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HonaloochieB

HonaloochieB

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I think Sean Mac got it right, let's localise.


Sham 69 for The Castle.

Modern Romance for Adventure.

The Blood Red Shoes covering Elvis Costello's (The Angels Wanna Wear) My Red Shoes for Davina.

The Beastie Boys for William Rose.

Basia for The Bishop, and with her old band Matt Bianco at Adventure for the nights when Modern Romance need a break.

The Angelic Upstarts (complete with pig's head) for Saturday lunchtime at The Upland.

The Pogues for The Thomas More Hall.

Jess Conrad for Fabric.

The Sex Pistols Unplugged for Sunday lunchtime at The Plough.

Crime And The City Solution for Sainsnury's car park.

The Police for the reception of East Dulwich Police Station, with The Inmates in the cells and The Jesus And Mary Chain for the stables.

The Fields Of The Nephilim for The Gourmet Burger Kitchen.

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Sean...who on earth said there was anything wrong with any of those descriptions.....seriously, I think they're not a bad indicator of East Dulwich.....you are a tad paranoia about any percieved criticism on the lovely SE22 on occasions. I choose to live here with my family for many if not most of the reasons I compared ED to Coldplay....I agree, I can't stand Coldplay though
Keef

Keef

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CPT - Metallica, still going, but no longer with the greatest line up.


Bishop - , The Kooks, Coldplay, Razorlight, hugely popular with trendy beautiful people, but frankly grotesque!


Actually no, The Bishop - Stoned Roses / The Pixies - Everyone says how great it is, and it's cool to like it, but really it's shite and no one knows why they like it, but their friends want to go, so they go and poretend to be having a good time, whilst all along their friends are doing exactly the same! Heh heh heh

SeanMacGabhann

SeanMacGabhann

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Quids


yes yes yes - I've already held my hands up and said I was defensive... sorry again!


Although in my defence (m'lud) it's not about SE22 I get defensive - it's....... ohh... never mind Gab - no one cares


Loving Modern Romance for Adventure Bar and the Pogues for Thomas More. And I liked Keef's first attempt at the Bishop. And the Stone Roses = definitely overrated. But the Pixies??.. I came close to a flounce!

giggirl

giggirl

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Keef Wrote:

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The Bishop - Stoned Roses / The

> Pixies - Everyone says how great it is, and it's

> cool to like it, but really it's shite and no one

> knows why they like it, but their friends want to

> go, so they go and poretend to be having a good

> time, whilst all along their friends are doing

> exactly the same! Heh heh heh


Keef - You've dissed the Pixies! Frank Black is a punk God. Surely you didn't mean THE Pixies. Is there another band called the Pixies that you've confused yourself with? Maybe a group of boys from Brighton that call themselves ?indie? and play barely disguised Beatles rip-offs? Not THE actual Pixies surely. I'm going for a lie down until the trauma wears off.

Keef

Keef

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Thought that may stir a reaction. Sorry, but both THE Pixies and the Stoned Roses are groups that have had songs I like, but that overall I just don't get why they a revered quite so much. Maybe I was just 5 years too young to really "get it" at the time, but I'm not sure it would've made a difference.
Cassius

Cassius

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Like the Coldplay analogy - agree that slagging off THE Pixies is tantamount to something really dreadful.


ED - I think Muse - started off small and rather provincial even and now shouts from the highest hills, (as I write I hear them as a ringtone downstairs................)

giggirl

giggirl

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The Pixies influenced a lot of bands and they had a new sound that wasn't derivative. I?ve just had a listen to Nimrod?s Son and the Pixies are as EXCITING as ever.


Indie music is just CLONE music right now ? so dull. I?m getting the feeling the plethora of new indie bands just want to be famous (the disease of the noughties). It?s easy to forget that the Pixies weren?t clones. That?s what time does.


BTW Keef - I have CDs of all four Pixie gigs at Brixton a few years back (2005?) and they get major play on my i-Pod; you?re welcome to have a loan if you think they might swing your vote.

louisiana

louisiana

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Quizteam Aguillera Wrote:

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> ..it would be Keane, or Kooks or The Fratelli's:

> white, uninspiring and banal, but likes to think

> of itself as independently-minded,grown-up, cool,

> articulate and a little bit edgy.


Actually Stereophonics springs to (my) mind. Maybe because a lot of these - new - mums and dads actually listen to that stuff.

Jimbob

Jimbob

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Quizteam Aguillera Wrote:

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> ..it would be Keane, or Kooks or The Fratelli's:

> white, uninspiring and banal, but likes to think

> of itself as independently-minded,grown-up, cool,

> articulate and a little bit edgy.


add travis to that list.

HonaloochieB

HonaloochieB

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Somerfield with The Dead Kennedies playing the fruit and veg section, alternating songs with Slipknot back in the dairy.**

Liquorish hosting The Insane Clown Posse.

Medicine Head at the Dulwich Medical Centre.

Girls Aloud at JAGS.

Rage Against The Machine in front of the hand dryer in the gents of The Palmerston.

The Soup Dragons at Soup Dragon.

John Cooper-Clarke, for a modest fee whispering poems in your ear in The Crystal Palace Tavern. And for no extra charge telling you a good joke.

Atomic Kitten at Iceland, but if the various members are too busy advertising Iceland, appearing on cookery programmes and who knows what else, then get Coldplay in. Unless they're too yellow.

Barry Blue serenading Barry from the Barry Off-Licence on Barry Road. And if a few Barrys were around to sing Hosannas then so much the better. Let's see what we can do.

Fugazi down The Clockhouse.

Chi-Chi And Ra-Ra having a Scissor Sisters evening. They might have to perch, but hey, they're troopers.

Tom Waits in the doorway of Dulwich library.

The Blue Oyster Cult at St John's Church.

After they'd finished at JAGS and Chi-Chi Rah-Rah, Girls Aloud and The Scissor Sisters performing on the bar of The Capitol at Forest Hill. With an after show at The Hobgoblin.

The Doctors Of Madness reforming for a benefit at the MIND shop.


** With Twisted Sister on the roof.

HonaloochieB

HonaloochieB

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citizenED Wrote:

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> If East Dulwich was a band, we'll be kept up all

> night with band practice. I'm upping sticks and

> moving to Norfolk.


If Norfolk was a band, would it be The Partridge family?

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