2021 Headliners

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, jparx said:

I think everyone has a landfill band they think is too good to be labelled such, but alas it's just our taste that has let us down.

Saw them at Y Not and there was a genuinely dangerous atmosphere as they rattled through their apparent "back catalogue" and the crowd were getting more frustrated after each track that it wasn't Chelsea Dagger. Band were getting bottled and threatened to leave if they didn't stop. 

Surely if they wanted to stop the bottling they should have threatened to play more songs?

[Quark]

it's cool to shit on landfill because, well why not?  But there remain a lot of songs from that era that I still like to listen to.

Chelsea Dagger is not one of them. It's magnified by sports grounds playing it when points are scored.

[jparx]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Surely if they wanted to stop the bottling they should have threatened to play more songs?

My memory is a little hazy, but I swear at one point they threatened not to play Chelsea Dagger if they didn't stop.

[Matt42]

Fuck me this article just reminded me of how fucking awful this song is

 

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, Matt42 said:

Fuck me this article just reminded me of how fucking awful this song is

 

The Futureheads has some tunes - Decent Days & Nights, Beginning of the Twist...

This was not one.

[Hugh Jass]

3 minutes ago, jparx said:

My memory is a little hazy, but I swear at one point they threatened not to play Chelsea Dagger if they didn't stop.

“I know you’re all here for Chelsea Dagger, but here’s a new one we think you’ll enjoy just as much...”

[CaledonianGonzo]

The Futureheads aka the 2005 Fontaines DC

[Hugh Jass]

The best song of that entire decade was The Rat by The Walkmen.

[Matt42]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

The Futureheads has some tunes - Decent Days & Nights, Beginning of the Twist...

This was not one.

Honestly sounds like a sixth form band covering a super quirky and super random classic

[Quark]

Can we all take a moment to remember Preston off of the Ordinary Boys storming off Buzzcocks after Amstell was mean to him?

 

[Ryan1984]

16 minutes ago, Quark said:

Caesars' "Jerk It Out" a massive omission IMO.

Caesars are Swedish and they wanted only Brits in there... Generator by The Holloways and Naive by The Kooks are the obvious ones missing in my opinion.

[Hugh Jass]

Someone is going to click on the Headliner thread seeing that it has gone hot, see talk of Fratellis and Futureheads and have a heart attack...

[Quark]

3 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

Caesars are Swedish and they wanted only Brits in there... Generator by The Holloways and Naive by The Kooks are the obvious ones missing in my opinion.

Are they Swedish? Didn't know that. Good knowledge!

[Quark]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Someone is going to click on the Headliner thread seeing that it has gone hot, see talk of Fratellis and Futureheads and have a heart attack...

Paging @fatyeti24

He'll be grateful for AM, Muse and Florence within the hour.

Edited August 27, 2020 by Quark

[WestCountryGirl]

5 minutes ago, Quark said:

Can we all take a moment to remember Preston off of the Ordinary Boys storming off Buzzcocks after Amstell was mean to him?

 

This and the Donny Tourette episode were absolute classics of the Amstell era.

[Quark]

1 minute ago, WestCountryGirl said:

This and the Donny Tourette episode were absolute classics of the Amstell era.

Close, but no cigar.

 

[jparx]

6 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Someone is going to click on the Headliner thread seeing that it has gone hot, see talk of Fratellis and Futureheads and have a heart attack...

I did actually have a dream last year that Glastonbury had a headline set where all the big indie landfill bands came on stage to do their one song. 

[Miyn]

35 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

There is a very loose definition of “landfill” there. It angers me that bands I actually like are included.

Yeah, I couldn't believe Editors were on there.

[fatyeti24]

16 minutes ago, Quark said:

Paging @fatyeti24

He'll be grateful for AM, Muse and Florence within the hour.

Ha!

Preston from the Ordinary Boys crept up on First Dates recently - Mrs Yeti likes to watch it.  He's still an absolute tool.  He got turned down for a second date.

10 minutes ago, jparx said:

I did actually have a dream last year that Glastonbury had a headline set where all the big indie landfill bands came on stage to do their one song. 

That's one song between the lot of them, right.

[SwedgeAntilles]

28 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

The best song of that entire decade was The Rat by The Walkmen.

Correct. 

[1986]

43 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

The best song of that entire decade was The Rat by The Walkmen.

 

15 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Correct. 

I was expecting to see that on the list and go on a rant about how The Walkmen were not in that category. Dunno if Vice are too dumb to realise how great it is or smart enough to know it isn't "landfill"  

[Hugh Jass]

6 minutes ago, 1986 said:

 

I was expecting to see that on the list and go on a rant about how The Walkmen were not in that category. Dunno if Vice are too dumb to realise how great it is or smart enough to know it isn't "landfill"  

Walkmen were from New York, which instantly makes them too cool for this sort of thing in the eyes of Vice.

[zeppelin]

I didn't realise anyone still read Vice. 

[Punksnotdead]

What a weird list! How can you lump the mighty Cribs & Pete & the pirates in with shite like Fratellis & Ordinary Boys - very odd.

Also, why is it always indie that gets tagged with the landfill insult? There are plenty of examples of garbage in every genre of music!

[Quark]

As a Teleman fan I chose to ignore the fact P&TP were in there