Is Nick Cave as a sub the wrong choice?

[somecoolusername]

I have this fantasy that Mumford and Sons will be really fucking awful headliners and the nation will come to the collective realisation that they are completely rubbish. But really, if it was going to happen, it would have done by now

I'm just failing to see the reasoning behind the Nick Cave into Mumford thing... I'll probably miss him now cause of the likely Pumpkins clash (who I've never seen before & will already be in the vicinity for)

[russycarps]

I dont really understand why people are implying nick cave and the smashing pumpkins are similar acts?

more baffling is why people are picking the pumpkins over cave! A band at the top of their game v a washed up load of hasbeens...

[Zoo Music Girl]

I dont really understand why people are implying nick cave and the smashing pumpkins are similar acts?

more baffling is why people are picking the pumpkins over cave! A band at the top of their game v a washed up load of hasbeens...

[CaledonianGonzo]

I dont really understand why people are implying nick cave and the smashing pumpkins are similar acts?

more baffling is why people are picking the pumpkins over cave! A band at the top of their game v a washed up load of hasbeens...

[russycarps]

There's probably not that much of an overlap in the fanbase venn diagram, but I'm in that camp as I do like large chunks of both band's output. I'll still probably be heading SLAPHEAD-wards as I've not seen them since about 1999 and I have tickets for THE COMBOVER later on in the year.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Brother, My Scalp Is Empty. More News From No Hair, etc. etc.

A clash is still TBC, but on the surface of it, it does look quite likely if they're both subbing their respective stages.

If the Pumpkins headline Other above The XX the clash disappears, in which case PIL - > Cave - > Pumpkins becomes the order of the day.

Edited April 11, 2013 by CaledonianGonzo

[Zoo Music Girl]

He's the only person who can make a combover look even vaguely sexy. But what else can he do? He's quite committed to that hairstyle now.

The clash is not 100% confirmed. Don't we know for certain that they're both on Sunday though? It would be funny if it wasn't even happening given the amount of time I've devoted to it.

[somecoolusername]

I don't think anyone said they were similar acts, but they clearly share a lot of fans

I've seen Nick Cave but never Smashing Pumpkins (largely because I feared they'd be crap). I think now is the time to do it or I'll never forgive myself

[russycarps]

There She Goes, My Beautiful Hair

[CaledonianGonzo]

Where do we go now but No Hair?

[Zoo Music Girl]

I don't think anyone said they were similar acts, but they clearly share a lot of fans

I've seen Nick Cave but never Smashing Pumpkins (largely because I feared they'd be crap). I think now is the time to do it or I'll never forgive myself

[russycarps]

And No More Shall We Sidepart

[whisty]

np: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet Of Pure Single strands

[CaledonianGonzo]

Toupée-lo

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Wig, Lazarus, Wig!!!

[CaledonianGonzo]

Sweetheart Comb-over

[Zoo Music Girl]

Can't compete with the quality here but:

From Hair To Eternity

Lack Hair

Stranger Than Baldness

[CaledonianGonzo]

Wigs Bosun Blues

[Jie Bie]

You say that as if they two are dependant on each other though?

The majority of the crowd won't be up for it & will be waiting for Mumford & Sons to come on. It'll be full of radio 1 listeners talking over the top asking "is this that guy who sang with Kylie?"

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Aye, because today's one direction loving radio 1 listeners know all about a song that was released in 1995!

[russycarps]

I reckon red right hand is his most recognisable song. Arctic monkeys have covered it, and it was in scream wasnt it? (even then, that film was out years and years ago!)

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

In the UK Red Right Hand went to number 68 & Where the Wild Roses Grow went to number 11. Obviously that's not the entire argument covered, but I still think to the average radio listener would recognise "the kylie song" more than any other.

[russycarps]

In the UK Red Right Hand went to number 68 & Where the Wild Roses Grow went to number 11. Obviously that's not the entire argument covered, but I still think to the average radio listener would recognise "the kylie song" more than any other.

[LondonTom]

maybe, though as this thread as proven, even "proper" music fans dont know any nick cave songs at all!

let alone radio 1 listeners

Edited April 11, 2013 by LondonTom

[CaledonianGonzo]

He was all over 6Music a month or so back when his new album was released.

I guess people don't read music magazine any more, but he's always had pretty sizable feature in the papers and monthlies whenever he's got some new music out.