[quote=Sostie,Feb 6 2008, 11:43 AM]
Just published. Mojo Magazines 50 Greatest UK Indie Records Of All-Time

Ooh. I hate the word 'Indie'. It doesn't mean what it used to. Nice to see the inclusion of The Delgados.

According to this week's NME...

Fans are shocked! SHOCKED! at Glastonbury Headlinersm(Kings Of Leon, Verve, Jay-Z)

Also, Britain has gone silly for The Wombats, lords of the indie dancfloor!

Silly Britain.

I didn't know there was a new one out. I'll have to investigate.



Glad to see this on the list. I love Ride.

sorry, bit of a misunderstanding there - they arent releasing a new album, and according to recent reports never could because of the iraq war (?). What i was actually referring to was the above report about panic at the disco moving the exclamation mark, just like gybe did... sorry.

What's he famous for?

Other than being shit at rapping and being a big shot record company mogul (keeping it real, you all).

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up. I didn't bother to read to previous post first.

Winehouse to sing at Brits

Will anyone actually be watching in the first place?

I will. Just for an excuse to shout at the tv, especially when Muse lose out on best live act to Take That.

I've only just found out it's presented by the Osbournes. It's going to be awful.

I couldn't give a monkey's about the Brit Awards.


eta: and it's proving my point - at least three acts to perform tonight that can't sing live worth a damn. And we've already had one of them.

*click*

Well you clearly did

As did I, despite my protestations of "not giving a monkey's". It was a little difficult to get even remotely excited about any of last night's performances after Prince's live set two years ago, which was the only reason I bothered to watch it then.

But I clearly felt compelled to endure an evening of train wreck telly. With Sharon Osborne's gobshite presenting style, it was precisely that - I cringed when she started telling Vic Reeves to piss off. Just embarrassing.

I'm not especially a Prince fan but even I appreciated what a great set that was.

Lalo Schifrin To Play Barbican

Prince is playing Croker. €66.50, that's about £50.

Can I afford this?
Can I afford to miss him again?

Pete Doherty was apparently named 'Hero of the Year' at the NME awards. What?!?!? Why. The. Fuck?!?

To me all that seems to have happened here is that the NME are once again telling their 13 year old readership how awesome it is to take drugs - 'look, this bloke in a stupid hat who makes bollocks music keeps sticking needles in his arms... wicked!'.

Cunts.

That's all you really needed to say.

i know its NME and as such we should just expect them to be shit, but it does bother me that their audience is basically a bunch of kids and they are upholding people like doherty as role-models... i remember they ran an article on the 'nu-rave' scene were they asked bands questions and graded them on how cool they were based on the answers, including things about what kind of pills they took, and ketamine...

i acknowledge that drugs are a big part of the music industry, and if it was a magazine for a more mature readership i wouldnt have a problem, it just seems a bit irresponsible when they are as young as they are...

man i sound old. im gonna go write a letter to the BBC complaining about the amount of ankle visible on Strictly Come Dancing...

I say go for it.

If I get the extra gig that I think I'll be getting next Saturday then I'm going.

I'll find out Mon or Tues. Tickets go on sale Wednesday.

Just waiting fo' the phone to ring.

I had the chance to go yesterday, and I'm glad I didn't.

I have to say I still read the NME. Not sure why. But I am not surprised that Doherty got that award from that publication.

There are so many things wrong with that magazine now. The Editor can't decide whether he wants a well written music paper or Smash Hits. That's excatly what killed Melody Maker.

Maybe it's because I'm a lot older than their target readership, but the standard of journalism and knowledge is much lower than it used to be.

This week they (again) gave away a sheet of stickers even Smash Hits would have been embarrassed to give away.

Stickers? Yay!!
I used to buy NME a lot... but haven't done so now in 3 or 4 years. I think I started to notice the Smash Hits -ness of it too. Either that or it'd had always been like that & I reached an age where I grew out of it.
I bought Q mostly after that, but haven't been bothered about buying a music mag in the last year and a half...
I still like to hear new music, but I guess I don't seek it out as much as I used to, and rely on the internet more now.
...What sort of stickers?

