Marine Research/Shellac/Fugazi - Stratford Rex, London
Le geek inconnu
took forever to get in; 2800 people and they were searching every one.
One of the security guards outside the venue had this fuck-off big dog
that was snarling at everyone in the line and tugging forward on its
leash. Very pleasant.
Marine Research - Amelia Fletcher's new band, with all of the former
members of Heavenly. The first song was a real dirge but the second was
a nice little pop ditty that made me tap my feet. By the last song of
the set I was bouncing up and down. They're not as jangly and upbeat as
Heavenly (surprise, surprise) but they're catchy, you can dance to them
and these are not just ordinary pop songs, but Amelia-Fletcher-penned
pop songs. Need I explain further? First album's due out later this
year. I think they have a couple of singles out too. They're also doing
a Peel Session this week (are you reading, Dr Downs?), but I forgot the
time. Sorry. I don't have a radio either.
Every time Amelia spoke to the audience, she looked like she was going
to run away and hide behind the speakers. She also had a cute little toy
recorder/keyboard thing (you know those things you blow into that have a
keyboard down the side?), which she highly recommended to anyone who
wants to be in a band but can't be arsed to learn an instrument.
Shellac - their songs seem to fall into three categories:
Songs with singing - good
Fast songs - excellent
Arty, muso, tempo-shifting, instrumental wank - bored me shitless
Bob Weston's favourite British biscuits are milk chocolate hob nobs.
Good choice. Oh yeah, the question and answer session with the crowd was
funny.
Fugazi - played one of the most incredible sets I have ever heard. I was
a dancing maniac, until the second encore when I thought I was going to
collapse, so I watched a thousand heads bob up and down to Arpeggiator
and Glue Man from the sidelines.
There was one twat near me in the pit whose idea of dancing was jumping
up, then jack-knifing his legs to bring his boots up to eye-level. He
gets my Punk Rock Twat of the Show award. He may have to share it with
whoever was throwing beer cans at the stage and hit a girl in the front
row.
Anyway, a fucking incredible live band. I'm not sure I've ever seen a
band play with that much energy, and so fucking tight too. I think I'm
just going to sit here and say "wow" a lot.
My bus ride home was almost bought to an abrupt and premature halt at
1am, and on the wrong side of the river, because two people had parked
their cars across the bus route. Everyone on the bus piled off, picked
up one car and moved it, then did the other. Community spirit's where
it's at. Then we all piled back on the bus so we could go to our homes
and hot cocoa and bed.
Jimbo
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world....
THE YOUNG ONES!
and not to mention Red Dwarf, and Bottom, and Black Adder...
american TV sucks, therefore i do not have TV...
greggsemen
XjunkpileX
>world....
>
>THE YOUNG ONES!
i agree wholeheartedly. we got the whole set of young ones videos for
christmas last year. so great. i watch them constantly.
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Gregg Semen
XjunkpileX wrote in message <19990516104046...@ng17.aol.com>...
>>British people, my people....So much is owed to the country that gave the
>>world....
>>
>>THE YOUNG ONES!
>
>
>
>i agree wholeheartedly. we got the whole set of young ones videos for
>christmas last year. so great. i watch them constantly.
>
>
>-----
>nicole.
I watch them, every night, it's all i ahve to watch, and i couldn't be
happier about it. I'd have to say Nasty is my favorite, with Summer Holiday
in a close second.
I love this damn show....love it love it love it.
greggsemen
XjunkpileX
>in a close second.
haha.. i've always wondered where you could find a pair of shorts like the ones
Vyv has on in that episode.
Gregg Semen
XjunkpileX wrote in message <19990516114457...@ng14.aol.com>...
>> with Summer Holiday
>>in a close second.
>
>
>
>haha.. i've always wondered where you could find a pair of shorts like the
ones
>Vyv has on in that episode.
>-----
>nicole.
I made mine with coathangers. I used an old pair of khakis from my old job
(since i got laid off) and made them, i was the envy of all my friends for
30 seconds.
greggsemen
grrr!
> British people, my people....So much is owed to the country that gave the
> world....
