I love Pulp, His n Hers is brilliant, and I like pretty much everything up to This is hardcore, but can’t get into the new release at all.
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They are rumoured as the mystery slot at Glastorbury Festival this year. Currently labelled as “Patchwork”. I’ll be there this year, but yet to work out who I’ll be seeing when.
They were also rumoured in 2023 (as Churnups), but it was the Foos (which I loved).
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Fair enough…
JOHN LENNON’s sister HATES the actors chosen to play THE BEATLES in Sam Mendes’ four upcoming biopics.
It was recently announced that actors Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and Joseph Quinn will be playing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison in the four upcoming films about the legendary musicians.
In a new interview with NME, Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird gave her thoughts about the casting, saying:
“We have actors in Liverpool, you know? We have acting schools and young lads that could do John like that. Is he going to meet them? No. We all know that no one can do a Scouse accent without sounding stupid. They roll their Rs to a ridiculous extent as if they’re in Mexico or something. That’s not right.
“Just come to Liverpool and get an actor from Liverpool.”
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I’m assuming that they will try to sound like John Lennon. The Scouse accent has changed a lot over the last 60 years.
I dread to imagine what it would be like if they come out sounding like Jamie Carragher and John Bishop.
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I think this whenever I see an actor with a bad impression of a voice.
Seems to happen a lot when Americans are doing Irish or English voices - i think just get an actor from England or Ireland.
Been watching Sons of Anarchy lately and they have a load of Irish people played by Americans with shocking voices.
Peaky Blinders was the same.
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They were very good whwn supporting Paul Heaton in Dublin.
34 years old today - a real 10/10 album. Loved it now as much as I did when I was 16 and had a full head of hair!
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HBO has a newish documentary about Yacht Rock that is absolutely delightful, just like the music itself. It is partly a story about the music scene itself, but also about how the genre only came to be defined some 20 years after the music itself stopped.
I was young enough to have heard lots of the songs contemporaneously but far too young to know anything about the people or scene. Lots of the music is incredibly similar and so I always just thought it was one of those common pop music things of everyone trying to recreate a popular sound, but it turns out it was really just a case of 20 or so guys all bouncing around LA playing on each other’s records and so of course they all sounded the same.
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It’s often like that. A huge amount of US hits in the sixties featured either the Wreckin Crew (LA) or the Funk Brothers (Detroit).
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Yeah, apparently Toto were primarily a studio session group who were ever present on these records who just happened to have a hand full of successful records of their own.
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Yeah, always been like that for a lot of pop music. Session musicians and small pool of songwriters/producers, Tin Pan Alley, the various NY and LA scenes, Nashville, Detroit, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, those Swedish guys dominating the charts in the early 2000s etc. Much of the music that young people loved was done by people of their parents age that were just punching a clock.
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A dreamy bit of sixties psychedelia from a band with a good claim to the best name ever.
The name of the band was changed to Ultimate Spinach when they signed with Boston impresario Alan Lorber (Lorber produced all three of their albums).[2] Bruce-Douglas says that he named the band based on experiences in an acid trip: “One day, in 1967, I was in my room, tripping on some really pure LSD. I started looking at myself in the mirror and my face was doing funny things. I had a bunch of colored markers I used to draw with. I grabbed a green one and started drawing all these psychedelic designs on my face. When I was done, I looked at myself and said ‘Whoa! I am ultimate spinach. Ultimate spinach is me!’”[2] 
Back from Download yesterday.
Saw Opeth, Weezer*, Within Temptation*, Green Day*, Anaal Nathrakh*, The Darkness, Sylosis, Sex Pistols*, Cradle of Filth, Shinedown*, Malevolence, Alien Ant Farm*, Airbourne*, Jerry Cantrell, Turbonegro*, Lorna Shore*, Fit For and Autopsy*, Steel Panther*, Whitechapel*, Sikth*, and Korn*
Starred ones are for the first time. Great festival overall! Liked FFAA so much I saw them again last night at The Dome in London.
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Really happy for you, mate, though equally envious! 
I’d love to hear Jerry Cantrell live, either with his solo band or Alice in Chains, be it electric or acoustic.
Didn’t have you down as a deathcore fan, though!
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I saw Uriah Heep last year and it was beyond fantastic. Their final concert this summer I hear
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I like all sorts of metal, lately even some nu-metal which I never through I’d get into.
Can someone explain the thing about Sleep Token to me?
I get that they mix all sorts of genres and they have a theatrical story to tell. All very borrowed from Slipknot and Black Metal.
But to me they don’t really do a very good job of any of the genres they use. Their pop/electronica sections are uninspired and their scant metal sections don’t hold my attention.
Fair play to whoever likes them, they just don’t do it for me.
Really tried getting into them for a few songs, then just left for my accommodations.
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I gave them a listen and I couldn’t quite get what the fuss was. It sounds like they are trying to do the light/dark thing with the sound, but it sounds very disjointed.
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Absolutely not. To mo they sound like what I imagine AI would listen to.
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