Having given up on NME and Q, I recommend The Word magazine as a source of quality music journalism, covering a diverse range of bands both new and old. It's more orientated towards the middle aged man than the kidz though. Although the letters page sometimes features ones from 14 year olds who've nicked it off their dads and enjoyed it.

Has Pete Doherty even done anything in the last year, apart from appear in court?

Disappear in court?

*foop*

I just wish he'd disappear up his own arse.

Proms: not inclusive, says Hodge.

I can see what she's getting at, but I also think that it's a lot better than it used to be.

So she's not going to say that Glastonbury or any of the other festivals aren't inclusive - as long as you can afford a ticket or wangle a way in via corporate hospitality?

One of the great things about the Proms (and I speak from happy experience) is that you can pay a relatively small amount to be a promenader and get into a concert with great conductors, orchestras and soloists. As a promenader you don't have to dress up or sit in a civilised fashion like regular concert-goers - you're either in the arena - kind of mosh pit fashion - or up in the gallery. It means you can stand up - if you want. If you don't want to stand, as I generally didn't, you can sit or even lie down and let the music and the atmosphere surround you.

Yes, there are some silly rules and traditions (heaven forbid you stand on the wrong side of the yellow line down the middle of the arena), but by and large most promenaders are really friendly, helpful folk.

And yes, the last night's a bit jingoistic and maybe even outdated now, but it's the one part of the Proms that's still relatively untouched from when Henry Wood first launched them over 100 years ago - and is it so wrong to respect tradition in this small way? For all the pomp and flagwaving, there's an awful lot of overseas visitors who enjoy sharing in the moment, waving their own flags. It's harmless.

Next Hodge'll be telling us that we should swap pine trees for Christmas trees because they're not inclusive enough either.

He's playing the Royal Albert Hall soon. Or Royal Festival Hall. Somewhere big and fancy.

Harrods' Food Hall?

Stuart Hall?

Hall and Oates?

John O'Groats?






Gotta have a system.

In Flames have put their entire new album on their myspace page for preview before it comes out next week.

Will Young will be playing at T In The Park and Glastonbury this year.

That's quite a crowd dividing booking. I'll be interested to see how either appearance pans out.

Holy shit, New Kids on the Block are reuniting. I did not expect that, never in a million years...

Maybe they should change the band name, seeing as how they're all pushing 40.

I can't believe Donnie's doing it, he's a legitimate actor! He doesn't have to shame himself this way!

I think it's time for Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch to make a comeback.

Jay-Z not playing Glastonbury after all

The thing that gets me in that story is the person saying they were only going to the festival to see Jay-Z. It's just quite sad that someone would buy a ticket to a festival that has so many different things going on over its 3 days and they're only interested in one act.

Interesting thought that Prince might take the spot instead, though.

And a particularly cack act, at that.

The Manics are recording 'The Holy Bible Part 2'

I love you guys but please don't do it.

They're all much too happy to do it. The Holy Bible is a great album, in my opinion, because of its darkest and how uncompromising it is; the band are hardly in the same sort of mindset that they were at the time.

Those are the headlines. Good Christ, I wish they weren't!

WHAT?!



That makes me really unhappy......so maybe I'll be in the mood to listen to it when it comes out.

The Holy Bible is the only album of theirs I refuse to listen to, I hated it. I sold my copy ages ago.

I certainly won't be making an investment upon the new one's release.

I was a very self indulgent teenager when I first heard it, so I loved it. It is quite hard to listen to these days, but every once in a while I can't help but give Faster a blast. My all time favourite Bradfield guitar solo.


Tune.

I still listen to it now and I still think it's a great album. Very dense and interesting.

it's a brilliant album but it was of a time and a place. Obviously they're not going to call it 'Holy Bible' (maybe 'The New testament?!) but even still...

They say when things are going right and people praise them they want it to go wrong. All of these things have been said by Nicky wire so they should be taken with a pinch of salt. It could end sounding like ABBA

It scares me.



"Hold me closer Ed.... i-i-i-i-i-it's gettin' darrrk!" [/Mask]

I don't remember Matt Tracker ever saying that.