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John Lydon's a bit mouthy and a bit of an asshole
and some spanish security guys (who I'd previously imagined to all be gentle politically correct keepers of the peace) turned out to be racist and rather heavy handed.
Shrug.
A) 'The Past Is A Grotesque Animal'
A) 'The Past Is A Grotesque Animal' is the answer. Either that or no-one's gonna win this thing.
I thought the interview was fine.
But, with the posible exception of the remix stuff (which is inherently bland), all these questions have been applicable (and repeatedly asked of and answered by) howlin' pelle since 2001. And therefore it's hardly surprising that he doesn't manage to/bother to come across as hilarious, or say anything terribly interesting.
I saw Chuck Berry
like 3 years ago. Very entertaining banter, but age (and possibly arthritis) has taken his guitar playing ability from him.
Either that or he just finds it funny to strum open A chords during the intro to Jonny B Goode and still get applauded for it.
I have no idea, but I do hope it's the second.
I sat through it all once
at about 3am writing my dissertation. After a while you sort of get into it, but I have no desire to ever feel like that again, ever.
Hi-FFidelity
pissed me off.
Though someone did once give me a motorhead tape from a charity shop for my birthday. That was awesome.
Albarn may not be running the world
but he's still a cunt.
I'll never pay for a download
but too much of my music is downloaded. The ideal is to be rich and buy everything on vinyl. But I can't afford a record player let alone everything on vinyl.
I never drink Carling on principle
but mainly coz it tastes like piss.
I had my first
"proper" gig experiences at the zodiac. I've seen better bands at various london carling venues but as gigs they've not been half as good. ffs. The competition commission should make someone like kronenbourg buy some venues, at least we could get some decent lager. And whoever tells me which corporate bunch of cunts owns kronenbourg wins no prize.
I'm actually pissed off at whoever the owners were for selling up, they must have been making money. Bastards. I hope they still let the wheelchair bound guy I always used to see upstairs back in the day get down the front. For all I know he was the owner, but he did look ace.
The Horrors
work harder on their hair than on their music. This is irritating. 60's garage rock is what all music should sound like, but within said genre they are at best average, and actually, are probably pretty shit.
They're still probably better than anyone else who gets in the NME these days but it's hard to name bands that aren't.
Premature deafness caused by loud music
is god's way of telling you your band should have fucking quit already. Isn't that right Pete Townsend?
Seriously though no shit sherlock.
I hate My Chemical Romance
I really really hate them. So broadly speaking, one of them being slightly burned, or even nearly slightly burned, is a good thing. However the Towers of London are shit. I can live with the whole we're so rock n roll we are stuff, what I don't get is
1 They don't seem to have any songs. I saw them at truck a couple of years back and it was just sub ramones riffs with more distortion and rubbish vocals. They were worse than the rubbish local bands.
2 Are they not really really really old? I saw them up close at Truck, and I have to say if NME does have a policy on age they clearly aren't following it. They looked like they might genuinely have been a shit 80's glam rock band who never made it, then bizarrely were picked by the NME to be famous. Madness.
Drug addiction
is not a reason to quit a band. Pussy.
On the plus side though hopefully the Darkness will fuck off and die now. Is there any word on him hoping to continue to emulate freddy by having moderately well recieved by fools that like him solo work then die of aids?
I assume that's what this is all about.
Glad I bought
Chulahoma. Which actually was a 6 track EP (+ some answer phone message from the wife of a dead bluesman but that ain't music) instead then.
They'd have to pay me to go
And I mean pay me. I reckon £500'd be reasonable.

In Photos: White Lies @ Brixton Academy, London
In Photos: Monotonix @ Hector's House, Brighton
In Photos: The Specials @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
In Photos: Camden Crawl Launch Event @ The Blues Kitchen, London
er,
I hope it's Napoleon III...