Power/Pop Punk Outfit 'theKeds' Require Bass Player (1 Viewer)

[Ex-User (250)]

hey keds,
on behalf of the dublin underground scene, we're sorry. believe it or not, none the people who replied to your thread have anything to do with our original scene, i know for a fact that most of them are computer science students who like pissing people off and have nothing better to do with their time.
i checked out your website, pretty cool. i've been learning the bass for around 4 months now, i think i'm pretty good although it's not my first instrument. (i prefer to play the keyboards/sampling. i've been in some of the more successful underground bands in dublin over the past few years, i was just wondering if you'd give me a try? no strings attached, if you want. post your number or something and i'll give you a call about it.
again, sorry for all the abuse you got here, please don't let it discourage you and much respect,
David Ledgney.

 

[Hector Grey]

gay

 

[Monkey]

I just realised that all this time I was thinking of the Revs! not thekeds, the Revs are shite, thekeds aren't that bad

 

[gipetto]

I find that highly suspicious!

 

[Monkey]

Yeah, I thought it'd look that way but I swear it's true - it's not like I give a fuck what Hag thinks anyway, i saw thekeds single "the Jury" in my mates house and I realised my mistake when I remembered that song.

I'm not saying I like them they're just not totally shite like the Revs.

 

[rocktopus]

yes they are

 

[the bearded lady]

silo (another guess: there are no women in the keds.)

and another guess: there are no keds in women after this.


this is pure gold.
i love all bands on the Original Music Scene (tm) loike the keds, the revs, the frames, brian kennedy...........
gosh, i could list forever theres so many great bands out there!

keep it punk lads!

 

[the bearded lady]

hag (29 Oct, 2001 03:16 p.m.):
hey keds,
on behalf of the dublin underground scene, we're sorry. believe it or not, none the people who replied to your thread have anything to do with our original scene, i know for a fact that most of them are computer science students who like pissing people off and have nothing better to do with their time.
i checked out your website, pretty cool. i've been learning the bass for around 4 months now, i think i'm pretty good although it's not my first instrument. (i prefer to play the keyboards/sampling. i've been in some of the more successful underground bands in dublin over the past few years, i was just wondering if you'd give me a try? no strings attached, if you want. post your number or something and i'll give you a call about it.
again, sorry for all the abuse you got here, please don't let it discourage you and much respect,
David Ledgney.

hello David, you don't know me, but if things don't work out with the keds (which mightn't, cos theres so many queueing up for it now, maybe some even have up to a years bassing experience!) would you be interested in joining my new band? we are demoing songs in a band-trying-to-sound-like-a-singersongwriter-style for sending to alternative independent labels only partly funded by major world powers. interested? thought so! visit our site at:
www.brownlips.com
for more info.
looking forward to hearing from you!
we're called "the planes", BTW! catchy, eh?!!

cheers,
dermot (he de man!)

 

[Ex-User (250)]

hello so-called 'bearded lady', if that is your real name!!!,
keith from keds mailed me after i posted this message here, and it sounds like they're more interested in my keyboard/sampling abilities than my bassist ones, which is ok by me because i feel more comfortable on keys than the bass.
but, 'heck', if it doesn't work out with the keds, i'd be well up for trying something new. i think from your message that you have the right attitude, it almost sounds like you've been through the mill already? am i right on this? but, dead right, i read in hotpress or somewhere that bands are 150% more likely to be successful if they go for the singer-sonwriter angle, it seems like it's the only way to go these days.
so, yeah, if it doesn't work out with keds, sure it might work out with you guys... love the name by the way.
keep in touch,
David Ledgney

 

[old]

rothko (26 Oct, 2001):
this is thumped.
what do you expect?

I *love* 'This Is Thumped'.
It's like 'This Is Anfield' or 'We Are The Fall', isn't it?
Pete, PLEASE make that the first thing you read at thumped.com.

