Liverpool Sound City 2012

So that time of year again when herds of mediocre bands are encouraged by their managers (usually their Dads or a sleazy prick from the local nitespot) to leave Lowestoft or Penge and head to the bright lights of BeatletownUSA.

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These lumps of fresh boy meat (almost always young lads, apart from the obligatory kooky chick with a guitar, oh and a loop pedal these days) are hoovered up by the best local promoters in the biz and set to work in the musical diamond mines of Liverpool.

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Hot spots such as The Zanzibar - always willing to charge too much for not quite enough, The [INSERT NEW VENUE FOR 2012] - gone within 12 months, and The O2 - shite, are bursting at the seams with music. However which acts deserve some of your hard earned money being spunked on them so their Dad/Manager can put petrol in the Honda Spacious?

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Here is my list of things to do over the festival weekend. In no particular order.

1. First look through the program and laugh at all the great and hilarious band names...go on...oh OK I'll list a few:

a) Jazzhands - Ha!

b) OWLS* - Ha!

c) ∆ Alt J - Ha!

d) Elmo and the Styx - Ha!

e) Wet Mouth - Ha!

f) The History of Apple Pie - Ha!

 

2. Secondly look through the list of bands and get slightly annoyed that a bunch of presumably pricks have used a reference from one of the greatest books of the 20th century knowing that the stupid fuckwits haven't even read it:

i) Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Bastards!

 

3. Thirdly look through the list of bands and then go; hold on are they still going/are people really paying these to play a gig in a major city in 2012?

1) Alkaline Trio - Really!

2) The Wedding Present - Really!

3) Willy Mason - Really!

4) Space - Really! and Ha! and Bastards!

 

4. Fourthly look through the list of bands and see if there is anything worth going to see at all over 3 days of gigs that will cost you £40 or so.

4a. Fourthlya realise that no, there is nothing worth going to see at all over 3 days of gigs that will cost you £40 or so.

 

5. Fifthly realise that there is a "seminar" section of sound city where you can hear local and national and international bigwigs talk about twitter for 3 days. Boss.

 

6. Sixthly stay right away from the insufferable smug fest that will be the centre of town for the whole duration. Remember to not switch on the internet for another month after the even lest you be greeted with some prick claiming watching Willy Mason was a life changing experience man.

 

So there we have it. Liverpool Sound City. Come back next year for more of exactly the fucking same.

 

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Posters on pictures that will soon be posters on walls from WWRRSSDDRRWWSS.

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Dead chaffinch

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Aw poor little dead feller. Only thing to do is to move him about and take photos of him. Job done.

Why do* you have a moustache?

Truly who has the answer to this eternal question?

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The Left Hand

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Through tHe medium of terrible time lapse photography. You know to try and look cool and fresh

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Dream

Yerse just had a dream never have them. I was putting on a Metallica gig and it was terrible. Ended up on a speed boat whilst the 2 main cunts off of metallica did terrible rock and roll things. Pissing on groupies, doing the cocaine, being racist. Anyway they had to stay in ours and they continued to be dicks in my house. The next morning they woke up feeling sheepish but unrepentant, like cunts. So I decided to act like a prick to them. Shouting "Metallica are cunts" we'ere they went. It was good fun. And I've woken up with an even bigger hatred of metallica than I went to sleep with. Boss.