Mates daughters band, whatdya reckon?

[dkw]

Got a work mate who`s daughters a drummer, her band have made an EP and he wanted to know what I thought. Im actually quite impressed by them, really enjoyed the cd he gave me and was wondering what anyone else thought of them. The band is called Stella Marconi and this is their Myspace thingy http://www.myspace.com/stellamarconi

[moi]

sorry, I coudn't work out how to play it!

[dkw]

sorry, I coudn't work out how to play it!

Oh you, modern technology and all that... theres a big blue play button just above the words "cult of celebrity" next to where it says share.

[moi]

Oh you, modern technology and all that... theres a big blue play button just above the words "cult of celebrity" next to where it says share.

Sometimes my own thickness astounds me!!

Yes, I liked it - like the lyrics too. It reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who.

[dkw]

Sometimes my own thickness astounds me!!

Yes, I liked it - like the lyrics too. It reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who.

Reminds me a bit of the Wombats, and Courteeners. Talented little buggers, got the CD signed just in case :D

If you click on the names of the other songs below you can listen to them too, but be careful because "Moan" is ever so sweary, and im not sure its right for your delicate ears.

Edited September 15, 2010 by dkw

[moi]

Reminds me a bit of the Wombats, and Courteeners. Talented little buggers, got the CD signed just in case :D

Quite right! That could be your retirement fund! It's no the Wombats or the Courteneers it reminds me of because I've never heard of either of them!! Must be something much older!

Anyway I'm off to bed. Goodnight, dickywuh! x

[Ruh Buh Juh]

Reminds me a bit of the Wombats, and Courteeners. Talented little buggers, got the CD signed just in case :D

Wombats, that's who I was thinking of!! I'm liking Cult of Celebrity, I have to say, it's a really good recording aswell, from small bands the recording is usually pretty naff, but this sounds really good. I like the guitar inbetween the chorus', it's really good.

Thanks for this dkw, following them on Twitter, I like these a lot!

[Mr Chelsea]

not bad at all

[yorkleyblue]

Given the quality of Dicky's normal spelling, I was expecting to read that some far-removed "daughters" had been banned from something, and that there would be pictures for me to look at and to say what I thought of either them or it.

PS - I'm amazed that Moi let you get away with the apostrophe errors

Edited September 16, 2010 by yorkleyblue

[moi]

PS - I'm amazed that Moi let you get away with the apostrophe errors

A sensible teacher doesn't bite off more than she can chew. Dickywuh now uses full stops and capital letters and his posts read like they've been written by a grown-up. Who am I to quibble over who's/whose daughters/daughter's?

Edited September 16, 2010 by moi

[dkw]

Hey you 2, I can see what you are writing you know. I have feelings too, and currently they hurt, they hurt so bad. :(

[moi]

Hey you 2, I can see what you are writing you know. I have feelings too, and currently they hurt, they hurt so bad. :(

I am so sorry, dickywuh. There are so many subjects you know more about than me. I am just a pedantic old fart, and YorkleyBlue is just a shrivelled old pisstaker. Please forgive me.

[Maksimov]

Not bad at all. Got my toes tapping.

[bluevale2]

I quite liked that although I only listened to 'Moan'

[Liam]

There are so many subjects you know more about than I.

Fixed that for you.

[moi]

Fixed that for you.

Self-confessed pedant though I be, I adhere to the more modern line of grammatical thought, which says that you either add the verb after the nominative pronoun(You know more than I do) or you substitute the accusative pronoun me.

But thank you for trying to teach this aged person to extract the yolk of an egg with her gums.

[Liam]

I adhere to the more modern line of grammatical thought

What a pity!

[moi]

What a pity!

I am a perpetual source of disappointment, alas.

But what did you think of dickywuh's mate's daughter's band?

[Liam]

I am a perpetual source of disappointment, alas.

But what did you think of dickywuh's mate's daughter's band?

Drummer's good!

[Oblivion]

Good stuff indeed. :)

Quick question, how is it that UK music almost always trumps US stuff? I mean, even your bubblegum-pop tunes sound SO much better than what you get from over the Atlantic.

[dkw]

Drummer's good!

The drummers my mates 15 year old daughter and she is pretty good. He`s been ferrying her around for a few years to gigs and practices, so he`s now relying on her making it big time so he can retire on the 40% royalties deal he`s got with her.

[mad_mac]

Drummer looks like a cross between that bint from fife that sang about her horse, and the lead singer of the firey furnaces.

Anyway, not bad. I hear a bit of the Buzzcocks in them, which is no bad thing

[Eggy McMuffin]

Good stuff indeed. :)

Quick question, how is it that UK music almost always trumps US stuff? I mean, even your bubblegum-pop tunes sound SO much better than what you get from over the Atlantic.

I personally believe that it's the way that music is presented on the radio.

In America, everything is compartmentalised into genres, you get one radio station playing one kind of music and not deviating from it. Over here, Radio 1 will play rock, pop, dance, drum and bass, anything... well... within reason. This sort of gives you exposure to a greater variety of music and not so much allows you to experience other kinds of music, but forces you into it. It may cause you to turn off the radio every now and then, but more often than not it broadens your horizons to a new genre.

Unfortunately this is getting less prevalent, and we're hearing more bullsh*t hip-pop, or what they often - wrongly in my view - dub r'n'b. If it's not that, it's artists and bands doing a Pendulum and playing the same f**king setting on the same f**king synth for three motherf**king albums running and claiming it's new c**ting sh*t. I'm personally disenfranchised to the point where I can no longer willingly listen to the radio, even to shows I used to like, due to the plastic feel it all has, and the way that artists are afraid to deviate from the style which brought them success because their 'demographic' may not like it.

Wow, that turned into a rant faster than it should have... anyway, I don't think it does always trump US stuff though, in fact some of my favourite artists are American. I mean Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago was ridiculously good. I listen to it often, and I enjoy it far more than one rightly should, but trust me it's good. The problem is that you often have to dig for music, even when it's that good. English music may be more accessible to you, or may even be managed better by the record labels involved. Far more likely than either of those however would be that where the music scene in England is right now, is simply more attuned to your own tastes.

I used to be a real audiophile, but I have since stopped spending as much time listening to and looking for new music, and also, my amazing speakers broke. So I had to buy some cheap replacements, but I guess this counts as my view on the difference between American and English music.

[moi]

Drummer looks like a cross between that bint from fife that sang about her horse, and the lead singer of the firey furnaces.

Anyway, not bad. I hear a bit of the Buzzcocks in them, which is no bad thing

Who's the bint from Fife who sang about her horse?

[mad_mac]

Coouldn't remeber her name at the time, but it's that KT Tunstall