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However what myself and Ddriver are saying they are not too shabby as a live band. Which is really what it is all about.Pross said:
I Predict A Riotorraloon said:Ruby ruby ruby ruby.... 🤔
though Everyday I love you less and less... Oh My God!
Employment was a good album. Thought they went downhill after that and that Ruby is their most overrated / overplayed song.0 -
It was the being able to sing every word that impressed me.
I was at uni during the Indie renaissance of the 2000s so it perhaps shouldn't have surprised me but, the way they all just tripped off my tongue from nowhere...
Is it a more national think or just happens to be near me..? It was a fairly nondescript festival that has suddenly started getting some not-current-but-once-pretty-cool bands headlining. The Kooks are there now (I can hear them over the hill), last year we had Madness and Tom Jones...
It attracts a weird sort of crowd. A mix of families with young kids, oldies (ma and pa raver went to see Big Tom) and then you have the local kids who didn't get glasto tickets clearly experiencing MDMA for the first time. It's rather fun...We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Always interesting which bands survive once the wave passes.ddraver said:It was the being able to sing every word that impressed me.
I was at uni during the Indie renaissance of the 2000s so it perhaps shouldn't have surprised me but, the way they all just tripped off my tongue from nowhere...
Is it a more national think or just happens to be near me..? It was a fairly nondescript festival that has suddenly started getting some not-current-but-once-pretty-cool bands headlining. The Kooks are there now (I can hear them over the hill), last year we had Madness and Tom Jones...
It attracts a weird sort of crowd. A mix of families with young kids, oldies (ma and pa raver went to see Big Tom) and then you have the local kids who didn't get glasto tickets clearly experiencing MDMA for the first time. It's rather fun...
Basically Arctic Monkeys.
Can’t tell you how big they were when I was studying in Sheffield in 06-09.
Bought Alex Turner a drink in Bungalow and Bears and later down the road the drummer opened a bar. Was pretty cool.1 -
Kaiser Chiefs were/are a one album indie landfill band who ruined any credibility by the lead singer chasing a low rent tv career. Always surprised how long and continuous the festival careers are of such bands - Kooks, Pigeon Detectives, 2 Door Cinema Club etc.
Agree the Libertines could have been so much more and equally disappointed they got back together and rinse the greatest hits shows ad infinitum. Should have imploded and left it alone and ensured a cool legacy.,2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner0 -
Simple. Keep playing the tracks that the "slightly older" remember from their yoof.carbonclem said:
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Always surprised how long and continuous the festival careers are of such bands - Kooks, Pigeon Detectives, 2 Door Cinema Club etc.
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Festivals aren't really places to showcase new material.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Completely agree, saw them doing a small album release gig in Kingston a few years back. Certainly put on a good show.webboo said:
However what myself and Ddriver are saying they are not too shabby as a live band. Which is really what it is all about.Pross said:
I Predict A Riotorraloon said:Ruby ruby ruby ruby.... 🤔
though Everyday I love you less and less... Oh My God!
Employment was a good album. Thought they went downhill after that and that Ruby is their most overrated / overplayed song.0 -
OK. The woman wasn't turning at a junction - it was her driveway. And note the second paragraph.kingstongraham said:
Yes.Stevo_666 said:
You mean this bit?kingstongraham said:
Well we know what part of the highway code you don't understand.Stevo_666 said:
What part of she indicated and he was behind her did you not understand?Pross said:
Are you on a wind up or do you not understand what a left hook is?Stevo_666 said:
Her first point point is a fair one. And you were behind her. Did you try to brake?rick_chasey said:What goes through the head of the left hook driver?
Well a middle aged woman did just that to me…into her own drive. Close enough that my tyre did the faintest kiss on the bumper
So I thought I’d find out and maybe attempt to save another cyclist a similar fate.
Her justifications were as follows.
1) I was indicating
2) you cyclists just want never want slow down. (I countered with “apparently neither do you” which followed with the rather insulting..)
3)…”I’m not gonna crawl at 2mph to wait for you”
And then the winner
4) “cyclists should ride in a way to not get in the way of cars”
I was quite pleased with myself. Kept it calm, civil.
Even managed a small joke “I’ll try and not take that personally” when she claimed I was cycling at 2mph.
Anyway, hopefully next time she sees a cyclist she might just think twice, though I won’t keep my hopes up.
People cycling have priority when going straight ahead at junctions. The code clarifies that when people cycling are going straight ahead at a junction, they have priority over traffic waiting to turn into or out of a side road, unless road signs or markings indicate otherwise.
