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from The ends of your fingers - whereabouts in ireland you from? i was also a 19-year old student from ireland when i came across ilm.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ned you're just bitter because louis's sarcastic vitriol threatens to make your eternal optimism and garrulous chatter obsolete

Help help!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

How old would Nowell be these days?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I like to divide my time between Limerick and Galway.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I was 17 when I first posted on ILM. Please tell me I was never as bad as young Mr. Jagger here.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The first two sentences of that post, Ned, have been safely copied and pasted for future reference. Hey - from your 90's records list I gathered you were a safe dude with an astoundingly perceptive taste in music, but NOW, I'm thinking that you're...

...pretty perceptive when it comes to people too. Sorry, but I'm off to find a chair, a light-fitting and a rope. Enjoy the rest of your life.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(make that first THREE sentences)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus. I just wanted to say hello. For the love of God.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

There should be a standard introduction form for ILM so people can get a handle on you quickly, y'know, the way paedos fire off an A/S/L.
A/S/L/MBV? But that wouldn't fit with the arcane initiations.

Anways, hiya, how's it going, welcome welcome. I'm Irish and a recidivist student myself, just wrote off four years of trinity for a DIT course I barely know anything about (Oy!). You're doing art? Dun Laoighre, NCAD or something? I'm a Galwegian myself.

Also Louis, it's possible you have too much sugar in your diet, try switching to wholewheats and other slow releasing foods, green tea and decaf coffee, less cola, a little valerian before bed even.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

in one of my first posts here, I made the terrible mistake of shit-talking Durham. then a certain goat-y fellow chewed me out and I felt so bad I apologized to him at a concert a couple weeks later.

I'll bet that motherfucker still hasn't even played Metal Gear Solid 3, either.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Mate (Alfonso), I'm the one reeling in shock at what's going on here. How can this have happened? Is what I've done really so completely criminal?

Off now, so you can thank your lucky stars you'll be safe for a while.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

No, relaxing in my hometown of Galway right now but I do painting in Limerick School of Art & Design. We are part of LIT but since we have a separate campus we like to pretend we are in some way superior. By we I don't mean me by the way.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I was 17 when I first posted on ILM. Please tell me I was never as bad as young Mr. Jagger here.

i guess i was 19 when i first posted, too. my first was something genuinely serious like "PITCHFORKGATE: ARE THEY FUDGING THE YEAR-END POLLS??" hahaha.. i'm pretty, er, benign nowadays.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

There are people on ILX who still don't realize the genius of late Roxy Music?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jagger, you didn't get any huggies because... well, you like (and will defend) Oceansize.

Also, I would like to express my dismay at some of the ageism expressed on this particular thread. Patently unfunny, eager-to-impress, shit-eating types come in all shapes, sizes and ages. So do people who know what the hell they're talking about (or those who keep quiet until they have something decent to contribute). So quit the generalized 'these yung'uns' bitching, not only because it's rude to the younger ILXor set who know (or want to know more) about what we're speaking, but because it makes you sound like a bunch of old ninnies.

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

okay here it is:

http://oberlin.edu/student/lfamular/headache.jpg

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

enjoy

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

trees OTM. Meanwhile...

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope ilx is still around in the future so I can introduce my firstborn son to it on his 18th birthday

and then call him out for the token martian pick on his year-end list

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

is that funny?

xpost

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

All right, I apologise for the Arctic Monkeys outburst, it WON'T happen again, it WASN'T big nor clever, and I WILL try to act more reasonably in future. You won't catch me conforming to a 'music-critic snarky stereotype' though.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw Paul Morley on the telly talking about how great the Arctic Monkeys are. It was really disappointing. He said they were the best British band of the moment.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis, just tone it down a little & stop apologising. you'll be fine. in fact you already are. "It makes us wish you were dead, which is a sad state of affairs." is pretty vile & not just because of the assumed "us".

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, there's always using the royal we.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i believe that's exactly what you did

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

:-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, was this all part of the 'troll campaign' on the 'Ban Louis Jagger' moderator thread? Just curious, y'see.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the first I've heard about said thread or some supposed campaign, thank you very much. Now that you've called attention to this thread I will look into it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Likes Neutral Milk Hotel

Sweet let's be friends.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Chill louis, it isn't necessary to reply to EVERYTHING here.

