..and now they're massive.
The Pigeon Detectives supported my old band 3/4 times in 2005- I certainly didn't hold out any hope for them. Imagine my surprise, etc...
..and now they're massive.
The Pigeon Detectives supported my old band 3/4 times in 2005- I certainly didn't hold out any hope for them. Imagine my surprise, etc...
Tough break!
; )
i put the twang on
at a mini-festival that I ran at birmingham uni in 2005, as a favour to the singer who i used to work with..
had about ten people watching them, and we had to get security to drag them off stage.(After we'd given them the 'five minutes left' sign, they proceeded to smash up the p.a., threw a pint glass at security and generally behaved like arseholes...)
imagine my surprise when...
Played a 'Battle of the Bands' Farago with Enter Shikari
about 4 years ago. We certainly were'nt laughing about the attitude of their management towards us that night. Nasty Nasty Nasty.
^this
Although I actually didn't think they were THAT bad when we played with them.
Re Enter Shikari;
They kept their distance. It was their manager who was 'THAT bad'.
Nasty in what sense?
Management?!
Their management is one of their Dads
Or at least it used to be.
the pigeon detectives
supported my old band. i dismissed them because they sounded exactly like the strokes.
the wombats opened for said band (they asked to borrow a cab but didn't know what a 2x10 was). didn't watch them.
i once supported the twang but that was when they were popular.
i'm sure there are more but i can't think of any.
Good Shoes
I laughed at them.
And their shoes.
Now I mutter incoherent mumblings under my breathe every time I hear of them.
all well and good
that they supported you and you laughed... but really, who is laughing now? :p
Well, them obviously.
They laugh and eat money pies.
They're still shit though.
Also...
.. The Feeling supported us just before their first single came out. They were very unfriendly and held conversations along the lines of 'Well, like I said to my accountant, I don't mind paying my taxes as long as the poor people do.'
Just to go back to the Pigeon Detective's, the last I ever saw of them was the singer licking pill dust from Ricky Wilson's hand in the toilets of the Faversham, Leeds.
who gives 2 shits and a fuck
if you know what a cab is?
The Enemy
"Arctic Monkeys rip-off" we said.
"We're from Cov" they said.
We were pretty sure they were gonna get signed though.
Go:AuDiO
In Luton
Bunch of tossers and shit music
all over MTV2, Kerrang, Scuzz & Musical Press now
:|
Not my band
but Ash supported my mates old band Gan (went on to be One Car Pile-Up) when they toured Northern Ireland in the early 90's. He's of the opinion that they were crap then, and pretty bad now.I think they were about 16 and just starting out.
Maximo Park
a few years back in Bournemouth. Just as rubbish as they are now.
not in a band
and have therefore never been supported. But I remember laughing at KT Tunstall when she played at our union (she was a fellow student) on several occasions. She was known as Katie (or was it with a 'y'?), and was rubbish. Now she's really quite alright, and I'm only just getting round to learning my 6th tune on acoustic guitar.
Enter Shikari...
are from my home town and they got stick for years because people thought they where shit esp my mates and all of a sudden when they get big evryone loves them in St Albans....
I dont love them
and I live 15 minutes down the M25 from St Albans, so there you go.
No-one.
I come from Reading.
I come from St Albans
and think Enter Shikari are shit. do I get a prize?
you win 2 internets
one for the opinion, one for your username
i remember some more
these bands aren't really that big but anyway:
played with good shoes twice. one of the guitarists used my amp - he didn't seem too impressed when i explained to him you could only use certain knobs because it was broken.
the maccabees - the guitarist didn't know what a patch lead was.
the harrisons - one of them complained he spent his last 70p on a copy of nuts/zoo.
seal club clubbing club - they had a complete dickhead of a stage manager. why they thought they needed one is beyond me.
Arn't the maccabees like 12 though?
i don't know what a patch lead is
because i'm not a square
(ps
what is a patch lead?)
you put
it in your head
then plug it into your guitar
so your guitar can hear what you're saying
hahahah
this could be true for all i know? i may google this
a short lead
usually used to plug two pedals into each other.
my old band were once support by led. great times.
i own some of these
i thought the scientific name was "short lead"
:D
i also thought this
and will keep using said term!
you're forgetting
the mighty KBC played that time too, David!
the fucking kbc
i don't think we all ever played on the same bill.
the high voltage roster was pretty bad. i was always worried either the kbc or snowfight in the cit centre were going to get really big. thankfully neither of them did. rich parents can't buy you fans.
