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Great review, thanks David!
Jon
Instantrick: at no point does Danielle suggest that the audience were "yokels".
By "out of town" I think she meant "not in Leeds" i.e. "not on home ground and therefore likely to be playing to people who haven't seen him before". This could mean Addingham or Knightsbridge.
i've sent in my nominations!
i'm not telling who for though.
This is exciting....
don't forget about the awards night on Jan 7th, featuring live music from Shlomo, Four Day Hombre, Waking the Witch, Kid Kanevil, Send More Paramendics, Semi Squared, That F*cking Tank and Jon Gomm
yes i am a demi-godess
Tour dates....
JUNE 2005
Thurs 3rd - The Arches, Pitt Street, BARNSLEY
Sun 5th - The Mitre, 90-91, Moor Lane, PRESTON, PR1 1JQ
Tues 7th - The Railway, Clapham High Street, LONDON, SW4 7UR
Thurs 9th - The Greyhound Inn, 69 Nottingham Rd, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE11 1ES
Fri 10th - The County Arms, 129a High St, NORTHALLERTON, DL7 8PQ
Thurs 23rd - The Lion Inn, Blakey, Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, YO62 7LQ
Sun 26th - Old Moseley Arms, 53 Tindal Street, Balsall Heath, BIRMINGHAM,
B12 9QU
Mon 27th - The Shed, 5 Yeoman St, LEICESTER, LE1 1UT
Tues 28th - Revolution, Bridge Street, WALSALL, WS1 1JQ
Thurs 30th - Lush, 31 Jamestown Road, Camden, LONDON, NW1 7DB
JULY 2005
Wed 6th - Blues Bar , 4 Montpellier Parade, HARROGATE, HG1 2TJ
Tues 12th - The Ruby Lounge , 35 Carver Street, SHEFFIELD, S1 4FS
Wed 13th - The Bridge Hotel, Castle Garth, NEWCASTLE, NE1 1RQ
Thurs 14th - The Studio, Tower St, HARTLEPOOL, TS24 7HQ
Sat 16th - The Star, Howard Street, GLOSSOP, SK13 7DD
Tues 19th - The Junction, 44 Bondgate, OTLEY, LS211AD
Sat 23rd - Bomfest, Miners Memorial, BARNSLEY
Sun 31st - Wustock, Doctor Wu's, Call Lane, LEEDS
AUGUST 2005
Wed 17th - Feva Festival, The Worlds End, KNARESBOROUGH
Sat 20th - Moor Music Festival, Ilkley Moor, West Yorks
Wed 24th - MacRory's Bar, Beechfield Hotel, Easby Road, BRADFORD, BD7 1QX
Sat 27th - Grove Inn, Back Row, LEEDS, LS11 5PL
holy crap.
I'm certainly not criticising your review, which is good. (Except for the "band-x on crack" bit, which I'll assume is ironic!)
I hope they do well, etc. but... it's vaguely in time and vaguely in tune, grooveless and imagination-free.
3 days camping in idyllic scenery, full facilities, organic food, kids activities - the whole shebang.
£35 for 3 days of proper festival fun!!!!!!!! (i.e. not full of wallies there to see 50 cent, no chavs snorting persil they just bought for £40, no 50 cent, no throngs of misery in slpiknot hoodies. Or possibly all of those things except 50 cent.)
a jazz review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks John for broadening the scope of LMS!!!! Wonderful.
i still can't get on the forum. i am probly gonna top mesel. I haven't decided yet, but I've put the oven on just in case.
Seeing as you seem to write vast numbers of songs, can I have some of your old ones? Cheers.
You love her. You want a copy of the CD so you can kiss her face on the picture. You want to marry her and have her sing you to sleep at night. YOU ARE SICK, stu, SICK
Ah well. Can't be greedy I suppose....
Here!
Not specifically, no. But if you wanna make something of it, lets go, punk-ass-nu-metal-loving-spandex-wearing-Alaistair-McGowan-quite-enjoying-especially-the-david-beckham-bits-and-sometimes-rory-bremners-politics-get-in-the-way-of-the-humour.
Are you coming to the Love Apple on Sunday?
So just to get this straight - it IS open to drummers.
Why?
"The eleven tracks on display here veneer between mellow Tool-style sections to deranged Dillinger-esque metal/jazz improvisations."
I felt more that it veneered between plywood and rustic oak.
next door to City Varieties (down the little alleyway opposite borders in leeds)
If Si Glacken had been born in Finland, he would probably sound like.....
Dirty, dirty girl.
I've met analee several times, and can confirm that she is very beatiful, for her age.
So the reviewer is saying that 50cent was booed off at reading cos he's black. As opposed to my assumption that the peaced-out indie kids didn't take kindly to the gun-toting greed-glorifying misogynism of his act.
I'd heard very different reports of the crowd's reaction at Leeds. I'd heard that everytime he got the audience to shout something out they shouted "Green Day". Like this:
"When I say 50, you say cent....
FIDDY!"
"GREEN DAY!"
"FIDDY!"
"GREEN DAY!"
which is very amusing, if true.
Well that's great, nice one, sorry. You like lots of kinds of music. However, you can't accuse Joe Public of being blind to good music while you, as a reviewer with lots of great stuff to shout about, sit here preaching to the converted. Maybe you can correct me again - I'm eager to learn!
