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Main Stage: U2 R.E.M. Radiohead White Stripes Weezer Second Stage: Belle and Sebastian Stellastarr* The Polyphonic Spree Billy Corgan Yo la Tengo Legend Stage - Dead rawk star special: The Beatles Nirvana The Clash Jeff Buckley Led Zeppelin Underground Stage: Sonic Youth Capdown Secret Machines Sons and Daughters The Breeders

Hmmm... last few were Walkmen ~ Bows and arrows Stellastarr* ~ Stellastarr* Ash ~ Meltdown

Tom's is the dog's bollocks.

I was... damn university cancelling my resits!!

Well, the drummer in my band doesn't have a kit with him, so we have to rent from captain tom's, which is a bit of a headache...

Damn... i thought it might be getting replaced with something good.

Is this true? I've heard about it from a couple of my friends, but maybe it's just a crazy rumour...

Yeah, levers are used to change the chord that the pedal steel is tuned to... anyone actually play one?

franz ferdinand remind me of simple minds for some reason... i do like them, but they're hardly original... and all the people who hate franz ferdinand because they are popular need to wise up.

Does anyone play it? How hard is it to learn? i know its a bit odd with it having 8 strings and being tuned to a chord, but is it pretty simple for a guitarist to pick up?

I have been playing the guitar for 8 years i suppose... the stuff i've collected in that time is: Seagull Acoustic (can't remember the model) Marshall JCM 900 SL-X 100watt with a 4x12 floor cab Fender Mex/USA Tele Fender Jap 57 reissue Strat Fender Jap Jaguar, modded so it has a gibson bridge and tailpiece, plus humbuckers fitted epiphone les paul junior, new bridge and tuners epiphone les paul hollowbody, fitted with seth lover pickups Gibson Les Paul Studio Knackered squier bass Pedals, hmm... EH nyc big muff EH worm EH russian small stone EH USA small stone EH memory man deluxe - original 70's EH electric mistress - original 70's EH micro synth, in need of repair EH clone theory, in need of repair EH Doctor Q Mutron Phasor, odd thing but it sounds great Marshall vibotrem or whatever it's called danelectro reverb pedal I've also got a shit drum machine (it's a zoom) and a tascam 424 mkIII and a pod 2.0. I think that's everything.

Blah, a "now playing" thread is just the same really.

Van Morrison ~ Country Fair

Polyphonic Spree ~ The Best Part

a mellotron, if you can find one.

I was walking behind some weird junkie/alcoholics on george st once, only to hear burst into song singing "wakey wakey, rise and shine, five four two it's party time!" ...i guess it was a reference to the 524 cocktail lounge, a pub so classy it doesn't even have windows.

Two George St characters: 1. The junkie who always asks me for change so he can get to the hospital because his girlfriend is about to give birth... he was also approached me offering to sell me mad ibiza dance cds and trainers that he pulled out of a plastic bag. 2. Crazy George St Man... this guy is about 60ish, and always hangs around the northern bar area. everytime he sees me or one of my flatmates, he gets this weird glint in his eye and trys to grab us speaking gibberish at us. Haven't seen him in a while though.

Bruce has musical talent all right...

Smashing Pumpkins recorded a tribute to johnny winter called tribut e to johnny. it's on the zero ep.

sounds interesting...

Rory Gallagher.

i met him at a polyphonic spree aftershow... i was kinda surprised how normal he was, especially after seeing him 2 hours before sticking his hands down his pants and flicking the sweat into the front row.

I still always think that punk is always an attitude towards making yr music and how you treat others with respect to the music i.e. not consciously making commercial material to sell lots, or fleecing fans etc... I think people get bogged down with you can only be a punk band if yr songs are three chords, which totally limits the music. I know alot the 70's bands were writing such simple songs due to musicial ineptitude (musical technique is irrelevant in my opinion) and as a reaction against prog rock hippies... that and they were all ripping off the modern lovers and the stooges... Punk is doomed to fail because it always gets taken over by mass media, then suddenly when a new wave of punk attitude bands comes along, record companies spew out more commercial alternatives of these bands which the mainstream public prefer e.g. the new rock revolution gives us Busted and McFly, grunge gave us Bush etc... Blah, i could ramble about this shit the whole time... but i think the lasting thing about punk should be a respect to not ripp off fans, make music real to you, and create a musical community.