:D
indeed. I could never quite understand why all High Voltage's cash went into the KBC, twas a shame. Are they still putting stuff out??
well
i jsut looked on both myspaces. the kbc are active it seems, touring germany soon.
high voltage put out a maple state single last year. i think it's pretty much stopped. rich is the booker for the night and day now so i think he just probably does that.
high voltage
is totally still going, although the fanzine's deputy editor who also did the press stuff for The Whip, The Sugars, The Nightjars etc has gone on to work for another PR company in That London Place. High Voltage recently promoted an MGMT show and Wild Beasts but the regular night's not so regular anymore.
Plus, Snowfight are now called Delphic and The Answering Machine are still amazing.
the answering machine were never amazing
do they still sound like they heard the strokes and thought "we can do that"?
(i bet you're in the answering machine aren't you?)
nope
and I always thought The Strokes were a bit too nonchalant for their own good. TAM have a good old yelping energy to them. I'm still undecided about their drummer though - I preferred it when he was just a drum machine I think.
jeez, a whole list...
The Holloways
Good Shoes
Scouting For Girls
The Departure (didnt get massive, but still)
These New Puritans (actually good tho)
er, and INXS
"bands who have supported you"
lolz
oh and Red
Jetson
yes, INXS supported us on the great indo-china tour of '84. Great times!
James Blunt
and The Magic Numbers (when they had some other name) both supported my sister. at the same gig I think. years later the magic numbers remembered, came up to her at some gig, and she ended up supporting them on tour. nice guys despite the meh-ness of the music.
awh thats lovely
I love the magic numbers.
.
what's wrong with the jetson? they're good guys.
glissando have supported us loads and now they're getting reviewed in the nme and everything. it means that they're massive now. rich has started walking around with a cane and offering advice to every busker he can see on how to "make it"
ah yes
RJ were/are great...
Im having a confused afternoon after 2 whole cups of green tea! i cant read thread titles properly.
.
you escaped this time johnny. but one more fuck up like that. and your ass is mine
it always
was yours, calla man!
The Fratellis
I thought "god, why do they bother?" "they're obviously going nowhere" etc
Although I must say I wasn't really listening I just thought they looked like tools
You were lucky not to listen
otherwise you might have become overrun with rage.
additionally
at the same festival that i had the twang on at, i also had shady bard and vijay kishore too... so that redressed the balance a bit...
^ Vijay Kishore
yes.
I have one word for all of you...
Dogs.
also see:
The Paddingtons
what happened to all these ladrock troupes?
even agyness deyn doesn't like the paddingtons any more
Killed off by some kind of virus
that lives in Ginsters.
I think I saw they Dogs were playing this week.
I remember being on holiday in Cornwall and hearing them on Jonathan Ross' Radio 2 show, and having to pull over in disbelief.
the Paddingtons
are playing Nambucca on Sunday.
that's in London.
jemina from be your own pet
a band that she was in shortly before starting BYOP played a show with one of my old bands when we were about 15. they played a song called "sniffing coca cola" or something of that nature (how racy!) that consisted of 2 notes. they never even sang but just screamed. they wore 80's style prom dresses and claimed to be feminists. i thought it was a load of shit...and look how popular her band is now, haha. wonder what ever happened to the other 2 girls from that band?
what's the name of
Moscow2's band?
i'm intruiged.
Texas.
I think
He's a member of Love Ends Disaster, no?
i wish jemina supported my band
:((((
fuck her supporting
i just want Jemina
no you don't
she was a very mean, stuck-up little 15 year old. :(
she is MAD HAWT
^
This sounds tremendous.
also was supported by the twang
in about 2001 (at the hibernian, or the finn and firkin as it was then, birmingham gig circuit fans!). they were absolute fucking pricks, played a shit set and then heckled us when our guitar amp broke (we were 16 and playing our 2nd ever gig... and were quite nervous). i shouted at them in the car park afterwards and then ran away when i realised what i was doing, after which they started a fight with our guitarists older brother in the street.. When they were in the pages of the nme n all last year i thought i was having a bizarre nightmare. now taking some solace from the fact that they were a national fucking joke for the few weeks that anyone took them seriously
maximo park- supported us at their 2nd gig
some band from norwich who called us racist for some reason i have yet to understand and kicked in our van.
every band we have ever played with in europe. usually electro goth bands, who usually have terribe lyrics,so throw into that scenario not being able to speak english properly and laugh yourself silly.
