Gallery of unfortunate band photos

There's a band on there called Sandwich. SANDWICH? I mean, presumably one of the band members said "Hey, guys! Let's call the band Sandwich!" And I can only assume that his colleagues, rather than say "No, that is truly the most toweringly shit band name we've ever heard, you fool", actually concurred.

It's a sick world.

Its rumoured that one of them, Big Tom & The Mainliners, would get a punk audience when playing in the US as people thought the name was a smack reference even though they paly country. Though I don't believe that.

Where I was made fun of when i posted it.

REVIVE!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jonsi452kardos.jpg

What puppet show is that?

This one's not doing Grizzly Bear any favors, given my already low estimation of their coddly, indie-comfort-food music:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/grizzlybearportrait452sanchez.jpg

OMG:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/baths452__.jpg

http://imgur.com/ugII0.jpg

The guy on the right looks like Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.

"Last month, Perfume Genius (otherwise known as Seattle songwriter Mike Hadreas) released Learning, an album full of shaken, wounded reveries."

― Pfork

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/perfumegenius.jpg

He doesn't look nearly shaken or wounded enough.

http://beyondrace.com/images/stories/AnimalPeta.jpg

The worst.

I <3 those guys' music but motherfuckers need to take a fucking shower.

I like to imagine some really droopy boobs are below the bottom of that perfume genius photo

I feel truly sorry for Robin Gibb here. Poor kid.

http://i38.tinypic.com/27y8gn7.jpg

I <3 those guys' music but motherfuckers need to take a fucking shower.

I have to give them credit for being three of the most anonymous looking dudes out there. Good way to avoid stalkers.

xpost

natural selection mayne

Whats wrong with the Jonsi pic? :/

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/clouddead/COVER241.jpg

xxxxp from Simon Napier-Bell's book 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me':

The lead singer had protruding teeth and a high warbly voice. He was generally known around the music business as the singing goat and one TV producer went to enormous lengths to send the whole thing up. Under instructions from Robert (Stigwood, the group's manager) to produce a beautiful artistic image of the group, the director placed his cameras on the singer in close-up profile, then he shot the rest of the group in miniature, in a pool of light in the distance. They were framed by the singer's open mouth, with the goaty teeth protruding over the small background figure like an awning over the tables of a French street cafe.

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/130/l_9ca91baf3d36410fa583050e7e6142d8.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/167ts47.jpg

Animal Collective: The Movie...

Starring Zach Galifianakis as Geologist....Winona Ryder as Panda Bear...and the guy who plays Osacr on The Office as Avey Tare...

anjelica huston is in a metal band now

local rag is trying to convince me to listen to these jokers:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/imager/b/magnum/2658980/fa86/music2-570x300.jpg

Oh hey, your country has it's equivalent of Mumford & Sons:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Lmbijs2fZwI/S6UaJP38GrI/AAAAAAAAEe0/uZLuWGki04A/s640/mumford-and-sons-otw.jpg

They could get together and swap mandolin tips!

need to open a lute/old timey hat store asap

Frightened Rabbit:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/frabbitphoto452.jpg

Man, that band looks like it needs some exercise.

are there any indie bands who've forgone the oblig staging of (completely unremarkable singer) foremost, other members aligned due to some coefficient of instrument played/stature/idiosyncracy?

I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.

Like Fugazi photos often have Joe Lally, the most introverted band member, in front or at least sharing the front.

Frightened Rabbit, or Faith + 1?

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/faith1eh3.jpg

I thought it had long been standard to deemphasize the charismatic singer/frontman in the photo as a kind of fuck you to celebrity. Maybe that was more true in my college days though.

― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 02:33 (1 hour ago)

true but that was a reaction to a long established protocol for diffidently conveyed hierachy, which now seems to have been restored

http://ezpicshare.com/images/art733-1282877352.jpg

some do it more subtly than others

all bands should look like that.

The Wiggles?

the decemberists

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/decemberists452.jpg

They all look vaguely embarrassed to be there.

except for the one holding the flowers

wow, that's some serious moon face he's got there

saw decemberists pic on a rare visit to pfk and thought of starting/reviving a 'terrible looking indie band' thread, so yeah

'how do we get the requisite emphasis on lead singer/songwriter without it seeming ~too~ obviously hierarchical?'
'is that srsly necessary? that's some serious moon face he's got there'
'yeah i dunno,.....just get him to hold some, like, candy canes, or a broken ragdoll'
'flowers it is'

Beardo #1 looks like a veteran surfer, beardo #2 looks like a university professor, beardo #3 looks like a comic book writer.

lol i can get behind that

beardo 3 looks like a douchebag

He does if you cover over guy-with-flowers.

Chick is longingly staring at fields of alfalfa.

Elevator conversation yesterday, circa 5pm:

Guy from neighboring office: so what are you listening to
Me: Mobb Deep. Because it's cold and rainy.
Guy: Ever heard of the Decembrists?
Me: um, yeah I know who they are. They're from Portland.
Guy: Well, I used to manage them.
Me: Really? Why did they fire you?
Guy: Well, I let them go. This is back when they were a jam band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio_%28band%29

I tried to steer the conversation to general music industry malaise type stuff rather than admit that I fucking hate this ludicrous band

loool

will anyone rep for'em? (dpn't look at me)

*jumps into line of fire* i liked the first couple of albums! maybe even the first three! i don't recall. and moonfaced smugness aside i don't suppose i have anything much against them now, although i haven't listened to them in a few years, or their last couple of albums.

also, if you covered over the two on the right in that there photo, i could imagine it being a photo of a band i'd like.

or there last couple of albums at all, i should say.

"The Crane Wife" is pretty awesome, to my recollection. Other than that they're pretty dire, although I embarrasedly admit I liked their goofier first couple albums a fair bit during the middle of the last decade.

yep, crane wife...fantastic...rest of their output...craptacular.

Saw them at a festival last year while they were touring for their last album, the rock opera. It was like watching a high-school production of "The Black Rider" made into a comedy. There was something very Rushmore about it.

beardo 3 looks like a douchebag

― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:47 (2 hours ago)

nah, he's cool - used to live in my town!

