Larsen B

Glad to hear that downstairs at One-Up is gonna be less minky.

KILL II THIS - Deviate

because not many bands make records that sound like machine head meets fear factory without sounding piss.

And Kill II This are no different!

Haven't heard first but enjoyed Never Never Land.

Agree both The Killers and Stellastarr* are great.

Originally posted by ragudave:

Q Stores down the harbour and Mckays of Queen Street both have lots of army stuff - Mckays is a little like a time warp actually. Som of their stock seems about 30 years old....

Where the hell is Queen Street?

I'd say Prologue to History by the Manics or A Plague Upon Your Hissing by the Mars Volta, although it is just an unreleased demo not an actual B-side.

Godhopping is orgasmic.

They've just finished recording in Ireland and are compiling the album from about 20 tracks. Working titles for the album include 'Life Blood' and 'Goodbye Suicide'.

Songs titles included are:

A Song For Departure

1985

The love of Richard Nixon

Firefight

To Repel Ghosts

Emily

Fragments

Askew Road

Solitude Sometimes Is

Glasnost

Always / Never

I Live To Fall Asleep

Cardiff Afterlife

Empty Souls

Voodoo Polaroid's

Litany

The band are also planning a special 10th Anniversary addition of The Holy Bible including a never released American remix, a DVD and a special show at The Astoria.

During their time in the studio here is what the band have been listening to, reading and watching:

MUSIC

Low Life - New Order

Scary Monsters - David Bowie

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

Orange Juice - The Orange Juice

Grand Turismo - The Cardigansbr> Abba Gold - Abba

Black Cherry - Goldfrapp

Sulk - The Associates

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

Head On The Door - The Cure

The Graveyard and the Ballroom - A Certain Ration

The Voice of America - Cabaret Voltaire

Moving Pictures - Rush

The Last Film - Kissing The Pink

Same Old Scene - Roxy Music

BOOKS

Carol Anne Duffy

Elizabeth Jennings

Louis MacNeice

Emily Pankhurst

Richard Nixon

Oscar Niemeyer

WATCHING

Nighty Night

Newsnight / Newsnight Review

Top Gear

The Amp

Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

Inside the Actors studio

Ronnie O'Sullivan

La Liga

Monaco Grand Prix

BBC4

Lucian Freud Exhibition

From manics.co.uk

Originally posted by Jim:

I'm really into De Facto though, they put out some great stuff.

Yeah, De Facto are great, I love Megaton Shotblast. I don't very many people have heard them though. Omar's bass playing in De Facto is almost as fine as his guitar playing.

Originally posted by josef k:

i saw the Mars Volta supporting the Chili peppers, and i reckon Omar is a good frontman too, impressive leaps!

Omar? Frontman? But I know he means Cedric and i couldn't possibly disagree.

1. Richey James Edwards

2. Cedric Bixler Zavala

3. Ian Curtis

4. Morrissey

5. Billy Corgan

6. Robert Smith

7. Joe Strummer

Can't think of anymore.

Originally posted by josef k:

Morrissey is the only lyricist i feel i can in any way relate to.

I don't see why you listen to any music other than the Smiths and Moz in that case.

I reckon it's been a pretty good year so far with great albums from Auf Der Maur, The liars, Morrissey and a good but not great album from Franz Ferdinand. Still there's Hope of the States, The Killers, new Interpol, new New Order, new Cure album, possibly new Manics album and new Coopers album.

Extremo - I mean "Extremely Emotionally Hardcore"? What a heap of shit. In fact all kinds of Cores are shit.

Definitely The Mars Volta. They're better, not only than Sparta but, than every band that ever existed. When ATD-I went on "indefinate hiatus" Omar and Cedric took all the talent and creativity and then increased it a ten-fold for the Mars Volta. Sparta have only a few good songs and Jim Ward is crap frontman completely lacking in any kind of charisma.

Good news, I've found out that this is in fact bollocks. Support will be provided by N.E.R.D.

I was told that support would come from Busted and McFly no less. Can anyone confirm this or is it pure fabrication?

Originally posted by Traser:

Yeah, blues you want peter green or Alvin lee (ne1 else see him at the music hall on wednesday?)

But its between John Frusciante & Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

My two faves.

Originally posted by stuartmaxwell:

excuse me??who the fuck are you?

Took the bait! Hook, line and sinker!

Originally posted by PrincessHolly:

The favourite songs thread is getting far too long.

Bloc Party - Banquet

The Killers - Mr Brightside

Yourcodenameis: Milo - All Roads To Fault

good choices!!

I like the sounds of those laws, especially the law for Celine dion and the rest.

That microkorg looks good, thanks. I think there might be one of them in Bruce Millers.

nightmare.

Originally posted by stuartmaxwell:

and they are usually shite local acts too a.k.a. diablo seem to play there a lot and they are a pile of pish

you rarely see decent (in my opinion) local acts playing kef because they are aware that its the shitest venue in town to play at

You used to be a chef. Ha ha. You don't have the right to slag off Diablo when you used to be a chef.

Sly and the Family Stone are indeed in my listening section. What of it?