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I guess A could be a one hit wonder, we'll just have to decide whether that one hit was Nothing, Summer On The Underground, Starbucks, or Number One.
And definitely not Hello World Festival.
Hey CZ, I don’t point and laugh, with Sleeper I shake my head in puzzlement.
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Alabama 3 last night, millie manders and the shut ups, nosebleed tonight
Hey CZ, I don’t point and laugh, with Sleeper I shake my head in puzzlement.
Which is what I feel about the likes of the Manics, I just cannot fathom the adulation that seems to surround them. Sleeper, well, I have fond memories of seeing them play Bristol years back, so, with a new album in the offing, I thought it would be fun to see them again. Both Lush and Belly, when they returned a couple of years back were superb live, Louise seems to be enjoying playing and recording a lot more this time around, it’ll be interesting to see how they come across live after all this time.
Trail of Dead one night followed by Craig Finn from the Hold Steady (supporting Brian Fallon but, it's totally a Craig Finn show for me)
"Sleeper I shake my head in puzzlement"
Louise Wener is still an unusually well assembled human being (and Inbetweener is still perfect indie pop)
Puzzle by no means solved. You’d go and see a (dull, old) band just beacause you fsncy/fsncied the female lead singer? Nope, don’t get it.
Do you stand there rubbing yourself or something?
A couple of weeks ago I saw Buffalo Tom in Brum who are still as good live as ever, then the next night saw Amusement Parks On Fire in Leicester who I love anyway. But their support was Deja Vega, and they are now my fave new band.
Trail of Dead one night
got my eyes on their tour dates too, leeds in feb seems my best option..... you live abroad or know something i dont?
then the next night saw Amusement Parks On Fire
theyre still going?? enjoyed them supporting six by seven in nottingham back in the day, never heard anything from them since, id be happy seeing how they sound these days....
They were supported by one-hit-wonder Wheatus, who were much more entertaining than I expected them to be.
Wheatus are excellent live. Not least because their set list is pretty much request based, with the audience calling out what they want. Of course Teenage Dirtbag is called for right from the start but is always at the end, the rest is pretty flexible.
Brendan B Brown is a very good frontman too, excellent live and a great presence and sense of humour; a few times we've seen them and some wag in the crowd requests various 'similar genre' songs (Lit, Fountains of Wayne, Presidents of the USA, etc) which BBB gently rebuffs, often with a suitable anecdote.
Worth seeing, even if you only know 2 songs.
Hi Sadexpunk
APOF took a few years off then came back last year with this;
Which was nice.