>
> THE YOUNG ONES!
>
> american TV sucks, therefore i do not have TV...
>
> greggsemen
>
>
>
Newsradio was fuckin brilliant.
3rd rock can be but hasn't for a few seasons.
The Sopranos are fantastic.
Sex and the City can be quite good.
Rude Awakenings is hilarious.
Mr. Show was da bomb.
South Park can be humorous.
Voyager isn't as bad as many claim.
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>
>>British people, my people....So much is owed to the country that gave the
>>world....
>>
>>THE YOUNG ONES!
>
>
>
>christmas last year. so great. i watch them constantly.
WHERE DID YOU GET THEM?@#$#?!%$?%?%$?!?
Randy
scara...@my-dejanews.com
> Marine Research - Amelia Fletcher's new band, with all of the former
> members of Heavenly. The first song was a real dirge but the second
> was a nice little pop ditty that made me tap my feet. By the last song
> of the set I was bouncing up and down. They're not as jangly and
> upbeat as Heavenly (surprise, surprise)
Heavenly: Jangly? Yes. Upbeat? Fuck you no way.
> but they're catchy, you can dance to them
> and these are not just ordinary pop songs, but Amelia-Fletcher-penned
> pop songs. Need I explain further? First album's due out later this
> year. I think they have a couple of singles out too.
That I know of they've had one 7" on some obscure label in the UK and
another one on K in the US, the latter maybe being a split single?
Can't remember details off-hand.
And Marine Research opening for Shellac and Fugazi is just all wrong
on so many levels.
> They're also doing
> a Peel Session this week (are you reading, Dr Downs?), but I forgot
> the time. Sorry. I don't have a radio either.
The first time I'd listened to John Peel in years was when Velodrome
2000 had a session broadcast a while back. Reminded me why I stopped
listening to it too, apart from their session tracks everything else
he played was utterly and truly horrid. Unlistenable dance music,
plain white noise and god knows what else. Nothing remotely resembling
a tune that was for sure. Sigh, guess I just got old.
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scara...@my-dejanews.com
> British people, my people....So much is owed to the country that gave
> the world....
>
> THE YOUNG ONES!
I saw that series when it was originally broadcast here and, heresy
though it may be, I never found it very funny even of its time and
place. The only really amusing episode was the University Challenge
spoof with Motorhead as the guest band.
> and not to mention Red Dwarf, and Bottom, and Black Adder...
Red Dwarf - excellent. Bottom - even worse than the Young Ones. Black
Adder - patchy but capable of brilliance. The Magnificent Seven spoof
at the end of the first series being my all-time favourite.
> american TV sucks, therefore i do not have TV...
Lock me in the Tower if you want but I'd much rather watch re-runs of
Cheers on the Paramount Channel than the Young Ones on UK Gold. On the
rare occasions I have access to cable tv that is, the Adam and Joe
Show is the only thing I go out my way to watch on ordinary tv these
days.
LLivermore
<<Lock me in the Tower if you want but I'd much rather watch re-runs of
Cheers on the Paramount Channel than the Young Ones on UK Gold>>
It pains me to admit this, especially having just coughed up 101 pounds for
this years TV licence, but there is much about American TV that has caught up
to and even surpassed British TV, which was once undeniably the best in the
world.
All things being equal I'll still take the BBC, but the Americans are doing
better sitcoms, the Americans are doing the Simpsons and Futurama, etc., and
for teen angst soap-type stuff (OK, I'll admit it, I watch "Neighbours," but
don't discount my opinion based on that alone), "Dawson's Creek" is brilliant.
On the other hand, most American soaps are beyond ludicrous, while EastEnders,
Coronation Street, and Brookside are, well, also ludicrous, but in a far more
entertaining way. Actually the British soap is an art form that I can't see
the Americans ever mastering, since American TV doesn't allow gorpy, depressing
(read: realistic) characters on its shows.
Well, apart from Springer, of course, which is massively successful in the UK,
even though it should probably have subtititles; my elderly aunt is constantly
begging me to translate the trailer trash dialogue for her, because she can
barely understand a word they're saying.