Apropos bit from M Perpetua's tumblr thingy today:

But just in recent memory, one thing that comes to mind is how the Decemberists went from being considered a fairly hip band in the early to mid 00s to being deeply uncool right now. But you know, I think the Decemberists were always deeply uncool and just lucked out in their cultural moment, things just went back to a natural balance and they have the modest, unapologetically dorky cult audience they deserve, a la They Might Be Giants. I think something the Decemberists and Arrested Development have in common is that their music and their fans exemplify a stereotype no one wants to be associated with — effete, wimpy, affected, unsexy. Overly “public radio,” you know? The music is weighed down by cultural baggage.

I still think Picaresque is a great album. It bothers me, though, that they made a whole EP about the Táin, without even bothering to find out how to pronounce the title. Also, in Táin stakes, they're no Horslips. But I digress.

all music is weighted with cultural baggage. I could care less about their fans or their stereotype - the songwriting (especially the lyrics) is just atrocious.

tarkio's omnibus is filled with mispronounced/misused words too

but then again they misspelled their own name so the d's are clearly on another level

guy from belle & sebastian

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Murdoch.jpg

that's just creepy

he looks like Greg Germann

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm509385216/nm0314524

grr
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYwNjA3MDMxOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjAxMTUz._V1._SX214_CR0,0,214,314_.jpg

why does photoshop make everybody look washed out and shiny?

hate this aesthetic

yeah it makes everyone look like mannequin/alien clones

see when i see this thread i always have to go and look at this one i started.

i'm sorry but none of these bands look very interesting. they need swords or something...

i could look at band pictures all day. bad and good.