I don't put myself on a higher level than an NME reader, they do.
Kidding.
But seriously, it's just more of your sheep that you refer to. Believe me - from the outside there is very little difference between NME and Smash Hits or CD;UK or whatever. The music covered is different in style, but equally lacking in content most of the time. The pressure and impossibilty of "getting signed" drives "indie" bands to produce material so commercially-contrived that they sound just as crass as the music they hate. But it's an old story.
Yes, it's about time there was more Fin-influenced-goth-pop in Leeds.
Seriously though - have you got any gigs in Leeds coming up?
I don't understand.
Your first point suggests that you give points for "resources, experience and ambition". Why? Do you give them better/worse marks if they used better quality equipment? Do you count their gigs and multiply it by "the percentage of fire in their eyes"?
Re: you second point: On what "criteria" do you give stars?
P.S. I think your reviews are very good. You generally acheive what is the most difficult thing - you give an honest opinion, then back it up in descriptive fact. It's really hard when you find yourself hating something but can't explain why, which must happen sometimes.
And they're funny too.
But the stars don't tally IMO.
No, he probably doesn't exist. He is actually a figment of his own imagination.
Wow - mindbending! Can your feebloid brain cope with THAT, Rasmus-lover!?!?!
you love them, everyone knows it. You're their biggest fan, and you kiss their faces on the screen when you're watching their video which you taped off mtv, and watch on a loop all day and night and you don't even sleep cos you don't want to lose one minute of time you could be spending watching your favourite band with their singer who you are really really in love with and want to move to san fransisco with so you can legally be married to him and have babies with and make him sing his lovely songs to you for all eternity while you gaze lovingly into his cold dead eyes.
Why can't you review it if it's old?
James Walsh? I didn't realise people in bands like starsailor were allowed names. I'd assumed they were barcoded. Except for Chris Martin, who is the uber-lord of modern muzak.
Now I have his name, I can find out where he lives and do something nasty, like send him a pizza he never ordered.
MWA HA HA HA HA
rob - you criticise the title - but what about the quality of the pun?
Fluid release.
They are dirty boys. Leather trousers redirect the bloodflow in an unhealthy way.
Oh, well pardon me for not having memorised every date of every bank holiday. I suppose you know what date easter will be on in 2010.
So hang on it's at the same time as Leeds fest? How strange. I didn't think there'd be any gigs in Leds that weekend, but now I have somewhere to go (apart from Doctor Wu's on the Saturday afternoon to watch Shaun T Hunter)
The "pressure" is keeping you awake at night?
Try changing position.
And don't let them bring their amps.
I can see it from my window - it's a bit of a stalemate really. The longer the driver waits the more I'll have to pay when I finally go outside. But he'll eventually have to go home, whereas I have my nuclear-winter-stockpile of canned goods to see me through. I'm quietly confident.
mmmmm
isn't emo the purple one off sesame street? Were bert and ernie gay? Big bird definitely was.
You can't smite me here....
lemonhead ron is really dale winton.
I'm not being an arse, just joining in the debate. Why be insulting? No - it's OK - don't apologise.
There are of niche websites -there are Leeds Jazz websites, and a lot of Jazz gigs - the fact that they don't advertise here is a shame, and they should. There's a folk website and asian-music website too.
Maybe that explains why they're under-represented here.
Yes, those old blues guys sure had some silly names! Sadly you don't seem to know what any of them were.
I thought your complaint was that he didn't come across as genuine, but it must have been a personality thing, rather than a music thing. Which is equally important, don't get me wrong. I'm definitely gonna be checking him out, though.
I expect hula-hoops, and i expect them arranged on a plate by order of circular-ness. any broken ones and i'm outta there
I'd like to say that the above review proves my point, but I'm sure many will disagree. It's perhaps a little verbose, but it's much more informative. I suppose the difference is that positive reviews will always be better, cos it must be very hard to go into detail about something you don't like.
Mike - I've emailed you at your band forum in response to this.
Finally the reason I have this stupid name is revealed. Actually, we're already in talks with Warner/Chappel to become a subsidiary. NOT REALLY!
The guitarist in Vib Gyor really reminds me of someone...
(really good band by the way)
Yes, I want to hear what the bands are like, not how dull your life is.
Noah - do you think it would be fair to say that a response to something as "bland" reflects as much on the listener as it does on the music. E.g. if you only ever listened to Sepultura, Robert Jonson and Ornette Coleman, then anything would seem bland. In other words, if you only eat vindaloo, that's fine, but don't expect to be able to taste the wine.
I don't understand why you would be so negative about the music scene on it's own official website. I've been in the scene here for a few years too, and I virtually never see pop-punk or ska bands, despite going to 2-3 gigs every week. If you want to see some different music, go to some different gigs. You judge the scene when you clearly haven't even noticed 75% of it. E.g. Come see me play at Doctor Wu's on March 6th, 3.30pm; make yourself known and I'll buy you a pint. Then you can go piss in your OWN beer, instead of everyone else's.
superb review, much enjoyed.
You can download mp3's from the album at www.jongomm.com
Thanks for the review LHR
what a great review, funny and informative: well done Ron.
Your comments about crappy stage lighting are duly noted (in fact I've mentioned it to the propietors before).
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