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In '97 a girl I liked who generally had very good taste in music recommended Symposium, I got one single, was not hugely impressed but thought it was ok, revisiting it now, yeah, it's bad. iirc they lost all their cool points when it turned out the singer was a practicing christian, also turned out the girl I liked was one too, so maybe this is all making sense now.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link

or maybe not i dunno

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link

huh Daisy Chainsaw was British did not know that

i don't even remember their song but seems like such and American band name

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link

they turned into Queen Adreena later just for you

sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link

the website that link is on has one of the most poorly worded slogans I've ever seen

"the box set and reissue music site for fans who love holding the music in their hands"

Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link

"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 perplexingly isn't included on the 18 disc box set and therefore all record companies are the devil incarnate"

MaresNest, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link

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.

Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link

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


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