Excerpt from Should You Be Posting At Thumped, a work in progress:
1. You walk into Golden Discs Blackrock on your lunchbreak from your cushy office job demanding Steady Diet Of Nothing on vinyl. They don't have it. Do you -
(a) buy the latest Chilli Peppers CD, sure aren't they similar?
(b) get 15 cans of cider and go knacker drinking near the railway whilst getting increasingly pissed off about 'the man'.
(c) organise a peaceful protest outside Golden Discs HQ, carefully not informing anyone from SWP, yet when you arrive at GDHQ there is already someone outside (not) selling Socialist Worker and being interviewed by the Irish Times.

2. Your band:
(a) Sounds like a dour Green Day.
(b) "It's okay, I spose. Loses loads of money."
(c) Drinks a load of Royal Dutch, then plans to destroy all corporations.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

come on, less of the sarcasm please, most of the people here are just trying to get things done.

 

[fake working class]

i agree with this David. you seem like a nice fellow, i'd love to make bland middle of the road music with you and be championed by the press cos i sent them some coke with the promo and a list of all the reasons why we are indie (not including cos we couldn't get signed). joss, maybe you're bitter cos you're band aren't as popular as the RHCP (as the kids call them!), but maybe you just should try harder to SOUND like them more, then you might make it. hey, some advice? - long live Nu-metal, the best thing to come outta the "States" since U.S. Foreign policy and manufactored A.I.D.S

 

[Ex-User (250)]

emm, whoever you are, i think you might be confusing some important issues here. and it sounds like you're pretty confused. wow, it just occurred to me that you might be just another one of those sarcastic guys, well done, congrats on hiding behind a fake internet name (FIN). when will you people ever learn? what's wrong with just helping people? or (god forbid) working with them to try and make something worthwhile?

 

[rocktopus]

first of all , and correct me if i'm wrong, but bands on Treasure Island have little if anything to do with the underground/punk scene in the first place, no?

 

[the bearded lady]

hag (30 Oct, 2001 04:14 p.m.):
emm, whoever you are, i think you might be confusing some important issues here. and it sounds like you're pretty confused. wow, it just occurred to me that you might be just another one of those sarcastic guys, well done, congrats on hiding behind a fake internet name (FIN). when will you people ever learn? what's wrong with just helping people? or (god forbid) working with them to try and make something worthwhile?

why david, i think you've taken me up the wrong way. i'm not sarcastic, i'm just a regular guy with a lot of talent (and i don't mind saying that, i'm not into false modesty) and ambition and a vision for my music career. if you are into persuing this business of music with me, then that's great, but i want 100% commitment from all my teamplayers, dig? i'm very serious about getting the forumla right for todays market, and if you can help me write the correct tunes to fill the gap there, then all the better. i have a management deal already, so you don't have to worry about that. i've also a lot of industry interest, with some A and R men coming to my next gig (an Issac Butts showcase/breaktru night) so we could be the next big thing!!

 

[fake working class]

hag! any chance of that mickey back that i lent ye??
you've had it bleedin' ages!

prick.

 

[Monkey]

"first of all , and correct me if i'm wrong, but bands on Treasure Island have little if anything to do with the underground/punk scene in the first place, no?" I didn'y think the keds were on Treasure Island, maybe you are thinking of the Revs

 

[egg_]

rocktopus (30 Oct, 2001 04:57 p.m.):
first of all , and correct me if i'm wrong, but bands on Treasure Island have little if anything to do with the underground/punk scene in the first place, no?

Not a lot to do with the people here, perhaps (apart from Nerdlinger, who play TI gigs regularly (as would Stoat, if Robert Stephenson would have us)) ... but the scene whose epicentre is Thumped is not the only one in Dublin

 

[Cormy]

Hmmm, we've played a few (2) alright, but I wouldn't exactly say we play regularly...those kids just don't know how to rock...plus none of the little bastards are down wit da vinyl.

 

[Cheggers_Ginger_Chugger]

"Not a lot to do with the people here, perhaps (apart from Nerdlinger, who play TI gigs regularly (as would Stoat, if Robert Stephenson would have us)) ... but the scene whose epicentre is Thumped is not the only one in Dublin"

When you say "scene" here do you mean I fondle myself whilst watching Bykers Grove?