hahaha omg love that thread

~~~memories~~~

Okkervil River (esp. the guy in the middle)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/oriver.jpg

itt:p4k

old dude on the far right looks like he's posing for a nice classic band photo on the set next to them and accidentally got cut into the photo, lol

dude from vampire weekend

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Rostam.jpg

ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo

keep it bookmarked

loving this new DN

dn vmic

thx

u shd get rid of the 'imo' tho, make it looks it look kinda insincere

imo

en ingles = makes it look kinda insincere

hahaha my eye completely glossed over that

http://www.portlandmercury.com/imager/b/magnum/2658980/fa86/music2-570x300.jpg

dying here

worst marching band ever

Rotherhithe Crayfish formed in Nethulah, OR in 2005 when frontman Darlin Oberhausen (2nd right) met xylophonist Tré Klimpfner at a half-way house for recovering khat addicts. Their debut album 'Toad/Toad/Nematode' will be available for download exclusively from GlaxoSmithKline in April. Oberhausen relates tales of backwoods chicanery, incest and Pentecostal psychosis in his patented 'choady' drawl while Klimpfner devotes two songs to his cyclothymic goat, Lavinia.

such japes.

Danielson

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/danielson452.jpg

http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/1523608.jpg

http://www.rtvchannel.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/the-Courteenersthe-Courteeners.jpg

need some sort of uk landfill indie vs us p4k indie unfortunate photo contest

lol @ "landfill indie"

"look, it's going to get out anyway: our mate here is suffering from dioxin poisoning and we just want you to know that he's still in the band."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/CC_450.jpg

Most English looking band I've ever seen.

looks like theyre serving detention

They got caught with some weed behind the sports hall, but they weren't smoking it properly.

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1672/siriusb.jpg

Sirius.B brings to you the finest Absurdist Gypsy Folk Funk Punk that the world has to offer. Their "impressively irreverent, combustible, three-ring circus of sound" (as described by the Mountain Xpress) is formed using an ancient recipe of gypsy melodies, Andean folk instrumentation, and Uzbekistani dance rhythms blended with a solid base created from some elements of American rock.

nonononono....this thread just exploded with wrongness

least punchable band member of Sirius B: GO

Imhotep. Actual band member name. I shit you not.

AWESOME

At least they are classy enough to enlist Weird Al as a guitarist

the cellist could look like a nice gentleman if he were in another context. the rest, how i wish i had six fists.

this is where I enact my new phrase 'omg running at u with knives'. I feel it is appropriate for this particular band photo.

knives: they fly @ u face!

it's a brilliant turn of phrase, but I dunno, it seems like a lot of work to shout,"omg running at u with knives!" while you're running, especially if you tend to get out of breath easily. I'd suggest simply grunting "omgrrrrargh"and letting your victims figure out what you're saying based on context cues, such as the running and the knives.

it's much more effective in printed form.

In the physical world, it would be manifested by me actually running at them with knives without announcement, rather than yelling it and giving the game away.

you've really thought out this "murdering Sirius B" thing, haven't you? ;)

on reflection, the girl on the right is the least punchable because (1) the red AIDS awareness ribbon (if that's what it is) on her hat shows that she has at least a passing concern for a greater cause than figuring out how to clean the spit out her melodica (2) her smile isn't goofy/ironic; and (3) she's set slightly apart from the rest of the group, opening up the possibility that she was photoshopped into the frame to meet the band's "one sane-looking person who looks like they don't belong" quota.

dying to punch the accordion guy

girl on the right gets it bc she plays melodica. I don't need any more reason than that.

and attention-getting hand gesture.

"least punchable" really just means "punchable, but slightly less punchable than her extremely punchable friends", so by all means punch away.

ty :)

'omg running at u with knives' needs to be used in other discussions too. brilliant

Caught Smoking Oregano is especially great because Beiberhead on the far right looks really worried about his parent's finding out.

Yuck

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/yuck452.jpg

and we're sure they are in an actual band?

the rhapsody of fire photo upthread is great. the bald guy looks conspicuously out of place - like he's sheepishly peering into a wig convention.

http://i.imgur.com/2QV9H.jpg

^^friends of mine saw them live, at first

They actually sound a bit like Travis iirc

ahahah, great one nakhchivan !
there's a kind of U2 circa unforgettable fire vibe going on...

i like AC alright but looks like they all popped ecstasy at the same time here -- "bros" indeed

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/ac_______.jpg

geologist looks gone.

kinda looks like they all farted

Who is that? Everyone except the guy in the back left looks at least 1/2 retarded.

where I'm from we call that "high"

Nope. I've been high/ been around plenty of high folks in my day. I also had a severely autistic cousin. Trust me, these dudes look a lot more like him than any of my THC influenced friends.

haha e they are animal collective

Ah, OK, that makes sense.

avey tare looks like he's saying "cheeeeeeeese"

I don't know any AnCo names or backgrounds, but the dude in red looks like he's uncomfortable to be seen there but it's a paycheck what ya gonna do?

okay i like the white stripes, but c'mon guys

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/stripes452.jpg

jack looks like an ian mcculloch lookalike perv creepster, meg looks like the 5 yr old on the swing that he's eyeing from a distance behind his glasses

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/4106935/Lukestar+90210.jpg

http://beyondrace.com/images/stories/lukestar.jpg

http://a272.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/16/l_0049c5e05dbd3ef836a9e3a3380a1c0f.jpg

http://radiorevolt.no/rev/uploads/Image/lukestar.jpg

http://oslopuls.aftenposten.no/multimedia/archive/00002/_apul3lukestar0502_jp_2128d.jpg

...

http://www.newartillery.com/lukestar.jpg

hahahaha omg please stop, wtf is that

tell me this is a hospital band that plays for patients

That first picture is like a publicity photo from a remake of One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest where Jim Carrey (second from right) plays McMurphy.

are those pictures all of the one band? or are they several bands each with a token fat guy?

lazy eye for the fat guy

lazy eye blind

lukestar apparently.

M.I.A. makes a guest appearance on TLC's What Not to Wear next week!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/mia_1.jpg

OMG there was an Ann Taylor explosion?

The short crosseyed fat guy is Benny Hill's grandson

http://www.thebaybridged.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ponytail.jpg

Jack Wilde is alive! Hooray!

oops, Wild, no e.

decemberists promo shots -- the gift that keeps on giving!

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/decem452asd.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/meloy210asdf.jpghttp://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/meloy210asdf.jpghttp://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/meloy210asdf.jpg

he's kinda got a j.bieber hairstyle + e.costello glasses + vampire weekend jock-sweater look going, doesn't he?