People cycling are asked to watch out for people driving intending to turn across their path, as people driving ahead may not be able to see them."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Their problem was, in an era of pretty aggressively try hard cool, which I think the indie trash scene was a big offender, Kaiser Chiefs were about as cool as a slipped disc, and were largely liked by massive lager swilling groups of men who could still scream the choruses 9 pints in.veronese68 said:
Completely agree, saw them doing a small album release gig in Kingston a few years back. Certainly put on a good show.webboo said:
However what myself and Ddriver are saying they are not too shabby as a live band. Which is really what it is all about.Pross said:
I Predict A Riotorraloon said:Ruby ruby ruby ruby.... 🤔
though Everyday I love you less and less... Oh My God!
Employment was a good album. Thought they went downhill after that and that Ruby is their most overrated / overplayed song.
Confirmed entirely by the fact the front man went onto the “voice” as a judge.0 -
God. I quite like the Kaiser chiefs!0
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Tbh I was never cool enough / already a grumpy old man by 19 / too into my dance music to get into any of the indie stuff.
So I thought it was all sh!t. Nearest I would get would be Electro Trash which I thought was super cool back then.
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It will fizzle out Sgt Pepper.briantrumpet said:Thread police on standby... 👮♂️🚨
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
It will fizzle out Sgt Pepper.briantrumpet said:Thread police on standby... 👮♂️🚨
Roger Roger.0 -
I think Arctic Monkeys are the only band from the noughties indie scene successfully creating new music now? Can’t think of another really.
All the rest are milking their minor success?2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner1 -
Blur released a new album in the past couple of months?carbonclem said:I think Arctic Monkeys are the only band from the noughties indie scene successfully creating new music now? Can’t think of another really.
All the rest are milking their minor success?
Google.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Yup though the Vick Reeves club singer bit is wearing rather thin nowadayscarbonclem said:I think Arctic Monkeys are the only band from the noughties indie scene successfully creating new music now? Can’t think of another really.
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Blur = indie?!pblakeney said:
Blur released a new album in the past couple of months?carbonclem said:I think Arctic Monkeys are the only band from the noughties indie scene successfully creating new music now? Can’t think of another really.
All the rest are milking their minor success?
Google.
Britpop.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Blur = 00s?!pinno said:
Blur = indie?!pblakeney said:
Blur released a new album in the past couple of months?carbonclem said:I think Arctic Monkeys are the only band from the noughties indie scene successfully creating new music now? Can’t think of another really.
All the rest are milking their minor success?
Google.
Britpop.
Definitely 90s0 -
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Music, did you say? Let me help you: https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13120407/the-gert-big-music-thread#latest2 -
Definitely, maybe. 🤣Tashman said:
Blur = 00s?!pinno said:
Blur = indie?!pblakeney said:
Blur released a new album in the past couple of months?carbonclem said:I think Arctic Monkeys are the only band from the noughties indie scene successfully creating new music now? Can’t think of another really.
All the rest are milking their minor success?
Google.
Britpop.
Definitely 90s
My bad. 🤬The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Where's the ULEZ thread?briantrumpet said:👮♂️🚨
Music, did you say? Let me help you: https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13120407/the-gert-big-music-thread#latest0 -
TheBigBean said:
Where's the ULEZ thread?briantrumpet said:👮♂️🚨
Music, did you say? Let me help you: https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13120407/the-gert-big-music-thread#latest
Eh? It's in the bad-things-about-cars thread, leaving the cars thread for the aren't-cars-fantastic! tendency.0 -
Isn't quibbling over type of car (ULEZ compliant, super cool gears, convertible etc.) something that should be done on a thread about cars?briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
Where's the ULEZ thread?briantrumpet said:👮♂️🚨
Music, did you say? Let me help you: https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13120407/the-gert-big-music-thread#latest
Eh? It's in the bad-things-about-cars thread, leaving the cars thread for the aren't-cars-fantastic! tendency.
It's like discussing the best cut of meat on a vegan thread.0 -
And what is worse, you are forced to read it, BB.TheBigBean said:
Isn't quibbling over type of car (ULEZ compliant, super cool gears, convertible etc.) something that should be done on a thread about cars?briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
Where's the ULEZ thread?briantrumpet said:👮♂️🚨
Music, did you say? Let me help you: https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13120407/the-gert-big-music-thread#latest
Eh? It's in the bad-things-about-cars thread, leaving the cars thread for the aren't-cars-fantastic! tendency.
It's like discussing the best cut of meat on a vegan thread.
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I thought that other thread was created to keep killjoys out of the vroom vroom thread.TheBigBean said:
Isn't quibbling over type of car (ULEZ compliant, super cool gears, convertible etc.) something that should be done on a thread about cars?briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
Where's the ULEZ thread?briantrumpet said:👮♂️🚨
Music, did you say? Let me help you: https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13120407/the-gert-big-music-thread#latest
Eh? It's in the bad-things-about-cars thread, leaving the cars thread for the aren't-cars-fantastic! tendency.
It's like discussing the best cut of meat on a vegan thread.0 -
In fairness, it's a thread that never really delivered on the promise of the title. Click bait for a minority of one perhaps.0
