now things are back to normal

Paul Heaton next month at Castlefield

Foo Fighters next year Old Trafford Cricket

can't find the old thread

6 hours ago, Homer said:

I assume you are a Beatles fan friend? The Kinks?

Kinks - yes. Small Faces - absolutely. Various others from that era along with the revival bands like Purple Hearts, The Chords etc. Beatles - no. Pop shite never did it for me. Slippery slope to abominations like Abba and Boney M.

All trumped by the music of black America and Jamaica though. Sam And Dave, Marvin, King Stitt, Sir Coxsone Downbeat plus others of those genres get my motor running.

14 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

Bob Vylan on Thursday proper excited, they're always a great show and now with added bonus of winding up right wing snowflakes

Hope there's a power cut.

John Bramwell at Band on The Wall, 21st March and its an afternoon gig. That'll do me 

On 04/02/2026 at 02:11, bolty58 said:

Hope there's a power cut.

Just for you. X

3 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

Just for you. X

Scum.

4 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

Just for you. X

any death to the idf chants?

That’s some serious steroid abuse bitch nipples going on there. 

10 hours ago, Zico said:

any death to the idf chants?

4 or 5 times throughout the night from the crowd.

Maximo Park at Victoria Warehouse, highly enjoyable. Bunch of middle-aged indie kids reliving their youth, including me.

1 hour ago, jmjhb said:

Maximo Park at Victoria Warehouse, highly enjoyable. Bunch of middle-aged indie kids reliving their youth, including me.

Liked a couple of their tunes like books from boxes and they were regulars on xfm so know and liked their singles

but could properly not get in to them for some reason

10 hours ago, Zico said:

Liked a couple of their tunes like books from boxes and they were regulars on xfm so know and liked their singles

but could properly not get in to them for some reason

I feel the same. Think it must be that bowler hat.

On 06/02/2026 at 02:24, bolty58 said:

Scum.

Subhuman scum 😁

20 hours ago, jmjhb said:

Maximo Park at Victoria Warehouse, highly enjoyable. Bunch of middle-aged indie kids reliving their youth, including me.

There's something fun about gigs where it's a bunch of middle aged folk trying their best to pretend they're still in their prime.

8 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Subhuman scum 😁

 

 

8 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

There's something fun about gigs where it's a bunch of middle aged folk trying their best to pretend they're still in their prime.

Kaiser Chiefs next Saturday at the same venue, expecting exactly the same vibe

31 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Kaiser Chiefs next Saturday at the same venue, expecting exactly the same vibe

Really don't like Victoria Warehouse but I'm blocking out all my hatred of it to relive my yoof to go see Machine Head there later in the year for my version of that vibe.

20 hours ago, Zico said:

Liked a couple of their tunes like books from boxes and they were regulars on xfm so know and liked their singles

but could properly not get in to them for some reason

I don't think they got the acclaim they deserved, but that genre was really saturated 20 years ago

6 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Subhuman scum 😁

A bit harsh but you seem to be mellowing.

5 hours ago, jmjhb said:

I don't think they got the acclaim they deserved, but that genre was really saturated 20 years ago

aye, was definitely drifting away from the indie scene in terms of what I was listening to around that time, because it was getting boring and not a patch on the 90s, referred to as indie landfill I seem to recall, so probably couldn't be arsed taking it any further than singles

Maximo Park weren't indie landfill really - it was the likes of Razorlight, Pigeon Detectives, Kasier Chiefs, The Fratellies, The Rifles, Wombats, Hard Fi etc etc etc

I started listening to stuff like Broken Social Scene, Stars, Metric and Fiest about then as there was some great stuff coming from Canada. 

But nah Maximo Park were around at that time but too musically different to be part of the landfill I'd say. More akin to Bloc Party whose first album was great.

Although, id say a lot of late 90s indie was just as bad, its just by the 2000s was a bit older but i reckon if id been 15/16 we'd have been into it just as much.

2 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

I started listening to stuff like Broken Social Scene, Stars, Metric and Fiest about then as there was some great stuff coming from Canada. 

Yeah I was a big fan. Funnily emough they're all doing a big tour together, only in North America though. New Pornos too.

3 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Maximo Park weren't indie landfill really - it was the likes of Razorlight, Pigeon Detectives, Kasier Chiefs, The Fratellies, The Rifles, Wombats, Hard Fi etc etc etc

Dunno, you've just listed bands from the same era 

You either like them or you don't

I actually liked hard fis first album and saw them tour it and was a top gig

Second album and gig was embarrassing 

So many bands from that time were "The" 

Wombats, ordinary boys, enemy, fratellis etc

They were the ones to watch out for

Maybe one good single at best

Couldn't stand bloc party either, just noise

2 hours ago, jmjhb said:

Yeah I was a big fan. Funnily emough they're all doing a big tour together, only in North America though. New Pornos too.

Yeah saw that - was wondering if they might do Europe afterwards. Fiest aside they all never made it quite as big over here as I thought they might.

49 minutes ago, Zico said:

Dunno, you've just listed bands from the same era 

You either like them or you don't

I actually liked hard fis first album and saw them tour it and was a top gig

Second album and gig was embarrassing 

So many bands from that time were "The" 

Wombats, ordinary boys, enemy, fratellis etc

They were the ones to watch out for

Maybe one good single at best

Couldn't stand bloc party either, just noise

Same era but different ilk.

All the bands ive listen their songs were pretty much interchangable. Hence why they are most often cited as Landfill - totally swapable in terms of music.

Maximo Park certainly wasn't - there was a term indie sleaze that seems to be around which fitted the sligjtly more celebral bands of that era. Like id suggest Editors first ablum was a lot better than the mire of The View, Kooks, The Automatic - urgh, gives me shivers and flashbacks of Soccer AM and Hoxton Fins 😁

3 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Same era but different ilk.

All the bands ive listen their songs were pretty much interchangable. Hence why they are most often cited as Landfill - totally swapable in terms of music.

Maximo Park certainly wasn't - there was a term indie sleaze that seems to be around which fitted the sligjtly more celebral bands of that era. Like id suggest Editors first ablum was a lot better than the mire of The View, Kooks, The Automatic - urgh, gives me shivers and flashbacks of Soccer AM and Hoxton Fins 😁

Yeah there was definitely a link with soccer am 

You can spot 00s indie a mile off

But I reckon you can with 90s too

I liked sleeper but just the same as elastica and echobelly And lush in hindsight