I used to love the Salad tune on that compilation tbf
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
the compilation has two of my favourite songs on it (teenage fanclub "everything flows" and arab strap "the first big weekend")
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
I went to the '97 NME tour gig in Cardiff which was rife with Lamaq fodder - Symposium, 3 Colours Red, Tiger and Geneva. Geneva were actually really good from what I recall, although somehow Tiger were headlining. I'm pretty sure this gig may have been a turning point in my falling out of love with indie and getting heavily into raving for a decade looking back.
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
From that lineup I would rate Tiger as still brilliant, other three somewhere between forgettable and awful (Geneva I liked at the time, revisiting their releases has changed my mind I'm afraid)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 January 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
Oh, and those NME tours had rotating headliners.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 January 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
No Kingmaker? Huge if true.
― fetter, Thursday, 17 January 2019 11:39 (five years ago) link
the nme tour gig i saw featured the datsuns, polyphonic spree, interpol and the thrills
ah, memories
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 January 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
alfie / amen / starsailor / JJ72 at the Astoria is the real goat
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 17 January 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
Can't help but think one of those bands didn't quite fit
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 17 January 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
2008: The Cribs, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ting Tings[6]
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
Even the flyer must have been a mess.
christ 2008 was a hellhole
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 January 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
2008 was the one I went to, I wanted to see The Ting Tings but my friends took forever to do predrinks and we missed them. I spent the night in a huff by the bar, hiding in the toilet and befriending people in the smoking section even though I don't smoke, because am I fuck ever surrending my time and energy to "Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong"
my biggest regret in life is that I stuck with the people I met in uni and spent years hanging around crap indie discos instead of making new pals and going to places playing UK funky and r&b
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
Version 2:
"the box set and reissue music site for overfocussed fans who become instantly psychotic when the Australia only edit of their favourite Kim Wilde 12 inch remix which was included on the 18 disc box set but six years later is reissued cheaply as a one-disc Australia 12" singles collection, and demands their money back"
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link