ftr this thread was incredibly boring and depressing that it was the most popular ilx thread until k8 and nv started posting actual words in it
It was nv who started the blimmin' thread in the first place.
― Utterly huggers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Guys, I made a passing reference to The Horrors, as the basis of this thread was about assuming what the bands sound like (or their ethos) based purely on their picture.
So, it was my fault if anything.
What *it* is, I dunno.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Wins, you might have a ghost of a point if e.g. NV and Stevie, who were commenting and interrogating and text-posting just as much as I ever was during the brief intermission, were ever attacked, called out and jumped on with the same frequency by the same 3 or 4 posters FOR THE SAME BEHAVIOUR.
This meta-shit is boring and disruptive. Far more boring and disruptive than NV, Stevie and I together having a brief and entirely polite conversation.
― Branwell with an N, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
point taken, I was talking about all of you fwiw (and quoted nv as well) but sorry if it added to the pile-on
I have a living breathing point tho
― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
What I find odd is that on nv's original posts it shows a youtube link as his name, but when wins reposts it, it gets translated into "Is Vic there?" Department S.
Was Vaughan Tolouse a cool dude? Everyone used to say so.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
i kind of like the vibe in those photos
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:26 AM (1 hour ago)
me too. washed out, "haze of yesterday" filtering makes the peacock displays seem self-aware, kind of funny & endearing, like pages from a rock uncle's scrapbook. wth is with the scrunch/scowly face so common to these photos though?
http://www.fredperrysubculture.com/media/cache/featured/upload/suzukimain.jpg
"i am cold and have eaten a bad food"
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
stoked 4 a member of one of these bands to start posting itt
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
this is the reality of England
― there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
Haha Onimo when I read that I thought "ooh that American using 'England' to mean 'Britain' will annoy our Scottish chums." Then it turned out to be you.
― Tim, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
user needs
AS A lazy pretend anthropologist I NEED a database w/ entries on every band in this thread, including geographical location, stated influences, age, well-structured inventories of the clothes they wear in publicity photos and keywords from interviews SO THAT I can stare at data visualisations that show eg Scotland vs England prevalence of the feather cut, age distribution for cagoule brands etc etc
― woof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I felt it was needed in the Real England context xp
― there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
I think for many young Scots the whole laddism thing meant wearing slightly different clothes to get drunk in.
― there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
I have a pretty bad fashion sense I think, but I do understand that this means I Need Not Apply to be a mod
― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
"So it's all that Scott Seward's fault then."
i am more than happy to take all blame. i was enjoying the folksiness of the pictures. even mundane subcultures are kinda interesting to me. i mean, there is jam band culture here. and the similarities between jam band nation and mod nation would be that the new bands are just as inspired by the less than inspiring 4th wave of bands like oasis or kasabian (who were inspired by the jam and primal scream who were inspired by...) as they are the originators of the looks and sounds. which is why all the pictures look so faded and nondescript and generic. a copy of a copy of a copy... in the case of the jam bands the pictures just get more colorful and clown-like as you get bands who were inspired by phish and other latecomer drug doofuses.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I will, of course, rep a lil bit for some kasabian stuff.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
hope you die of pneumonia then
― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
shit wrong login
lol cap'n save-a-haircut
anyway the best part of the thread has been the ridiculous press kit statements
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
I hope danny rose plays every spurs game for the rest of your life then deems
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
this is vicious stuff, vicious.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
and always thrilling when the person who literally cannot make a sandwich pops up to call something boring
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
wha happen
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
to this perfectly enjoyable point-n-laff thread
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
well now two guesses
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
one should do
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
i was enjoying the folksiness of the pictures. even mundane subcultures are kinda interesting to me.
i feel this
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
darragh i quite like some kasabian songs too, let's start a band
― woof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
i'll write your press release
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
how do you feel about "a mix between the stone roses and primal scream with the swagger of oasis" - just something off top of my head
don't forget to put your own modern unique spin on it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
"a mix between Acker Bilk and Lonnie Donegan with the swagger of Tommy Steele"
― xelab, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
tommy steele rocked really hard and he looked awesome so if you are starting one of these bands don't look to him for inspiration. acker bilk on the other hand....
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
lg you're hired.
― woof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
put in something about how we're the antidote to all the manufactured shit that's in that charts now
actually call yourself 'ear drummers'
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
all-purpose band member quote for every occasion: "it's all a bit rubbish, innit?"
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Steady there, Acker broke the US in a way Oasis, Blur, Stone Roses etc etc could only dream of.
― Utterly huggers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Get Racoon Tanuki involved with this band ffs
― Utterly huggers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
There is a part of me that would love to dress up like a shit failed mod for the hilarity factor. Comb over the bald spot, try not to look like a crimewatch photo-fit and wear a completely ill fitting suit for the first time in my life, viola! instant ace face tragedy! Once an uncle of mine who was a survivor of Artane child abuse travelled to Dublin for a witness court appearance, symbolically dressed up as a catholic priest, with dog collar, robes et al.
― xelab, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n6NqxBZP0Y
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
woof how're you fixed for practice's at the n17
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Once an uncle of mine who was a survivor of Artane child abuse travelled to Dublin for a witness court appearance, symbolically dressed up as a catholic priest, with dog collar, robes et al.
do you know what his motivation was at all? fairly interesting...
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
I'll be over in March! I'll bring some tunes. It's all about the tunes. The tunes and the passion.
Swinford Mods here we go.
― woof, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
haha nice
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
Just found this, from the town I went to secondary school in
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/ayr-band-seaside-sons-could-5151239http://i.imgur.com/QvnZwrh.jpg
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 13 February 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Martin Freeman looking rough
and yes, Ayr is the seaside.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 13 February 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
xxxp Anvil
He is featured in this Guardian article which doesn't really belong on this thread. I'd guess he was having a laugh but some might say* that he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.*keeping it on topic
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/28/christian-brothers-ireland-child-abuse
― xelab, Friday, 13 February 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
ha nice ref
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop)
this could refer to anyone of that four imo?
― local eire man (darraghmac), Friday, 13 February 2015 07:44 (nine years ago) link
He is featured in this Guardian article which doesn't really belong on this thread. I'd guess he was having a laugh but some might say* that he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
ah sorry to derail and ask on this light-hearted thread - very interesting article, not really seen anyone try to draw conclusions like that before. my mum is from glin, though i guess your uncle is the man talking about artane.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 13 February 2015 08:22 (nine years ago) link