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[Cormcolash]

Pretty good song that. I was never fussed on these myself.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

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[sleepy]

Listened to Quicksand for the first time last week. They're deadly

 

[Nate Champion]

Must revisit that first album...

Took the easy option and stuck on Used for Glue, then Quicksand's Manic Compression instead. Class songwriting, savage little guitar parts and tone.

Jesus, I remember that Witnness show. Holy mother. 1300 in the day, just got inside, I reckon. Balls out sunny, no cans or maybe one or two inside me trying to pogo very awkwardly as there wasn't that many people there just pockets of empty space. Festivals are bollocks, and this is why - turning up at 1300 in the day and trying to get into something outdoors that only makes sense in a 200-400 capacity pub venue after a heap of Dutch Golds on the sly. Stomachs are not keen on Dutch before lunch.

Hardly the same year Lift to Experience playing on the Sunday? [Trail of Dead played the same day, same tent and they delivered on their killer live reputation. Looking back, or even at the time, everything they've done aside from Madonna is utter crap.]

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I missed Lift to Experience, I don’t know what else I was at but it haunts me.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I know I skipped Sonic Youth for Green Day and I still don't regret it!

 

[sleepy]

Must revisit that first album...

Took the easy option and stuck on Used for Glue, then Quicksand's Manic Compression instead. Class songwriting, savage little guitar parts and tone.

Jesus, I remember that Witnness show. Holy mother. 1300 in the day, just got inside, I reckon. Balls out sunny, no cans or maybe one or two inside me trying to pogo very awkwardly as there wasn't that many people there just pockets of empty space. Festivals are bollocks, and this is why - turning up at 1300 in the day and trying to get into something outdoors that only makes sense in a 200-400 capacity pub venue after a heap of Dutch Golds on the sly. Stomachs are not keen on Dutch before lunch.

Hardly the same year Lift to Experience playing on the Sunday? [Trail of Dead played the same day, same tent and they delivered on their killer live reputation. Looking back, or even at the time, everything they've done aside from Madonna is utter crap.]

The latest Trail of Dead album is pretty decent. And that Source Tags one was alright. Apart from that, haven't really listened to anything after Madonna

 

[sleepy]

I know I skipped Sonic Youth for Green Day and I still don't regret it!

I went to Sonic Youth, they were awesome

 

[Lili Marlene]

I went to Sonic Youth, they were awesome

In fairness, if it was the Green Day of post 2004 I'd have gone as well. I did check out a few minutes at one point. They were making noises IIRC

 

[sleepy]

In fairness, if it was the Green Day of post 2004 I'd have gone as well. I did check out a few minutes at one point. They were making noises IIRC

They were doing that alright. They played Kool Thing and it sounded great.

 

[Nate Champion]

I missed Lift to Experience, I don’t know what else I was at but it haunts me.

Hmmm, I was sort of familiar with them from John Peel, No Disco etc but I didn't properly get into them until a few months later when I was repeating the Leaving and became obsessed with that album for most of the year.

There was a strange Jandek looking dude [Jandek with short hair, not that I had a brown clue who Jandek was at the time but this works as a reference] down the front, early to mid twenties seemingly tripping balls looking more at the audience than the band, and maybe some sarky remarks from Josh T. Pearson. I remember my friend coming up on the bus and claiming he had just eaten a lump of hash.

White Stripes played the same day. No one was there, and rightly so. They blew up soon after, and it always remains a mystery to me.

Left early that year. Think our money was lost/stolen out of our tents/pockets. Karmic maybe because I had blagged one of those two day passes the night before. Car back to Mullingar at 7pm, miserable.

I went to Sonic Youth, they were awesome

I remember Sonic Youth in a tent, and joints being passed round down the back. Jim O'Rourke on bass. It was much noisier and off-the-hook than what I remember of them at EP years later, but then it was in a packed tent, and the atmosphere was ripe for it.

Rocket from the Crypt played the closer one year, and I remember skipping Mogwai to see them. No regrets. All hail Speedo!

I think I did the same thing at Leeds festival the same year. Leeds is a load of crock. Drinking cheap cans is my only good memory - that and RTFC.

 

[Nate Champion]

Mind you, I can't remember if Speedo actually said, "if you jump on my stage, I will kick you in the face" or that was just something I read in a live review of RFTC from Kerrang! magazine back in the 90s.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I didn’t go to the White Stripes but did go to Sonic Youth (though I think SY were the year after?). I didn’t particularly like them so went to something else instead. I remember seeing Dirty Three and Tindersticks - I didn’t know either beforehand and was blown away by both.

 

[sleepy]

I remember Sonic Youth in a tent, and joints being passed round down the back. Jim O'Rourke on bass. It was much noisier and off-the-hook than what I remember of them at EP years later, but then it was in a packed tent, and the atmosphere was ripe for it.

Yeah, they were great at the time. It was around the time of the Murray Street album when it sounded like they were enjoying playing together and making fun music. The next time I saw them was in Vicar Street. It was good but they were kind of going through the motions at that stage.