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The MLS are ace!

We are hosting a Pre-South By Southwest Party in Liverpool, on Wednesday 11th March, with two bands who are playing SXSW 2009 - the Manhattan Love Suicides and Dirtblonde, plus special guests Kissing Kalina.

It'll be great!

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The new The Verve album is truly dreadful. Self-indulgent, boring, pointless and featuring some of the least-inspired songs Richard Ashcroft has ever written - and that's including his less-than-overwhelming solo career!

'Forth' basically marries the worst aspects of The Verve (a certain pomposity, the MOR side of 'Urban Hymns') in one single tedious package.

Nick McCabe is a fantastic guitarist, but he can't save the album. The one thing that's wrong with him, is that he's also a very "up his own ass" guitarist: Verve songs are just a means for him to play and have fun with his FX pedals. It feels as if he could be playing on top of anything, really. He sounds like a guitarist who doesn't care about the song, he just wants a medium to express himself.

On 'Forth', McCabe's trippy guitar just feels pointless. His is a wasted talent.

Of course, Ashcroft has written some great material in the past, but not a single spark of his former glory is to be found on the new album.

'Forth' is a very disappointing, unnecessary album, that spoils the memory of a great band. Why can't people just go? Why do people always need more and more of a good thing, until it's not good anymore.

A comeback that should never had happened, a comeback album that should never have been made. 'Forth' is a smorgasbord of AOR dross. Avoid.

...was fairly boring. Old-school classic rock cock-rock bullshit.

Apart from a couple of good songs, the Raconteurs are rubbish.

Hail Meg White! She's ace, and Jack White needs a "bad" drummer to hold back his Led Zep classic rock side a little bit.

And that Brendan guy is as boring and charismatic as a gold fish. All his songs were awful.

All i say is: a pity Mark Chapman didn't shoot Yoko instead.

mmmmm. It's a well-known story in Liverpool, that the Dead 60s used to be some shit band, going nowhere. The daddy of one of them went to Deltasonic and asked what it'd be necessary to get them signed...so their changed their name, got dub records and went for a different sound.

They didn't even play loads of gigs or anything, just appeared one day with a record deal. Very suspicious. Like...did they sell their sould to the devil????

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