he looks like a hipster stalker postal worker

dude with the hat looks kinda badass tbh

google img search for "decemberists" turns up this GEM as the first result

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/The_Decemberists__thedecemberists04screen1_01.jpg

lol whut

They make Bare Naked Ladies look like Joy Division.

hahahah otm

Smashmouth be warned. There's a new sheriff in town.

They make Bare Naked Ladies look like Joy Division.

I will never forget this.

That last picture went with their song "The Sporting Life" I think. There were also pictures that went with each track on that album too?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/29591323/Dan+Deacon.jpg

Hey look just over Flintstone-dude-w-microphone's left shoulder: it's Hiro!

Well then.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/2/10/1297340616146/Yuck-005.jpg

Waiting for the inevitable Fuck/Yuck tour.

Bass player reconsidering his appearance in the photo, or perhaps being seen in the band. That face "Yeah...actually you know, I've got a thing, I'm just gonna go-"

good god.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1-sNiSBq6OU/TLUbsOxPXLI/AAAAAAAABdM/zo7pOTTcwNA/s1600/yuck.jpg

does that woman have one outfit.

make it go away

Said woman seems to be all "Can't wait to not be here."

http://i.imgur.com/ICN5n.jpg

yuck circa 2k7

oh god.

the girl, is she glinda the good fairy?

This thread is pure gold from the Ponytail pick on down. Nice work.

So good...
I was frightful I might see my own band on here... lol

Of coarse, most Black Metal band photos would work just fine here.. lol

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__wNP1MCDf6Y/S76CSmctilI/AAAAAAAAAUY/P5dBn9g54HA/s1600/R-792965-1242677339.jpeg

Jeez, I prefer my disco bands faceless

http://www.footstompin.com/wso/images/library/obj67838?view=976

Gaberlunzie has a wide appeal to audiences both at home and abroad.

Bobby Gillespie's let himself go a bit

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/ThaliaZedek071008_450x299.jpg

^ Talking about letting yourself go, I saw this picture of Thalia Zedek and she looks so old now.

I mean, just have a closer look...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Ken_dodd_december_2007.jpg

So, fat guy, bald guy, old women = bad band photo?

junip w/ jose gonzalez

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/junip___.jpg

looks like the most boring jam sesh eva

they are SHREDDING!... at 65db.

from the kitchen "Why don't you play that Neil Diamond song I like, the one about the granola? Your father likes that song"

WILD BEASTS

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/wildbeasts452.jpg

L-R: rod stewart, __________, brad pitt, john mayer

can't think of a lame celebrity comparison for the second fella-- suggestions?

http://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300/a/armstrong_and_miller_show_2.jpg
Miller from Armstrong & Miller? (note: mid-priced UK comedy duo)

Talking about letting yourself go, I saw this picture of Thalia Zedek and she looks so old now.

not sure what sort of glamor you're expecting from a 50 yo lesbian heroin addict

http://i.imgur.com/gMjpE.jpg

"band pig destroyer still practicing in parents' basement during remodeling, asked if staying for dinner"

"Area bass player finds steel prosthesis aids posture"

Home prices are low enough without these clowns bottoming the market completely

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Hevinkelium.jpg

Apparently these guys are a Christian band that plays metal versions of Christian hymns... I'm not sure if that's an excuse, though.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/ocband_promo01.jpg

Here's another Finnish band with a creative look.

According to their website, "Osmo's Cosmos is one of the most popular party bands in Finland. The band, which has done over a thousand gigs since 1996, plays foreign and home-grown hits of the 70s and 80s in the spirit of glam rock".

Their individual pics are pretty cool too:

http://www.osmoscosmos.com/kuvat/jaska1.jpg http://www.osmoscosmos.com/kuvat/pete1.jpg http://www.osmoscosmos.com/kuvat/ville1.jpg http://www.osmoscosmos.com/kuvat/matti1.jpg http://www.osmoscosmos.com/kuvat/jussi1.jpg http://www.osmoscosmos.com/kuvat/mikko1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/ocband_promo03.jpg

"You looking at us...?! You looking at us?!"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/22.jpg

I'm not sure if their 90s look was any better, though...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/06Osmot.jpg

Apparently they used to have female members too, I wonder what happened to them?

(I'm sorry, I'll stop now.)

That first pic looks like PUAs at the rest home, ha.

That pic of the five of them from the 90's looks like a Ozzy tribute band crossed with the Banana Splits if they were human.

Osmo's are like a google image search for Ozzy Osborune, all in one photo.

Actually it looks like Paul Heaton in the middle with the silver jacket and the pink beads.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/22.jpg

These outfits all look like they came from one of those Halloween superstores that show up in abandoned buildings in October. One "Ozzy" costume, four "hippie" costumes.

POLL: The coolest-looking member of Osmo's Cosmos

guy on bottom left in that last photo isn't that far off from kurt cobain

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/5600/Razorlight2011_1296033858_crop_480x591.jpg

Why is it that in every fucking photo of Johnny Borrell, he has his mouth open?

It's "sexy"

http://30.media.tumblr.com/5NgrqafZ4qlhs2znqtK2iXGjo1_400.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/22.jpg

^^ This looks a helluva lot like the official band photo for Ariel Pink's 2013 album tbh

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOKUMOrsTXXqa_fdzJpaOxMz-VGYeM8OosRQixNF-Vf-TJptLc0Q

that little shriveled Greg Valentine looking kid is gonna haunt my dreams

http://lisavegagroup.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/kroppcircle-rs.jpg

PLAY WITH US FOREVER...AND EVER...AND EVER

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/ocband_promo03.jpg

these guys are so corny it's kind of endearing

probably wouldn't want to listen to their music though

Also a fan of any band photo that recalls this one:

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/t/images/this-is-spinal-tap.jpg

Kropcircle
Korn
Kabbage
Karrot
Kauliflower

Krinkle Kut Chipps

Inkontinenz

Kostanza

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOKUMOrsTXXqa_fdzJpaOxMz-VGYeM8OosRQixNF-Vf-TJptLc0Q

Seriously, what's wrong with the middle guy's neck and head? Reminds me of the snail man in Uzumaki.

They scare me. Like children from some kind of Village of the Damned

i just dont get this hesher haircut thing.

the hair is to distract from the little one's pimples

http://pitchfork-adhost-dropspot.s3.amazonaws.com/RogerSterling/300x250.national.day02.gif

thats the most sensitive beard ive ever seen

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNDtjYzyrqiHEhCsAhj6ATIIGDzVal53dG0 http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNDtjYzyrqiHEhCsAhj6ATIIGDzVal53dG0 http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNDtjYzyrqiHEhCsAhj6ATIIGDzVal53dG0

(fortunately it is not clickable here)

oh my god there are more of these

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNuYzY_ekP2CnAEQrAIY-gEyCKJ7uXTKbZpL http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNuYzY_ekP2CnAEQrAIY-gEyCKJ7uXTKbZpL http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNuYzY_ekP2CnAEQrAIY-gEyCKJ7uXTKbZpL

does everything look more ridiculous in triplicate, or just the National?

