a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

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The Universal - Britrocks Best Dressed Band

"As sharp musically as they are in attire, Liverpool quartet The Universal apply timeless values of upbeat melodic British rock songwriting to a sharp-dressed 2012 model."

It's certainly not just the dress sense that's pin sharp with these guys from Merseyside. The Universal's music is bursting with enough quality to make a Saville Row suit. Like a guitar driven mix of Paul Weller, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, and The Reel People, you cannot help but be impressed by the four pieces musical prowess. With T3rry Sh@ughn3ssy pulling, as well as strumming, the strings, his songwriting equals that of Mssrs Weller and Gallagher, (big boots to fill!!), and thats as well as singing and playing guitar. Is This England is almost a tribute to what the British music and other industries used to be, before the likes of X-Factor (excuse my language) became such an unfortunate influence on todays record sales. Satellites is a much slower but equally strong track. I fact, I'd stick my neck out and say that there is not a 'weak' track that I've heard.

It's difficult to say anything else other than to stronlgy advise you check these guys out as soon as you can, like NOW!!

Like a guitar driven mix of Paul Weller, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, and The Reel People

this is the literal worst shit ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXKJ-4upsCI

i too am bursting with enough quality

sorry pete townsend, quadrophenia was okay but it's no...

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"The Universal's music is bursting with enough quality to make a Saville Row suit"

What does this mean? Are they trying to compare the music to fabric? Do people describe really good fabric as "bursting with quality"?

always good in a song abt history to specify which history you mean viz "past history"

xp
they're talking a load of bloody shoddy mungo!

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SOUTHAMPTON band Cassava will realise their ambition of playing alongside their heroes on Wednesday when Sheffield indie-stars Milburn come to town.

okay now i know you’re definitely making these up

Manioc on the bass there

a terrible joke too far, sorry everyone

I see that the terrible Kasabian/Primal's style band my mate used to produce have finally shown up, I've been keeping an eye on the thread and knew it was only a matter of time.

Matey's vocals a particular low point.

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

nooooooooo

video unlike most of these looks like they had a bit of a budget behind it!

When I'd come to national shame, America has gun violence, we have this.

ffs predictive txt on my phone is so bad it spells the as tge.

"I'll give you my gun insipid indie rock shit when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands"

all the broken pic-links upthread have left me strangely melancholy

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Modern Faces. A true Rock n Roll band in the making, full of angst & debauchery and with confidence in spades.

funnily enough, I'd completely forgotten them in the last 1000+ days.

can you have angst and confidence in spades at the same time?

when i'm in a hole and i need to keep digging i too have confidence in spades

*feeble mod rimshot*

rimshot full of swagger

I was thinking maybe there will be a revival and these kinds of music/bands will be trendy again at some point ?
After all, there's a 90s revival atm !

i can't wait!

pop will shit itself

THEY can't wait !

when was the last time guitar bands were cool ? 2000 ?

1958

Were these sorts of bands ever cool?

swag !

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JIM SAYS: The first act I caught at last year’s Tenement Trail festival in Glasgow, Vida made an immediate impression — psychedelic indie pop that sucked me in.

So I was delighted when they agreed to play my stage at the Stereofunk Festival at Strathclyde Park last month.

Again, they more than delivered. The big stage is a perfect platform for them.

They may be a five-piece, but Vida think of manager Tom Barnes as a sixth member.

Singer Jamie said: “Tommo’s part of the family. He has done us wonders. He got our music on Sky Sports, also securing a tour support with The Sherlocks.”

Tom also introduced Vida to one of their heroes, Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller guitarist Steve Cradock.

Cradock has produced the band’s new single Where We Came From.

Jamie said: “Tommo DJ’d alongside him at an event last year, and kept in contact with Steve’s personal assistant and lovely wife, Sally.

“She offered us three days in the studio with her famous husband. When we walked into his home studio we were in awe.

“We were faced with all the Ocean Colour Scene gold discs, plus his collaborations with McCartney, the Gallaghers and Weller displayed on the wall.

“An original copy of Electric Warrior by T Rex was spinning next to an incense stick burning away. The scene was set, we were in the zone.”

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what the fuck am i doing with my life

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:48 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never stop dude

tbf you can meet most of Ocean Colour Scene if it's their shift at Stourbridge Nando's when you go in

never stop dude

if only i could ;_;

This is one of your best yet, Nick.

They may be a five-piece, but Vida think of manager Tom Barnes as a sixth member.

Yeahhhh, that's not going to end well.

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Chelsea Swagger

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:-O

I think the worst haircut has been reached, up there ^^^; the chap in the middle, pale blue shirt and thinning blond Dave-Hill-from-Slade fringe.

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Exploding into action with from the first song, it's a collection of tracks that all pack a punch. Guitar driven with a Blusey swagger, infectious riffs and quality musicianship that perfectly compliments frontman Alessandro (Ally) Marinelli's vocal, a voice powered by late nights and good times.

"We can turn you on if you move your feet" Ally bellows in the title track and EP opener, it's not an empty promise.

With the weather getting better all the time, you could do a lot worse that getting out in the sunshine, grabbing a beer and sticking on a bit of Maker!

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Another band to watch. Social Room hail from Sunderland and really make up for the cities shite football team! Their tunes are filled with working class swagger and attitude and sound massive! They remind me of early Kasabian and are definitely going in the right direction. "Let Me See You Work It" sounds huge and will get a crowd interested from the first chord. Frontman Matt has the ability to keep an audience with him from the very start of a gig to the very end. Social Room have the potential to be a very influential band and will certainly be worth seeing down at KU.

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(grim as owt)

it kinda makes me sad to think of these sacrificed generations of brit lads who tried to live the oasis dream...
also, the Libertines never seem to been referenced by all these bands : weren't they the last very famous british guitar bands ?