I hate Jack Penate

[James]

Anyone sick of mind-numbingly dull skiffle/calypso rap about the mundanities of working-class life performed by fake posho stage-school brats like Penate yet?

HIS MUSIC SUCKS so much, it's driving me mad.

[Jah Lush]

Thankfully, I've never heard of him and if he is as you describe him then thank God for that.

[Brendan]

Can't say I know who he is. Jack Palance did you say? Wasn't he the third drummer for Slaughter and the Dogs.

[mockney piers]

Was he the grizzled old cowboy on City Slickers? Personally I find Billy Crystal a lot more irritating.

[*Bob*]

He's a local boy, isn't he?

[*Bob*]

Jack Penate - not Billy Crystal

[Brendan]

Nope Billy Crystal is a local American actor known for his rugged facial features and many roles in Westerns.

[capt_birdseye]

TORN on the pla-at-form. Sounds a bit like a cross between the Housemartins and Desmond Decker. Quite catchy I think, there's a lot worse out there.

[David Mc]

Time Out had some choice words in a brief article about him this week! Can't find it online and I don't have my copy here! Go and flick through one in your local newsagents!

P.S. They weren't particulary complimentary. I can't comment as I don't tend to keep up with the "young people's music".

[capt_birdseye]

I'd better not hum it out loud then, in case the music police swoop in and lock me away!

[James]

Basically he sounds like a lame Jamie T tribute act. He is like a male Kate Nash. Yes, that bad.

[Ant]

That bloody song has been stuck in my head all day thanks to this thread.

You may call it collateral damage. I call it musical terrorism.

[Jah Lush]

James, you've opened up a can of ear worms. Good job I haven't heard it yet.

[James]

Apologies Ant. I didn't want to suffer alone!

Jah, in this case, ignorance is bliss.

[mockney piers]

Oh my god, seems I actually own some. It's on my Camden Crawl 2007 CD.

TBH it's harmless enough, he's not some manufactured nonsense, he didn't win a stupid talent show, just a lad who writes his own songs and managed to get noticed in a tough, sh!tty industry.

Good on him I say. It's not terrible either, just a little, forgettable.

Male Kate Nash sums it up nicely.

Of course Kate Nash is lovely, you just want to take her home to meet your mum; can't say the same of Jack

 

[capt_birdseye]

If I took Kate Nash home to mum she'd have to cut out all that swearing tsh.

[Keef]

Yes she does have a mouth like a sewer.

I got her album for Mrs Keef, and I really really like her voice, until she insists on cockney-ing it up, then I just want to slap her! Surely her normal accent is London enough!

Talented girl though.

[mockney piers]

Well I never.

There I was thinking he was descended from a line of pen eaters, but it actually turns out he's Pe?ate, a half breed Spaniard from south east London descended from rock like people.

As our names translate to 'gracious rock' and 'stone sheep-path' respectively, I have to say I'm warming to the lad!!

[capt_birdseye]

It says on Wikipedia that he went to Alleyns as opposed to stage school.

[Jah Lush]

So did Jude Law and the fat one from the Chemical Brothers.

[Asset]

and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen

[Brendan]

And some guy I met in a pub the other night.

[capt_birdseye]

[mockney piers]

In what sense? It doesn't seem to star Jack Palance, nor skinny beardy half breed spaniards with 3 day growth and a big nose.

You mean the news footage? What you mean you don't remember the giant penguin invasion of May 2004, where were you, on holiday?

[Brendan]

It was Danny Divito not Jack Palance who played the Penguin.