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNnVs_-ap-SBxgEQrAIY-gEyCCV4Pj514fpy http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNnVs_-ap-SBxgEQrAIY-gEyCCV4Pj514fpy http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CNnVs_-ap-SBxgEQrAIY-gEyCCV4Pj514fpy

When did John Slattery join the National?

sometime around the time when he lost the Lucky Strike campaign imo

Something called Zorch:

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs078/1103023679580/img/119.jpg

They will be playing many gigs at this year's SwSW.
If anyone here is going, please laugh at them for me.

haaaaaaaa

can't I just laugh at them from here?

xxxxp lol ilxor that's what i tried to post the other day

can i just

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/55809123/Jamie+Lidell++02+PNG.png

looks grumpy considering it's his birthday

just turned 30 iirc

TuNe-YaRdS or however it's capitalized???

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/tuneyards.jpg

soOOoOOO zAnY!!!

looOOL whAt a BunCh of dOrKs

tHiS iS wHy pPL hAte lIbeRalS

W H O K I L L ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

http://991.com/newGallery/Depeche-Mode-Smash-Hits---May-419677.jpg

http://www.nme.com/images/08523_124522_damon_newletter_240507.jpghttp://www.nme.com/images/08523_124522_damon_newletter_240507.jpghttp://www.nme.com/images/08523_124522_damon_newletter_240507.jpg

http://lisavegagroup.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/kroppcircle-rs.jpg

Are all of them men? I thought the front two were girls. They're like the Hanson version of Village of the Damned.

ha ha @ Geir

furious at classic SH for mixing up grisly and grizzly tho

apparently this band is called "1,2,3"

http://img2.ymlp128.net/GuerrillaGroup_1_123HIGHRES08.jpg

S

and they're precogs?

dude from the national with a glass of red wine

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/national452rodrigo.jpg

In all fairness, that photo was taken in his living room.

to be fair, he's reciting Under Milk Wood

Red wine is unfortunate?

pretentious = unfortunate

Radical Dads

http://img2.ymlp136.net/GuerrillaGroup_1_11_9.jpg

I think you'll find that one is kinda great.

ya, especially with the rather low benchmark set by being called 'radical dads' and vaguely resembling the cast of peep show

Peep Show with Louis Theroux's younger brother in place of David Mitchell.

forgive them, they're Quebecois

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3879/ryanennhughes21260371cl.jpg

Pepper Rabbit

http://img2.ymlp80.net/GuerrillaGroup_1_Screenshot20110105at125825PM.png

"wearing fitted trousers and seemingly thrift-store-bought sport coats, our hair parted and combed by professional stylists, and our hands politely folded in our laps, we sing sweetly unto thee"

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/deathcab_2.jpg http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/deathcab_3.jpg

Ok, the Quebecois are clearly pretentious with their wine, but the National guy looks like he's just enjoying his glass, and therefore not unfortunate. Not all wine drinking is pretentious!

Goddamn, what a bunch of dorks in the last picture.

xpost "(suppressed yawn)"

http://media.syracuse.com/entertainment/photo/9479748-large.jpg

Syracuse hard rockers Elephant Mountain, from left to right: Joe Altier, Lewk Detor, Brian "Slider" Azzoto, Dave Hoyt and John Hanus, get support from Siri at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park in Syracuse.

hahahahahahahaha

omg
omg

dying over here

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/pantherklub/?action=view¤t=SP06.jpg

http://www.myspace.com/electroreptil/blog/467898781

http://i.imgur.com/mxK7d.jpg

HI WE ARE COLD AND MOROSE

Dude in the back right looks like Sean Hughes the comedian

sort of

Peter, Bjorn and Lobotomy
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gibson+Sessions+Presents+Peter+Bjorn+John+47tA1FvhLMyl.jpg

Oh ffs

What is ON that middle guy's shirt? Did Lobotomy use it for a hair wrap?

Le Corbeau imitating the gritty mugshots of Swans' 2010 press photo... and not really pulling it off.

http://younggodrecords.com/images/upload/image/Downloads/Swans_headshots_white_reduce_1_large.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/5710150636_1eeffb8d66.jpg

http://c2sopublic.reverbnation.com/Photo/4510940/image/ratbabies2011_02_1298351456.gif

The Rat Babies, of Athens.

Reptar

http://img2.ymlp127.net/GuerrillaGroup_1_101021mimicrawford157Edit_1.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/50972781/Bloodhound+Gang+Bloodhound_Gang.jpg

oh dear

I don't think anyone would expect Bloodhound Gang to have a fortunate band photo.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/battles/Battles-cover-web.jpg

is slightly reminiscent of this disaster, probably the worst ever Wire cover shot:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/clouddead/COVER241.jpg

WTF, that Battles shot is great. Just a shame the band is rubbish.

i like the clouddead shot. yoni(?)'s slightly aggrived facial expression makes it

that said, the wire's fawning coverage of clouddead put me off actually listening to them for about eight years

xxp They should be dipped in raw sewage instead.

(or maybe not xxp)

are there actual bloodhound gang fans out there? good god.

bloodhound gang fans in "looking exactly like the band" shockah

tweeny emo-ish band Romance On A Rocketship (R.O.A.R!) http://i.imgur.com/NwRKw.jpg

full band http://i.imgur.com/7xRi3.jpg

good god, just saw that Reptar one

holy shit could I possible hate ANYTHING more

http://cdn.imposemagazine.com/__data/eternal-tapestry.2.jpg

are those fucking ROAR fucks fucking serious.

someone call child protective services...

Worst Captain Beefheart/Magic Band tribute act ever...

http://i55.tinypic.com/34owzsg.jpg

:(

yah there name is Eternal Tapestry, what a shit sounding name. Listened to their album, good god.

are we sure they are an actual band, and not just...weird camping buddies?

Cranky Frank Blandino
http://s7.directupload.net/images/110831/k7bw5vlx.jpg

ed grimley's wacky cousin!

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/59503489/Team+me+189451.jpg

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/melvins.jpg

Saw this promo pic of a band called The Melvins in a local music mag. The saddest thing is that they seem to be old geezers, not young 'uns you might expect to look a bit goofy.

Have you not heard of The Melvins or are you making a joke? They're a pretty big deal in alt-rock.

That comment aside, it's still a photo worthy of inclusion in this thread.

feel like the poncho is a lame attempt to upstage Buzzo's hair

if you're in The Melvins already then just give up dude, you're not going to upstage that hair

sigh...the Giving Tree Band
http://2720cherokee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/GTB_porch.jpg

I like the dude who plays the book

god they are ALL barefoot

Have you not heard of The Melvins or are you making a joke? They're a pretty big deal in alt-rock.

Have you not heard of Tuomas or are you making a joke? He's a pretty big deal in not knowing who anyone is.

Bands in suspenders that aren't skinheads automatically make my 'will not listen' list forever

what about bands in suspenders that *are* skinheads?! seems an odd line to draw.

Yeah, wtf.

"You know who can REALLY pull of suspenders? Racists. No one can make a set of suspenders look great like a really racist bald dude."

Or the cast of Godspell, take your pick.

tomayto, tomahto

Anti-racist skinheads (and their bands) do exist...even when the politics are passable, Oi! isn't too great, but it's probably still better than the fucking Giving Tree Band.

I am from the generation where there was a distinction between skinheads and baldies

lol

Also, anything anywhere ever is better than The Giving Tree Band. I don't think it would've even taken seeing a photo of them to know that after seeing that name.

