HummerOfIntenseEvil

Happy geburtstag.

Who's all going to Nine Inch Nails gig on Thursday? If anyone's got space in their car' date=' let me know. I'll chip in for petrol etc.[/quote']

I'm going, although my car is going to be full of stuff, and I'm also stopping off in Dundee on the way. The two factors are indeed related.

This is going to be the best gig since Fantomas. Which doesn't do it justice really, but this has been a year of immensely enjoyable gigs for me.

I don't mean to be negative but...

in my opinion that's possibly one the worst names for an artist I have ever heard.

:O

Don't be mean - there's nothing wrong with the name Amber.

Ba-doom TISH!

I`ve been buying it since 91

The Music Week is the best publication but it is the trade paper so I guess it would be.

Can normal people (ie those not strictly in the music biz) get that?

Yar.

Planateers 8pm

Suntans of Bully Hugh... I mean Cripple - 9pm

The Videos - 10pm

*Makes mental note*

When it says "Flicker" on the 7th, presumably that isn't the pre-1989 Manic Street Preachers bassist of the same name?

Save the family member.

For all I know, the five strangers could be utter cunts. They might even have started the fire. Perhaps they were trying to get my relative burnt in the fire, and also happen to have made a suicide pact. In fact, if that was the case, then they wouldn't want to be saved anyway.

The small child could even have been Damien.

Basically I reckon you'd have to be a bit of a glory hunting prick to choose five complete stangers over your own family member. Unless it was a family member you don't like. Or you were able to be completely Stalinist about it. Or the family member was a firefighter.

Anarchists in the true sense of the word? No.

These folk don't care about existing independently of the state, they just think "anarchy=being a cunt". They've seen clips of Johnny Rotten going "I wanna beeeeee anarchyyyyyyyy. I get pissed, destrooooooooooy" and thought "oh wow, anarchists smash things up! I totally want to be an anarchist min!"

Same with May Day protests - I'm sure most of them are anti-capitalists, but the ones who actually cause the trouble don't give a shit about it. if they did, it's not the police they'd riot against - it'd be McDonalds and Asda.

The proper anarchists would hopefully know fine that violence isn't going to help their cause one little bit.

I'm literally watching the clock... roll on 5pm. I dunno why I'm having a buggered day today' date=' but I am. Just tired I suppose.[/quote']

Same here.

I think this has to be the worst day in the history of the world. Computers fucking up, programs not working, one of my buns was a bit hard, there were no mini chedders in the vending machine.... just total shite.

I saw some straight-edge dancing in some "punk" club in Dundee a while back. Possibly the funniest thing ever. It's ace watching little boys trying to look hard. Not in a Michael Jackson sense though.

Aceness.

Narc's information is, as far as I know, 100% factual.

I'm going to spend this entire weekend recovering from drinking a ridiculous amount of alcohol last night.

My advice: if you've only been drunk twice in the past 6 months, don't drink 60 of alcohol in places that aren't actually expensive.

That mean i have to pick a question?

... Em.

Give the Full [Real] Name of Black Francis/Frank Black.

Charles Thompson IV?

True.... I do have a problem with it... and Franz are guilty.

My main problem is bands ripping off other modern bands.

I realise I'm not making much sense.

Makes sense to me. There's nothing wrong with a band looking to past music and trying to reinterpret a style in their own way, but bands who just ape the current zeitgiest in order to get some quick exposure are just lazy, and usually get found out unless the songs they produce are so good that it seems they started the style themselves.

I was just using Franz as an example. I don't particularly like them. Razorlight are fucking awful. But this year' date=' breakthrough artists like The Departure, Bloc Party and Editors etc. are comfortably individual...[/quote']

Hmm.... I saw The Departure support the Manics in January, and while they were reasonably enjoyable, the whole way through I was thinking "gosh, where have I heard this style of music before? Oh yes, every other band going about just now." The only difference between The Departure and every other we-have-no-bass-control-on-our-amps band at the moment is that The Departure seem to do it rather well. And with a singer who sounds a bit like a young Brett Anderson.

Heard an Editors song on the radio a couple of days ago, and if they hadn't said "this is the Editors" beforehand, I'd have went away thinking it was Interpol. Even the vocal style was copied.

All three bands seem decent enough, but it doesn't change the fact that they bare an uncomfortably close similarity to other "angular" sounding bands.

let's hope someone throws blackcurrent jelly and she's wearing white.

Or pooh.

I'll be watching Foo Fighters as the g/f will moan. As long as she comes ...

Ooooh matron!!!!!

The boo-ing on Friday should be a joy to behold.

Aye, there's the potential for it to be beyond ace. But it'll probably get spoilt somehow.

what's happened in the last few days? last time i saw it was monday night' date=' but only vaguely cos i was pissed.[/quote']

-Big brother put 10 cans of COIDER in the diary room for them to drink.

