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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Bags on May 04, 2005, 03:10:00 pm
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Anyone? Don't you want to hear Red Berry Joy Town?!?!?
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Crazy - where are they playing? They were in Phx and I meant to post a link to this article: PhoenixNewTimes (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2005-04-28/music/music.html)
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will be there
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They're at Black Cat tomorrow night (Thursday, May 5)
Thanks for the article! I've sent it to a friend I'm trying to convince to go....
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i shall see you there bags..........
isn't it your round............. ;)
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
isn't it your round............. :D
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Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by poorlulu:
isn't it your round............. :D
I LOVE YOU!!!!!
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crap....I wish I had known they were coming to DC (I didnt even know they were still a band though, so....)
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Has anyone looked up what songs they, or rather Miles Hunt and his bunch of stand-ins play?
It will be great if there were plenty of songs from hup and the eight legged groove machine.
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I just realized I don't have "HUP" -- just 8-Legged (one of my favorite albums) and "Never Loved Elvis..."
Was on their official website yesterday, not much helpful info there...
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So you have never heard, don't let me down gently?
Hup is much much better than never loved elvis. You should head to CD game exchange and see if they have a copy for $2.50.
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According to a stuffies message board (I didn't even know they were called 'stuffies), the set list doesn't vary much at all --
"Wish Away" is one of my all time favorite songs, so that'll be good for me. ;)
From the Stone Pony show, April 5:
Escape From Rubbish Island
A Wish Away
Radio Ass Kiss
Ruby Horse
Better Get Ready For A Fist Fight
Was I Meant To Be Sorry
Another Comic Tragedy
You Don't Know Who...
On The Ropes
Donation
Bile Chant
Piece Of Sky
Don't Let Me Down Gently
It's Yer Money
Ten Trenches Deep
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Red Berry Joy Town
Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More
Unbearable
Poison
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
So you have never heard, don't let me down gently?
Hup is much much better than never loved elvis. You should head to CD game exchange and see if they have a copy for $2.50.
You know, I do know those Hup songs...I must have had it at some point, or maybe I had a cassette (remember those??) from a friend...
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Didn't like you very much when I met you and now I like you even less.
Sorry, I mean thanks Bags. Its a shame there is no golden green, but otherwise that should mmake for a great show.
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Musician dismayed by England
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
By Ed Masley, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Buckingham Palace may be overrun with rock stars lately, but you can't accuse Miles Hunt of angling for a tea date with the Queen on The Wonder Stuff's reunion effort.
Ever the contrarian, he's titled it "Escape From Rubbish Island" and kicked it off with a suitably anti-patriotic title track in which he memorably sneers, "Just get me off this sinking ship."
He's careful to point out, though, that it isn't England he dislikes. It's London. And the Labour government he helped elect.
"It was the first time I felt that my vote had been heard," he says, while driving through the Arizona desert on a tour that will bring the band here tomorrow. "And what actually transpired is that they're worse than the [expletive] Tories. In every way possible. It's good that they call it New Labour because they certainly ain't the Labour I was brought up understanding."
And it's left its impact on the British people.
Hunt recalls a recent holiday in Dublin, where a friend asked, "Are you having a good time?"
With a laugh, Hunt explains, "I was drunk for three days and having a wonderful time. So I said, 'I certainly am.' And he said, 'Do you know why?' I said, 'Probably all the Guinness I've been drinking?' He goes, 'Well, that might have something to do with it. But in Ireland, when you walk down the street and you see any man or woman, they've got a song or poem in their hearts and in their souls. You [expletives] in England used to have that but somehow you forgot.' "
They haven't forgotten the Beatles, though. And Hunt wishes they would. "Four decades on," the title track laments, "and yet the Beatles rule."
It's backward-looking, Hunt complains.
When The Wonder Stuff, a '90s band that may be best remembered here for an album called "Never Loved Elvis," reunited in the year 2000, no one in the band was thinking album. Not at first.
"But after those shows went so well," says Hunt, "it would be something that would come up in conversation pretty regularly ..."
It only took so long, he says, because of tension in the ranks.
