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it is my favourite too actually.

so people like us can go on about how good an obscure b-side is and feel superior!

aah i loves them

ha ha funny posho name.. childish i know

ooh i remember hearing these on Peel, and liking what i heard. will get, thankyou DiS!

next on the cd buying list methinks

the live cd is the best bit, some mad organ in the background which adds to the tracks greatly and hearing a bit of japanese spoken in a north-east accent..

no quite bad live (supported the dears), like a mobile phone advert (but NOT in a royksopp way, who could be considered quite good, instead just in a awful way). big guitar riffs but not good ones.

they're awful awful awful (it was these supporting the dears wasn't it, not plain ambulance? wouldn't like to wrongfully slag off anybody but..)

what does this mean, paedophile-chic?!

not really an ash fan, but would like to tell all who are that i'm preety sure i saw the singer at the futureheads gig in liverpool! he was very short in stature.

record - dresden dolls (a cross between brechtian things and once more with feeling, with extra screaming)

gig -british sea power (with mystery jets supporting!) at manchester academy 3. foliage, a heron,an owl, magpies. brilliant music. banging of drums. friendly bedrunken mancunians shouting salty water. running for train.

band - mystery jets (they are brilliant. have seen live twice, with bsp & bloc party. i'd really like to describe, but inadequate grasp of english fails me again, so look them up here and own website, and love them!)
p.s. i did go to other gigs, honest!

label - never take much notice

festival - never went :(

mags - the fly's good considering it's free!

radio - radio 4 (the archers, new hitchhikers series, clare in't community, only analogue radio stuff good now peel dead, haven't got a dab yet (hurry up santa).)

websites -theonion.com (bushbashing is always fun)

places -liverpool (i'll miss you when i'm gone)

misc. -mystery jets; tea

final straw lp is shit, unlike previous snow patrol ones. coldplay are shit too.

i liked the killers live, "andy you're a star" was spine tinglingly good (can't believe i just said spine tingling). i have tickets for liverpool AND manchester accidentally but probably no bad thing. i feel nme has to be read to keep up with the jones but i agree it is a bad mag, has so much potential yet is too busy being arrogant to achieve.

How pig-headed and ignorant. Tony Parsons is obviously desperate to write something 'contentious', even if it's complete and utter rubbish. The whole point of Peel's show was that he gave new and up-and-coming bands a chance to be heard. He wasn't being snobbish by not playing unobscure bands, it was just that they did not need help to be heard, other dj's were happily playing them.

The most ridiculous part is having a pop at john's favourite single. Ok tony it might not be yours, and it's not mine either, but surely the man was entitled to be left to his own opinion on that point?!

Nobody was going round Britain saying 'Peel was great because he was better than Tony Blackburn' because he we l;oved him in his own right. So Parsons article doesn't even make proper sense or have flow. Only somewhere like the Mirror would print such badly-written, inaccurate shite.

Peel was a lovely unpretentious man whose radio show played a large part in my life. His death leaves a great gap in my life, at the very least for two hours on a Tues, Wed and Thursday evening, not to mention hours spent listening to CD's of favourite bands discovered by listening to Peel who nobody else would play. So in this sense AT THE VERY LEAST the outpouring of grief is completely understandable, even though John would have most probable been very bemused by it all (though secretly a little pleased!).

ooh they never tried the michael trick in liverpoool...

Parts of the album are brilliantly raw and energetic in manner of 'girl anachronism' whilst the rest is eerily reminiscent of the Buffy (yes, the vampire slayer) musical episode. Not making it bad music, just good in a different way, says i. And i suppose that's the Brecht/Weill influence too. Was being melodramatic the other day and picked up a book of Slyvia Plath poems, and there's one called Munich Mannequins, anyone know if thats where they got their name?

their mythology is about a million times better than the music, say i.

i love gloves and scarves.

I loove 'em. Saw at Liverpool Barfly, atmospere bloody brilliant, such physical music. Audience up the walls, I was feeling smug because had found my way to the very front in the middle during supports, smugness rewarded by matching bruises on both knees by being pushed so far forward! So memories of a great band accompanied by strange see-saw motion effect. But yes am in love.

Long live Bloc Party!! May they continue on their road to even more great things. Kele seemed such a nice person when i spoke to him, added to the lovely political persuasions of the drummer, means that they deserve it all (in my humble opinion anyway).

i was there in Liverpool. i found hot hot heat v boring, franzy i love, and i like the sound of fiery furnaces when i ignre the annoying eleanor. Well written article though i agree with all he says.

Neil_r, maybe 1000000 people now hate you but they hate me too. You are not alone!

Just to reveal hidden identity of the colour of my hair, i'll tell y'all this. Even though i was aware this single was called "Little Thoughts" and i've been listening to it loads on me minidisc, i thought for 6weeks (up until 2 days ago) that the guy was singing the words 'little fox'. I'm disappointed, think it sounds better, and it even fits?!

I hope they play "Up North". I know it's "grim" here but we're nice people who'll hug them to preserve heat...

Happy Rotter=Harry Potter
The Grim is a sign of death in the form of a large black dog in the Prisoner of Azkaban (Happy Rotter & the).
I think I'll search out other stuff of the 5678s if it less produced.

Saw supporting Ordinary Boys a couple of months ago & far outshone them. Unwieldy name though, how long will it take to be shortened in manner of Belle-Seb & Franzy their fellow Glaswegians? And should group names be shortened to save one's tongue, or is it pretentious pretending familiarity, or is it just laziness? The jury is out...

I was with the Grim on this one (rather disturbingly for Happy Rotter fans):
"a demented female version of the Beach Boys"
I love the Beach Boys.
I did quite like the comforting sound of the 5678's floating round my bedroom as part of Kill Bill vol. 1 soundtrack.
The dreaded "Woo Hoo" did even (once or twice) escape my lips in public only to be looked at in disgust by the jock dickheads who make up 98% of my 6th form.
Now it is taken by some crap advert ive never had to sit through.
And the very same jock bastards are now singing the same fucking song I was singing months ago themselves and are too fucking thick to notice. Grrrr!! Kill, Kill, Kill...

I've seen them live and found them distinctly unoriginal and boring. Trying too hard to write lyrics with a sort of meessage a la Morrissey, they lose sight of the music and the poetry of the lyrics (unlike Morrissey on both counts, for most of his tracks). Their support, Dogs Die In Hot Cars were definitely more energetic and exciting to see live.