"You know who can REALLY pull of suspenders? Racists. No one can make a set of suspenders look great like a really racist bald dude."
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Friday, 14 October 2011 16:30 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I'm almost sure this is an actual caption from a Vice Dos and Donts from a couple of years ago.

xp Yeah, I was thinking about oi.

Dos and Don'ts was the only section of Vice I liked! ^_^

Unless those guys are releasing wax cylinders only, there's no way in hell i'll buy into their shtick.

Anti-racist skinheads (and their bands) do exist...even when the politics are passable, Oi! isn't too great, but it's probably still better than the fucking Giving Tree Band.

― bentelec, Friday, October 14, 2011 1:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I almost joined an anti-racist skinhead gang when I was in high-school. A friend of mine was really involved in a local set. I thought "I like ska, I like shaving my head, and I hate racism" (although I didn't have any black friends). My anti-racist skinhead friend now? Total fucking racist.

WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY! WAX CYLINDERS ONLY!etc

xp and that band was Madness, the friend was Suggs.

Yup.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/422162_10150651098158474_14154208473_10877722_2091193562_n.jpg

oh god

God has nothing to do with that, unless by means of Old Testament punishment.

They look like the Jedward of synthpop.

Also for synth spotters, that's a Prophet'08.
And for tin foil spotters, that's some BacoFoil Extra Thick.

In re Jedward comment a friend suggested they were more like a real life Jeffster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WGf_Sxrb3Y

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51s35jlC1cL._SS500_.jpg

Terrible Clothings, more like.

http://i.imgur.com/FXlWi.jpg

lol

L-R: Liam, Noel

PS I Love You (band name)
http://paperbagrecords.com/wp-content/files_mf/psiloveyoudd6creditcrop30.jpg

in yer face
http://maxskansascity.com/wordpress//wp-content/uploads/2011/07/PS-I-Love-You-Small.jpg

FANG ISLAND

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs078/1103023679580/img/219.jpg

GAL-I-LEO
(GAL-I-LEO)

do like the addition of pudgy vampire hand

Yeah, jesus, whose is the extra hand? Freaking out here.

Though middle guy is actually kind of suave IMO.

http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/Keane3Press050312.jpg

Keane's stylist seems to have styled the 4 guys for 4 differen but equally shit bands.

(xposts) Not only unfortunate band photos, they're pretty unfortunate all the way around. Butterflies and Boners...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msmOPlDTtw8

PS I Love You guys are a-okay with me tbh

https://marked4deletion.com/images/1bda6cbdd91e8750cc4b2d0ff51000eb_984h.jpg

confirm deletion

excellent work, VG!! A++

omg I didn't notice the chick way up in the background lol

There's something surreal cool about that, in a Forgotten Woods / Velvet Caccoon kinda way.

Likely unintentional, natch.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c5/The_Inquisitor_%28Red_Dwarf%29.jpg/250px-The_Inquisitor_%28Red_Dwarf%29.jpg
"He prunes away the wastrels, expunges the wretched, and deletes the worthless."

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/features/8885/29bd3ddd.jpg

Menomena

You accidentally posted that on the wrong thread, that one belong in the 'Gallery of Awesome band photos' thread.

Menomena

Doot doo de doo doo

^ gallery of worst band names too

gallery of illadvised man leggings

Wait, they're men?

the guy on the right reminds of that Aphex Twin album with the large breasted Richard D James.

yes

weird photo
i think it'd be ok if their outfits weren't matchy matchy

the guy on the right reminds of that Aphex Twin album with the large breasted Richard D James.

― Poliopolice, Monday, 16 July 2012 03:25 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 July 2012 04:26 (5 hours ago)

single

yeah yeah yeah ;)

Ladies and gentlemen, Davey Suicide:

http://hollywoodwaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/daveysuicide.jpg

posted in BNLadies thread, but

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/08/23/animal_collective_hero_photo__adriano_fegundes__wide-9d2ab9b16c2027ff2dd82d66b9bf585319ef710f-s4.jpg?

Mein gott, Davey Suicide. Amazing. Are you sure it isn't a spoof? The main guy kind of looks like Noel Fielding in rockstar-twat-guise.

Don't get the AnCo pic - they're a bit sweaty-looking, I guess, but don't see what's wrong with it otherwise.

Was covered already upthread, but yeah it looks like they had a sleepover where they all woke up with a fever and ran out of shampoo.

Davey Suicide are all too real. I just watched 1 minute of a song called 'Generation F*** Star'. I can't even...

It's basically typical nu-metal garbage.

AnCo pic looks like a half-hearted gurning contest.

they look like four idiots, that's what's wrong with it

Not too different from the above picture, but second from left guy's pout/sneer is pretty amazing:

http://images.thegauntlet.com/pics/daveysuicide.jpg

they look like four idiots, that's what's wrong with it

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, August 27, 2012 4:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AnCo - dude on far right's expression is enough wrong for me. Too much teeth happening

Still good to see Oscar getting some work outside The Office though amirite

idk take the guy on the right out and it's a pretty inoffensive photo.

total villalobosgurnin.jpg vibes tho

I am offended by 33-year-old men looking 10 years old.

get some haircuts hippie scum!

and get a job too while ur at it

Ladies and gentlemen, Davey Suicide:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzg22arsEn1qafdxeo1_500.gif

blank otm

is Davey Suicide's lead singer named AF[vowel]?

this picture of The Tontons ...

http://i.imgur.com/ohPGm.jpg

That one's ok except for the Davey Crockett cap

christmas sweater is problematic for me also

Davy Crockett hat looks like a good connection

all the guys do actually

The Tontons look like they're dressed up as whIte people for Halloween.

Hooray

http://www.discocolonvery.net/2012/09/the-unintentionally-hilarious-press.html

somehow I find the tontons likeable in that photo

Nothing wrong with a good Christmas Jumper, in my opinion.

my five second impression is that they're slightly amateurish but promising indie pop who might stand out from similar bands thanks to a superior flair for melody.

from spotify, I mean, not the photo

Also, that link seems to miss the point that half of those acts were almost certainly INTENTIONALLY making themselves look ridiculous.

Also, that link seems to miss the point that half of those acts were almost certainly INTENTIONALLY making themselves look ridiculous.

― emil.y, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

failure to get this sort of thing = innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry

More like all of them... I don't see a single "unintentional" image among those.

(x-post)

I realise that with some of them, the writer is laughing at a different thing/in a different way to what the intention of the artist was, but with others it is pretty clear that the band are meant to be mocking themselves in exactly the same manner that the writer is laughing.

my five second impression is that they're slightly amateurish but promising indie pop who might stand out from similar bands thanks to a superior flair for melody.

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from spotify, I mean, not the photo

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha, i thought your post was some sharp semiotics at work.

