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My Bloody Valentine to the Jesus & Mary Chain. That's an example, I'm not necessarily getting on the case of bands with similar influences to Band X. I have noticed that people writing band blurbs and sometimes reviews have very strange notions of what constitutes wide-ranging influences...

My bike was stolen. Had locked it to a railing with other bikes outside my apartment building last night as I was in a rush to go to play football. I usually (i.e. always, this was the first time I'd done otherwise) put it in the underground car park. Shit. It's on the Cycle to Work scheme and...

Lions team: R Kearney (Leinster and Ireland); T Bowe (Ospreys and Ireland), B O'Driscoll (Leinster and Ireland), J Roberts (Cardiff Blues and Wales), L Fitzgerald (Leinster and Ireland); S Jones (Scarlets and Wales), M Phillips (Ospreys and Wales); G Jenkins (Cardiff Blues and Wales), M Rees...

Land Lovers will release “Immovable Feet”, a 6-song 'Very Short Album' and the quick follow-up to acclaimed 2008 debut album "Romance Romance”, on 18th July 2009. The release will be accompanied by shows in Dublin (this one, with support from Cajole & Bully), Cork, Belfast and Galway; and at...

Hello there Thumped. I'm here to announce that my band, Land Lovers, will be releasing a 6-song Very Short Album called "Immovable Feet" on 18th July. It will be available in the usual Irish record shops but also worldwide via this amazing internet (iTunes, etc.) and equally sturdy mail order...

I opened the CD case of Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (Rhino deluxe re-issue) for the first time in a long day a few weeks ago. To my horror, the CD was missing. It's one of my all-time favourite albums, see. So I opened iTunes just now and it seems I stupidly just ripped...

... the great Hugh Farrelly in the Indo, re: Leinster's win: "THE 19-16 rising. Given the final scoreline, this nation's shadow-induced Anglo obsession, and the fact that this was a story of Irish overcoming English, references to that storied rebellion in the aftermath of Saturday's explosive...

Say mediocre English clubs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/24/europa-league-spurs-west-ham-fulham This is part of the reason that I think the overwhelming success of the Premier League as a product is ruining top-level football. There is only a handful of teams who can conceive of...

http://www.iamsteph.com/web/2009/fine-gael-rips-off-bbc-website Buwahahaha, the hilarity. "YES, WE WILL!!"

I've been meaning to post about this for the last few days, as it's been the hot-topic amongst the male portion of my family: http://www.kerryman.ie/news/pitch-battle-gaa-and-soccer-club-in-dispute-1693508.html Are there any depths the powers that be in Castle Greyskull will not sink to...

Fresh from his disparaging columns that struck fear into the hearts of Irish managers and assistant manager alike, Greener moves on to the coveted Faroe Islands job. http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0406/kerrb.html

Criteria: Band/act must have a combined total of more than 16,000 posts on Thumped. Must be universally thought of as amusing and/or informative. Must have received positive rep in the last hour. Can't be friends with anyone else on Thumped.

Has anyone noticed that, in general, women walk very urgently around the workplace? I have, and I'd like to share it on this new thread.

Right, this is a troublesome one. It's on next Wednesday night (1st April) in Andrew's Lane, and I'd rather it didn't clash with Italy v Ireland. Nothing I can do about it, only suppress my feelings. You can watch me suppress them live! For free! If you PM me, I'll put you on the guest list...

Land Lovers shall play at the IMRO Tour event in Andrew's Lane on Wednesday 1st April. Stage time and whatever else to be confirmed, I'll post it here when I have it.

Anyone got one?

I really like their singles collection thing, It's Time. Really exciting stuff. I think I like it a bit more than the Crystal Stilts album, with which it shares plenty of similarities (and a label, if I'm not mistaken). It's more fun. Have they played here?

Land Lovers are re-applying for the job of The Best Band on the Plant, after an absence of literally weeks. In the intervening time, the world has become a different, scarier place - it's a world where cartons of tomato & chorizo soup can be spilled over entire boxes full of other people's...

Land Lovers are re-applying for the job of The Best Band on the Plant, after an absence of literally weeks. In the intervening time, the world has become a different, scarier place - it's a world where cartons of tomato & chorizo soup can be spilled over entire boxes full of other people's...

Hello. My PC laptop just froze as I was using it. I eventually turned it off. When I turned it on again, I saw the opening screen with the options to hit F12 for the BIOS, etc. And then just a black screen with a cursor in the top left-hand corner. I repeated this a few times, same results. So I...