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[7 - No tomorrow]

Can't remember which set of mates it was now. The Ballymun lads or the Clondalkin lads.
Jaysis.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Rakes had a cool live show on that first album. The lead singer was this weird mixture of Jarvis Cocker and Ian Curtis, awkward robot dancing but a little bit lounge-y as well, a really good frontman actually. On one song the entire stage was pitch dark except a rectangular strip of light across his eyes, it was a really cool effect.

They came back and played here again on their third album and Morrissey turned up at the gig! He left after about 3 songs though. I think they were falling apart at that point, only played for about 40 minutes. It was a really intense show, like they were on the verge of something amazing, but instead they split up a few weeks later.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

The Rakes had a cool live show on that first album. The lead singer was this weird mixture of Jarvis Cocker and Ian Curtis, a really good frontman actually. On one song the entire stage was pitch dark except a rectangular strip of light across his eyes, it was a really cool effect.

They came back and played here again on their third album and Morrissey turned up at the gig! He left after about 3 songs though. I think they were falling apart at that point, only played for about 40 minutes. It was a really intense show, like they were on the verge of something amazing, but instead they split up a few weeks later.

its a good bandname. i'll give them that.

 

[Lili Marlene]

its a good bandname. i'll give them that.

I always thought it was a terrible band name!

 

[therealjohnny]

ha. NME must be reading Thumped

http://www.nme.com/photos/46-quality-indie-bands-of-the-2000s-you-completely-forgot-about/

 

[Lili Marlene]

Here, I made a playlist stretching from about 2000 right up to the Arctic Monkeys, who pretty much made all the other bands redundant:

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some real shite on there, it's fantastic!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I saw the Rakes in a shithole in Manchester 10 years ago. I remember them being good but a band called Battle were more appealing. During Myspace days I contacted them, not sure they ever had more than a single out (Tendency?).

Infadels were another band that were kinda part of that ska revival although IIRC they had more eclectic shit going on.

 

[Unicron]

Tapes n' Tapes, and (sort of ish) The Pipettes are the only 2 of those I remember liking,

Tapes And Tapes did a twitter search for themselves once and retweeted me saying I didn't like their second record.

 

[Unicron]

Tapes n' Tapes, and (sort of ish) The Pipettes are the only 2 of those I remember liking,

Tapes And Tapes did a twitter search for themselves once and retweeted me saying I didn't like their second record.

My general position is that London hasn't produced a good band since The Clash, or on days I'm in a bad mood, The Kinks.

 

[Lili Marlene]

My general position is that London hasn't produced a good band since The Clash, or on days I'm in a bad mood, The Kinks.

eh... SLEEPER

 

[pete]

Is this well known? I've never heard it til just now.

same

 

[pete]

Will the answer be found herein?

let's find out

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or perhaps

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[nooleen]

or maybe

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[7 - No tomorrow]

Annual review yesterday
Gold stars and attaboys
5% raise

I wonder what would happen if I actually applied myself

 

[Unicron]

Took a call this morning, person on the other end of the line sounded really young, as in a teenager on a summer job or temping or something like that. It basically went:

"Hi I'm calling from the golden pages, could I speak to someone about advertising please?"

"I suppose that's me."

"I see, could you tell me what sort of company you are, like are you government or ..."

"We're a private company"

"Oh well if you're private then you probably don't want any advertising then, sorry for bothering you."

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Bless

 

[nooleen]

we're a deeply private company

 

[Unicron]

we're a deeply private company

Famously reclusive.

 

[therealjohnny]

regularly takes the "are you an introvert" quizzes on facebook, then posts the results so everyone knows how introverted our company is

 

[ilovehoovering]

two days left. I just threw my never worn name badge in the bin.