Jim Carroll in the Ticket (1 Viewer)

[Ex-User (250)]

Yeah but on the same hand you've got bands like Mogwai who should appeal to the same small audience who did.

Not talking about s**t bands. Talking about extremely average bands who network

yeah, you're right... can't really argue with that. mogwai are seriously lame though. it's at times like this that i'm really happy i went to college and can rely on something else like this job i'm in which i hate. d'oh! so, tell me more about this 'networking'

 

[aoboa]

Is it a fact though? I'd love to see some stats on this..not having a go..just curious.

I'd imagine Satanta would make up at least half the signings.

 

[Latex lizzie]

Santa?

 

[aoboa]

Santa?

He could certainly help out a little more than he has been doing...

 

[Alan Remorse]

i think its all about location. If we're talking "making it" in the sense of being huge and selling 200,000 records then its a case of 10% hard graft, 90% good luck. And the better the location, the more likely you are to make good contacts.

 

[Latex lizzie]

*packs bindle* *waves sad wave* ..*takes plane to New York city*

 

[Alan Remorse]

thats the spirit

 

[Latex lizzie]

..ur supposed to ask me to stay *sniff*

 

[torpid]

Yeah, just get your finger outta me ass wud ye

 

[Pantone247]

he said "decent bands"

yeah but we all know he meant "bands I'm friends with"


anyway... shut up.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Yeah, just get your finger outta me ass wud ye

what the fuck is going on here??? yo, dreadlock boy, you're keeping us out of the charts with that stupid haircut!!!

 

[Ex-User (250)]

it's all about going driking with journalists and having connections, isn't it... like it's actually all about that. it's easy to pedal muck, it has to be. man, i wish mogwai was here right now, i'd make a network between my foot and their asses. mogwai are bigger in the US now than trans am... and that's because the US looks to the UK music press. trans am are a gazillion times better than mogwai... man, i hate mogwai. and i hate this thread.

 

[Shnake]

I wouldn't say it's any easier to pedal muck than non-muck

I'll tell you what IS easy though - giving out about it.

Get some fresh air, people. Go bowling. Get your hair done. It's much better than this.

 

[Pantone247]

just out of interest has anyone written or mailed Jim Carroll on this subject?

or have y'all just bitched about it on a message board to each other?

I'm off to get a bowl hair cut then collect the clippings as they fall and fill my pockets with fresh hair. Just like snaky said.

 

[aoboa]

I'm still waiting for someone to scan the article.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

guy from scanners: "ARGGHGGGGHGHGHGGGHGHGHGGhghgHGHGHGGHgH"


yo's

andrew

 

[snap-apple]

yeah but we all know he meant "bands I'm friends with"

if you're serious about this... man. sad days.

i meant any decent hardworking band in ireland playin any genre of music would have a better chance of playing/releasing music for a living in britain or the u.s. because the infrastructure is there. a band like the libertines wouldn't have been looked sideways at in dublin. there just isn't the interest from industry or socially. and by all accounts they're not great shakes.

 

[Pantone247]

if you're serious about this... man. sad days.

???

okay... I'm not serious.... but if I was I'd doubt it'd be 'sad days'...

anyhow I'm still not convinced that Irish bands are damned by there geographical location... or by Jim Carrols evil steel fist of hatred... I'm pretty sure if you look at the rate of English bands signed to 'substantial record deals' or even just making a living from music (most of yer favourite indei bands probably temp in offices between gigs, Mark Ibold from Pavement did) over population (55 million) against Irelands measily 3 million I really doubt it'd be any different.

The only creedence I could give any of this thinking is that bands end up playing the same venues and clubs, in front of the same people and everyone, bands included, gets bored really quickly.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

tempus fugit. there, i said it.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

I wouldn't say it's any easier to pedal muck than non-muck

I'll tell you what IS easy though - giving out about it.

Get some fresh air, people. Go bowling. Get your hair done. It's much better than this.

you can pedal both. no one ever gained anything by over estimating the intelligence of the general public. what other things can i say? oh yeah, stop acting cool... there's photos of you in a white sheet holding a sewing machine. man... man... lame isn't the word... i feel weird now thinking about *schmak*-ing you, big lambchop head on ye.