"this shit is immortal" they say

this = sux0r. I cannot believe the hype this mag is pushing on thiz band. It is really fukcing dreary pub metal.

the darkness are playing aguitar solo thee like of which i have heard 1000000 times in pubs in newcastle. if this lot hit big, the copyists will be legion

Obviously there is a second rate cock rock revival on the go at present. This sounds like late period hanoi rocks, except thee singer /= k-rowr. I hope it gets better than this.

this is more like it, in fact this is fukcing great! At last!

fuck, th1s sounds *exactly* like joy division "unknown pleasures" track!

this is, y'know, pleasant. It makes me want to put on "Terror couple kill colonel" really loud.

this is actually quite nice, in a kind of maudlin sub-cnsy way. I'm a sucker for that sort ov backing vox, tho.

this is thee only band i'd heard before so far, it's ok, i sppose, but the singer's voice is kind of annoying in its whiny way.

does the original have the k-lame limp reggae beat behind it? It's a bit naff. I dunno if it represents the band at all, it's just this meh bit of sub-dub, with a bit of the vocals dropped in, with too much noise gate applied.

Yeah, they basically sound like a Joy Division tribute band, which is alright by me because, really, I see no need for bands not to sound exactly like Joy Division. I think "Leif Erickson" is a better song than "Roland", FYI if you actually care.

this is mediocre but frustrating, like it's got some nice bits, but it sounds like they could barely be bothered to make it. plus there's all these crescendos, but the rekkid is so compressed that they kind of stay at the same level.

"ATDI may be a fond memory now" sez the little bit in the magazine. Pah, in your world maybe, mr bang writer, but in mine, they were the most boring, 1-dimensional live mand i've ever seen. This is really, really awful. It's like they're trying to be extreme, but the production is too mor, and the band resoluttely does not rock. Pah, they should listen to tidfall or antiorp.

webb brothers are on a comp??? that record came out AGES ago (and wuz awful)

The best song in the world, as per today, undoubtedly, and I'm not just saying this because you are in the building: VdG "Refugees". No doubt!

I dig refugees, that's fr sure, but my best-track-in-the-qorld right now = "this town ain't big enough for the both of us"

I kinda liked Electronic Eye Machine and The New Tellers live - def. interesting and better than most N

the magazine? the second issue was purdy bad stuff. i actually get these cds in the post - the mellowdrone and the har mar superstar and thought. meh. not remotely 'citing. And hardly worth the spread of interest.

and know a guy pretty high up in the warner brothers chain of command. I think 'cause NME started a war against BANG and well - that meant that two high profile Warner acts will no longer be getting coverage from NME then - I think, honestly, that Warner Brothers is backing Bang but hardly anyone else. It sort of read like a Warner Brothers tip sheet.

Their own stupuidity for pitting themselves against the NME again. Why not just start a magazine without hyping it as the alternative NME? IPC Media is going to squash it and by the time that I saw the second issue, it's death is assured.

But to surmise from the darkness - the person orginally resp. for the darkness came from another record company where he was supposedly involved (in reality was not) with the signing of two very good bands that stormed the charts. Thus the interest was paid on that eejit's new efforts. Only the people did not know was thus: HE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TWO COOL NEW SIGNINGS - THE CRED WAS GIVEN TO HIM. BUT THE PERSON WHO NO LONGER NEEDED THE CRED. Thus, the darkness. But alas, what goes around, comes around, they were signed away from Must Destroy (apt) (no option) (hahaha - looks good on the fuckface) and now are on Sony (Death to the Darkness). It will fade. AS the quality is not there.

And I alienate myself against the Bang retards 'cause during the intial meeting I could not contain my disbelief when they were going to back the darkness - when obviously the only darkness they need is a quick strangulation.

Shit man, what a waste of money and resources.

anyone read the bang mesage board? does anyone not working for it or prs - actually post on there? that is a litmus test in itself.

ps. i didnt buy it but read it in budgens where afterwards i covered the shameful mess with a bunch of heat magazines! bahahaha! petty but fun.