Hahah oh my goodness you freaks
"they didn't even know what a 2x4 cab is" "they didn't know what a patch lead was" "they didn't know the name of the rare 1967 limited edition Mexican Fender Strat re-released model"
Fucks sake! I bet would wouldn't care if British Sea Power or Foals or practically any band from Canada had supported you without in depth music technology knowledge which by rights no-one with any friends/who isn't over 40/who doesn't listen to dad rock wank should actually know in the first place.
Yeah, all these bands are shit, but it's even more cringeworthy and desperate sounding when you slag them off for things which aren't even worth slagging them off for. You might as well say "The bassist was wearing glasses.. Four eyes!!! LOLZ"
Christ.
Dude
If you play guitar, you should know what a patch lead is. And calling someone 'four eyes' bears no resemblance to finding it a little alarming that a band doesn't know their equipment. Silly boy.
just makes you look a bit pathetic though at times
oooh i know more about music equipment than you! therefore your success compared to mine is futile!
but if you ask to borrow a cab
then you should know when a cab is being offered to you.
A taxi, right?
Just because you've bought the best scissors there are
doesn't make you a good hairdresser.
^this
equipment nerds FTL
^ i agree
it doesnt mean much at all
i've played guitar for 6 or 7 years and im alright at it and i'm in a band but i don't know much technical stuff. because its boooring
I still bet you're better than me at guitar
but maybe I'll be massively successful. Who knows, I'm fairly sure bands such as The Twang prove talent and technical knowledge mean nothing a lot of time.
omgggzzz
what a 2x4 cab? something the borrowers use to play through?
knowing what a 2x10 cab is hardly "in depth music technology knowledge" now is it. its just what you should probably know if you want to be slightly less clueless and taken seriously as a guitarist........
We played
2 nights with The Wombats a couple of years back. Didn't laugh at them as such but never imagined they'd get so big
My band was one supported
by some band called 65 Days Of Static! I think it was their first gig. All I can remember was their laptop crashed mid-set & I had a long drunken conversation with one of them about how totally awesome Nel Young is.
Oh and The Cribs Too!
This was back in 2002 I thought they were a bit rubbish, to be honest. They were lovely lads, though and let us share their equipment. They also gave me a t-shirt (which I wearing rght now, even though it's full of holes.)
Hats off to the Cribs
My bass player supported Coldplay at Tunbridge Wells forum just before Shiver came out and they wouldn't let him share their amp. They also had a smaler crowd. stuck up pricks then, stuck up rich pricks now.
I don't let people use my amp at gigs
It's valuable, just as valuable as an actual instrument and it also has my settings for the gig, if another band was to change my settings then it would sound different for the gig.
Also, it's not the "done thing" at gigs to borrow guitar amps, no-one does it, if someone came along without a guitar amp we'd think they were a right prick who couldn't be bothered to bring one along themselves and so decided to over-complicate things for everyone else.
Seconded
It's only shows in London where people expect to share amps. Unless it's your mate... it's a no go. Shells of the kit and cabs are sound... but amps are not really a goer. Mostly because they break and I can't afford to replace it and I need it... and I doubt that whoever is borrowing it has that kind of cash or would give it me if I don't know 'em.
are you TERRIS?
?
starsailor
not my band but i once saw them support ooberman in liverpool. they weren't even main support, they were before some atrocious act like sex monkey clown or something similar.
the next week they were on jools holland and cduk. hmm.
Yeah
I can see why bands dont let people use their equipment (apart from drum kits for logistics reasons). Our guitarist lent his amp to a band on before us once and they spilt beer all over and in it, it was completely fucked and cutting in and out for the duration of our set, by which time they had all pissed off home!.
We supported Kubb once in London, and thought they were dreadful and horribly cheesy, and couldn't believe it when they were big(ish) for a few weeks.