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

i think one of the inspiral carpets actually ended up playing in an inspiral carpets tribute act

Yep - Tom Hingley and the Kar-pets

will have to update the tribute band thread tomorrow, but yes, the band reformed in 2011 with the original original singer; five years later the popular-era singer formed a tribute band called Kar-Pets.

Am hoping Germany has a tribute band called The Schmidts.

German tribute bands: Still Collins, The Quarrymen Beatles,Motörblöck and pictured below Goldplay Live

https://s1.ticketm.net/dam/a/e52/9ca75047-ecda-4618-bb9a-628dcdbcfe52_1351891_RETINA_PORTRAIT_3_2.jpg

ty for that pic

Clint Boon has been one of the earliest & most dedicated baggy tribute DJs, and iirc also ran nostalgia bus tours in Manchester? certainly big enough to keep his ex-singer off the bill if they still hate each other

Imagine this being the actual video you use to promote yourselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBh2DUO97cU

take it away, chris

Guy on the left in the Goldplay Live pic (guessing he's the drummer) looks like an escapee from Germany's biggest Winger tribute, Schwinger.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/20/one-to-watch-the-clockworks-galway-alan-mcgee

"... it’s fair to say that Creation Records founder Alan McGee has a nose for up-and-coming guitar bands. The Clockworks first came to his attention in 2019 when guitarist Sean Connelly messaged him on Instagram, saying: “McGee: We’re the punk rock version of the Streets.” McGee was impressed enough by a demo to go and see one of their rehearsals at home in Galway, at which frontman James McGregor performed with such intensity that he broke his mic stand. McGee felt it was the best rehearsal he’d seen since early Oasis, and signed them that night."

https://i.imgur.com/c0nJQxQ.png

the streets reference is almost edgy in - yet somehow also absolutely perfect for - this context

Sockview

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article22697979.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_EHP_CHP_170920Blankety-Blank_33961JPG.jpg

"frontman James McGregor performed with such intensity that he broke his mic stand"

“I can’t see them failing.”

Oy! McGee! No!

Where is that kid John Lennon McCartney or whatever his name was today?

We should do a poll of the one hundred-and-some crap acts Alan has gassed up as 'The Next..' whoever.

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/nme-10august2013-130817092215-phpapp01/95/nme-10-august-2013-1-638.jpg

God knows which hapless chancer he was talking about that week.

I also had this sponsored post appear on facebook the other day, which seemed ripe for this thread from the name and photo alone.

The Sherlocks, out standing in their (dad's) field. I dread to think what their MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT was.

https://i.imgur.com/x04YCFV.png

"... it’s fair to say that Creation Records founder Alan McGee has a nose for up-and-coming guitar bands."

The last 20-odd years of his career suggests otherwise.

Still dining out on Oasis I see (who he apparently didn't even want to sign, so legend has it).

We should do a poll of the one hundred-and-some crap acts Alan has gassed up as 'The Next..' whoever.

🖼

God knows which hapless chancer he was talking about that week.

Ah yes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5a4nSFM5xlI/UjdxNvxP_GI/AAAAAAAAAUg/WcEC0n-TCnc/s1600/1230010_321923944617979_1316314597_n.jpg

I see he's still going but has dropped the Lennon. He was probably encouraged to play up to his full given name. Poor get

Poor in so many ways.

wasn't there a thread where we posted album covers with musicians leaning against brick walls?

just noting the swagger

"So Keir, do you prefer Oasis or The Stone Roses?"

Great to show the boss around Manchester today. pic.twitter.com/MmVUUMgqQC

— Angela Rayner 😷 (@AngelaRayner) April 29, 2021

I know he's not very tall, but he looks about 5'6 there.

I bet he felt much more comfortable bending the knee a little bit closer to the camera than Angela was!

did he ever say which he prefers

it's still at the "what dogshit-music authentocrat pols are supposed to like" focus group

Kieth would obviously take Oasis over Stone Roses.

I don't know, doesn't he claim he was an 80s indie kid?

would explain the racism

... and Northern Soul, so Stone Roses seems more likely, though I don't believe anything he says about anything.

I believe him when he says he likes the pigs

Made it to 89 in the charts apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGfKoHvRJkY

Just heard a band on 6Music called Afflecks Palace; I'm not googling to see what they look like, they belong here already.

https://www.last.fm/music/Campag+Velocet/+images/f4a901f9a225f74771f943082bcc0538

lol indie

Aw damn, it was a picture of Campag Velocet, it's really fucking funny

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/f4a901f9a225f74771f943082bcc0538.jpg

a mix between The Regular Fries and Lo-Fidelity Allstars with the swagger of Delakota

The issue or issues of NME introducing all three of those bands as saviours of music was peak me buying NME as a kid.

A mix between cool ranch and spicy nacho with the swagger of taro

Didn't the Campag Velocet guy mostly dress in cycling shirts? That was probably a good look by hazy memory but I'm not searching to confirm, mainly because I don't want Campag Velocet in my search history. I thought I had a 12" of theirs but turns out I was confusing them with Regular Fries. So now Campag Velocet are in my living room search history. I think the record I'm thinking of was also on Rabid Badger records lol 1998 what the fuck was I thinking. Lo-Fidelity Allstars had some bangers tho, mostly after they ditched the "singer"

The Wrekked Train christ alive

a mix between The Regular Fries and Lo-Fidelity Allstars with the swagger of Delakota

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic),

i f*cking loved the fries.
first album in particular.
the last band i have tried to get everything that was available on cd.
still listen to them a lot, and to be fair, same goes for the other 2 bands.
never saw any of them live, and had given buying the nme so have no idea what they looked/interviewed like, nor care.

(I like 'em all too)

h/t, noodle vague, this campaq frontman is pretty hilarious

https://img6.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/n/w/nwdg0fo5yyjhjyo.jpg

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/ac2e84e32bd3079e2d804651ed544122.jpg

looks like christian vander in that one tbh