Help me plan my festival viewing (or berate me for my ignorance of these bands)

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Myself and Mrs C are taking in the Frequency Festival in Salzburg as part of our holiday this year. Which of these bands should we be seeing and which should we run screaming from?

Morningwood
Blumfeld
Kaizers Orchestra
Mando Diao
Cursive
Coheed & Cambria
3 Feet Smaller
Wir Sind Helden
Calexico
Paolo Nutini
The Paddingtons
Mohair

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Morningwood are fantastic. Mando Diao are passable. Paolo Nuttini is absolutely fucking abysmal.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen Calexico, but I hear they are very good live...Coheed & Cambria scare me, they seem like a combo of the worst excesses of Rush, Yes and Mars Volta...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked Blumfeld around 7-8 years ago. Didn't know they were still going

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Wir Sind Helden are Deutsche indie popster, caught them on MTV in Germany, really like them in a guiltless indie pop way.
D/L: Nur Ein Wort

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh, the paddingtons are Hull's worst export. avoid...

― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

duly seconded

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

wow...what a borefest.
i would check out coheed, just to say that i checked out coheed.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

The song 'Kill A Fashion Killer' by The Paddingtons is one of the most extraordinarily awful, inept things I've ever heard from a band with an alleged national profile. So they might be funny to watch

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't find that song, but I did listen to the stuff on their website and have no problem in believing you on that score.

I've been having a listen to some of the others and am liking Calexico and Morningwood, whilst Coheed and Cambria are quite staggeringly scarily bad. Thanks to everyone so far!

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

2006: 3 Feet Smaller, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Audioslave, Bauchklang, Belle & Sebastian, Blumfeld, Body Count Feat. Ice-T., Broken Social Scene, Calexico, Cursive, Editors, Fettes Brot, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Joy Denalane, Kaiser Chiefs, Kaizers Orchestra, Kettcar, Less Than Jake, Mando Diao, Mohair, Morrissey, Muse, Nada Surf, The Paddingtons, The Robocop Kraus, Scissor Sisters, Snow Patrol, Sugarplum Fairy, The Prodigy, Tomte, We Are Scientists, Wir Sind Helden

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed - I was just listing the bands I didn't know (and that I didn't think were pretty unknown outside Continental Europe)

Ha, I've just noticed Morningwood and the Paddingtons play at the same time, so that's one easy decision.

Other clashes for your consideration;

The Prodigy vs Belle And Sebastian
Editors vs Art Brut
Cursive vs We Are Scientists
Morrissey vs Soulwax
Nada Surf vs LostProphets
Futureheads vs Eagles Of Death Metal

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

calexico's the one to see of that list. better live than on record.

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Prodigy, Art Brut, bathroom break, Mirrissey, Nada Surf, toss-up.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Calexico are great, seconded. I've been spinning their latest disc in the past couple weeks. They're a kind of alt-Americana-ish, indie rock group. Think: Iron and Wine (but more rockin'), My Morning Jacket, etc.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

I figured someone else would have warned you, but since nobody has: run from Cursive. Really bland emo-rock. For a while they tried to add an organ player to get a slightly more interesting sound, but ended up dropping that, so now they're back to another boring 4 piece rock group with a terrible singer and lyrics that a 15 year old should be embarrassed by, and the 30+ year old singing it utterly ashamed.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Although, as I implied, WAS is not really a viable alternative either. Seriously, go have sex in a portapotty or something.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wir Sind Helden are good pretty much only for the cuteness of the singer. The first album is an awful pixies derivative (does that make it doubly awful?). The current songs are much better but still pretty much MTV fodder. (I don't think it would be fair to use the word "indie" to describe them at all.) "Nur Ein Wort" is catchy, but the video is a stupid Dylan homage.

They would be near the top of the least-offensive cropping of your list. And again, the lead singer is pretty cute, especially when holding a guitar.

― Dan Gr (certain), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

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