If Japan hadn’t suffered enough, last night, they had a gig which featured Beady Eye, Paul Weller and Richard Ashcroft on their consciences too. Someone should do a further benefit gig for them to cope with this newest slop of news.
Even though the gig did a good thing by raising over ?150,000 for the victims of the horrifying tsunami and earthquake, that doesn’t mean we should eschew our obligation to mock the collection of awful, awful feathered cod-mod haircuts that were on show.
Not to mention the terrible, plodding, faux-anthemic white boy rock peddled by a bunch of bloated blokes in bootcut jeans.
The assembled numskulls in Ben Sherman shirts whooped and hollered without giving much thought to Japan, rather, more concerned about getting 8 pints of Belgian lager in them as quickly as humanly possible, through a parade of po-faced stadium bloke hits.
The gig was orchestrated by Liam Gallagher and Weller who were really moved by the trouble in Japan, probably because Yoko Ono is from there or summat.
The Beatles featured heavily on this evening of well-intended turd rock with The Coral performing ‘Ticket To Ride’, Paul Weller teaming up with Stereophonics for a grisly take on ‘Come Together’ and Beady Eye closing the show with a vomit inducing ‘Across The Universe’.
In amongst the white men playing guitars were Graham Coxon playing his guitar, as well as Primal Scream playing their guitars.
Frontman Liam Gallagher, a chap notorious for his sympathy toward other humans, dedicated ‘Kill For A Dream’ to “all the people in Japan.” Presumably, it was the moving line of “these dark glasses need something to do” which swung it.
Not a dry gusset in the house etc etc
Follow hecklerspray on Twitter or join our Facebook group or BUY ONE OF OUR STUPID T-SHIRTS!
mithaearon says
Mos, your bloody Racist* not liking the white rocker ;)
*only saying that to get in the Readers Letters again.:P
Tom J says
That line-up reads like a who’s who of acts we’re glad we left in the 90s. Good music, yet another tragic victim of the T?hoku quake.
Tom J says
Whoops, looks like WordPress has a thing against unicode. Why you so racist, WordPress? Foreign people need those funny letters to speak properly.
Unknown says
You talk utter bollocks. I guess the writer of this article either likes shit r and b or third rate guitar music of like kaiser chiefs.
Simple you talk shit