Not cool.
Green Scar would be super pissed about this, I think I remember him being really against identity theft.
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Not cool.
Green Scar would be super pissed about this, I think I remember him being really against identity theft.
Incontinentia Buttocks
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Not sure if this is the best thread to ask, but I'm looking for restaurant recommendations from London-gaf. Going to a show with my sister in a few weeks, we're staying in the Shoreditch area so somewhere to eat round there or near Victoria Station would be good. Not looking for anything too fancy as I'm a (relatively) poor student but somewhere classier than Mcdonalds plz. Pub grub is fine as long as it's tasty! Thanks in advance
You could always pop into Byron hamburgers. Tasty burger with a side won't set you back more than £13. Think they have a branch in Spitalfields.
Not sure if this is the best thread to ask, but I'm looking for restaurant recommendations from London-gaf. Going to a show with my sister in a few weeks, we're staying in the Shoreditch area so somewhere to eat round there or near Victoria Station would be good. Not looking for anything too fancy as I'm a (relatively) poor student but somewhere classier than Mcdonalds plz. Pub grub is fine as long as it's tasty! Thanks in advance
I hear The Open Kitchen is a good place to eat around there. Run by LCHC students - pretty cheap and supposedly very nice too.
electricshake
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Cool, I'll check out their website. I mean it doesn't have to be really cheap, I just don't want anyone recommending fancy restaurants as that's not really what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Also what is going on with the avatars?!
I changed my name from Green Scar and now everyone thinks it's really fucking funny to copy my avatar to make it confusing for everyone else.
They're fucking children in here sometimes.
He going be upset when finds out this kid stole his avatar
Jedeye Sniv
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Maybe 10 years ago when they were fresh and relevant. Download is a nostalgia fest these days. SO MANY BLACK T-SHIRTS
ok! brb
JEW suck these days too.
Nothing is sacred!! Everything burns!
Fuck Slow Club, overrated hipster bastards!!
Hot Coldman
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More like No Club... as in, nobody's listening to them
ooooooooooooh burn'd
ooooooooooooh burn'd
Jedeye Sniv
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i know, i mean they're not even in the charts or anything. brb gotta go practice arpeggios and test my chorus pedal so I can make some 90s metal.
I saw them play the Clarity 10 Years On show last year - they did Clarity in full followed by Bleed American in full.
Their albums may suck these days, but they definitely don't - such good performances of both albums.
But yeah...any album after Futures is disappointment central
I thought you were well into Slow Club?
Edit: OK, you're being sarcastic but I don't get what it's a response to
Still vastly more interesting then the NME festival that is leeds/reading thats just whatever band is in fashion to like shoved onto the list.
also most my band t-shirts are red,blue,purple and white
It going be 6th year in a row going kind a tradition now plus the same 15+ friends go so more just for experience then the bands these days
Incontinentia Buttocks
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Well it's not cheap cheap (think their most expensive burger is £9.75) but a very tasty burger for a reasonable price. The mac cheese and courgette fries are also very tasty.
Hot Coldman
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Chase This Light has a couple decent tracks, but I don't even remember anything about the last album.
Still vastly more interesting then the NME festival that is leeds/reading thats just whatever band is in fashion to like shoved onto the list.
also most my band t-shirts are red,blue,purple and white
It going be 6th year in a row going kind a tradition now plus the same 15+ friends go so more just for experience then the bands these days
Exactly how it should be when going to a festival.
I really want to get tickets to Glastonbury, Latitude and Bestival for this year... can probably just about afford 1 of the 3 so I'm hoping to get the last-minute Glasto tickets in April and we'll see about a backup plan if not
I quite like the lead single, Big Casino but everything else was just so...bleh. It's like they're writing the sort of songs that Jimmy Eat World wannabe bands used to write. New album is even more like that.
Jedeye Sniv
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I saw them play the Clarity 10 Years On show last year - they did Clarity in full followed by Bleed American in full.
Their albums may suck these days, but they definitely don't - such good performances of both albums.
But yeah...any album after Futures is disappointment central
I thought you were well into Slow Club?
