houman1981

it's "drawer", not "draw". muppet.

Presumably you mean "affected", not "effected", you illiterate buffoon.

er, all this "i wasn't born with a silver spoon blah blah blah" stuff is completely irrelevant.

i fail to see what part of my rant made any mention of your personal finances, though it is obviously you feel very strongly about.

for the sake of clarity - i am sure you work very hard indeed. but you are still a rather obnoxious snob, as is every single person who watches Big Brother and justifies it on the grounds that poorly educated people are an appropriate subject for ridicule.

"wouldn't the world be better if people like this were gassed in childhood"???

you obviously watch more Big Brother than i do, but i would make the following observation -

deriving amusement from the rather tragic products of the nation's educational organisation is a truly pathetic sort of snobbery. this tendency, particularly prevalent among middle-class students, towards "ironically" liking Big Brother and providing pompous remarks like the above in supposed mitigation, is extremely regrettable and shows a real lack of respect and/or understanding.

i'm sure you wouldn't think it appropriate to mock, for example, war orphans or HIV victims or have them ritually humiliated with their consent on national television but, for some reason, these guys are fair game. publicity-seeking media whores they might be, but the reality TV/celeb empire is an edifice entirely of your own making.

your remark was no doubt made in jest, but it provides an insight into the sort of irresponsible, sick voyeurism that is behind much of this. if you're so much better than these people, who you suggest should be gassed, then at the very least don't watch the programme. deriving entertainment from this sort of thing is frankly very low indeed.

rubbish (they are)

This was on www.iShotTheDeputy.com, it was a review of their show at the Pleasure Unit in Jan 2005. Prompted a rather puerile backlash from members of the band themselves, bless 'em...

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The Pleasure Unit turns out to be a venue much like the late, lamented (by some, at least) Verge, in Kentish Town: We get one room with a stage in the corner with a big pillar in the way, and nowhere to escape from the bands if they turn out to be a pile of shite. Rather unfortunately at least one band achieves this dubious honour tonight.

First up are the Delphian Complex who have free CDs, nice ones too that have been made and produced in a proper place, so god knows how come they're free. They also have some really cool flyers produced in a particularly simple way, so simple it makes me jealous, frankly. There are six of them: two guitars, keyboards, drums, bass and singer. My initial reaction is one of dislike but by the end of the evening (well, come the last band) I am reassessing. They manage to sound kind of like a Led Zep-tinged baggy band, with 'modern' 80s retro stomp-drumbeat thing going. That probably sounds worse than it should because it's not that they're bad, simply quite bland. Their songs don't stand out, though the bassist does his best to lift the proceedings, and it takes me a while before I realise that my problem is with the full-on nature of what they're doing: We are given no space at all in the sound and at least one guitar seems utterly superfluous. I have a problem with a band putting too much 'production' into their live sound and that's what I hear here.

The Faculty organised the night and have elected for the second slot. This is the second time I've seen them and the sound's not as good here as in the Spice of Life in Soho. Still, they put in a good performance and the atmosphere is much better. Sombre Honeymoon's driving bassline is still running through my head as I type. They are best described as having a bass and drum sound in the Joy Division mould, vocals tinged with early Bob Dylan and guitars reminiscent of Verve's 'A Storm in Heaven'. The songs are simple yet catchy, mainly helped by the quality of musicianship the whole band put in: witness the drums in the break of 'Messages'. It's a good set and we enjoy it.

Next up are a band whose name I'm not sure of. On line they're listed as 'The Smoke', but the board outside seemed to say something like Lontine Love. Who knows? (EDIT: ISTD member 'jeane enaej' knows it seems: They were called Larrikin Love. Cheers.) The fact is they are unmitigated shite, so much so that I find them offensive. This is what happens when you form a band after only having watched TOTP2 as your sole musical inspiration and input: Three of your band members wear porkpie hats and look like extras from Only Fools and Horses, complete with crap polo shirts. The fourth member (lead guitar) decides he wants to be in the Small Faces and grows an outlandishly terrible mop-like mullet and then hangs his guitar far enough up his chest in the hope of hiding his gut, while in reality meaning his guitar just looks ridiculously high. He then prances around with one foot on the tiny monitor and plays the most obvious guitar solos known to man. Someone describes them as a like "the Libertine's arsehole" and this is probably a fair description. In fact, if one took the worst of The Libertines and The Darkness and combined them into one band you would have this lot. Amazingly (or not, depending on how you view the industry) there are three labels down tonight to watch them, and probably they've now been given a big fat record deal. We can only remind ourselves that musical karma has provided a nice deal to the rather fine Test-Icicles in recent months so it's not all completely shit. Is it?

TheoGB, iShotTheDeputy.com

"That's what it's all about, man"????

Jamie "T" ????

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