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Shocking.

I don't mind the music though.

Song remixed!

Read all about it!

But god knows I'll try. Real hard.

But will that be enough?

Is that also an excuse for their shit records as well?

And it's within walking distance for me. Consider those tickets booked.

Or even what this Belvedere venue is all about?

I'm surprised they just didn't split up from the drummer choking to death on his own vomit.

These guys actually won a Grammy? Jesus.

Don't blame the legs.

you'd be sure she was the lead singer and the sole writer, and certainly not just a saxophone player whose unlistenable PARPing they try to squeeze in every single song.

If you were cynical you'd think it was because she's moderately attractive and with a nice set of legs.

Though I had been wondering how places like this had managed to stay alive recently.

Ah, the heady nostalgia of ordering things 15 years ago from the Sister Ray classified in the back in NME.

with the way EMI are haemorrhaging acts and money.

And if that happens, I bet you a million billion gazillion pounds they'll blame illegal downloading.

I only clicked on this article to make a sarcastic comment along those lines.

Really must get out of bed earlier...

And while it's not overwhelming, it's not a let down. My list of bands to see has gone from about 5 to about 20.

Phew.

Blimey.

As if such a big word would get the all-capitals treatment.

Now fucking fix it organisers.

Would like to go to this, but won't have the beans to get back on Monday afternoon and be bothered with a gig that night.

I hoping Latitude is too much up their alley for the closeness of dates to be a coincidence.

And nothing besides Big Hen and Jeffrey Lewis has been announced for it? Wish they'd get a hurry on, my whole enthusiasm for the festival is depending on that fucking tent.

Can't wait to not go to this.

"Did you get his number? / No No No / Get him up for coffee? / Hell, Yeah!"

"I can't deny the way my dirty mind is saying 'Lover, Come and get me, get me'"

Plus it's one of the best pop songs made in the last couple of years.

"I am currently helping organise an August festival for you avid Artrockers and it's a great thrill to include past favourites such as Pere Ubu, Wire, Suicide and The Slits alongside the new scene, and a shame we could not entice the likes of Devo or Gang of 4 to take part. Further details to be announced shortly. www.offsetfestival.co.uk"

This sounds absolutely bloody fucking brilliant.

Did Los Camps play the Park Stage last year after Martha Wainwright? Wasn't sure if it was them or Cajun Dance Party at the time and am still none the wiser now...

Cheers for giving us a peek at tomorrow's bill. Means I can see something else in the Physics and Lovvers slots tonight. It's clash-tastic tonight.

Really annoying you have to queue for tomorrow's timetable tomorrow as well.

Absolutely. It really made my brain hurt.

It's a Shame About Ray is an utter dirge.

Yeah, I hate them. Yeah.

It was obviously poorly received because of that crappy European Killers-like band who distributed their album on the various file-sharing sites using Interpol's name and thtracklisting of Our Love to Admire.

Everyone hated it and everyone subsequently ignored the real thing. The fact Our Love to Admire is a pretty crappy album compared to their first two is purely coincidental.

I rest my case.

Someone talking calmly and rationally about Glastonbury and festivals in general. Just who does this guy think he is?

What's really puzzling is the Half Moon topping the list. A ok venue with a nice enough layout but how often does a decent band play there? A sizable proportion of bands there are fucking covers bands too. Coming soon: Doors Alive, Too Rex, Counterfeit Beatles, Limehouse Lizzy, Rollin' Stoned.

Whoopie fucking shit. I bet the writer lives somewhere nearby.

And better than what I personally think is an overrated Primavera.

Has anyone here been to Summercase (either Barcelona or Madrid)? Somewhat bizarrely, what actually puts me off is having to stay in a hotel. I actually like having the refuge of a nearby tent when nothing's happening and the ease of falling into a tent at the end of the night.

The website is useless. Any advice on the ease of getting to the place, the remoteness of it, and how trapped you are (ie, can you escape to a nearby bar for a while) would be appreciated.

About The Libertines reforming for a gig tonight, which could get people over-excited and easily taking the bait.

Then they ruined it by adding nonsense about Doherty training for the London Marathon and releasing his own brand of crisps.

zzzzzzzz.

He actually love love loves downloaders. Cheers Adrian!

... is certainly scant news to have a need to flesh out. What's next? Chumbawumba to play? The Waterboys?

Haven't checked to be double sure, but I know the London Forum gig has been advertised as just The Long Blondes for a while. So hardly a lot of fun to pay more than necessary for those initial gigs only to have to go in at 8pm, stand around on an empty floor, and have the chatter of people at the bar drown out the sound of the band...

Yes, I'd agree it's unique in the amount of people who care so little about the music. A large proportion are just nasty-looking fence-jumping scum who are only interested in a large piss-up, an anything-goes attitude to hard drugs, some bullying, and a fight if you're lucky. If you need some proof then just look how quiet the Sunday is compared to the Saturday when they're all coming to terms with their hangovers.

I was going to make the same joke, not that I think Pablo Honey is much chop, but because it's guaranteed that Creep will be the first song on the album, and perhaps the last, and perhaps a remix in the middle somewhere.

They could of course just do a double CD of greatest hits - the Bends on one CD and OK Computer on the other.

Precocious little shit.

No booze = shit festival.

Absolutely fascinating.

Blimey, do they think all their British fans will come to London for it?

Blah Blah Blah Blah Boring Bollocks Blah Blah...

Has a good alliterative effect.

Smug about music, turns a blind eye to racism.

Got to be a winner.

His comments about Knightsbridge are just plain utterly wrong. And very much the sign of a horrible person making shit up.

And then to defend himself with "the NME reporter doesn't know where it is, therefore I must be right"

So whilst not impossible, I think that makes them pretty unlikely to play Glast.

Because they were unbelievably dull and rubbish at the one I saw.

Smashing Pumpkins still goes down as one of the roughest gigs I've been to. Big Day Out in Sydney around 1994. One of those rare moshes where a couple of hundred people fall over and no one can get up because they're pinned down by someone on top of them. The bizarre image is still burnt into my brain.

they actually are cold-as-ice, cool-as-fuck Germans, you remember they're from Liverpool.

Are they actually scousers, or did they just meet/form there? I'd love it if they had the comedy scouse accent to boot.

...are now full of pricks holding up mobiles with their bright screens all the way through a gig?

Just waiting for an incident of some sort? Because it's certainly not for the picture or sound quality.

...that other file-sharing programs have been doing without the authorities being bothered for around four years now?

The quote about "This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure" is certainly interesting though. The normal hardline stance is completely against this.