Space, Aswad, a five-year-old Emily Eavis on violin: over the last 40 years the festival has played host to some woeful acts. Here is the worst possible anniversary lineup ... So Glastonbury 2010 has sold out in a day. You poor fools. What did it? Was it because it'll be the festival's 40th anniversary? Was it that Michael Eavis has promised "a band from each year of the festival's history"?...
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Electric Tickle Machine Genre: Psychedelic / Garage / Pop From: e. vill, New YorkUnited States Guys what possessed you to saddle yourselves with a name like Electric Tickle Machine? It's possibly the least appropriate name in music since Savage Garden ! Their name sounds more like one of those faux anarchic Saturday morning kids show with the 'wacky' presenters than a band with a fine line in jangly,...
There are a number of television personalities celebrating birthdays today, including "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, "Friends" actor Matthew Perry, "The Closer" star Kyra Sedgwick, "Entourage" cast member Kevin Dillon, Peter Gallagher (formerly of "The O.C."), "Full House" lead John Stamos and "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...
Gerard did 50, and Mike did 20, and both tagged me, so I'm going for 70. OK, here are the rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can't think of 50 other artists. Should you choose this...
- Ugly betty then bed with a book. # @ThisisDavina – No wonder she is confused. The film would be called Noreen: The Curse in reply to ThisisDavina # - What just happened? #BB10 # @ispeed72 he did. I did a double take. in reply to ispeed72 # @ispeed72 agreed in reply to ispeed72 # @PJA1966 this is true. in [...]
Pete & the Pirates Pete and the Pirates have come a long way in the few years since SoundsXP put them on the bill as headliners at the Purple Turtle. The Borderline is rammed tonight, making you conscious of some of the limitations of what is essentially still a very good venue – a pillar that blocks a great deal of the stage from being viewed by anyone not in the tiered ‘pit’...
Britpop gave a leg-up to many ‘indie’ bands who might not have had a crack at the big-time or who had been around for a while. Amongst those who got invited to the party were The Charlatans, Lush, and the Manic Street Preachers, and even, arguably the Levellers. However, Britpop seemed to put paid to certain [...]
Some years in music are pivotal and utterly steeped in meaning and resonance. 1992 was not one of them. It was summed up by the sheer awfulness of Undercover’s ‘Baker Street’ cover, a hideous dance version of Bryan Adams’ ‘Run To You’ by a band called Rage and the fact that Madonna unleashed a stinker of [...]
Warning: if the names Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Paris Angels and The Darling Buds mean nothing to you then this book probably isn't for you. Tim Thornton's novel is so washed through with love of the British indie music scene of the late 1980s that anyone less than a rampant fan is likely to find it tedious, if not outright incomprehensible.
It’s been almost two decades, but now Black Country rockers Ned’s Atomic Dustbin are looking forward to reuniting on stage in Wolverhampton. All five original … [visit site to read more]
Not a huge slate of games last night in the NHL. With only two scheduled, today’s Making Puck will be relatively brief. At least we have the Penguins/Red Wings tilt tonight to look forward to. Today’s theme: Ned’s Atomic Dustbin. I’m sure at least two of you out there may have heard of them before. So be [...]
“little is revealed apart from a sense of personality and sensitivity that few others apart from Gedge and Barney Sumner can achieve.” From this NME review of Morrissey’s Suedehead. “Gedge” would be David Gedge of The Wedding Present, a band I never disliked but…personality and sensitivity? The Weddoes? Times change. It would be interesting to re-read [...]
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