― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't like mansun, although i don't loathe them like i loathe other britpop, and am frankly shocked that there are people thinking about them in 2006.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHA
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
(x-post oh that "little britain". I haven't got a telly, so I haven't seen it. I thought there was a band called little britain, or something)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
i think this is the crux of my not understanding re mansun! i can just about imagine liking them at the time, but 10 years on we are all older and wiser surely.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
There's never been a better time to talk about Mansun, with Paolo Nutini dragging British music to a new low...
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(Said with straight face. Oceansize rock)
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Louis, I emailed you. Reply.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Oceansize are a band who combine metal, post-rock and electronica, with a 3-guitar attack and effects pedals to die for. They are worth checking out. Honestly.
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
with Paolo Nutini dragging British music to a new low...
Paolo Nutini's parents own a very good chip shop where I have been often known to buy my lunch when I am on my break from work and don't give a toss about grease and spots and my weight. I realise this doesn't excuse his music (but it's better than James Blunt, if damning with faint praise is any consolation to him), but I can't bring himself to hate him entirely.
Mansun, on the other hand, were terrific. Classic, totally.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i knew this would be a L***s J****r thread revive
― Just got offed, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
No shit.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Louis Jagger and Paul Draper are now friends. 11:45pm
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Paul Draper is looking for the new sound like the mighty boosh! Updated 4 hours ago
― banriquit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Good grief LJ is the second friend I have in common with Paul Draper. I'm so ashamed.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
think my ex snogged paul draper one time.
― banriquit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
when she was, you know, 15.
― banriquit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
P4EDO DRAPER SHAME
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Groups include:
Paul Draper Chinese Group Bring back Mansun!!!! Fans of Dominic Chad Mansun appreciation society (aka lets start the worlds smallest FB group) Come back Mansun and Draper Paul Draper Official
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
poor guy
― banriquit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess he must be now; it's been a while. If he wants the royalites to start flowing again he should lobby for some Mansun tracks to be included on the soundtrack to upcoming BBC1 time travel cop series Jump They Say.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ROYALTIES morelike
Royal-ites
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
No, that was the Brotherhood of Man.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
If you sing "Being a Girl" in a stupid voice, it does become a bog standard Franz track. -- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:56 (1 year ago) Link
^^^REAL TALK
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
the only mansun fan i've ever met is a terrible, terrible cunt
― DG, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
the only mansun fan i've ever met is an internet legend
― banriquit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Yr ex-girlfriend is an internet legend?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
naw, i don't think she was a big fan rly.
im talking about louis.
― banriquit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
So anyway. Plus bonus Kula Shaker trashing.
http://www.vanyaland.com/2013/11/15/paul-draper-britpop-band-mansun-california-rapper-mansun-face-twitter-dazzling-results/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 November 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
I thought paolo nutini had one okay song
― OutdoorFish, Friday, 15 November 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
good-natured beefs that result in potential collaboration are the future, i've seen it
― imago, Friday, 15 November 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
boggling at the fact that Draper has a blue tick on his twitter account.
― a band called 'Affairs'. They play instruments (soref), Friday, 15 November 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
i just can't get through the solo album. so much clattery, so much singy, too much something. I love the work he did on the Anchoress album but I'm not enjoying the work she did on this.
― akm, Friday, 11 August 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
Just listening to this for the first time. Don't Poke The Bear is one of the worst openers I've heard in a long time. I know his voice was always an acquired taste but that is such a horrible vocal.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 13 August 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to the album for the first time right now, still on "Don't Poke the Bear", and yeah, I was pretty into it until the vocal came in. Definitely a Bold Choice.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 13 August 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
this is better than i expected
― imago, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
pvmic
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
i expected it to be bad tbf
― imago, Friday, 18 August 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
pvmnic
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
He could have followed Six with this album. Nothing quite as good as I Can Only Disappoint U, though
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
I'm going to listen to ATTACK OF THE GREY LANTERN tonight.
― the pinefox, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
is he not #cancelled now
― boxedjoy, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
nah he was a pathetic ass but idk if 'drunkenly propositioning your tourmate on fbook chat' is full-cancel territory. like, obv v shitty but yellow card and 'do better' imo
― imago, Monday, 3 August 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
Paul Draper: ex-Mansun frontman denies stalking musician Catherine Anne Davies https://t.co/tzHjmCYadO— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) December 12, 2022
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 12 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
a pattern has emerged :(
no excuse at all but he is fucked in the head and needs help as well as censure/punishment
― imago, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
honestly fuck him anyway tho, not gonna let this ruin Six but fuck relistening to his recent solo stuff (which was awful recriminatory bollocks anyway)
― imago, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
CAD and I are FB friends and she's posted obliquely about this over the years on her personal account, but didn't know the extent of it, and I have no reason to think she is anything other than utterly sincere and he is an absolute cunt
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 12 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
well as i say (as my post before the jump demonstrates), this is not a first offence!
― imago, Monday, 12 December 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
he did not 'do better'
Somehow he and his lawyers blocked the story Laura Snapes had been working on for a while where she had talked to some of his victims. I'm glad he's finally getting called out in public. He's an awful human being and I doubt I'll listen to Mansun again.
― kitchen person, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
There's more? Ugh
― imago, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
As I say though, I tend to forgive the art more than the artist, especially if the art long pre-dates the awful behaviour. You will prise Six from my cold dead hands etc, but Draper now? The wolves can have him
― imago, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
He seems to have gone massively downhill in recent years. I liked his first solo album, but fuck knows what has happened to him
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
i believe CAD wrote a lot of that first solo album so maybe that's part of the issue.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
That 'Things People Want' song sounded like a lost single from Mansun at their best.Strange to think just a few years down the line, everything is now in the bin, completely
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link