The hard-working Dublin noise rock unit play six dates around Ireland in between jaunts to Europe
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OK, none of The Lads is unfair.Like, not to sound like the world's most bitter loser - but my band made an album that's highly influenced by Sonic Youth, full of noise and uses a lot of the elements that Girl Band use but........... none of The Lads like us because we're openly feminist and are female-fronted.
Ok maybe I am bitter but why is it that the bands that are "legends", "heroes" and "unique" are.....never women, in Dublin?
Eyebrow raise and ego aside I bet they're excellent and I look forward to listening to them. My beef isn't with the band at all, its more Irish traditional medias tendency to ignore certain bands and FREAK out over others. It always feels like an ACTUAL girl band has to be "the voice of LGBTQ" or "a new feminist voice" and whereas a band by Girl Band gets totally focused on for their sound, heroic stage presence, pedals, etc. Again NO beef with the band, seems like absolutely lovely, hard-working lads who TOTALLY deserve the praise. Just...ugh, imbalance.
Like, not to sound like the world's most bitter loser
My god. YOU'RE RIGHT.To get down to specifics, I think your band (Alien She I assume?) have too many songs, and not enough grinding grooves with someone rambling over the top. I'd say people would be more than happy to hear a woman do those kind of vocals but singing, please, this is serious head music, can't be having tunes.
They were obviously better earlier in their career but still have a bit of something to them.just fixed that there for you.
Noise rock became synth wankery.
Nothing redeemable about them.
I remember really looking forward to seeing them at Primavera almost 10 years ago and I was so gutted they were fucking atrocious
I'm just jealous clearly and have penis envy.
They're fairly bang on as far as I know and donated money to Girls Rock so I value them. Just those DAMNNNNNNNN.....audience members#metoo
In fairness, I don't have much to contribute that you wouldn't explain better than me but if you are making the point that there is an unseen and undocumented bias against female artists in Ireland I agree with you 100%, but I've too much work to do to write that essay this week.
I don't think GB feature in it tbh but that doesn't invalidate the point either.
They're fairly bang on as far as I know and donated money to Girls Rock so I value them. Just those DAMNNNNNNNN.....audience members
Ah here, they have been at it for about 8 years too. Its not like they didn't carve it out pre-international touring.
I mean more in terms of their activities prior to this record. They were putting in the hard yards in the uk 5 and 6 years ago.
They were obviously better earlier in their career but still have a bit of something to them.
Like, not to sound like the world's most bitter loser - but my band made an album that's highly influenced by Sonic Youth, full of noise and uses a lot of the elements that Girl Band use but........... none of The Lads like us because we're openly feminist and are female-fronted.
Ok maybe I am bitter but why is it that the bands that are "legends", "heroes" and "unique" are.....never women, in Dublin?
Eyebrow raise and ego aside I bet they're excellent and I look forward to listening to them. My beef isn't with the band at all, its more Irish traditional medias tendency to ignore certain bands and FREAK out over others. It always feels like an ACTUAL girl band has to be "the voice of LGBTQ" or "a new feminist voice" and whereas a band by Girl Band gets totally focused on for their sound, heroic stage presence, pedals, etc. Again NO beef with the band, seems like absolutely lovely, hard-working lads who TOTALLY deserve the praise. Just...ugh, imbalance.
Edit: never mindI find Fontaines more interesting than Girl Band tbh. I mean, neither are in regular rotation or anything but I prefer the swaggering silliness of them to Girl Bands alt-dad rock.
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