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This thread seems to be getting a bit too personal for some people and just seems to be going round in circles. At the end of the day crowds that go to watch a covers band are looking for something different. They are usually a mixed crowd out for a bevvy and not giving a shit if Blues Deluxe are playing a Hendrix song in front of them or if the Marionettes are belting out one of their tunes. If you go to the globe, you will see a good covers band playing but most of the crowd will probably be more interested in drinking and pulling birds! If you go to the tunnels on a sat night then the crowd there will be having a beer and listening to a local original band enjoying it more than they would a covers band, They probably don't wanna see joe Bloggs up the road playing chasing cars by snow patrol. Different tastes for different folk, If people don't wanna be creative and are playing in covers bands then fair play, I don't think they should be slated for it.They are either doing it to earn a living or cos its what they look forward to after a hard weeks work. Guys that play in original bands are doing it because they love creating their own music and playing to a crowd that enjoys listening to it. Theres probably not a greater feeling in the world when you write a song and it goes down really well to an audience. If you put The Marionettes on at Revolution on a Saturday night and then a covers band playing Lady GaGa tunes or Razorlight tunes, who do you think would go down better? No offence to The Marionettes but it would probably be the covers band as the crowd there on a Sat night would just wanna drink and hear background music. They would probably have lassies coming up to them asking for a Pixie Lott tune or something!! and at the end of the day, people don't seem to like battles of the bands!!

Something like this?

Spotted: John W Where: On the Jeremy Kyle show. When: 9.42 am Doing: Passing a DNA test, shouting at his ex and being restrained by the bouncers.

A trained monkey COULD play it ONLY trained monkeys play it. DIfferent, ducy?

Are they? I thought it was mostly 'Sex: you're doing it wrong' advice.

Or the "don't you just hate when you can't find a coat-hanger?" pet hate.

Waking up with a nippy head and discovering that Iomega has tanked your Five Alive is 10x worse than accidental bairns.