Highrise (2 Viewers)

[krystal]

EDIT - durr, mainline, not highrise, always mix dem up.



Mainline played at this Marlay park thing yesterday. They seemed pretty dull, but inoffensive to me, from the bit we saw. Then, for their encore, they did Revolution by Spacemen 3. It was the Worst Thing I Have Ever Had The Misfortune to Hear In My Thirty One Long Years. Jesus Chrrrraasssst lads, the point of that song is the slow build up, the amazing drumming and the slow vocals. Turning it into Revolution: The Rock Opera is just not the thing to be doing with it at all, at all. Still, I guess they gave us a good laugh.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Not the japanese High Rise I presume/hope?

 

[krystal]

No, and it was Mainline in anyways. The names, they confuse me in my olden age. It was so awful.

Not the japanese High Rise I presume/hope?

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Would have been an awful way to see the japanese lot anyway.

 

[Pantone247]

EDIT - durr, mainline, not highrise, always mix dem up.



Mainline played at this Marlay park thing yesterday. They seemed pretty dull, but inoffensive to me, from the bit we saw. Then, for their encore, they did Revolution by Spacemen 3. It was the Worst Thing I Have Ever Had The Misfortune to Hear In My Thirty One Long Years. Jesus Chrrrraasssst lads, the point of that song is the slow build up, the amazing drumming and the slow vocals. Turning it into Revolution: The Rock Opera is just not the thing to be doing with it at all, at all. Still, I guess they gave us a good laugh.

stupid poser gits, they've nicked everything else from Spacemen 3, why not the songs too...

Wait till you hear (you'll probably never hear it...) BRMC rip off I Walked With Jesus on their rather dull as dishwater new record... the do a manky hack job on Laser Guided Melodys era J Spaceman too...

 

[Pantone247]

Oh and F.A.O. Stan Bowles... The Warlocks have a new record out!!

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[krystal]

they haven't nicked GOOD from Spacemen 3.

stupid poser gits, they've nicked everything else from Spacemen 3, why not the songs too...

Wait till you hear (you'll probably never hear it...) BRMC rip off I Walked With Jesus on their rather dull as dishwater new record... the do a manky hack job on Laser Guided Melodys era J Spaceman too...

 

[Pantone247]

they haven't nicked GOOD from Spacemen 3.

what they need is a good strong heroin addiction

 

[chickenham]

Mainliner are also a Japanese rock band

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Mainliner are also a Japanese rock band

mellow out .|..|s

all mainlines songs kinda sounded like the last one.

 

[chickenham]

Poor old Big Tom though eh?

 

[Pantone247]

Poor old Big Tom though eh?

the godfather of tremolo drones and space rock

 

[chickenham]

..and pretend sexy heroin addictions

 

[roxy]

 

[krystal]

oh ha ha!! It was THEM!!

shitehawks.

 

[Pantone247]

can you imagine it... a haloween party... somewhere in Dalky no doubt..

'I thought I said I was dressing as John Cale 1967'

'no it was my idea to dress as John Cale circa 1967'

'lads I said last week, don't anyone come dressed as John Cale circa 1967'

'hiya guys!! ah bollox... did we all come dressed as John Cale circa 1967??'

 

[taubstumm]

mainline are a musical abortion of a band. i felt genuine anger and disgust listening to them. as i said to a couple of people yesterday, their one redeeming feature is that their drummer looks like veryslowey with a beard. ('ma-drum-fren', i will now call him. or 'retardo-thwack'). i propose a motion to make mainline into the new on/off - i.e. official thumped.com worst band in history.

the whole event made me feel like i'd been mugged - corporate bullshit horrible nasty crap. and then sonic youth were fantastic, which made me feel like i'd been mugged and then found fifty quid on the ground. to stretch the analogy.

it was kind of strange seeing them among such a small and semi-disinterested crowd. you could just walk up to the crowd barrier, or close enough. and they did drunken butterfly! and rain on tin, and schizophrenia, and stones, which was fantaaaaaaaastic. and thurston's little escapade clambering around the scaffolding was cool. and lee ranaldo looks more and more like someone's dad every time i see him. ah, the youth. they still fucking rule, the pricks.

 

[spiritualtramp]

I know loads of dirt about Mainline but I am too much of a lady to share.

A friend of mine is going out with one of them.

 

[roxy]

A friend of mine is going out with one of them.

Does she ever get confused herself and throw her arms/legs around the wrong one?

 

[Stan Bowles]

Oh and F.A.O. Stan Bowles... The Warlocks have a new record out!!

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And raise you some

And I cannot overstate what a fucking travesty the revolution cover by mainline was. As hereslf said, the genius of revolution is the subtle build up, the slightly bored vocal delivery leading up to a huge, rousing ending. Not playing the song at the same speed and volume all the way through, with your frontman screaming the lyrics like an idiot. Rubbish.