-Makosi got there first and shared them with the secret housemates instead

-Makosi came back an hour and a half later a bit tipsy and Saskia and Maxwellwent off on one about her being a selfish bitch, having stinky breath, having stupid hair etc

You probably saw that though. Last night's show however:

-Saskia and Maxwell got most nominations for being nasty little children, partly due to Anthony and Maxwell not getting to nominate as punishment for earlier saying things which could influence other people's votes

-Eugene and Orliath were chosen to go into the house. King Kong wasn't too happy, sat in the garden by herself with a towel on her head saying "fuck the lot of you" and, asked if she had any departing words for BB in the diary room, said "bye." What a contribution.

-Anthony said to Eugene: 'I've got a jumper like that' and had to repeat it twice before Eugene could tell what he was saying. When asked if it was Vivian Westwood, Eugene said 'something like that'. It took a while for it to dawn on them that it was indeed Anthony's ghey pink tank top

-Saskia, realising she's going to get evicted for being a bitch, "apologised" to Makosi, then went and snogged Maxwell under a duvet on the couch. Realising it'd take more than that to keep her in, she was later caught in bed with Maxwell. His arse was on view and there were 'wet noises', which could have just been kissing - I personally think she started giving him a blowjob, but it could easily have been just a handjob, or could have been 'full sex', although unlikely.

Let's hope she disgraced herself for nothing.

As a patron of many 'rough' pubs' date=' I've never once walked in and been battered for no reason.

People tend to only get it for pissing other people off.[/quote']

See, that's what I've always thought.

So would "rough" pubs actually be a haven of non-pricks? If there's one thing that annoys me about a pub, it's when there's some overly loud bunch of idiots thinking everyone wants to hear their rubbish conversation. I think it would be excellent if people would get punished for being dwads, dossers and dalendless shidheads more often.

From the way folk are going on about pubs like 524, you'd think that as soon as you walk in, someone comes up to you and says "Fit ye lookin' at? Startin' like ye bauuuuuum?" and then goes SMACK!!! right in your puss.

Is that an accurate picture to be getting? I'm never quite sure why folk are so scared of supposedly rough pubs if this isn't the case.

Fuck knows why she's dicking about with the pop crap though (well' date=' apart from the guaranteed moolah) as it does her no justice. I'd think a lot more of her if she remained as a classical performer because that is her true talent.[/quote']

Perhaps because now that she's old enough to do what she wants, she's decided to sing songs that she would prefer to listen to herself? True, she's an extremely good classical music performer, but surely it's being a lot more true to herself to sing songs that she likes?

Okay so Crazy Chick is a bit pooh (although I've heard worse... McFly spring to mind) , but I've always wondered what she'd be like singing other types of music. I'd rather she did rock to be honest (although then she'd probably seem like just another Amy Lee wannabe), but if she likes crappy pop songs, that's up to her.

Yeeeaaaarrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant! I went to see them at King Tut's in May, but I couldn't see much of the stage half the time due to being a shortarse. The new album is absolutely ace.

I will DEFINITELY be at this gig. Even if I have to kill people to get there for some strange reason.

Thought Brian Wlson was pretty dreadful personally. Sounded like some drunk old dude at a karaoke mumbling his way through Beach Boys songs. The rest of the band fair bailed him out with their harmonies. Legend or not' date=' some people should just let it rest. But then maybe i'm not enough of a fan, because I bought Pet Sounds and thought it was pretty pish. A Beach Boys best of is still class however.[/quote']

I only saw one song (I Get Around), but it matched that description perfectly. During the chorus he was completely drowned out by the band, at times he didn't even try, and for the verses, I could barely understand his warbling.

To be perfectly honest, I think it's quite a disturbing sight. It looked like someone had taken some old guy from the nearest old folk's home, dumped him on a stool behind a keyboard, and said "just try to sing what comes up on the autocue".

However, perhaps that song was just a bad example. Bit silly of the Beeb to pick it if it was. Looked like the crowd were absolutely loving it though.

As for the coverage in general - if Donnington and the Leeds/Reading festivals were covered in that much depth, I'd be absolutely ecstatic. A whole channel basically dedicated to Glastonbury for three days - what more could you ask for? Apart from having BBC3 start before 7pm that is...

I've totaly changed my opinion on Makosi after last night. I think she's shit hot! I can't stand Saskia though. With her 'attitude thang'

Same here. I hated her initially, but to be fair she was just really good at her special task. Then I started feeling a bit sorry for her since she got lumbered with ANOTHER secret task. And she was absolutely immense on last night's show. I really hope she wins now.

Was it just my ears hearing things, or did Saskia say "your type" or words to that effect, ie blacks? I remember on her intro video thingy she said she hated immigrants, and seemed to have rather BNPesque reasons. Perhaps that's why she only hangs around with the white housemates. I can't wait for her barely-concealed racism to rear it's ugly head during future arguments. It'll be brilliant. Hopefully she'll go out of the house to a crowd of black people and get the annihilation I've been waiting for someone to get since Jade somehow escaped it.

I noticed a recent issue of Heat had her mum or someone trying to say what a nice girl she is - when she's actually a nasty, hateful piece of work. No amount of "oh she's battled so bravely with her heart troubles all her life" propaganda will hide what people see on the TV. I just hope Big Brother's bosses don't shirk from showing it.