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December 4th may just be the beginning of my undoing :D

not the best band ever, but live they simply give it everything

but it never really got me sucked in the way a lot of people have been. i've been looking forward to this though...so cheers for giving it 9. now i can confidently buy it and feel a wee bit more smug

i thought they were a bit drab...i'm a fan of their records and other bands, but they have never worked for me in the flesh...shame really; the orchestra made them sound better than they ever have before mind :P

a bit peeved i missed Zun Zun Egui...everything else was squiffy and wonderful :D

there are some super bands playing...both Bristol talent and Mogwai (obv) are getting me very excited.

i wish i was a two headed deer

i really wanted to go :(

just got back this afternoon and it was totally amazing.
bet festival i've been to in years

EITS, Melvins and Sunn O))) in the same sentence is good enough but this has literally made me spill my tea

Melvins nomnomnomnom

i wa smerely saying that i feel that their music trancends the arty aspects of any semi acoustic les paul.
over all i thought the review was super and really captured the strength of the album.

i dont particularly enjoy getting into arguments on these forums so im sorry if i came across all twattish.

but there are ways of talking about music which can lead me to become irritated with how high and mighty some music is built up to be because of the affiliation with art.

i think the fact that Sunn O))) straddle the line between being considered overtly pretentious and arty to the point of nausea and actually pedaling something genuinely moving and unique makes the music/art argument a bit transparent in this case.
the fact is, to me Sunn O))) translate no more notions of art and revelry than the new Twang album, but the fact that i feel much more comfortable listening to Sunn O))) as a result of the talent and ingenuity creating the "art", i can see that my first point was a bit opaque.

still, the new album is fucking sublime. a lot more dramatic than their other work

. i got into them fairly recently, i had the walk-into-a-record-shop-and-instantly-buy-the-background-music-because-it-instantly-translates experience which has never happened to me before...the record was "Altar". and im really ecited about the new one, the reviews ive read all seem super positive which is encouraging.

but i wish people wouldnt keep going on about how "its not music man, its art".
FUCK OFF!
its music. it's pretentious as hell within the same realms of Radiohead (not that they sound in any way similar) but its the same way of looking at it. its not a bloody reinvention. theyve been doing the same thing for ten years and they are very very good at it. leave it there and lets all live in awe of just how amazing Sunn O))) are.

a "Don't Look Back" series perhaps?

you guys really made the effort.
very good

1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
2. Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
3. Youthmovies - Good Nature
4. Foals - Hysterics
5. Russian Circles - Station
6. Blakfish - See You In Another City
7. Sigur Ros - Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
8. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

yes

good old pink eyes...such a sweaty chap.

this bad rule

have the right idea there...so yeah...my three would have to be:

- Refused come back
- new MBV album/tour
- Converge do a new album and play a show in Bristol

i am now even more in love with this band...i fucking love them!!!!

plus, Moby doesn't half look like one Ian McKaye all guitared up does he?

has just secured my undying love for weezer. long may they reign the weird and wonderful kingdom of weird

and after not hearing about the download amnesty...ill be donating money despite owning all their CDs cause their genuinely good.
xxx

they scared me last night. thats a loud album...

some alright songs...and i don't think the vocals take anything away from it because they don't seem structured in the same way that a band with a consistent vocalist would make them...but songs like "Punkgasm" are just painful to listen to when you consider this bands holy album history.

.Pachuca Sunrise/Drilling - Minus The Bear
.Preparing For Guests - Blakfish
.I Am Azerrad - Tubelord
.Baboon - This Town Needs Guns
.Helicon 1 - 'gwai
.West Side Boring - By The End Of Tonight
.In A Semi Dream State... - Sawhorse
.Kandahar Road - The Winchell Riots
.A With Living/Goodbye Enemy Airship - Do Make Say Think
.Awaiting The Flood - Devil Sold His Soul

both bands are personal favorites of mine and its a shame neither band tour much anymore due to losing members...regardless of the lack of UK action :(

one of my very very favourite bands, i have seen them well ver ten times and have shard many a fanboy moment in theyre wonderful company

shocked and appalled is all i can be :(

xxx

they're not as good as the skins watching collective have assumed/decided but there's certainly room for improvement which they seem to be moving towards. i'd like to hear some of this more "ambient" material and not have to yearn for a band progressing without you losers slagging them off with nothing other to say than "cuz they're shit"

grow up a bit

yes

i've got into them recently actually. so hurrah for giving them a mention :)

great article man, loved it. nobody can ever get enough Don Cab,, Tera Melos, Botch or Converge. Or Kinsella for that matter. which brings me to yelp helplessly...AMERICAN FOOTBALL?!?! where are they in your list?! they easily deserve a place. i think they piss all over Owls anyway.

and by then end of tonight would make a fine addition. ta

but an under 12s get in free festival at the same time? i've never understood...
i shall be attending, should el wallet allow me to etc.

you sir are wise.
DJ Derek too. rejoice!

it's hardly math rock...i think the math rock titles are an Ed Fitz residue...but theyre certainly not math i wouldn't say...

but the album IS really quite impressive...which i am surprised by...Olympic Airwaves, Ton and Heavy Water are the standout ones for me...and the horns sounds great in places.

i just wish they'ed start using their sudden peak of fame to promote better bands (Youthmovies etc)...now THATS an album worth waiting for

it was a bit obviously going to happen. still, a bit bloody annoying.

and i feel exactly the same way...i was nearly weeping too...easily the most captivating band in the world. and fuck me its loud

i am a bit of a fan boy (other such individuals could tell from my username...) and i do think that the album easily lived up to my expectations but you made some really valid points...but as it's been said, this album does focus more on the lyrical content and considering the theme of the album, it adds more depth and character without turning it into an emo pot of winge.

so overall, good call....and who cares what they look like?!

what a splendid overview of probably the best weekend of my life...best bands were Youthmovies and Mogwai....and 65 were ace too