hip_young_gunslinger

He played some Heartland material at the Cardiff gig last week (and was selling related posters and such), so it's good to hear there'll be an actual album at some point!

Not to worry then.

I mean, really. I like a lot of Morley's writing and what he does on Newsnight Review and various places, and I really love Patrick Wolf - but this is just meaningless.

If Morley really loved Wolf, as I think is what he's trying to get at, he could have written a far more elegant and persuasive paean than this.

Maybe this week will give me the kick up the arse I need. Nice article.

I end up wandering in most days when I'm in Cardiff (quite a lot when I'm living there), and I'm always sore tempted by something or other. And I usually have to give in.

I love VW even more now.

MAYONNAISE! MAYONNAISE! in place of "may your days" and he generally oversings everything with no diction like a demented X Factor candidate? Cause if it is, it's pretty shit.

2. Sam Sparrow - Black and Gold
3. Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Pepa and Spinderella
4. Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists (oh the joyful irony)
5. Bon Iver - Wolves, Pt II.
6. Conor Oberst - Money Lenders in the Temple
7. Crystal Castles - Air War
8. Vampire Weekend - Walcott

BONUS TRACK

9. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

but I can say that I very much enjoy J. Wo's writing. Long may it continue.

Also, "I Believe in the Way you Move" has been included on every mixtape I've used in the past couple of years to try and seduce a girl, for which, thank you.

I expect this'll be the first review I read which will run along the exact sames lines of "OMG LETDOWN OF THE CENTURY".

On a side note, why does Thrash Hits rate things out of six? Is it more "rock and roll" that way?

It's good to be making a difference.

"total maths fail"?

See what just happened there?

And not just because of the hideous mangling of the English language is employs?

Give it away free, get new fans, new potential future revenues, etc.

But, when does that revenue come into fruition? If everything becomes available for free, then that becomes the status quo, and people will simply stop paying for their music. It would be nice to thing that most people would be willing to fork out to support artists they love, but I'm sceptical that there would be enough of those decent souls (as I know most on DiS are) to counteract the people who simply don't care and will take what they can and ignore what they can't.

You say you "used to worry about making money from music", so you're clearly in a situation where that's not a major issue any more. But I think there are a lot of bands and artists out there who'll never get heard if they haven't got the oppurtunity to make a living from what they do.

I hope I'm wrong.

SAFETY WINK

But in general I have always disliked his music.

are usually much more of a drive to create great art than social or financial ones (though of course they can be related).

but I wouldn't suggest that it provokes a better one, if only for the reason that it's a completlely limiting definition that denies so much. Many of my favourite artists are aristocrats - Lord Byron, Vladimir Nabokov, and they didn't need to live on the breadline to produce worthwhile art.

Lame-o. That's always been my favourite Long Blondes track. Sort is out! And get well soon and all that.

That should maybe be looked at too.

on the right hand side. I need ten to whet my whistle. At least.

on the right hand side. I need ten to whet my whistle. At least.

Yes, he's written good songs (Sylvia Plath is genius), but he's released an awful lot of crap as well. If that's what expressing yourself is, then I don't want to know about it.

Also, anyone who uses that many ellipses just for effect and thinks that randomnly

ending

lines counts

as poetry should have

their hands cut off.

That is all.

Yeah boiiiii...

After seeing them live and listening to their tracks a bazillion times, I don't think I'd ever call it a "shrill shriek". I think he has a far more tolerable and interesting voice than Gareth LC! and Yannis Foals (and I like both those bands)...

on DiS.

Nice one, Kev.

Otherwise known as "Reality, circa 2008".

And why is Scarlett allowing such a middle-weight author to fawn all over her?

I quite like the song, but her voice is just kind of rubbish.

Conclusion: Go and buy some Tom Waits.

That's aaaaages away.

This should be really good - Cape Canaveral and Money Lenders sound amazing from the bootlegs I've heard. It will probably be quite Cassadaga-ish, but that isn't the worst thing in the world...

I was hoping my Bands/Films (Pun-Centric) thread would make it onto the meassage board 'highlights'. "Back to the Future of the Left"!? Genius like that should not go overlooked.

Just the right level of detatched irony.

actually have a contingency plan for this happening? Very tiny bottles perhaps?

had "jinx" written all over it. You broke Velvet Revolver!

How do even live with yourself, huh?

Top song.

"Odelay IS a word! Check the Becktionary!"

FTW!

All of a sudden, I really want to go...

it's true that they seem to be lacking a little... something. 'Time to Pretend' is incredible though, and certainly shows huge promise.

My main issue is with the title - 'Oracular Spectacular'. 'Stadium Arcadium', anyone?

I especially like the reference to Trinity College (Cambridge), considering that's exactly where I am as I type this (and yes, you're right, we're depressingly un-eccentric).

loving this band for ages, and can't wait to hear this album. The demos were brilliant - I just hope the album production hasn't ruined them (a la Klaxons)...

is somewhat spoilt by the ridiculous pillar in the middle of the stage. Great set though, very glad I overcame my illness and went along.

Firstly: Out of purely pedantic reasons, can anyone tell me once and for all whether this band is called Baby Shambles (two words) or Babyshambles (one word)?

Secondly: From what I heard of this album, it sounds as disappointing as the first one. Peter has talent, he just wastes it on half-baked ska nonsense. Perhaps his solo acoustic album will bring out his poetic side? Perhaps I'm just deluding myself once again...

if only for the inclusion of the Radio 4 sample - and then he says their name, showing that it's not a sample! How did they manage that? If the Radio 4 bloke is available for free-lance voice overs, I move that he should be made to introduce all bands, in all places, at all times...

"Both as bad as each other"? There is so much wrong with that, I can't even begin.

grammatical mess in the first sentence aside. It's nice to read reviews that consider music as something that really means something - pop culture is culture too. Also, "inchoate"? Nice.

... must surely be "You're So Vain" covered by the Feeling. That song has one of the greatest rhymes ever in the history of the English language (yacht/apricot), and they give it to the fucking Feeling? Disgusting. On the whole though, this looks like good (novelty) entertainment.

there's some Bends-esque stuff going on in there?