Festivals are ace, aren’t they? They’re like proper gigs, but you have to spend a weekend in a smelly tent and buy beer for £4 a can from a crusty trust fund hippy in order to see your favourite band perform their popular hits from half a mile away while you hold in eight pints of urine because you don’t want to go to the horrible, horrible toilets.
Anyway, Leeds/Reading have had their lineups ‘leaked’ to the press, which has had the unfortunate side effect of making it ‘news’.
So yay! We can find out which bands we’re going to see as unremarkable dots in the distance this year. Would it surprise you to note that most of them are awful? No? In that case, read on.
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The subject of filesharing never fails to create debate, but the basic theme is that most people know it’s wrong but like having free-stuff anyway. Guy Garvey, singer in Elbow, is now throwing his tuppence in the ring.
Garvey has said that people who file-share are going to hell. He’s thinking specifically of those who can afford to buy music in the first place, but decide not to.
He would say that though wouldn’t he because… well… you’re stealing from him. Read More >>>
Well, just be glad you don’t come running to us for advice and guidance on the more trivial matters in life.
If you asked us the best way to meet a girl and maintain it in to a relationship, we may just say something inappropriate like “get her drunk firstâ€. So it may be a good thing our decisions aren’t always right. Last night saw Elbow win the Mercury Music Prize for their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid.
While we put £10 on Burial to win, he failed to turn up to the event to perform. This probably didn’t do him any favours but who knows and who cares. But fair play to him really, he wants to remain anonymous and not deal with being stalked by NME journalists. At least the award didn’t go to the Last Shadow Puppets who already have a winning connection to the Arctic Monkeys. Looking slightly pissed on stage, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey said “it was the best thing to have ever happened to usâ€. Aww, they are a cracking band who do deserve some fame. We even harped on about them needing a break in a recent gig review.
Now, that’s 2008 out of the way. Who will be up for the 2009 award? With upcoming releases from Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Keane and Snow Patrol, it could be a bland indie-filled ceremony next year. Though we’ll see if our recordings of smashed cups, sawed logs and imitations of badgers will pick up a nomination. Against frontmen who make twigs look fat and poor moonfaced posh boys, we should do OK. Well, in our minds anyway.
Well, just be glad you don’t come running to us for advice and guidance on the more trivial matters in life.
If you asked us the best way to meet a girl and maintain it in to a relationship, we may just say something inappropriate like “get her drunk firstâ€. So it may be a good thing our decisions aren’t always right. Last night saw Elbow win the Mercury Music Prize for their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid.
While we put £10 on Burial to win, he failed to turn up to the event to perform. This probably didn’t do him any favours but who knows and who cares. But fair play to him really, he wants to remain anonymous and not deal with being stalked by NME journalists. At least the award didn’t go to the Last Shadow Puppets who already have a winning connection to the Arctic Monkeys. Looking slightly pissed on stage, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey said “it was the best thing to have ever happened to usâ€. Aww, they are a cracking band who do deserve some fame. We even harped on about them needing a break in a recent gig review.
Now, that’s 2008 out of the way. Who will be up for the 2009 award? With upcoming releases from Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Keane and Snow Patrol, it could be a bland indie-filled ceremony next year. Though we’ll see if our recordings of smashed cups, sawed logs and imitations of badgers will pick up a nomination. Against frontmen who make twigs look fat and poor moonfaced posh boys, we should do OK. Well, in our minds anyway.
Fact One: The Jackson 5 don’t blame it on sunshine, moonlight or bad times. They blame it on the boogie.
Fact two: The Carling Academy are bastards for charging nearly six quid for two shots of vodka.
Fact three: Elbow are the most underrated band in the UK.
With four albums under their belt, Elbow took their latest offering, The Seldom Seen Kid, on the road to showcase a few of the brilliant tracks that are featured on it, alongside mixing in a few older hits.
While talking to a friend who worked at the bar, she uttered the words “I’ve been told there like one of those miserable Radiohead-style bands, so I knew you’d be here tonight.”
Hmm, great that our music tastes have been pinned down, but slightly wrong about Elbow being the soundtrack to a suicidal cult's last few hours on earth.
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Hecklergigs, Elbow @ Newcastle Carling Academy, 05/04Fact One. The Jackson 5 don’t blame it on sunshine, moonlight or bad times. They blame it on the boogie.
Fact two. The Carling Academy are robbing bastards for charging nearly six quid for two shots of vodka.
Fact three, Elbow are the most underrated band in the UK.
With four albums under their belt, Elbow took their latest offering, The Seldom Seen Kid on the road to showcase a few of the brilliant tracks that are featured on it, alongside mixing in a few older hits. Whilst talking to a friend who worked at the bar, she uttered the words “I’ve been told there like one of those miserable Radiohead style bands, so I knew you’d be heretonight.†Hmm, great that our music tastes have been pinned down, but slightly wrong about Elbow being the soundtrack to a suicidal cults last few hours on earth.