tontons picture is great, love the sweater

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/10/1357835409798/Little-Green-Cars-008.jpg

guy on the right didn't get the email

they look like they're waiting for school detention

teacher: "During this detention, each of you has to write an essay on the subject 'Why I Shouldn't Make Unfortunate Band Photos'."

haha yeah it's The Breakfast Club.

L-R: Brian (the 'brain'), ?, ?, ?, Andrew (the 'jock')

Nah, they're all preppy except the jock, you don't get the brain or the weirdo in there.

oh christ

http://24.media.tumblr.com/023641df035da4ae9dd43804726c4b90/tumblr_mjf1ucUr2t1s414pko1_500.jpg

looooooooooooool

hutch looks like he's wearing the national costume of australia in some sort of alternative reality where it's a former spanish colony

dunno what the guy with the clown boots is supposed to be though

is that garry gary beers? I always got him confused with one of the farrisses

That's Tim Farriss. GGB has his arm around him.

Tim sort of looks like an action figure.

(from the dumbest action franchise ever)

[in a Lenny from Mice and Men voice] I AM A RACE CAR DRIVER

http://www.vanswarpedtour.com/bands/

The number of spacers on that page is something to behold.

http://thumb.vixlet.com/?src=http://s3.amazonaws.com/vixlet/c6e30b0501f6414765981340e6b90048-1363390681.jpg&w=961&h=301&.jpg

wtf

http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/the_bloodshot_eye/quest/questv.jpg

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1594821835/20110829_True_Apothecary_24.jpg

Second guy from the left looks REALLY familiar. Who are these guys?

that guy is seth myers

Who are these guys?

The Plaid Lads

We're The Lumberjacks And We're Okay

lol they took the photo outside beacon's closet. they probably went in and bought the shirts then took the photo.

Yeah, they could at least walk around the corner. Maybe they only got permission to borrow the shirts.

I think they're called True Apothecary. I hope it was undiscussed plaid and they just turned up and went with it.

Bear Pool Party

The Cruxshadows

https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAuPwZpfTiG1ieV&w=720&h=698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2F0%2F0e%2FCruxshadowsinstudio2007.JPG%2F720px-Cruxshadowsinstudio2007.JPG

Much of The Crüxshadows' music is based on Greek and Egyptian mythology. Their work includes symbolic references to a number of mythical figures,[49] and many of their lyrics deal with the concept of God.[49] According to the band's singer Rogue, the inspiration for much of The Crüxshadows' material came from a five tiered dream.[50] The primary albums together form a series unofficially called the Angel Cycle.[51] This cycle uses myth, legend, and spiritual elements to address more personal issues that are characterized by their universal significance.[52][53] The lyrics operate as re-invented parables in many cases, and Rogue has openly stated that he intends Cruxshadows to impact people's lives individually through music.[50]

Rogue's spider-like hairstyle may be the most identifiable feature of his appearance, though he is also known for his unique performing style, his impassioned vocals, and the tight and personable relationship he has with his fans.[6][7][8] His stage persona is charismatic and dramatic, which often includes significant audience interaction and mobility allowed by his headset microphone.

These guys play at Dragon Con every year.

Called "Bear" by his family he was dubbed "Rogue" by friends as a teenager.[2]

Yeah, sure you were.

Oh mannn that block quote from wiki feels exceptionally pollable, each sentence is a different layer of unappealing.

do it!

Turns out they sound more like Depeche Mode than I would've imagined.

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/23/34/67/5098954/3/628x471.jpg

display name appropriate

what's with this pose? maybe more of a mid 2000s thing, but still... an odd choice for a band photo.

http://boom.artvoice.com/sites/default/files/file/ajax/field_band_1_song/und/0/form-STeYXQHp9avHy_IWL0PIISM9uCN2n1XYUdiiskShP50/the_tins2.jpg

http://rockcousteau.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/The-Shins.jpg

It is pretty awkward posing for band shots, so I guess they're trying to highlight the artificiality of the situation by posing extra-awkwardly? Still looks silly, though.

i think you're right: they are trying to seem savvy, letting the viewer know that they too are aware of how contrived press photos are. i think it backfires though. like, by making a point out of their ability to "see through" the convention of natural-looking posed photos they end up seeming juvenile, because the fact of posed photos being contrived is almost redundant, and no one "really" takes press photos at "face value."

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SQpLWgRlUx4/UH4O0p1TbnI/AAAAAAAAATQ/brsr_yFEz3E/s1600/whispered.png candid photo of me hanging out with my bandmates.

http://www.sanfords.net/Spots_free_graphics/Wizards/wizard14.gif

haha nothing unfortunate about that band photo imo

exactly, all the bands in this thread should learn that naturalistic is the way to go.

it's true. if you just act chill and natural your natural intensity with shine forth.

http://rockcousteau.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/The-Shins.jpg

ilx class reuinon

lol waterface

fuck waterface

It's all an approximation of like, that one Talking Heads album cover or something, right?

Devo, i think

http://www.rockandrollstories.info/photos/redhatdevo.jpg

but i think devo is the originator -- or at least a originator -- of the anti-cool/awkwardness-as-signifier-of-knowingness thing.

*an originator.

The pose is more artificial than that, though - the flattening against the wall, the shoulders pushed up and back. Wonder if it also has to do with that twee video thing of people arranged on flat surfaces as if they were Illustrator vector elements or paper dolls. This came up just a second ago on another thread but I already can't remember what it was.

it also looks like they are part of a lineup of crime suspects. or maybe like they are about to face a firing squad. so it could be a whimsical play on the subject of imprisonment by people who (considering these are mostly indie bands) have never really been at risk for going to jail.

http://www.idearocketanimation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/talking-heads.jpg

http://img2.ymlp102.net/c4u4_TalkingHeads.jpg

Yeah, that!

Looking at those two pictures next to one another it seems like between 1978 and 1985 either Chris Frantz got taller or Tina Weymouth got shorter?

http://www.irishecho.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Aslan-MN.jpg

http://famemagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/aslan11.jpg

I cannot figure out what kind of music they'd play. They look like a bunch of England fans in Poland or something.

Irish rockers Aslan. Yep: a bunch of dads

http://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/content_images/2/2012/temp/SlyDigs.jpg

I am confronted with this poster on a daily basis:

http://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/802892/production_public/Photo/13976237/image/1367606623_Jimmy-Gee-Backround-Video-1.jpg

They look like a bunch of England fans in Poland or something.

Or Poland fans in England.

Or their dads

okay jimmy gee HAS to be a parody, or something that comes with off-brand "make your own CD labels" software.

I think he's just ... erm ... German.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyJSUVrYFI4

most of these are easy pickins but someone presumably got paid a handsome fee for taking this photo of KT Tunstall

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/imagelibrary/Client%20Images/Client00004/00509000/00509971.jpg

