"hardcore" article in the Sunday Times yesterday (1 Viewer)

[cesspooldublin]

half page thing about how hardcore is "coming back" with Bad Brains, Fucked up, and that raging DIYHC band Gallows.
Anyone else see it?

 

[therealjohnny]

Very surprising to see that. I was too hungover to take it in!

Did it say that Gallows have a two million dollar record contract?

 

[Daniel]

yeah, i had a read of it. Twas alright. That Gallows band annoyes me a bit. i think it was 1 million euro for 2 albums that they got.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Someone scan it. Please.

 

[RSJ]

Apparently they're not going over too well in the US, i suppose people there have already heard the bronx. Plus i read about them being very cocky and getting pissy and walking off stage early if the crowd doesn't go nuts. Saw them with lifetime last year and thought they were pretty weak.

 

[Gambra]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2638896.ece

Thats the full article

 

[Denver Max]

I just puked.

 

[cesspooldublin]

whatever about Gallows, Fucked Up strike me as a bunch of media whores as well.Good band though

 

[Gambra]

Great band in fact. The press have kinds latched onto them as the new face of hardcore since Gallows have "made it big"

 

[cesspooldublin]

Hang on, I'm talking about Fucked Up here.They've been all over MTV and Vice Magazine and that for a while now,long before Gallows appeared

 

[Gambra]

Eh ok, I thought you were on about the English press in particular for some reason..

And they were really on MTV Canada.. And it was shut down as well..

 

[Corm]

Fuck all that shit.

"As for Gallows, nobody can doubt their hardcore credentials: Carter was tattooed on stage during their set at the Reading festival this summer, and at the end of last month, he had to cancel two shows after an on-stage accident caused five days’ concussion. But, he says, he loves Sinatra, James Brown and Ray Charles. Underneath the maelstrom of guitars is a sense of melody that recalls Nirvana in their more obscure moments. Carter is partly correct in his “right time, right place” assessment: hardcore has been on the rise recently. And it has, of course, happened before."

At least the article makes it sound so fuckin passe and boring that the real cheap-buzz-seekers will stick to nu-jazz or whatever's up next.

Real hardcore will continue to destroy all these poseurs.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Hardcore began, hot on the heels of punk, with four bands.

Right.

 

[nooleen]

yeah but three of them gave up pretty soon after that

 

[Anarcho Munk]

Just listened to a Gallows video there. (ah...irony)

Have to say I'm not convinced at all by them but it's hard to compeltly judge a band on just one song.

 

[Corm]

And they didn't even cite Discharge. Fucking pillocks.

Anyway, in similar news, I've just seen that there was an article on fanzines in Saturday's Irish Times Weekend magazine, interviewing some art student indie wanker who'd just decided it was the great way to revive his flagging creativity. These people are really casting a wide net to try & find some scraps of interest in modern unculture.

 

[Corm]

Just listened to a Gallows video there. (ah...irony)

Have to say I'm not convinced at all by them but it's hard to compeltly judge a band on just one song.

I heard one song by them a while ago and it sounded alright. "Moi nayme isss caffenowva". Still a pack of tossbiscuits though.

 

[Anarcho Munk]

I kinda like his voice though. But the wouldn't be the type of hardcore i'm mad about. I like it nice and brutal yet pleasantly surprising and melodic just in the right places.

 

[nooleen]

like madball

 

[São Paulo Punk]

At least the article makes it sound so fuckin passe and boring that the real cheap-buzz-seekers will stick to nu-jazz or whatever's up next.

Here man, dont be slaggin Nu-jazz!

Alright?!?