I think they were vultures by the way.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dear i hadn't seen that Modreq thread and now realise i haven't been folowing this saga as closely as others (probably just as well).

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

modreq is the dark side of ilx

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

No Pink Floyd jokes please.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry unintentional

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant jokes after what you said.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

He means like:

Classic or Dud is the Meddle of ilx

Newbies are the Momentary Lapse of Reason of ilx

like that right?

trolls are the Obscued by Clouds of ilx

or...

cause they're NOT funny

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

if newbies are the Momentary Lapse Of Reason of ilx,

i'm probably The Dogs Of War

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://oberlin.edu/student/lfamular/headache.jpg

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah all those jokes were really bad; i shouldn't have dwelt on it

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

All thats needed now is Custos.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Shit like this is why I lurk.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello fellow Irisher. Ignore all the unpleastantness, things'll calm down soon enough.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Now there are a few Irish here, I suggest we all get a tricolour and go and watch Christy Moore.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Or create a "I Love Trad" board.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, sweaty Christy Moore. Seen as the very pinnacle of singer-songwriter entertainment in Ireland. His only concession to showmanship is mentioning place names in songs, at which the audience usually goes mental. And making very simplistic political analogies. And sounding like he's on the verge of a heart-attack ALL THE TIME. He's a superstar, no doubt.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

it's the Saw Doctors for me. esp. when Ollie Jennings organises a whole alternative to the Galway Arts Festival just so he can have them play on Eyre Square. hehe.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Any band that calls a song 'I'd Like To Bang The Bangles' has got to be....shit.
Still, 'I Used To Love Her' (sadly not a Guns n'Roses cover) toppled The Sultans Of Ping's 'Where's Me Jumper?' for a brief period as Ireland's alternative national anthem. We are a proud nation.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The Saw Doctors played my village hall. Boyzone were once meant to, but then they started to get traction and moved to a bigger venue.. Claregalway. Of course they're shit, it's Gaa shirt rock.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I may break out an LOL for the term 'GAA Shirt Rock'. That's inspired.

LOL!

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Where's the love for the Hothouse Flowers? Have you people no hearts?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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Have you ever seen Akron/Family live though?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

To go back to the Irish discussion, yeah I always forget Donal Dineen exists too, the guy is the only genuinely alternative host in Ireland. He comes into the shop where I work and buys Border Community 12s=respect.

As for HP, think Major Alfonso pretty much nailed it. As a former writer I'm hardly impartial but........well FUCK THEM.

: )

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Care to do a little self-promotion, Ronan? I'm back in the motherland over the Electric Picnic weekend, and I never get enough time to explore the new record shops that have popped up in the few years that I've been away (I presume you're Dublin-based).

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link

2. Akron/Family are really a bunch of boring shite, fingers. The lyrics are enough to make me want to scream. And the music is bland.

o shit yr right

sorry never mind fingers

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked "Here comes the night" and "Headphones" are they still on? Also Phantom FM, what's the story?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

YES! Electric Picnic should be class!

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I work in Carbon inside the Urban Outfitters in Temple Bar, so easy to find, it's good for dance/indie/soul type stuff mostly. I'd say most people could find some stuff they like there.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Indeed, I remember getting Tortoise's 'Standards', a Shaolin Soul comp and a Tom Brock CD in a 3 for 25euro sale there. I'll be sure to check it out again!

So, who of the ILX Irishers (or otherwise) are going to Electric Picnic?

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My favourite place is Plugd in Cork.

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, trees, I know the huggies thing is yours but there isn't enough hugs on ilm, I just wanted to spread the love (esp recently).

Ronan, I remember narking you when you were working on Hotpress for not giving respect to the review section when I did read reviews in the Ticket and the Tribune, sorry about that! (I don't buy an Irish Sunday paper anymore, none of them are worth it). But yeah, I wouldn't give HP my money. I'm also now completely ignorant as to what's happening music wise in Ireland...
Never bought anything in Carbon, I always forget it exists. Urban Outfitters' clothes are muy expensive. Must remember Carbon's in there though.
I have an Electric Picnic ticket but not entirely sure I'm going yet. Ought to be though.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

*ahem* Plugging mine own thread here:

Electric Picnic in September...

Hot Press is woejus. I like Foggy Notions. Not the Tomlab CD though, sorry Mr. End of Fingers.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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