Speaking of which, did anybody notice the uproar at the BBC when some gnarly
old Scottish crofter was being interviewed and subtitles were placed on screen
so that the 99% of the British population who don't live in East Outer Uist or
whatever it was could understand him?
Certain Scottish politicians were outraged, so now the BBC has a new rule that
subtitles can never be used when a Scottish person is speaking, no matter how
unintelligible his dialect is. So now Scottish people can rabbit on about
whatever with no one having the faintest idea what they're on about, which,
come to think of it, is not that diferent from many real life situations.
Le geek inconnu
dejanews.com wrote...
>Le geek inconnu <j...@penfold0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Marine Research - Amelia Fletcher's new band, with all of the former
>> members of Heavenly. The first song was a real dirge but the second
>> was a nice little pop ditty that made me tap my feet. By the last song
>> of the set I was bouncing up and down. They're not as jangly and
>> upbeat as Heavenly (surprise, surprise)
>
>Heavenly: Jangly? Yes. Upbeat? Fuck you no way.
>
Heavenly".
>
>And Marine Research opening for Shellac and Fugazi is just all wrong
>on so many levels.
>
The little indie rock kids at the show did seem a bit confused by what
was going on.
I got to see three good bands for 6 quid though. Can't argue with that.
>The first time I'd listened to John Peel in years was when Velodrome
>2000 had a session broadcast a while back. Reminded me why I stopped
>listening to it too, apart from their session tracks everything else
>he played was utterly and truly horrid. Unlistenable dance music,
>plain white noise and god knows what else. Nothing remotely resembling
>a tune that was for sure. Sigh, guess I just got old.
>
You sound just like my old dad.
Le geek inconnu
<llive...@aol.com> wrote...
>
>It pains me to admit this, especially having just coughed up 101 pounds for
>this years TV licence, but there is much about American TV that has caught up
>to and even surpassed British TV, which was once undeniably the best in the
>world.
>
all I watch. None of which are on the BBC, come to think of it.
>Certain Scottish politicians were outraged, so now the BBC has a new rule that
>subtitles can never be used when a Scottish person is speaking, no matter how
>unintelligible his dialect is. So now Scottish people can rabbit on about
>whatever with no one having the faintest idea what they're on about, which,
>come to think of it, is not that diferent from many real life situations.
That's why we gave them their own parliament. The next logical step is
to rebuild Hadrian's Wall.
Le geek inconnu
dejanews.com wrote...
>Red Dwarf - excellent.
I could never get into Red Dwarf. It had its moments but I never found
it really funny. Then again, I like fart jokes. Oh well.
> Black
>Adder - patchy but capable of brilliance. The Magnificent Seven spoof
>at the end of the first series being my all-time favourite.
>
The first series was excellent from start to finish. I always liked
Peter Cook doing the Banquo's ghost scene in the first episode.
>Lock me in the Tower if you want but I'd much rather watch re-runs of
>Cheers on the Paramount Channel than the Young Ones on UK Gold.
Heresy! Burn him at the stake!
Tamagotchi Killa
>>Fugazi - played one of the most incredible sets I have ever heard.
>
>you never saw the nation of ulysses then did ya.....oh man thatwas one of the
>best nights of my life
God damn fucking shit, I can't wait until I'm in my mid-twenties
and can lay shit like this on people. Like, "you never saw The
Rudiments then did ya....." or... fucking shit, I can't think of any
other spectacular band I've seen that I can lord over people.
Ahhh, but you muthafuckas never saw the Defenestrators, eh?
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Tamagotchi Killa
Whore whore whore.
I'll never see a show that fucking good.
*sniff* ever. *sniff sniff*
But have I already told all my Wacky Shellac Live Show stories?
Le geek inconnu
> Jim you whore.
>
> Whore whore whore.
>
> But have I already told all my Wacky Shellac Live Show stories?
>
I've a feeling you're going to. I'm a good listener.
LLivermore
<<Jim you whore.
Whore whore whore.
I'll never see a show that fucking good>>
Did I mention that I left London two days before said show at least partly so I
wouldn't get dragged to it by otherwise well-intentioned friends?