Britsih Sea Power

Sorry, I wanted to say: I just downloaded two tracks from their site

It is not my day today. The band is obviously called British Sea Power. Anyone heard them live?

fucking garbage.

dancing like the idiot children of david byrne, pretenders to the ian curtis throne, absolute pretentious waste of time. they are, if kenneth halliwell exsisted, something that he would make up, if he were to be in a rock'n'roll band.

avoid.

dud. dud. dud.

doomie makes them sound rather interesting

hmmm

if you think peter murphy sound-a-likes is interesting...

(He'd like them if they were on Poptones, heh heh heh)

don't you have some food to eat?

(hehehehe)

Indeed, yum yum yum, but just eating food isn't enough these days, I need some reading matter to keep me occupied. SPEAKING OF WHICH, how's your book coming along?

it's being negotiated....but i'm occupied as i'm on as a ghostwriter on a screenplay at the moment..........plus doing magazine work. how's the eating?

The eating's fine - I asked because I just thought that if your book is as witty as your retorts then I wager it'll be in the bargain bin pretty damn soon.

Peter Murphy soundalikes??????????? Jeeesus, I thought some of the Papa Roack queue I was trying to flog zines to tonight were fucking morons. These people have the vote - frightening.

British Sea Power review in the latest copy of the Organ. Pretty good live despite the journo wankers complaining that they'd heard it all before. No you havent you twats, the bass player is VERY Joy Division/New Order but the rest of the sound is full-on, touches of almost Hawkwind-ish psyche. Straightforward anthemic stuff, extremely good drummer, great entourage, lots of heartfelt emotion from the players. They sound like The Sound if you ask me.

Four words: ECHO AND THE FUCKING BUNNYMEN

Think about it. Where have you seen the pop-eyed staring, the quasi-military uniforms and stage sets, the strangled sub-Joy Division guitar rip-off-riffs and the lyrics to Louie Louie interjected into songs before?

ANd I bloody well *like* Echo and the Bunnymen...

BSP have one listenable single (Remember Me) but too bad even that one listenable riff isn't their own. Utterly disposable.

Crikey I've never seen doomie be so horrible about a band!

I have their first single so I hope they get big and I can recoup on eBay. But it's not all that good. The stage show I caught 30 seconds of at the ICA and it looked fun.

it was something that i had to review for M.E.N. my original review was nastier. as the club night took me away from writing and i had to sit through what seemed like 30 years of british direness compressed in three very long hours WASTED from my life. not to mention the bus drive home.

it consisted of a beautiful south cover band. a humourist that was painful. and then british sea power. surrounded by a bunch of twigs, played their best echo and the bunnymen songs and then bored the living fuck out of me for hours afterwards. it's a goth revival. then the guitarist did the most embarrassing, throw down his guitar and public school run through the crowd, went up on the balcony of the spitz and eased himself back down on the stage whilst the singer did his mock stoned look at the crowd. maybe he looked that way becuase he was shocked at how boring a rock'n'roll show can be? wide eyed and bored. thniking: fuck, we are fucking crap, arent we? all the while, hippies were trying to sell me art mags and careless talk costs lives. it was so horrible i felt like committing suicide.

doomie you don't have to DRIVE the bus, they have a man to do that even in britain

am i bettah than the humorist? possibly not...

they are putting the finishing touches to their album, according to the band's website. And it's about time! I can't wait! I saw them live last year and thought they were fantastic - one of my fave gigs of last year. I think that criticizing a band for being derivative is a rather churlish thing to do, because derivative music can be interesting and enjoyable and beisdes, there are only *hints*...it's not as if BSP rip off any band wholesale. I thought I heard elements of The Fall and Pere Ubu when I saw them, but it was all put together in an intriguing way.

Besides, none of these other bands have such an interesting image - the quasi-military stuff, sure (I've never seen another band where the GUY ON THE MERCHIE STALL FOR CHRISSAKES has his own carefully crafted image - think corpulent Boy Scout leader waving Town Cryeresue bell to attract attention). The stuffed birds. The set heralded by a reading of TS Eliot's "Triumphal March" over the PA. It was all wonderful!