Edit: OK, you're being sarcastic but I don't get what it's a response to
ha, just spewing some hate in all directions including myself
Still vastly more interesting then the NME festival that is leeds/reading thats just whatever band is in fashion to like shoved onto the list.
also most my band t-shirts are red,blue,purple and white
It going be 6th year in a row going kind a tradition now plus the same 15+ friends go so more just for experience then the bands these days
Reading and Leeds suck as well. I hate festivals these days, they're just playgrounds for well dressed middle class cunts who can afford the £200 for the tickets these days. Don't even get me started on glastonbury.
First two tracks are great, that song about being the guy with the old guitar he'd let you buy, I love that. The rest of the album is dogshite though. Gave up on them, just treasuring all my pre-Futures records now.
Incontinentia Buttocks
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festivals have been like that for years now. After going to Reading 2011 I swore I'd never go to a British festival again and I intend to stay true to my word. Do kind of fancy Sziget but that's because it's in Budapest which is an awesome city.
Don't hate on Glastonbury. OK, some of the people who go now don't really have the right attitude, but for the most part it's still amazing.
That first sunset at Stone Circle, smoking up and meeting dozens of random, welcoming people is one of the best experiences I've ever had - then seeing a lot of the same people watching the sunrise on the last morning to see out the festival and trading stories over the last few beers/ciders you brought with you.... ahh bliss.
I went to Glastonbury for the second time with 2 friends - one abandoned me when he realized his uni mates were there & the other shacked up with some guy for basically the whole week, so I was basically on my own for the festival. On the first day I stumbled on a hammock which was one of 6 set up in a random field there - there were 5 of us, each of us stumbled upon the hammock guy individually, spent the whole day sharing random stories & eating each other's food and drinking our booze, then all went to the Shangri La that night and got fucking wrecked in a karaoke bar that gave you a free shot before & after you did a song. We called ourselves Take Shat. It was funny at the time.
Similar stories every day that year, actually - met so many random people & made a lot of friends doing incredibly random shit.
I challenge you to find a festival with as good a community atmosphere where you can reliably make a random group of friends every day because everyone is so open to being genuinely social.
In comparison, I went to Reading festival that same year & everyone was in their own little BBC Radio 1 themed bubble.
Incontinentia Buttocks
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Hot Coldman
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Lol, I'm risking sounding genuinely butthurt about this, but how is that not the right ethos for a festival like Glastonbury?
What magical property do people expect it to have if it's not meeting interesting people & having an amazing time with them, with good music (which Glastonbury ALWAYS has, even if you have to dig around in the small stages for it) and other random shit to do?
Hot Coldman
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I mean, it's pretty much the festival over there. There's that, Lollapolooza, and errrrrrrr Bonnaroo? SXSW if you fudge the definition a lot? No surprise Coachella gets so many good acts.
zomgbbqftw
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This thread just got really confusing...
We're talking about music festivals. I have no idea what you could possibly find confusing about that.
Oh right, and I changed my name from Green Scar.
Jedeye Sniv
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I love Mike but yeah, kinda
I understand the festival experience, wondering the campsites, getting mashup with some strangers at 2 in the morning while Apocalypse Now plays out in the background. And some of the bands can be ok too. But Mike inadvertantly nailed it with his Radio 1 reference (ironically I think Reading is more XFM), festivals have become so safe and mainstream and bullshit. this is just my elitest and obtuse nature making me think this i'm sure, but I really don't like the preened and immaculate youngsters these days, I want to challenge them to show me their ipods (old man warning
- it was better back in my day where you could tell who really liked the music because we all dressed like skanks and were all awkward. A teenager should only be as cool as their record collections.I am fully aware that I am a mess of contradictions and pining for the non-existent good-old-days. I need to go to All Tomorrows Parties, that sounds more my scene.
