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

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i predict a brief bit of shoving

mark s, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link

The guy in the middle isn't in the band btw.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link

... he also isn't in Motherwell FC anymore.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link

"banter thiefs" has to be the most woebegone attempt at self-naming -- and indeed swagger -- itt

(poll opportunity i suppose)

mark s, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link

they're practically a Limmy creation

imago, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link

the young Stuart McCall appears to have teleported into their photo-shoot.

calzino, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link

I can't tell which thread is more quintessentially British between this one and 'Real England' on ILE.

pomenitul, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link

re: Soldier On video -- I guess the Blind Melon video "bee girl" wasn't as iconic in the UK?

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link

the what now?

smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link

haha as i thought
their bee costume bit reminded me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link

Tbh I have heard of Blind Melon but never knowingly heard them. Some kind of Spin Doctors-y sub jam band?

smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link

Lol sub-jamband not Sub Jam band

smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link

Stop it right there mister. Blind Melon were actually a pretty decent band tbf

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 23 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link

it is a mystery.gif

smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link

https://image.ibb.co/fCaZOH/parkas.jpg

We Are Parkas, in blunt terms, are the passion and power you've been missing from modern day indie music.

Taking an arena sized sound into a venue with four walls and a ceiling would seem quite challenging most bands, but no such challenge stands before We Are Parkas. Having formed just two and a half years ago, the band have already established themselves as Bath’s most exciting prospect in indie rock.

They take inspiration from the greats. Namely the Arctic Monkeys, The Jam, The Strokes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and others of a similar vein. With towering riffs, soaring melodies, and palpable charisma their live show is a refreshing injection of pure energy and passion. It must be seen to be believed.

Their debut EP titled ’We Are The Gods’, was released on all major platforms on March 23rd, and the subsequent tour which spanned 16 dates across the country was as raucous and successful as the EP has proven to be. The band are already in the process of recording new material, with a new single rumoured to be released by December.

‘We•Are•Parkas are one of Bath / Bath Spa University's most promising bands. Convicting, intense and uptight indie delivered with a Gallagher swagger and lashings of rock and roll like it should be.’ - Reuben Myles, RMT Productions."

‘’Think mid 00’s indie-golden era. There is a definite influence from likes of The Fratellis and Razorlight in these tunes, with the title track ‘We Are Gods’ sounding very Two Door Cinema Club to me at the start. However don’t let that take away from the exceptional songwriting in this record, with the lead singer’s outstanding voice making it all sound completely original.’’ - Sean Wise, Spice UK

'guitar rifts that bring things back to basics, building to a powerful chorus that you can easily imagine being belted out at the biggest festivals'

alien lames (NickB), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link

why has that bloke by the car brought his son along with him?

alien lames (NickB), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link

the band have already established themselves as Bath’s most exciting prospect in indie rock.

High praise indeed.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link

If only they could agree on what their name is.

lana del boy (ledge), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link

that photo might not necessarily belong w/ that biog tbf

alien lames (NickB), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link

I love how every one of these several thousand identical press blurbs says "we're bringing back something that's missing"

smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link

isn't that the guy from the car hire advert? (the non-American one)

https://image.ibb.co/fCaZOH/parkas.jpg

Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 23 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link

the one behind him looks a little like Det Sgt Livingstone from the original Taggart.

The cunt with the hat just looks like a cunt with a hat

Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 23 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link

The Parkas are another professional wedding receptions/corporate gigs group playing that play britpop hits, definitely think this genus of swaggerband has an identifiable look.

have any actual britpop one-hit-wonders gone down the cover-band route?

soref, Friday, 23 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link

Nowaysis

PaulTMA, Friday, 23 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link

I try (try) not to be too judgemental since my tastes, appearance and behaviour aren't always exactly above reproach but jesus fucking christ the absolute state of all these fucks.

