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i fucked my knee up and couldn't walk properly for a month after

and thats why i'm so fat

also i saw supergrass at one of the v festivals in the 90s. i remember literally nothing about them (even though i really liked them at the time)

dng wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:54 pm and thats why i'm so fat

You should sue Oasis!

I'm currently suing indie rock funsters Athlete for foot damage!

I have presumably told the story before of how Supergrass bankrupted my college's student union.

i'm not sure you have (or at least if you did i've forgotten)

The ball committee for the 2000 college ball (one of the leading lights of which was someone from my year at school - I didn't know him very well but he was all right from what I remember) thought it would be a good idea to book Supergrass as the headline act, which presumably was made a bit easier by the fact that they're from Oxford originally (which I only just discovered). I didn't go to the ball (although I've been to every one since - 2022 was probably the last time, though) so I don't know whether it was worth it from a musical point of view, but from a financial point of view it absolutely wasn't. It bankrupted the student union, which had to go cap in hand to the college authorities to be bailed out, and caused considerable difficulties with funding and organisation thereafter. Arguably the college should never have given them that degree of freedom in the first place, but anyway.

I went to a college reunion dinner back in 2010-ish, and the guy from my year at school was there and it was all quite pleasant. However, someone else who was there couldn't resist saying to him "I see from the college gazette that you're donating money to the college. How long will it take to pay back thirty grand?" He had to laugh.

Whoopsie

I don't think it cost the Harlow Square that much, it would've bankrupted them as well.

Also, unintentional pun on line 2?

Tears For Fears' new ablum has AI generated cover art with wonky looking clouds:
The cheap buggers.

It's quite nice to know that The Cure haven't lost the knack of writing a decent miserable tune. Hurrah for The Cure!

Alex Ball - The Story of Warm Leatherette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TJCNdyajg

I enjoyed this.

Steve Lamacq... MBE?!?

Jo Whiley will be furious!

The kings obviously a fan of Carter USM and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

Steve Lamacq loves the band Kingmaker. Now we have a king and he's being rewarded... seems fishy to me

Yeah… very suspicious

He was a local boy and a supporter of the Harlow Square. Our lovely old dead music venue

as this well-written and spell-checked article explains: https://www.yourharlow.com/2024/12/31/b ... ic-venues/

this video though is a much better example, and made me quite emotional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTP06HDU8U

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Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged with calling Meloni ‘fascist’ and ‘racist'
The singer is being charged with defamation of the far-right Italian prime minister leader while performing at a festival in Turin in 2023
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Always been a fan of Placebo, me. Good lad!

Hooray for Pokey

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

I like Pokey

I thought Pokey the Penguin had finally released his much anticipated Krautrock album.

MARINA: CUNTISSIMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_0DsBctYg

Slightly nuts Hi-NRG works for me.

Intelesting

I'll intelest YOU in a minute!!!!

threaten me with a good time

Did Vom ever say whether he would represent Inglatera at the Eurovision Song Contest?

No, I want to represent one of the good countries instead

Lundy Island - Douze Points!

today in "music I think Toby Vok would like", Forest Floor

https://youtu.be/AKkyL6tiMHc?si=sx0FfIeaM2ta05Ge

the whole album is very good

excellent

The first three minutes are the perfect soundtrack to ma brane.

This isn't music, but it is an audio recording that I've just uploaded to archive.org...

Mac The Paperman - Up To The Box

(It hasn't quite finished making the mp3s from it yet, but will probably be done by the time you see this post)

A fascinating listen, that, Michelle! Ta!

Has Taylor Swift gone dun any choons that I might like?

Thanksinadvance

It's unlikely

Apparently the fan consensus on her new album is "It's meant to be bad on purpose"

I'm not joking

thats usually my excuse too

I watched a play from the national theatre the other day that had a soundtrack by PJ Harvey. Which mostly proved that normal people don’t have the vocal range to sing PJ Harvey songs.

This is pretty epic though: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rb6GoV- ... p=2AESkAIB

ves

this has just reminded me of juliette lewis's useless pj harvey act in strange days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhinMTy4jNE

I've heard worse, although I'm not much of a fan of Juliette Lewis as either a singer or actor, tbh, although I'm not entirely sure why.

Bruce, I hope you still read this thread as you have some explaining to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yiKx0ZaNHc

Like, how the bloody hell is this so good? Damn!

That's rather neato is that!

excellent

endar wrote: Sat Oct 25, 2025 6:34 pm Bruce, I hope you still read this thread as you have some explaining to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yiKx0ZaNHc

Like, how the bloody hell is this so good? Damn!

I have no answer, other than that Bill Oddie really took his music seriously (Funky Gibbon aside). Although if memory serves all his music was written in collaboration with another fellow, so maybe the other fellow provided a big whack of the composing / arranging support.

My friend runs that youtube channel and its parent blog, and says they had a bunch of session players as well. But still, bloody hell

I agree this is evil and wrong, but I really dig this AI synthwave cover of The Smashing Pumpkins' Bullet with Butterfly Wings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXImyi3-a0

Shun me now!

An extremely catchy 60s pastiche of a choon!

The Like: Wishing He Was Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifAU55G92FE

Verr late to the partay, but... Fatboy Slim rejoins The Housemartins (Paul Heaton really) for a song at Glasto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZytaquhD6s

I dunno anything about bass playing, but that bass playing looks like good bass playing.

dng wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 8:24 pm The new arab strap album is brilliant

The new arab strap single is brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeBhMvzdKA

"How a Japanese Keyboard Preset Reshaped the Sound of Dancehall"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPHZS1nfoU

A nice little 11 minute documentary.