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[ivan]

MrZigster, on Feb 5 2010, 12:40 AM, said:

You should meet some Rush fans that I know.

What a band !

Soundtrack to my youth !

[rockinthecasbah]

Radiohead do indeed attract some idiots as fans (on the internet at least, their live crowds have always seemed like a good bunch, and there's always a decent atmosphere.) I think part of their defensive nature is down to the fact forums so often contain the predictable allegation of 'everything after Kid A is tuneless rubbish,' or 'they're so depressing, I want to commit suicide.' I should know, as one or two of my friends spout this sort of thing out, and I find myself getting overly defensive.

Alternatively, it could be the reason people get so excited about them is that they're a spectacularly good live band.

[fatyeti24]

some Radiohead fans are very passionate, bless 'em!  many years ago now i was in Ibiza and heard the dj Dave Clarke play Idioteque as part of his set in Amnesia.  on my return to England i told a big Radiohead loving friend of mine this tale and he replied "well i don't think the band would like that".  it still makes me laugh and still makes him cringe whenever i remind him.  he also frequents these pages, and as such will remain nameless!

said friend was also with me at Glasto in 97, and came with me to watch Primal Scream headline the dance tent instead of watching Radiohead on the main stage.  the Scream were awful that night, and we all know how Radiohead went down...  ive never been much of a fan of theirs, so im not bothered i missed that show, but i think it's a decision that still haunts him!

[idiotheque]

i'm a radiohead fan and gosh, a majority of radiohead fans are complete twats.
radiohead fans are usually big fans of cult films and consipricy theories - says it all.


so guys, it turns out i can no longer spell.

[Alpha Kenny 1]

idiotheque, on Feb 5 2010, 04:30 PM, said:

i'm a radiohead fan and gosh, a majority of radiohead fans are complete twats.
radiohead fans are usually big fans of cult films and consipricy theories - says it all.


so guys, it turns out i can no longer spell.

Majority? Doubt it.

Its a small number of Radiohead fans that are very opinionated and will not stand any bad word said about there favourite band. Theres alot of Radiohead "hate" aswell which just stirs the pot even more and riles these die hard fans and makes them look like arseholes which then gives other more normal Radiohead fans a bad name.

[judyblue110]

I have a friend who's a huge Radiohead fan (i.e. he has pretty much everything they've recorded, including physical copies/tapes of early E.P.'s etc...) yet he hates them with a passion.

Work that one out.

[scudetto_boy]

Craig_G, on Feb 4 2010, 12:48 PM, said:

I mean, I like Radiohead just as much as the next (normal) person.  But the more I read the "OMG please, please please please I think I've just come in my pants!" comments, the more embarrassed I get for their fans.  Does anyone else feel this?  

I read similar comments relating to The Strokes. As i said in an earlier post, i saw them in 1997 & they were ok & even a bit ordinary at times. Don't think it helped that it was damp & cold to be honest.

[usatoglas]

ivan, on Feb 5 2010, 10:06 AM, said:

What a band !

Soundtrack to my youth !

i saw a rush in rio video that they played a few years ago.  i was the first time they had ever played there
adn it was rammed with all these 20 somethings knowing every bloody word to every song.

Amazing really

[Laura_Babs]

I'm someone who would be thrilled if Radiohead played. I would be one of those people you find annoying probably and would post how excellent it would be to have them play and how amazing i think it is. But as much as they are one of my fave bands, there are lots of bands I would post similar comments to.

I just am quite an excitable (and probably irritating) person!

[4AssedMonkey]

Interesting one this.

I think that a lot of people go through a stage at a certain age where this band or that band really ignite something in them and fandom turns a bit obsessive.  I went through it with the Stone Roses.  I was about 16 when they went stellar and I was completely hooked and wouldn't shut up about them to the point where people actually started threatening to hit me.  With hindsight, I realise I went off the deep end but I was just so, so passionate about them at the time.

It's fair to say that people who really appreciate decent music, and not just the melodic side, but the technical side and the performance side etc etc could be forgiven for hitting that obsessive phase and getting hooked on Radiohead.  They are brilliant and talented and unique.

HOWEVER

What completely freaks me out are people who are my age now and are STILL obsessed with a single band or act.  In my experience, there is 1 band who tends to attract this kind of stalky-freakshow.  That's U2.  So so so many middle-aged Bono bunny boilers it's almost funny.  Hell, we all had a butchers at the U2 forum when the Glasto slot was announced and saw the evidence.

[Craig_G]

Well I've got to say that being in the music loving community for many years - I don't actually think I know any U2 fans.  Plenty of Radiohead fans but no U2.  Now you have me worried.  Am I about to meet my nemesis?   Are we due a sanctimonious army riding though the fields on their high horses clapping their hands while killing babies?

I fear I may have been blinded by my fear of a festival overun with Radiohead fans to realise the actuality of 100k+ U2 fans.  Woe is me.

Woe.




Woe.




And thrice woe!

[GlastoEls]

Rolf is best, anyway. The devotion on the Jazz World Stage was a sight to behold.

Sunday, warm morning, Rolf masks. Genius.

Edited by GlastoElliot, 07 February 2010 - 10:46 AM.

[ghandi]

I'm a big Radiohead fan and having seen them for the first time live ( i missed Glasto's and only got into them properly early 2000's ) at Victoria park in London 2008, they turned me into an obsessive. I would love to see them again, but fear this will not be until 2011 or on the next album tour, alas not this year. However that concert and last years Glastonbury has just ignited a new love of live music and music in general that other things in my life had stopped me visiting for a while. Hence my love of new music and revisiting old, i tend to go through stages of listening to bands, for instance, i had a whole month of re-idolisation of everything Bjork, and then the Doves ( saw them live last year at Shepperds Bush), i have even revisited the 70's ( Genesis, lamb lies down on Broadway and Led Zep, Pysical graffitti ), yes i am the old!
I will pipe up from time to time and promote Glasto performances from my faves and of some new bands i like the sound of and bang their drum as new sounds and different bands that take my fancy come along.
As my user name page says " i love Radiohead, i love Bjork, I love music...so shoot me.