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link

They take inspiration from the greats. Namely the Arctic Monkeys, The Jam, The Strokes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and others of a similar vein

If you asked me to name off the "greats" it might take me a couple of days before I got to any of these bands...also are there really bands in a similar vein as the Jam AND RHCP? If there are I do not want to hear them

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link

"We are in the musical sweet spot right between "All Mod Cons" and "One Hot Minute""

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link

aren't you in a band ultros?

imago, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link

Uh I've been in a few tiny local bands but nothing of even miniscule note. And certainly nothing like this!

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link

time for you to don the trilby and make a blow for all the progge lads out there

imago, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link

How's your swagger?

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link

Absolutely terrible. Does anyone have the number of a good swagcoach?

btw I have never raised a fist in anger but the closest I've ever come close to glassing someone is when I played one of those gigs where you just get three random unfitting bands thrown together on a wednesday night in Leicester or whatever. Making small talk beforehand with the guitarist from one of the other bands, who could have passed for most of these fuckers in the thread what kind of music he played, and he just leaned back on the bar and drawled "rock n roooooll, man." ffffff

coolstorybro etc

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link

actually I'm quite interested to hear about your brushes with landfill

hopefully involving you playing some insane shit at the previously comfort-zoned audience

imago, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link

The most startled looks I ever got was with the proggy post-metal band I was in that tuned down to G, I don't think people were expecting something that heavy lol. Otherwise sorry to disappoint, most of my musical forays have been quite vanilla, occasionally I join a band because I feel like I ought to be doing something but I rarely find anyone with interesting taste. Increasingly resigned to the idea that if I want to get something out I need to do it myself and throw it up on bandcamp to be ignored.

Or I could become like a sleeper agent with one of these landfill bands, gradually twist them around to my way of thinking so we end up playing a mix of Gentle Giant and Liturgy with the swagger of Forgotten Spell.

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 February 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link

Also when I was quite young I was kicked out of a metal band for playing too many notes, that's gotta get get me some progge points

obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 23 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link

Lol

a mix of Gentle Giant and Liturgy with the swagger of Forgotten Spell

I'll drum :D

imago, Friday, 23 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link

"We are in the musical sweet spot right between "All Mod Cons" and "One Hot Minute""

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, February 23, 2018 1:12 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm imagining Flea slapping all over the Jam

It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link

Give Kiedis a bowl cut and a Fred Perry shirt...boom biggest band in the world.

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 23 February 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link

https://i2-prod.examiner.co.uk/incoming/article14331134.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/JS144524528.jpg

"I’ve always had a band or been a singer. It’s like a disease. It never leaves me."

the guy from the famous apostrophe free Mikes Carpets tv advert nails this whole phenomena.

“I started my career on the markets and in the early days, when I was out gigging, that supported my income. Nowadays I play abroad a lot, such as in Majorca from time to time.

“I do early rock ‘n’ roll – and a lot of Rod Stewart for obvious reasons!”

Anyone interested in him expanding on these "obvious reasons" should listen to him speak about his extraordinary life as a guest of Batley History group.

calzino, Saturday, 24 February 2018 10:42 (six years ago) link

He has the swagger of Charlie Mullins. Possibly a thread there on business owners from around the UK still trying to look like Rod Stewart ca. 1975.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link

sounds like a plan!

calzino, Saturday, 24 February 2018 11:02 (six years ago) link

it's like a disease:
http://i.imgur.com/Ta7nwns.jpg

(otoh john lennon mccullagh seems to have vanished from the haunts the men) (i feel a bit sorry for him: he was just a kid and mcgree ruined everything for him)

mark s, Saturday, 24 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link

ladies and gentlemen

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpfPmg9WcAAPOyq.jpg:large

smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link

are there really bands in a similar vein as the Jam AND RHCP? If there are I do not want to hear them

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, February 23, 2018 7:08 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do, because I like both bands and sure as hell can't imagine it.

Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link

What I've got, you've got to give it to your mamma
What I've got, you've got to give it to your pappa
I've a little money and a take away curry

dorsalstop, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/ZTade0l.png

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link

It's the intellectual swagger of this fellow's brain that really takes the breath away, rather than his dazzling attire.

calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

Is there a better place to put this? I could honestly stare at it for hours.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DauuD17X4AAMN9W.jpg

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 14 April 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link

local councillors thread iirc

Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link


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