To Gig Or Not To Gig.. that is the ex-christian..
'Don't start me talkin'
Cold War Kids (http://www.myspace.com/coldwarkids) are playing tonight at the Barfly (Or The Monarch for you old schoolers out there.) with Tiny Dancers(http://www.myspace.com/tinydancers) as support and I can’t decide if I want to go or not. I saw some programme on Channel 4 recently about them and they sounded good.. I think it was straight after the Goo Goo Dolls live from Abbey Road.. which I found quite interesting to watch. There’s nothing like a bit of earnest American MOR rock is there? I actually bought Dizzy Up the Girl on the strength of Iris (much like two thirds of the other people who bought it probably), then proceeded to find the rest of the album not very interesting and just listen to Iris quite a few times resolving to never buy an album on the strength of one song ever again probably.. what else are b-sides for dammit!
Anyway, digressions abound! Cold War Kids.. I own nothing by them, have heard a couple of songs which I really liked and the gig is an XFM gig (I also keep accidentally calling them Cannibal Kids because of a song by that God-awful band Terris (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/terris/) who my brother once saw on a joint tour with Coldplay incidentally..). Tiny Dancers are signed to Parlophone apparently.. (Makes a change for the Record Label part of a myspace band site actually saying that rather than ‘Yes please..’) and I think they could be good, they sound alright, they made a lot of ‘Ones to watch’ lists so I am tempted, but hey, I have lots to do like… try and write some tunes for our own band, finalise extra guitar parts for recording, buy a fucking Glockenspiel (Good name for a band ‘The Fucking Glockenspiels’) and learn to play the parts I’ve already written.. I do have a day off tomorrow.. so no excuses really.. might see if my flatmate can help me decide.. I am leaning to yes at the moment.
That just made me think... for every Coldplay, there is a Terris. I was watching Coldplay on Channel 4 whilst wasting my life in a football management game the other night and they were playing some Ice Hockey megabowl in Canada I think and Chris Martin kept asking if ‘everyone was alright’.. like someone in the 75th row was going to put his hand up and say ‘Actually Chris, I’m not feeling so great’.. just imagine, in hearing this through the cheers.. they stop, tell everyone to shut up and the show becomes quite like a Christian preacher stadium gig..
St. Chris: ‘What’s wrong my child?’
Man: ‘Well.. firstly, my parents named me Onion and I have had to endure a lifetime of ridicule because of this and secondly, having been through years of therapy I finally get over all that and start enjoying my life and I start seeing a nice girl and for her birthday I forked out for the overpriced tickets to this show and quite frankly I wish we’d have just gone out to dinner somewhere nice because you’re not really rocking my world but I will endure you to make her happy so I’m not really alright... I’m kind of disappointed.’
St. Chris: ‘Foul demon, I command thee to begone!!’
Onion: ‘Excuse me?’
*Lightning Bolt disintegrates Onion and security take his screaming girlfriend away*
Band launches into Clocks
St. Chris: ‘Is everyone alright?’
Stunned silence from crowd.
St. Chris: (Psychotic glint in eye) ‘Sing if you know the words’
Crowd sing in pure fear.
St. Chris: ‘Amen to that… you-oooo-ooo… ah…’
Could happen.
Two posts in one day? Woo-hoo!
We're recording this weekend! Woo-hoo!
Yeah!
WFA
Cold War Kids (http://www.myspace.com/coldwarkids) are playing tonight at the Barfly (Or The Monarch for you old schoolers out there.) with Tiny Dancers(http://www.myspace.com/tinydancers) as support and I can’t decide if I want to go or not. I saw some programme on Channel 4 recently about them and they sounded good.. I think it was straight after the Goo Goo Dolls live from Abbey Road.. which I found quite interesting to watch. There’s nothing like a bit of earnest American MOR rock is there? I actually bought Dizzy Up the Girl on the strength of Iris (much like two thirds of the other people who bought it probably), then proceeded to find the rest of the album not very interesting and just listen to Iris quite a few times resolving to never buy an album on the strength of one song ever again probably.. what else are b-sides for dammit!
Anyway, digressions abound! Cold War Kids.. I own nothing by them, have heard a couple of songs which I really liked and the gig is an XFM gig (I also keep accidentally calling them Cannibal Kids because of a song by that God-awful band Terris (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/terris/) who my brother once saw on a joint tour with Coldplay incidentally..). Tiny Dancers are signed to Parlophone apparently.. (Makes a change for the Record Label part of a myspace band site actually saying that rather than ‘Yes please..’) and I think they could be good, they sound alright, they made a lot of ‘Ones to watch’ lists so I am tempted, but hey, I have lots to do like… try and write some tunes for our own band, finalise extra guitar parts for recording, buy a fucking Glockenspiel (Good name for a band ‘The Fucking Glockenspiels’) and learn to play the parts I’ve already written.. I do have a day off tomorrow.. so no excuses really.. might see if my flatmate can help me decide.. I am leaning to yes at the moment.
That just made me think... for every Coldplay, there is a Terris. I was watching Coldplay on Channel 4 whilst wasting my life in a football management game the other night and they were playing some Ice Hockey megabowl in Canada I think and Chris Martin kept asking if ‘everyone was alright’.. like someone in the 75th row was going to put his hand up and say ‘Actually Chris, I’m not feeling so great’.. just imagine, in hearing this through the cheers.. they stop, tell everyone to shut up and the show becomes quite like a Christian preacher stadium gig..
St. Chris: ‘What’s wrong my child?’
Man: ‘Well.. firstly, my parents named me Onion and I have had to endure a lifetime of ridicule because of this and secondly, having been through years of therapy I finally get over all that and start enjoying my life and I start seeing a nice girl and for her birthday I forked out for the overpriced tickets to this show and quite frankly I wish we’d have just gone out to dinner somewhere nice because you’re not really rocking my world but I will endure you to make her happy so I’m not really alright... I’m kind of disappointed.’
St. Chris: ‘Foul demon, I command thee to begone!!’
Onion: ‘Excuse me?’
*Lightning Bolt disintegrates Onion and security take his screaming girlfriend away*
Band launches into Clocks
St. Chris: ‘Is everyone alright?’
Stunned silence from crowd.
St. Chris: (Psychotic glint in eye) ‘Sing if you know the words’
Crowd sing in pure fear.
St. Chris: ‘Amen to that… you-oooo-ooo… ah…’
Could happen.
Two posts in one day? Woo-hoo!
We're recording this weekend! Woo-hoo!
Yeah!
WFA
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