I went to see them last night at Bush Hall which is a lovely little venue but there were very few people there. It was only a fiver as well and The Cave Singers were the main support.
I've seen Brakes a few times and think they're brilliant but they don't seem to be able to draw a big crowd. I guess I shouldn't worry as it means I get to see a fab band in a small venue but they deserve a lot more.
because they are
shit, fat and ugly?
Thanks
for your considered opinion ...
Fat & Ugly
Two GREAT reasons to dislike a band.
I have never seen them live...
But I enjoy both albums ahellerva lot.
that is
a good question
fat and ugly? Yeah, pixies are rubbish. Right?
If your music is good
than you are allowed to be fat and ugly.
but frank blacks music has got worse as he has gotten fatter and uglier.
^PENIS^
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^cunt^
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it really was quite empty
maybe they're a bit too novelty for some? that or people are just plain daft.
They near enough sold out Leicester
which hardly any non-locals ever do without a chart pedigree. I suspect they're kind of seen as a cussed and awkward busman's holiday thing, not really fitting into anything comfortably, and the Whites already have loads of things on the site without having another one (sidenote: no review of the Thomas White solo album, DiS?)
Yep
I think you could be right. They don't really fit into any one genre, which is kind of what I like about them.
Here in Newcastle
they always seem to have a big crowd whenever they play. Although I suppose they haven't released anything in a while and the hype generally seems to die down on bands i guess without an album out or something. They are an awesome band and definitely deserve better yes!
On a related note, when i last saw Electric Soft Parade a few years ago in Newcastle, there was a shockingly small crowd...more people turned up for the support, Unkle Bob, than ESP!
Also
I think I might have just caught them at "odd" gigs rather than on the back of a proper tour. First time I saw them was a UNICEF benefit (I think) in which there was a meat raffle just before they came on, then last night was a bit of a one off in support of the End Of The Road festival.
Their songs are quite short,
so they're not very good value for money. It's the credit crunch.
I bet everyone was at Radiohead.
That and they're not very good.
the £5 tickets had sold out on wegottickets
or else i would have been there. totally adore the brakes and am at a lost to explain why they aren't more popular.
i can only assume it's because they don't go in for the kind of relentless self publicity that most bands do. maybe they need a better PR guy..?
they've been playing a lot of London shows
including one at the 100 Club five days before the Bush Hall gig. overkill.
Always
a packed house in Brighton, then it would be theyre a local band, i like em lots
I frikkin love this band...
Give blood was a monster of a debut...the second album was a bit of a let down though.
I can never understand someone saying they're shit!
Fat and ugly.!?..well that all depends on personnal taste!
I fancy lily allen...
x
their gig in Paris with Cursive
was cancelled a few months ago...
Lack of sale apparently...
comma comma comma
full stop
They're ok
I quite liked bits of the debut. Good, snarly stuff. Like Mclusky belatedly discovering country or something. But they do have a wiff of novelty about them with the 4 second songs and so on. This could be a factor in their lack of popularity.
But I think it's manly due to the fact that a 'supergroup' (itslef almost a byword for a half-hearted side project) comprising members of British Sea Power, Elelectric Soft Parade and Tenderfoot (who?) does not exactly set the pulse racing.
But anyway if they were good enough they'd perhaps overcome any preconceptions. And, well, maybe they're not. Does that answer your question?
That's a long reply about a band I essentially couldn't give a balls about.
I think
you're probably pretty spot on there. I like both of the albums a lot myself, but I expect they're a band that's hard to love for the reasons you mention. They don't take themselves that seriously either do they (or try too hard to shake off the novelty tag). I remember them being surprised when Rough Trade said they wanted them to make another album.
I've seen live footage of them, and I don't think playing your really short songs a few times in a row to compensate for their length is a particularly great idea, but maybe it's different if you there.
Chopstick - did you see The Cave Singers? I'd be interested to know what they were like. Really like the one song I've heard so far. Really good sparse, melodic and slightly dark folk stuff from Seattle. Very nice.
Listening to it again
I think 'Beatific Visions' was a pretty weak choice of single too, especially as the second or third release from the album. Weakest track on the album for me Manish.
The "Supergroup" tag ...
Is not really relevent. Really it's Eamonn's songs that he was performing on his own anyway but with some mates providing a band to fill them out. It seems to be an issue for some people that they've got so many other projects on the go.
Tindersticks - You've pretty eloquently summed up the Cave Singers. I liked them a lot but I don't think they'd be the greatest live draw. The songs didn't deviate a great deal from the tracks on their myspace page so if you like those songs you'd probably like it all.
Ok
great, thanks, I'll check them out there then.
they're a bit boring
but that doesn't normally hold a band back.
seems odd...
...maybe people don't like being slowed down in our rush-rush health and safety obsessed culture?
i love brakes
i don't know.
i haven't heard much about them recently though, they've kind of fallen off the radar a bit :(
New album
coming out soon I think. They're also headlining at End Of the Road in September. I think there's still time for global domination :-)
The Beatific Visions
only came out in November '06, if memory serves. Since then there's been a new ESP album, Tom's been doing Restlesslist and his own album and the Tenderfoot are apparently on the way back.
Yep
They don't hang about.
Brakes are ace
and they spent last weekend in a mates studio recording bits for the new record.
New song 'Consumer, Producer, Chicken, Egg' is a work of typical Brakes brilliance.
Oh and The Tenderfoot
are rather excellent too. At present they have one album and an EP out but have something coming out on Drift Records at some point.
They're nothing like Brakes though!
Do you mean empty
Or just not packed? Bush Hall has a funny capacity law. I've played there when it was sold out and they can only fill it so much because there are limited exits and toilets. It looked half empty despite being sold out. I think it can only accomodate 380 or something, despite the fact that it looks like it could hold about 5 or 6 hundred.