Incontinentia Buttocks
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I love Mike but yeah, kinda
I understand the festival experience, wondering the campsites, getting mashup with some strangers at 2 in the morning while Apocalypse Now plays out in the background. And some of the bands can be ok too. But Mike inadvertantly nailed it with his Radio 1 reference (ironically I think Reading is more XFM), festivals have become so safe and mainstream and bullshit. this is just my elitest and obtuse nature making me think this i'm sure, but I really don't like the preened and immaculate youngsters these days, I want to challenge them to show me their ipods (old man warning
I am fully aware that I am a mess of contradictions and pining for the non-existent good-old-days. I need to go to All Tomorrows Parties, that sounds more my scene.
ATP always looks good to me but then I remember it'll be full of musical snobs and I hate musical snobs despite being a musical snob.
I have been half tempted to go to the YYY's curated Ally Pally event.
electricshake
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Nah that's fine, it's more that I wasn't looking for places that were more than say £25 a head. I don't want to pay significantly more than I would on a restaurant at home (Glasgow). Someone else suggested them in the LondonGAF meetup thread so it definitely seems worth considering!
I love Mike but yeah, kinda
I understand the festival experience, wondering the campsites, getting mashup with some strangers at 2 in the morning while Apocalypse Now plays out in the background. And some of the bands can be ok too. But Mike inadvertantly nailed it with his Radio 1 reference (ironically I think Reading is more XFM), festivals have become so safe and mainstream and bullshit. this is just my elitest and obtuse nature making me think this i'm sure, but I really don't like the preened and immaculate youngsters these days, I want to challenge them to show me their ipods (old man warning
I am fully aware that I am a mess of contradictions and pining for the non-existent good-old-days. I need to go to All Tomorrows Parties, that sounds more my scene.
Inadvertant nothing
That's exactly how I find Reading Festival, and probably most of the others, but what I'm saying is that I absolutely didn't have that experience at Glastonbury.Oh, there were the kinds of people who take hair curlers and specifically buy colourful wellies at Glasto and Latitude too, but I found pretty much everyone I met to be really welcoming, genuine and up for a laugh.
I suppose I don't have the judgement on record collections because I've always existed in a bit of a vacuum as far as that's concerned - all my friends were either into Green Day and Blink 182 or Metallica, Iron Maiden and Sepultura while I was listening to Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes and Brand New, so I always assumed my tastes were totally at odds with whatever was going on until I hit 18 and found other awkward emokids. Then it became 'the thing' and I've never been so ashamed to be myself as when that was the fad haha.
Jedeye Sniv
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I think I'd get on better with the snobs than the zygotes still!
There have been a couple that I've been gutted I missed - Shellac curated once and so did Belle and Sebastian if I remember correctly. And Slow Club played once. My kinda festival. And you get to sleep in a bed.
Now who's not doing festivals properly?
It's all about camping out in a shitty tent, waking up with a drink in one hand and a spliff in the other, ideally not remembering much about how you got back to your tent, ready to find some trouble to get into.
Incontinentia Buttocks
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It's a reliable place for a decent burger so definitely worth considering. They do a good range of craft beers but they're a bit on the pricey side for a bottled beer, although the Modus Hoperandi and Bear Republic Racer are both fucking gorgeous.
Jedeye Sniv
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Inadvertant nothing
Oh, there were the kinds of people who take hair curlers and specifically buy colourful wellies at Glasto and Latitude too, but I found pretty much everyone I met to be really welcoming, genuine and up for a laugh.
I suppose I don't have the judgement on record collections because I've always existed in a bit of a vacuum as far as that's concerned - all my friends were either into Green Day and Blink 182 or Metallica, Iron Maiden and Sepultura while I was listening to Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes and Brand New, so I always assumed my tastes were totally at odds with whatever was going on until I hit 18 and found other awkward emokids. Then it became 'the thing' and I've never been so ashamed to be myself as when that was the fad haha.
Dude, Fearne Cotton is sitting in a tower with Reggie Yates the whole time, Glasto is the safest, msot middle class and Radio 1 festival there is. Which is why I'm sure it's lovely, everyone is well bought up and they have plenty of money that their parents gave them and the big sunglasses and they go "oh yaaaaa, did you see Gotye? He was like, totes amaze, yah?"
