No it's not wrong to join a new band. I never said they should give up music, that would be ridiculous.
Don't see the problem with Johnny Marr playing songs he co-wrote, or the Roses reforming. If they Roses where just in it for money they'd of played Heaton Park and split again. But instead they've been playing a lot of small gigs around world. They also wouldn't be talking about a new album.
I don't agree that reforming is totally wrong. Sometimes it's bizarre that they've done it, especially after the circumstances in which they broke up like the Stone Roses. Nostalgia in anything is always looked upon in good light. City fans will always watch Deano scoring at Wembley. More so when times get worse for us. In the music industry it's no different- if people want to hear the stuff of their childhood, adolescence it's fine by me. If youngsters, who weren't around like it, so be it. Music industry isn't what it once was and people like to hear good music.
If they weren't in it for the money Ian Brown wouldn't have said "there's more chance of me reforming the Happy Mondays than the Stone Roses". And of course the timing of John Squire's divorce and Reni's bankruptcy had nothing to do with it...
The older I get the more I am struck by the excessively deferential behaviour on display at Glastonbury and elsewhere. Wiley is the worst bit others are bad too inc that Peel substitute from ecky thump land.
I'm in two minds over her being there. I don't like Wiley, but the new presenters are worse than her by miles. Grimshaw, Stevens etc on radio 1 do my nut in.
I want to say that people should like whatever bands/music they want,it's all about different tastes. Your not a **** if you like marmite,and your not a **** if you dont. That's what i want to say,but i can't,because anyone over the age of ten,who likes todays chart music is a ****.
. If you go read some of John Squire's interview you'll see he always wanted to make up with Ian Brown. Brown did say he wanted to meet Squire again and reform and he also said he wouldn't reform. No ones heard of Reni since 1995 and Mani has always been up for it. They where screwed by there record and manager. So why shouldn't they make a few quid. And it was Ian Brown who got divorced, not Squire.
'interview'? which one? I've read countless interviews from all of them since they sacked Reni and they were all 100% against it. If you are happy to see them reformed that's fine and up to you, but don't try and justify it by saying they always wanted to do it Because they said they wouldn't. They spent their entire careers slating bands through interviews and lyrics for doing exactly what they ended up doing. And you've no idea how gutted I am, they meant everything to me.
You’d actually have to pay me some serious wedge for me to even contemplate going to Glastonbury. Admittedly, haven`t been since the 90s and I have had some good laughs there/seen some good bands. But, this Glastonbury spirit they talk about is ****ing bullshit in my opinion. Now, I never went in the 70s/80s so it could have been very different then (music seemed to have more of a social and political conscience back then anyway). When I used to go it was mainly full of people wanting to rip you off in various ways and crime of many different levels surrounded you at all times. Full of snide drug dealers pushing openly and with different levels of pushing; recidivists from Wales & Liverpool looking to carpetbag any ****; seriously overpriced grotty food sold from ****ty vans; tat and mystical crap sold to the gullible ‘rebellious’ middle class types who went out their way to constantly remind themselves how ‘far out’ they were and what an ‘amazing time’ they were having. From what I can gather, things have tightened up now and things are much more sanitised. I struggle to watch it all these days (apart from the odd selective bit) and all of the presenters **** me off something chronic.
Mumford and Sons are absolute ****e. **** them. They do not deserve headline status. Should've been someone like The Killers.
Agreed 100%. First time of 6 I went was 98 and it was largely unknown at the time. People think I'm lying here but I honestly swear to God booked my tickets the week before it started without batting an eyelid. The idea of a sell-out was completely unheard of then and it had only been televised very recently. It really wasn't in the public consciousness and as such was a world away from the sanitised, T4 presenter radio 1 listening ****s who make up the crowd now.
The XX doing the biz on BBC3. Guaranteed to clear the dance floor but um...er, original, different and low-key.
The XX haven't seemed tha bad when I've seen them on TV. I'll be honest, I've chosen the footie over music tonight.