https://sphotos-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1234519_10152504757687137_728823515_n.jpg

I kinda like that KT shot xp

No biggie

looks like she's getting ready for a blissful yoga session

A great find, Scott. Someone forgot to tell the dude on the far left to exhale.

Chestflex, Soregut, Happyheadband and Slouchstache.

Ahhhhhh!!!!

https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1009907_10152508890657137_669304796_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1185670_10152508890682137_653215783_n.jpg

you put those pictures the wrong way round

https://sphotos-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1234519_10152504757687137_728823515_n.jpg

Isn't this one for the "band member that refuses to play along" thread?

what's with this pose? maybe more of a mid 2000s thing, but still... an odd choice for a band photo.

I think it is a combination of what Treeship said but also some kind of leftover aesthetic from stop motion videos that feature band members in that pose trading positions against a wall frame by frame (or traveling down a street etc.).

this is my FAVORITE band photo of the day

http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/7-11-13-lps2/42333.JPG

they were good too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXbGXbo0qsE

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2013/05/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-team-copy.jpg

http://usedwigs.com/nolikey/

http://i.imgur.com/1PsIwES.png

1991 called, Urkel wants his style back

I'm sure there's a Halloween thread already bumped on SNA.

greenhouse is the best place for them, elements too harsh for these rare flowers obv

Weird combo of Urkel and Walter White on the left, there.

Hipreplacement - from London

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/hipreplacement_zps54e8e942.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/hipreplacement_zps54e8e942.jpg

Londonbusqueue

HAHAHAHA PEOPLE WHO DON'T FIT MY CRITERIA FOR ATTRACTIVENESS STILL WANT TO PLAY MUSIC LET'S PUBLICLY SHAME THEM HAHAHAHAHA

Saw that Charles Shaar Murray recently reposted this advice from Classic Blues magazine on FB:

It seems obvious but... try to look like a band. Lots of bands make that 'five random blokes at a bus stop' photo mistake. You don't have to wear matching outfits just try to find a way of getting the chemistry between you all through the camera lens. One of the greatest bands in that visual sense is The Rolling Stones. Take a look at their 60s shots in particular. There's rarely a bad shot; they look like a band; and they worked with photographers who knew how to use locations well. There's a lot to aspire to there.

Get a proper photographer to do the shoot; not just a mate who owns a camera. Ask to see their work in advance. Pay them.

btw the lady second from right used to be in Amazulu.

emil.y otm upthread, getting kind of old making fun of people for this.

my five second impression is that they're slightly amateurish but promising indie pop who might stand out from similar bands thanks to a superior flair for melody.

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from spotify, I mean, not the photo

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:15 PM (1 year ago)

Kind of like this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpV3_E-nHcM

But perhaps they are too reminiscent of Echobelly to win the hearts and minds of ilx.

Also thinking of giving them points for using that goofy photo that was posted up thread as the backdrop on their homepage.

https://www.positivusfestival.com/files/kid820.jpg

'myfatherwillguidemeupthestairstobed' contains the words:

Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette
List of Phi Delta Theta members
Pettis measurability theorem
The Battle for Middle-Earth II
White-striped Free-tailed Bat
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Sheep Lady from Algiers
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Straight-Billed Hermit
Straight FromThe Lab EP
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what is that, some wikipedia article anagram finder?

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/noisecreep.com/files/2011/10/huntress-poster-image.jpg

The band member who's self-conscious about exposing his belly

who is that?

huntress

Band photos where one member refuses to play along

jill's not playing along either

Hipsters need to let go of taxidermy. Worst trend since ever.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/f079d9aceb806393b79e748c3d3b1440/tumblr_inline_n1wmsikeRI1re9y93.jpg

that's a great band photo!

is that just the one person's noggin planted Richard-D-James-style over a bunch of hunched engineering students?

http://media.voiceplaces.com/9683502.91.jpg

also good

http://mindcageofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/catablog/fullsize/mindcage-promo2.jpg

l-r: Doctor Evil, Doctor Colossus, Doctor Octopus, Billy Corgan

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2960951661/c8ab2fd58ae91b1428c4cbe4465a47dc_400x400.png

Are they trying to look like Metallica or Nickelback?

Metickleback

Lead singer was pretty cool on The Wire and Breaking Bad though.

I think the male-pattern baldness singer guy in front taught math for liberal arts at my community college.

Ickleback, Nickleback, Me Tickleback too / Went for a ride on a badly artifacted PNG file that looks like a digitized-video computer game from 1991

Metmacklemoreback

Guy on the right kinda looks like Tom Sizemore cosplaying the Cowardly Lion.

The back cover of something I got yesterday.

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/1384130_10152765577841136_305464561448204568_n.jpg

Trying that again!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B22J7BhIcAA-BrP.jpg

hahahahaha

lot of unfortunate tailoring here
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/as/faith-no-more-2014.jpg

So not looking forward to that Mighty Mighty Bosstones reunion tour.

There's definitely something to be said for NOT having a band photo at all.

lol

http://res.cloudinary.com/thefader/image/upload/v1416845589/uze229dladeraq8fxf8x.jpg

I bet he rides that on the sidewalk.

these dudes are like the goonies 5 years later

heh.

http://www.sugarcreekcasino.net/sites/sugarcreek/uploads/images/Large_Images/Entertainment/Tracy-Lawrence-Poster.jpg

This photo of Tracy Lawrence is giving me the creeps.

You have to admit he has a pretty awesome logo though.

VIP benefits *may* include a meet & greet? Classy.

Oh hang on, is this guy actually famous in the States?

Far less famous now than in the past.

Hurting's pic from two weeks ago still killing me.

never heard of the song before but kevin rowland needs to cover "paint me a birmingham"

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/1/8/1420725154428/6c8a1854-872c-45da-b07b-dab2086bf000-620x372.jpeg

The Hunt For Red Decembrists

some bands should never teleport

promo photo for Admirals With Dementia

they look kind of phased by that river, but i'm sure they'll get over it someday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9WBPmFIgAEGmAy.jpg

Kasabian arriving at the 2015 BAFTAs

Who's the doorman

Good lord, the singer's wearing a tail.

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/0003935477_10.jpg

That has to be on purpose.

The open fly is the bridge too far.

man, how many times have the decemberists been on this thread

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/20/22/27AF5D3800000578-3327809-image-m-9_1448057769346.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/large/4694375.jpeg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MNmLvmJ9L1g/UoweReV8lgI/AAAAAAAAD6s/2pADn1a-PDM/s1600/Lion+Twin+-+Nashville+2013+inside.gi

I like that one.