Mumford and Sons

fratellis is a v gd call

already on the list.

I'd argue against the Wobmats. They put all their good/decent stuff on album 1, and have spent at least 4 years trying to write new stuff!

They didn't have any good stuff in the first place. The Wombats totally belong here.

'chelsea dagger' has probably the most obnoxious hook of all time

still going SFG

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

Think Florence & The Machine have a bit too much presence and star quality and not enough stodginess to qualify for this. I vote for replacing them with The Subways.

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NV, agreed on Kasabian in the Primal Scream tradition (they're even into doltish revolutionary gestures, think they have a Corsican liberation thing?), just think that makes them a bit odd in the landfill indie world.

1-10 of about 81 results for "Primark Scream".

No the funny thing about Kasabian is that they constantly bang on about being into Can and Detroit techno and whatever but they're still firmly in the landfill. Idiocy of fans is a key factor here.

Makers and a revcerenced.

so the poll's up

the landfill that time forgot: crap uk bands of 00s/10s

There's also the school of 'naming your band after mediocre district of London (plural)' landfill indie, cf:

The Holloways
The Paddingtons

Probably The Canonburys and The Newingtons and The Walworths as well.

I don't think fire (or Empire) was a typical landfill single, and there are a few other bits and bobs but yeah ok 90% of the time it's suspiciously close to Hard Fi for a group of philosopher-kings.

I guess I will continue my doomed defence of Kasabian as 'bad and mildly unusual, not ultra-bad and identikit' on the poll.

Bombay Bicycle Club
Detroit Social Club
Cajun Dance Party
British Sea Power
Team Water Polo
Eastern Conference Champions
The Manchester Orchestra
Pete & The Pirates
Naked And The Boys

Glasvegas

dunno if all these bands is British as I'm a yank who downloads the XFM London Alternative Top 40 every month. funny how it all went electro last year

Brother.

I understand that Mumfords is now a band that's fun to hate - but really, they're not that bad. They've got some potential - they can write a decent melody and their harmonies are pretty nice. The singer needs to take himself a bit less seriously though, and the rhythm section needs to loosen up a bit - it seems they basically only have two speeds: a fast trot and a slow dirge. Still, they're fairly bearable as background music.

Lies

ban this monster

How did we forget Glasvegas?

easily

there's prob a separate discussion to be had about elbow/editors/glasvegas glumpen inanity

add one doves

Add one Coldplay.

so huge they block out the sun

oh christ, i these two guys the other day who were arguing about buying touted tickets for elbow @ £100. one was saying it was ethically wrong to buy from touts, the other that hell, someone will do it if i don't. elbow. jesus.

met

was hoping the missing verb would be "punched"

lol

that must be what passes for moral philosophy in asphodel

sooooo who can find the glummest band picture

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conventiom for bereaved charity muggers

n/m

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Lowline are not to be confused with the bands Lowgold or Lowlife or the album Lowlife by another Manchester group you may have heard of called New Order. They are an unsigned act from Britain's premier rock city with some fairly heavyweight support from the likes of The Enemy's Tom Clarke ("the best new band in the country") and The Verve's Nick McCabe ("Lowline make timeless music like no one can at the moment. Music with balls.")

Should have called themselves "Lowballs" then.

searched lowgold and got those reets

they're not even trying any more

Lowline are intense and sinister yet totally up lifting. A group of mates in their early twenties who formed in the spring of 2007, they spent the rest of that year writing, locked away in a warehouse in Manchester’s less-than-glamorous Ancoats district. There are flashes of inspiration from cult legends The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, but they strike a rare balance between razor sharp rock and roll, and epic shoegaze. Lowline’s intense guitar sound is underpinned by tribal house tinged drums and fuzzed up bass lines, all combine to make something with energy, atmosphere and spirit.

Their sound embodies the atmosphere of their City, whilst remaining distinctive and innovative, a combination that sets them apart and shows that this is the start of something special.

Urgh look at all these dour fat earnest northern tubbos in big jackets

From time to time I wonder which band I like puts me most out of step with ILX consensus. I think it's probably Elbow.

That's a whole thread of it's own.

i hate this sort of handwringing desperation for a quasi-religious experience at a festival that these guys represent. the arcade fire are like the godfathers of this thing but mumford obv a lot worse. i bet people love this band in ireland.

weirdly just found this trying to find another article....jesus, http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/11/mumford-sons-sigh-more

The pub is filling up: City boys in pinstriped suits, women clutching dry white wines; candles are lit on upstairs tables, voices rise to fill the room. In a back booth, far away from the clamour of the bar, four fastidiously attired young men nurse pints of ale. Mumford & Sons are here on a break from a nearby studio, where they have been rehearsing in ­preparation for an upcoming tour that will take them from Australia to the US and back to the UK for a run of sold-out dates, and which will likely cement their reputation as one of the best live bands in Britain.

the rest of that landfill thread is just shit music for retards, this is the living end

The pub is filling up: City boys in pinstriped suits, women clutching dry white wines; candles are lit on upstairs tables, voices rise to fill the room. Make no mistake: this is a seasoned crowd of gig goers and they will have known that Mumford and Sons will provide a genuine night's entertainment.

In a back booth, far away from the clamour of the bar, four fastidiously attired young men nurse pints of ale. There can be no doubt Mumford & Sons are here on a break from a nearby studio, where they have been rehearsing in ­preparation for an upcoming tour that will take them from Australia to the US and back to the UK for a run of sold-out dates, and which will likely cement their reputation as one of the best live bands in Britain.

BARTONULT

isn't laura barton like the rising star of the hilarious 'g2' section of the guardian?

The crowd danced and whooped and cheered and sang along, and when the set was over and the night's "special guest", the R&B artist Mr Hudson, appeared, the applause swiftly turned to boos. "I think it's a lot to do with the time – people enjoying rootsier music, reacting to manufactured music," posits Mumford quietly.

Springsteen is a crafty campaigner and he will have known his music can send men weeping along the weary way. Try telling that to a solitary candy floss seller in Southend however, he will be absolutely delighted.

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