a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

http://i.imgur.com/fZbQg5I.png

I wonder how many of the acts listed below the three headliners are swaggerbands? "Local Lads Done Good" are pretty much a dead cert, right?

sad to see blur's bass player fallen on such hard times

Just looked them up, nobody in the band is called Alex James. There is an Alex, but no James. It could be his middle name, but.

Alex James and The Sound
Alternative Rock

One of the most exciting New Alternative Rock bands to emerge in the UK in 2016, Alex James and the Sound are based in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The band comprises of Alex Brierley (lead vocals/guitar & Keyboard), Cameron Maunder (guitar and backing vocals), Kurtis Maunder (Bass guitar and backing vocals) and Sam Robinson (drums)

so...none of them are actually called "Alex James"? what a cynical attempt to cash in on the popularity of the beloved Daily Telegraph columnist/artisan cheesesmaker/Blur bass player

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♪ ♪ ♪ C A B B A G E ♪ ♪ ♪ is my hate-read of the week. Thanks ILX!

this last few weeks has seen a pretty big revival of the swagger bands. 2 of them (both already mentioned?) Catfish and Blossoms have each had a number 1 album in the UK. Blossoms are still number 1 now. suddenly the mix of Roses and whoever is popular again. I'd never have thought it possible even a year ago.

I saw a poster for cabbage when I was home on glasgow a couple of weeks ago and a) immediately thought of this thread and b) could almost not believe what i was seeing due to how terrible the photo and how awful the name

But what are they actually like? Gang of Four? Flowered Up? Ocean Colour Scene? Or wot?

i ruined my day to give you the chance to ruin yours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hah4_gj-Bs

a) clearly not Swag in aesthetic or sound
b) really cool idea making a vid about torturing norms which has no relation or bearing to anything that might have happened in real life

this last few weeks has seen a pretty big revival of the swagger bands. 2 of them (both already mentioned?) Catfish and Blossoms have each had a number 1 album in the UK. Blossoms are still number 1 now. suddenly the mix of Roses and whoever is popular again. I'd never have thought it possible even a year ago.

Brexit.

real music taking back control of our great british hit parade

a lot to unpack here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklgoPTv9X8

just the latest avatar of this perennial brand of student shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db6WHtNV5-I

a mix between A Tribe of Toffs and The Sultans of Ping FC with the swagger of Cud

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We need to talk about Kevin.

It seems like we're entering the age of 'Kevin'. I don't think I've encountered my own name (not referring to me) so often as I have over the past couple of years.

There's now a show on Radio X (the new XFM) called 'Indie Landfill'

Really?

Could have called it "Indie Ghetto", and go Elvis to sing the theme song.

surely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmWUqzpan7A

xp rah!

It seems like we're entering the age of 'Kevin'. I don't think I've encountered my own name (not referring to me) so often as I have over the past couple of years.

Kevin has been around for a bit - https://www.discogs.com/artist/370423-Kevin-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpEL5KLgzg

Sure, and the Undertones, for example. It's completely a subjective thing, but it just seems like I'm encountering a lot more Kevins atm. Growing up it seemed the only other Kevin was the wine gums fruit bat.

http://www.unionjack.co.uk/on-air/

http://www.htafc.com/cms_images/redstar-4-3-2238-1168344_478x359.jpg

http://www.htafc.com/cms_images/match/redstar-4x3-1238-1211746_478x359.jpg

https://gigmit-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/media_item/74104/large_76875030.jpg

http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6031/

http://www.parishpub.co.uk/public/images/images/1447785719.1784.jpg

Based in Halifax the band play country wide and are heavily influenced by bands such as Stones, The Who and Oasis. Plenty of original material as well.

we'll be the judge of that lads

http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/photo/images/2852.jpg

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/3897865/

a lost generation - fucking tragic

why can i hear the theme to Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads??

Boy on the far left just needs a pipe to complete the hommage à Harold Wilson.

http://charmfactory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Clay-2016.jpg

wait, what year is this? there's still time to stop Blair!

So, for our readers who haven’t come across you yet, how would you describe the band?

We pride our sound on being unique and try not to be like many others.

Can you describe the band in 3 words?

Fucking mega mate!

Desert Island disc?

Oasis, Definitely Maybe – easy!

The problem with Smile Awhile is that their frontman appears to be Bruce Dickinson

"Indie lads RedStar to record Huddersfield Town classic Smile Awhile"
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/indie-lads-redstar-record-huddersfield-5693179

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OwIkAmgo8

Someone on our football messageboard posted a RedStar vs Oasis pic to illustrate the insurmountable gap in class between us + Man City and eight people liked the post!

Redstar look like they've got a member who used to be in the SAS?

makes sense, that's music straight out of the interrogation phase of special forces training

The Mary Hopkins version is perfectly charming. It is a Russian song from the great terror era so I'm sure the inherent tragedy that is imbued in it wasn't lost at all on these sensitive artistes :p

We're apparently in the midst of another great terror era... if ILX is to be believed.

I'm shamed by my confusion over their name

'Love Is High (It's Here In The Sky)' by The Hector Collectors
https://thehectorcollectors.bandcamp.com/track/love-is-high-its-here-in-the-sky

Apparently Colin Firth has joined a Verve tribute band

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/16300351_406567049683102_3631799543643237508_o.jpg