I'll have to admit first up I'm not a Rolling Stones fan (prefer the real thing). I think they ripped off other people's music and lied about a lot of their drug taking. If they'd taken a quarter of the drugs they claimed to have taken, they'd be in the ground with all the musicians whose songs they stole. As for Pete, hope he doesn't blow all that reunion money on..blow
Just back here and catching up with our last three matches and looking on here Libertines like our current team … overated and will do anything to get in the press
Saw the libertines last night, no QPR chant, he did have a (polite) dig at someone in a totty Hotspur shirt. The gig left me a little hollow to be honest, there were signs of brilliance but mostly it was disjointed with the band not really connecting or firing on all cylinders. Individually they look good but together, it wasny quite right, it seems they need a good manger to say, hey let's do it this way. The young'uns were seeing bright signs to grab on to but the older ones in the audience (I'm 54 Sheff) well I've seen the danger signs before. There were highlights, at time the place rocked but too many dull parts in between and for too long, self indulgent parts that had nothing to do with the whole show which annoyed me, I just kept waiting for the older classics to be played. I must say the star libertine has put on a little weight, I wondered whether he would last the full gig, it's questionable whether they will last, he spoke of the future but with so many good bands out there you have to fear for them. Would I go again, not if they were playing in Manchester but a local gig, I'll be there, whatever.
Just could never take to them … maybe it was the hype and i do believe that a lot of his image makers got it wrong. If you want to be a junkie then be one quietly. A lot of bands have serious drug problems and yet they keep it away from the press. PD or his management made sure his bad boy image was sensationalised IMO and it back fired because the talent in the band was very loose to start with … They got found out. However I saw he was on at the Jane Club when I was in Paris and the locals said he was excellent but that's his limit IMO and France is clueless about music … seriously clueless as they pick up the crap that get rejected and seem to like it
Yes, when a known artist, past or present, comes to your hometown it is always a great opportunity, whether or not you are a big fan of their music - recently I've seen Canned Heat, Buffy Sainte-Marie and last week Billy Bragg came to town for a concert and I'm glad I went. I didn't grow up with his music, political views, but he seems to have aged well and put on a good show. With regards to football he made mention of West Ham United during the show, which is borne out by the attached interview:- please log in to view this image http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s946793.htm Andrew Denton: Laced throughout your songs is football. One of your great lyrics is "How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?" Billy Bragg: Yeah. Andrew Denton: How passionate are you, Billy? Is it true that you actually stole some of Wembley turf and took it home? Billy Bragg: It is true, but it was in a good cause. My team, West Ham United won the FA Cup in 1975 on the hallowed turf at Wembley. About a month later I found myself there at an Elton John concert. So you can see how much I needed punk rock to come along and sort me out. They put tarpaulin down on the pitch so you didn't damage the pitch, but you could roll it back and pluck a bit of the sacred turf. So I filled my pockets up with the stuff and took it home. Andrew Denton: Did you mount it? As in put it on a piece of board, that is. Andrew Denton: I'm not suggesting you're that much of a fan. Billy Bragg: No, I smoked it. Andrew Denton: As an intelligent person, which you clearly are, does your passion for football ever strike you as a little irrational? Billy Bragg: Um, it does. It has done. My team were plagued by neo-Nazis at their games. I decided it was⦠I could no longer go to the matches because it was so bad and I thought I'd leave it. It was in me, though. A few years later I was on a mountain in Bolivia making a documentary with the BBC of 'Great Journeys of the World'. I was tuning into the world service to see how the European elections had gone, and the Greens had done really well in the European elections â in England, from London, listening to the world service â and I was elated, partly due to the fact there wasn't much oxygen where we were. And then, right at the end of the broadcast, the voice said, "And one result from division two â Oldham, 6, West Ham United, 0." And my little heart sank. I was on this mountainside, and I thought, "Well, it's in me." Some people take up the fashionable teams when they come to London. But I'm kind of like⦠It's through me, West Ham United, there's nothing I can do about it. And we're going through a difficult patch at the moment. We're in the second division, the old second division. Andrew Denton: So this is 20 years you've been there, by my reckoning. Billy Bragg: No, we've been in the premiership since then. Pay attention. Andrew Denton: You wear your pain like a badge of honour, don't you? Billy Bragg: Thank you, I do. That's all I've got.
I haven't(knowingly ...are they any good???)listened to any of his songs where do I find the bandwagon you speak of
Here you go Kiwi. Bandwagon departs from the MacDonalds on the Target Roundabout at about 10.00 a.m. [video=youtube_share;CqM11bt9QvI]http://youtu.be/CqM11bt9QvI[/video]
I was listening to them yesterday. I am also a huge Phoenix fan (I think they all hang about together along with Daft Punk).
I've pretty much got everything they have done. Moon Safari is like a polished soundtrack from a porn movie. There is a sentence you won't hear very often!!
Yeah, very weird, but good as well - been a few years though, should probably watch it again some time soon
And Sebastien Tellier. This is a beauty. [video=youtube;crblDrrcunQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crblDrrcunQ[/video]
