THE BAND WHO MAKE BABYSHAMBLES LOOK LIKE JAMES BLUNT

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The NME runs this trailer on tomorrow's issue. Guess the band.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Belle and Sebastian

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

the pipettes?

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

probably arctic monkeys tho

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Whitehouse

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Babyshambles.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

the pretenders

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

4 or 5 drunken students [on a useless course at a University that wasn't even a Poly before 1993] found pissed out of their heads singing Libertines karaoke last Thursday night.

The Arctic Monkeys Mark 2 ? the future of useless amateur music starts here.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Bluntyshambles

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

The sub-subheading "every song is about cocaine excep 'acid man'"

Ugh.

Also "how arctic monkeys stormed britain"

"stormed britain"? wtf? Who gives a fucking shit about them?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Q: Why does the NME create stoopid headlines? A: so that we can easily laugh at them each week?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

TS: Boring twats who go on about the evils of drugs or boring twats who go on about how many drugs they've taken?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

MaybeShambles, the tribute band

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

The NME is currently advertising for a new features editor!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

DefinitelyMaybeShambles, the band that don't turn up to support themselves?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

TS: Boring twats who go on about the evils of drugs or boring twats who go on about how many drugs they've taken?

aka T/S: 5+1 vs 2 x 3 ?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

could it be that there is a 'a' missing from the sentence, and the nme are using rhyming slang ?

we can but hope ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

That would still leave an unanswered question though, and not an easy one to narrow down

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

towers of london

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

when they had built you

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Ming Mang Mong?

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

unless it's The Guillemots. But it isn't. no doubt it's teh monkeys.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

it really is time for a UK-style straight-edge revival.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Straight edge never really 'happened' in the UK as a total concept back then.

It could, though.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link

So, was this Whitehouse then?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i never took them for big drug-takers

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

>> Straight edge never really 'happened' in the UK as a total concept back then.
It could, though.

I saw someone wearing an SSD t-shirt in Rowans at Finsbury Park the other day - you never know! We did have Admit You're Shit back in the early 80s - they were straight edge - had records on Mortarhate records.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

towers of london - confirmed.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

towers of london?!?!

they are the recipients of the LOWEST EVER SCORE on the stylus singles jukebox! lower than james cunt! lower than daniel powter and michael bubbly and babyshambles and even 'ass like that'! they AVERAGED a score of less than 1!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

never heard of them.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

B-but I just read it in Whsmith and it was a band called The Young Offenders Institute! Who I really have never heard of. They are a Tony Wilson band

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

oh .. the other side of the spread was towers of london .. ha !

of course i didn't actually read the thing ..

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

There's something kind of admirable in how bad Towers of London actually are, like a charming naivete in how anyone could think that those noises are the kind that anybody would ever want to hear. The Young Offenders Institute sound like they could be even worse.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I was thinking I'd heard the name somewhere before, and eventually I realised it was the early 90s baggy/hip-hop band First Offence, who I guess were basically the same thing

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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