At college we were - I wouldn't say competitive, but we'd compare records a lot and get super obsessive about bands. I was the first of us to buy a Refused album and it changed all our lives. But I do judge record collections because (to me) they show a level of dedication to music. Like, if you've got a bunch of best-of compilations then you're a novice, and I know not to go too deep into the reference game. Pretty much I'm always looking for people as into it as I am so I can raid their collections for overlooked gems.
Maybe my issue with festivals is that, as I get older I obviously have a bigger and wider record collection that a 20 year old and so there's the problem with all these dilletantes coming into my territory and shitting it up. It's like, what do you mean I can't get reading tickets because they're sold out after two days? I wanted to see radiohead dammit. I've been listening to them since 1996 - oh what, that's when you were born? Go fuck yourself little kid.
Again, I know how much of an unreasonable dick I can be sometimes
Jedeye Sniv
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I can do that perfectly well without giving myself back problems thankyouverymuch!
Hot Coldman
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Yeah glasto is so safe and middle-class and rich kid filled and shit, NOW LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE IPHONE
Jedeye Sniv
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Pssh I'm so over my iPhone that the mic has been broken for three months and I've still not fixed it yet. All about the iPad now brah. And my mortgage and job in a private school.
I have such terrible class issues that I didn't even realised when I moved up a bracket. I'll always be a only child of a single parent who lived on a council estate and went to a shithole of a school.
I have such terrible class issues that I didn't even realised when I moved up a bracket. I'll always be a only child of a single parent who lived on a council estate and went to a shithole of a school.
Your argument broke with this comment
Ehh, I don't see the hate because I've never been forced to interact with the compilation kids at a decent festival, but I get what you're saying.
I still think you're missing out on a genuine experience because it's not exclusive to non-dickheads anymore.
I think the most comparable experience I've had to what you're saying was when I saw Bright Eyes supported by Rilo Kiley at er....The Astoria, I think.
I went with a girl and we were literally the only people dancing & we were getting shitty looks for it from everywhere. So many posers standing there shouting out song titles and refusing to GOD FORBID have an experience & dance awkwardly to some introverted, catchy, cocaine-fueled tunes.
Jedeye Sniv
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I would like a Radio 6 festival.
Jedeye Sniv
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Your argument broke with this comment
Ehh, I don't see the hate because I've never been forced to interact with the compilation kids at a decent festival, but I get what you're saying.
I still think you're missing out on a genuine experience because it's not exclusive to non-dickheads anymore.
I think the most comparable experience I've had to what you're saying was when I saw Bright Eyes supported by Rilo Kiley at er....The Astoria, I think.
I went with a girl and we were literally the only people dancing & we were getting shitty looks for it from everywhere. So many posers standing there shouting out song titles and refusing to GOD FORBID have an experience & dance awkwardly to some introverted, catchy, cocaine-fueled tunes.
haha, I felt simiarly seeing Slow Club in Brick lane. I was the fattest person there by like three people's volume. And apparently the only one who knows how to clap properly too.
That would be great, but I'd rather go to a festival where there's a big field, next to a pen full of multi-coloured sheep where you can lay down and listen to The White Album being blared out while drinking a cider and talking to some girl you just met about how much it would suck to be one of the Beatles, but it turns out you're Ringo & you forgot how to play anything but Octopus' Garden.
Oh wait, that totally happened at Latitude
Also they had a thing called Teenage Angst, where you get to go on stage and read an angsty poem you wrote as a teenager & everyone has a good chuckle. I got on stage & read a poem I wrote at 15 called Dying in a Microphone, then went and watched Los Campesinos, motherfucker
I thought they were talking about one this morning.
I should note I was pretty sleep this morning so I didn't take everything in.
Selfish Pizza
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I've noticed a lot of people talking about bright eyes on here recently. I went to see Desaparecidos (bright eyes side band) the other night. They were awesome, definitely recommend, if they ever play again.
Oh man, I would LOVE to see them. I'm a big Conor fan, even if he is a bit of a douchebag.
I saw Conor Oberst and Mystic Valley Band at Reading while everyone else was watching Tenacious D followed by Metallica.
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