announcement tomorrow

[llcoolphil]

phil : i think you mean the dirty backbeats?

[Ed Leaf]

and there are others who get a slot, never really utilise it properly and it seems as though (in hindsight) others would have made more from it.

Edited April 26, 2010 by Ed Leaf

[andyblack]

When I've heard people say this before, the meaning has been "gone on to bigger things".

Best bill on the day, that's what I'd prefer.

I can't name a regional band that has "gone on to bigger things" on the back of a slot. Sure, it looks good in a press pack but with the way the music industry has changed in the last 10 years, "bigger things" don't exist anymore unless you're talking about Elbow, Kasabian cd/ticket sales. Draw a line below that size of act and you'll find very many day jobs.

Bands grow. Elbow had 3 albums of varying critical/sales success before they went supernova with TSSK.

It is only logical that the regional band policy of SSW follows the wider music business pick 'em up/spit 'em out model with regards to only letting bands that have never played play. This is just business after all.

Oh and the other elephant in the room. No Peter Wyeth. Ah well.

Edited April 26, 2010 by andyblack

[andyblack]

That's the buggers - they really were excellent

Edited April 26, 2010 by andyblack

[Ed Leaf]

there will hopefully be some peter wyeth. i hadnt thought about it in terms of the pick em up, spit them out concept, that could in theory be applied here i guess, but its maybe not quite the same i think? although i dont think the festival follows the wiser music business model. it just puts on what it really likes i think, certainly of this years bands, whilst some of them have done a lot promotionally (charlie jones, these furrows), david gibb hasnt done a lot whatosever.

mind you black carrot are hardly part of that eat em up, spit them out ethic.

and im certain their ssw slots helped the dandilions play glastonbury, and i know for a fact it helped minnaars play reading / leeds.

[andyblack]

Well one of them has split up and the other is on the verge of splitting if you believe the rumour mill.

I'm not complaing about the bill. Black Carrott, as you know, played BS 3 years ago on the OT stage and blew the roof off. It's just your suggestion that a band should't be allowed to play twice.

These are regional bands and some many would argue they have further to grow than the likes of Magic Numbers who have also played the festival more than once.

[Ed Leaf]

It's probably not a good point at all. I'm just suggesting that rules are there to be bent or ignored. Otherwise every local band will change their name each year and the demo collection will be just as big as when you started.

Ed.

www.TheFailingOafs.com

[musicfirst]

Well I hope there is at least one more local band still to be added ... even Alan Mcgee thinks they are a great band .... I asked him what he thought of them a few months ago!

[musicfirst]

It's probably not a good point at all. I'm just suggesting that rules are there to be bent or ignored. Otherwise every local band will change their name each year and the demo collection will be just as big as when you started.

Ed.

www.TheFailingOafs.com

[llcoolphil]

Not sure about local bands but Id like some control to be exercised over Jose Gonzalez multiple appearances if Im being entirely honest

[andyblack]

It's probably not a good point at all. I'm just suggesting that rules are there to be bent or ignored. Otherwise every local band will change their name each year and the demo collection will be just as big as when you started.

Ed.

www.TheFailingOafs.com

[andyblack]

Well I hope there is at least one more local band still to be added ... even Alan Mcgee thinks they are a great band .... I asked him what he thought of them a few months ago!

[musicfirst]

which band is it? you cant bank on McGee's taste in music. not only did he sign Heavy Stereo, but he also once booked some band called the falling leaves? (ed wanted to frame the £50 cheque when mcgee sent it).

[andyblack]

i went to see the screening at their recent y theatre show. they were better then minnaars, i'll say that for them.

they have already played twice, and also once as `little fat hoover`. so thats 3 times already........

Edited April 26, 2010 by andyblack

[musicfirst]

i went to see the screening at their recent y theatre show. they were better then minnaars, i'll say that for them.

[musicfirst]

i went to see the screening at their recent y theatre show. they were better then minnaars, i'll say that for them.

they have already played twice, and also once as `little fat hoover`. so thats 3 times already........

[andyblack]

Hahaha ... I never heard them as the original name, that doesn't count!

They've played Alan Mcgee's Death Disco more times than that ...

[Ed Leaf]

but ed, you're missing the point. they didnt get in just because they were a reformatted band. they got in because their demos were better than anyone elses? so you could reformat the dandilions, and they could resubmit, but if it wasnt any good, then they wouldnt be considered?

[llcoolphil]

Tom Meighan from Kasabian has also quoted them as being 'a great *** band'

[andyblack]

No, the point missed is my point. The one appearance rule is flawed.

I'm not arguing against how good The Displacement/Little Night Terrors or The Screening/Little Fat Hoover are. If anything I'm arguing for them. They both have seen the need to grow/adapt and included in that was a name and a personel change whilst keeping the key songwriters.

[musicfirst]

have you seen that article in the guardian about death's disco? 4 guardian journalists invented a band, wrote 4 songs in a morning, roughly recorded, them, opened up a myspace, and within 5 days alan mcgee had offered them a death disco slot. for a band that didnt actually exist.

[llcoolphil]

phil : much as they're an arrogant pair of monkeys, and at times they've done more to hinder the leicester music scene then promote it, you can't knock kasabian musically, some of their singles have been little short of amazing. their fans however, are a different kettle of fish entirely.

[rob372]

Well I hope there is at least one more local band still to be added ... even Alan Mcgee thinks they are a great band .... I asked him what he thought of them a few months ago!

[little car]

Didn't Alan McGee claim 'Glasvegas' were a great band ?! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Ed Leaf]

Didn't Alan McGee claim 'Glasvegas' were a great band ?! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz