As funny as these guys being fronted by one of the 21st Century Girls?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
The Feeling: they want to be Radiohead, really they're not even Travis.
― snoball, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought The Feeling wanted to be Supertramp?
Scouting For Girls are worse. The Feeling look like session musicians, The Hoosiers look like... twats, but Scouting For Girls look like date-rapists.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Does looking like a date rapist prevent you from making good music?
The Jam looked pretty rapey.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Scouting For Girls are worse
Why do you think I excluded them from this poll?
― Mark G, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
you think you're hot snot on a silver platter but you're really cold boogers on a paper plate
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
The Feeling: they want to be Radiohead
Wrongest thing ever said on ILM!
― musically, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
If you look like a date-rapist and make wimpy sub-Keane, sub-Supertramp piano ballads for girls who like boys in white Fred Perrys, then you're gonna be shit. If you look like a date-rapist and make... I dunno. Thuggish music, maybe? it's the concealed thuggery in SfG that makes them sinister and bad and nasty; likewise Kaiser Chiefs. Date-Rape Rock, we should call it. If they sounded like The Young Gods it'd be OK.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost) I get "the feeling" (ha ha ha... oh never mind) that The Feeling want to be political like Radiohead. Scouting for Girls? WTF is it with these "zero stage presence" bands? Hot Chip look like Tony Robinson and the crew from Time Team spending their day off pissing around in Dixons.
― snoball, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Hoosiers, hands down. That singer is such a collosal prick. The Feeling don't particularly offend me.
― chap, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I was amazed when I found out the Hoosiers were British. I'd heard them for months and just always assumed they're American.
The Hoosiers are far shittier than The Feeling.
― nate woolls, Monday, 3 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate the Feeling so much. They are on a par with Scouting for Girls. The Hoosiers I don't care about and at least they didn't have a song on ABC1 ALL YEAR last year. But is the poll question "Who's worse" or "Who gets your goat less"??? this is key.
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 3 March 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Was it really only a year ago that Orson won best international band at the Brits?
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 3 March 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
kiss of death?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
The Feeling are apparently The Official Guilty Pleasures Band.
I believe the word is "pogrom."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
one festival to avoid:
v festival
The line-up so far is:
16th August Hylands Park/17th August Weston Park
V Stage: Muse Stereophonics The Kooks Maximo Park Alanis Morissette The Futureheads
Channel 4 Stage: The Prodigy The Pigeon Detectives Newton Faulkner The Hoosiers Duffy Amy Macdonald Shed Seven
JJB Arena: Ian Brown The Pogues Jamie T The Twang Sugababes David Jordan
16th August Weston Park/17th August Hylands Park
V Stage: The Verve Kings Of Leon Amy Winehouse Lenny Kravitz The Feeling Girls Aloud Squeeze One Republic
Channel 4 Stage: Kaiser Chiefs The Zutons The View Reverend And The Makers Scouting For Girls The Courteeners The Rifles
JJB Arena: The Chemical Brothers The Charlatans Hot Chip Travis Robyn
Tickets go on sale 10am, Friday 7th March.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
That does indeed look like a vision of hell on earth.
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
All festivals should be avoided. I've got a stereo, a bathtub and an imagination; I'm staying at home this summer.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
But is the poll question "Who's worse" or "Who gets your goat less"??? this is key.
^^ cos i want to vote hoosiers worst for music/vids/singer's face/THAT ad.
― or something, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy shit @ that V lineup
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
what's the comedy tent like?
(I know, it's a canvas thing with ropes and poles, etc..)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^This is a list of bands where THE ZUTONS are the best act on it.
Think about that people.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Comedy Tent: Marcus Brigstocke and his Rich Snowboarding Mates
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
V festival is the mainstream festival - blend the following: Radio 1 / Radio 2 / NME / Q / Virgin Radio
― djmartian, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Marcus Brigstocke's current stand-up routine contains five minutes on "Have you ever noticed how CHAVS hire CHEAP LIMOS?"
He truly is the comedy mind of his generation.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The Chemical Brothers The Charlatans Hot Chip
That's alright tho, innit? Chems were good last year at Glasto.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The Feeling are better, but both are brilliant, so I refuse to vote for Hoosiers as "worse". There should be more music like that in the charts. Softrock rules!
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^Only man who can challenge Brigstocke for the comedy crown
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought The Charlatans had split up, anyway.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir, I made an option for you.
But I eated it!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Generally, the world needs way more ELO/Jellyfish-influenced acts and way less Aretha Franklin/James Brown-influenced acts. That would make music better.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
No doubt the main DJ at the V Festival will be Sean "Guilty Pleasures" Rowley, the Steve Walsh of his age, turning up and playing the same four records for another 50 grand. Nice work if you can invent it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
It is The Feeling, without a shadow of a doubt
― joedee, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I enjoyed the documentary about Geir on Radio 4 last night:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/pip/zy9cp/
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
This has nothing to do with skin colour. I hate R&B and funk for its lack of melody and harmony, not because it's associated with black people.
A lot of great melodic music has been made by black people and even more awful and completely unlistenable non-melodic music has been made by white people.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I enjoyed the chat show which Geir used to host:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39712000/jpg/_39712465_kilroy_bbc_203.jpg
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh oh wo oh wo...
http://www.go-quick.com/GoodbyeMrAmberAlice.mp3
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Four Geirs? (and reverse)
― Mark G, Friday, 7 March 2008 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link