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1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Can the Procurement lads sort out 3 decent headliners for us?

The good news is that I got you Fleetwood Mac.

The bad news is I kinda blew the budget whilst negotiating so the other two headliners are James Arthur and The Kaiser Chiefs.

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2 minutes ago, misterplow said:

Weren't you the one who called Lorde's second album a flop too? 😅

The Slow Rush did just fine. 

Yeah they both flopped but Tame Impala won’t even get the critical salvation that Melodrama did.

It did fine for a band of their size maybe, but for an act supposedly punching for headline slots it hit well below what’s needed.

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3 minutes ago, misterplow said:

Weren't you the one who called Lorde's second album a flop too? 😅

The Slow Rush did just fine. 

Looks like it peaked at number 3 in the UK, same as Currents. Didn't set the world on fire but I don't think something can be a flop if it charted the same as the previous record?

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9 minutes ago, jparx said:

Looks like it peaked at number 3 in the UK, same as Currents. Didn't set the world on fire but I don't think something can be a flop if it charted the same as the previous record?

Currents was a sleeper hit though. Stayed on the chart for ages. Nobody was talking about them hitting the heights of Other headliner before that came out. If The Slow Rush was supposed to be building on that success, it hasn’t. Fell straight out of the charts as people stopped spinning it.

Why so scared of albums being labelled ‘flop’ though? It doesn’t sentence their career to a death, it just means their trajectory stalls or dips a little.

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51 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Didn't it also land badly with a sizable chunk of their fanbase who can't deal with music that doesn't prominently feature guitars.

Currents? I think it freaked them out at first but when everyone started loving it, they had returned to point out that, while Currents was good, the earlier albums reigned superior.

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1 minute ago, misterplow said:

When is an album successful then? What are your criteria? I mean, the chances that Melodrama or Slow Rush hit the same heights than their predecessors is always going to be very, very slim no? 

Acts in the ascendancy usually improve on previous releases and each of those acts were touted as just that!

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1 hour ago, Hugh Jass said:

The good news is that I got you Fleetwood Mac.

The bad news is I kinda blew the budget whilst negotiating so the other two headliners are James Arthur and The Kaiser Chiefs.

Sounds perfect. Two nights at the pyramid and one in the naughty corner. 

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2 minutes ago, Quark said:

I know KC would be one of yours. I just really, really hope FM would be the other

FM are a band I really want to see but haven’t managed to make it to one of their gigs. 
 

I know Ricky likes to run around the stage, he’ll have to work on his cardio before taking on the pyramid. 

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Who would win in a fight between Tame Impala and the Kaiser Chiefs?

Kaisers are from Leeds so that’s no contest at all. 

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25 minutes ago, misterplow said:

When is an album successful then? What are your criteria? I mean, the chances that Melodrama or Slow Rush hit the same heights than their predecessors is always going to be very, very slim no? 

When people still talk about it a week after release

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