially bright, certainly no more so than "Pieface". Then again, a pseudo-intellectual choice of band name and being well-spoken dont really equate to "cleverness", in my humble opinion. Now, if youre basing your assesment of cleverness on ability to manipulate popular culture to one's own ends, you can't really fault young Wilson on that score either, perhaps youre referring to something else though? Also, nice use of "insouciantly" in the review.

"I was talking about this the other day with a friend.

We both reckon they're a bunch of pointless fakers. My friend had seen their previous ska band, and hated them then - and watched them blatantly switch lane to try something more mainstream. A bunch of fucking lame musical whores. And they're so big, and so pointless, that they are just taking up all this space and muscling out other more worthwhile bands. They are hogging the indie limelight, and they deserve precisely none of it (creatively, at least - I'm sure they are nice guys or whatever, but that doesn't mean much because I don't know them and only have to deal with them on a musical level, like most people on here).

And what personality does "charismatic frontman" Alex Huntly have that marks him out? He seems like a totally normal fellow in almost every way. Not too political, nothing too clever... not that funny, not that angry, not that good looking. He's mister bloody average. Maybe that's why people relate to him, I don't know. He's like some photocopied 10th generation indie everyman. It's like the opposite of a revolution. Nothing changes, everything stays the same - forever. How fucking interesting. I predict that there will never be a riot. NEVER. It's enough to make your head explode...

But luckily the cool tide of sense and creativity and beauty more often than not cools my temples before my cranium blasts apart in any lastingly damaging way. Feeling such venom towards the shitty water-treading chaff and dross that the music industry expels makes the special stuff seem even more precious when you find it.

I'm firmly of the opinion that just because a certain force is prevalent in the cultural mainstream, there is absolutely no use in allowing that to colour an aesthetic (or other type of) reaction to it. I will never, ever be able to limply accept that something must be good just because it's on T4 and people seem to like it. If it's shit, it's shit, and no amount of exposure or shoulder-shrugging is gonna change that [I removed the rather ill thought-out comparison to politics].