"The members that left at the end of 2003," he says, "were much more keen that we would put out an album that sold. That was their criteria for it being a good album, that it would sell a lot and have hit singles. And I don't think me and [guitarist] Malc [Treece] could give a [expletive] about that. So it took for the other guys to clear out first to get down to actually making a record of new material because we just couldn't agree on anything with those guys."
As to how he manages to sound as angry as he did on his earlier records after all these years:
"Because I'm an agitator," he says. "And I'm irritable. Much to the chagrin of my family and my poor friends that have to hang around me. They're all waiting for me to mellow out, and it just seems to be getting worse."
And someone has to be the agitator.
As Hunt laments, "There's no youth culture in England anymore, other than kids dressing up as little Americans, listening to Fred Durst and riding around on skateboards. We'd have battles in the streets because one kid was a mod, one was a punk, one was a rude boy, one was a rocker. Now, there's just Nintendo and Fred Durst. And unfortunately, they've left this awful trail of bands influenced by them."
His main complaint with the new generation of bands is their "boring rock 'n' roll behavior -- dating models, marrying actresses, only hanging out with other famous people, house in the Hollywood Hills. Boring, boring, boring, predictable. It's 1975 again. Rod Stewart and Led Zeppelin shoveling as much coke as they can up their noses and only hanging out with other famous people. That's why punk rock had to happen. To get rid of that. And all these dreary, dreary British bands have dragged time back."
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what no Dizzy, well im not going then :mad:
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Originally posted by rigsby:
what no Dizzy, well im not going then :mad:
That is a relief, on both counts. :confused:
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I'm confused on the whole Wonder Stuff reunion thing. This is the official Wonder Stuff? I thought they were impostors fronted by some minor member of the Wonder Stuff. Last I heard (a year or so ago), the main Wonder Stuff member(s) were thinking of suing to stop some group from touring under the name Wonder Stuff... Alas, I will miss this show as I have other plans.
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pssst: see link above
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There are two original members -- Miles Hunt and Malc Treece -- Miles is the lead vocalist and primary driver of the band. If you've got him, you've got a good version of the band.
The original four reunited for a tour in 2000, but fell apart.
The Wonder Stuff line up consists of band founders Miles Hunt (vocals/guitar) and Malc Treece (guitar/vocals) with the new additions of former RDF (Radical Dance Faction) bassist Mark McCarthy and Andres Karu, former drummer for Love In Reverse. As Miles said in the summer of 2004, ??It??s taken a line up change, not our first admittedly, but when it comes to getting a record right, a band has gotta do what a band has gotta do.?
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make sure you all go early and see Army Of Me!!!
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Too early....I will be by, though, to see As Fast As, described as "pure power pop from Portland" -- Maine, that is.
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I would rather watch the apprentice than army of me.
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
I would rather watch the apprentice than army of me.
The O.C.!! Then a vanilla vodka and ginger at home before hitting the road (well, hitting the bus really).
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Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
[qb] and ginger at home before hitting the road [/b]
Didn't Fico call Jadetree, Ginger?
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Any comments?
It made me feel really old.
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I enjoyed the songs I knew, but there were not a whole lot of them.
It made me think Markie is really old.
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I LOVED the songs I knew, which was probably 60-70%. And dammit, Miles does put on a fun show. He's quite a character, and his dimples still go on for miles (ha, no pun intended). Really gives him a sweet yet evil look.
The show made me pretty sad...there were about 75 people there, about 40 of whom were standing in front of the band. Luckily there was some dancing and energy, but I just can't imagine that a band with so many UK #1s could only pull in 75 people. (Though even back in the day I was one of few Wonder Stuff fans I knew...).
Also, to find the set list (which was exactly the same last night as the one I posted from April) I found a Stuffies Message Board, and about 5-8 of the folks at the show are following the band from show to show. So there were some regulars there (who go out drinkin' with the band 'til the very wee hours...).
Actually, knowing the set list never changes, not an optimum band for following around the country...though you know you can always get a ticket. :(
Good show, though -- I had a great time, and had lots of room for jumping...