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paddylonglegs · 10-11-2011 11:22PM

Sounds like the band Young Knives took influence from them

The Scientician · 11-11-2011 07:58AM

Snickers Man wrote: »

No it's not. It's pretentious, pseudo artsy fartsy rubbish.

Can't believe that I was once attracted by some of the song titles mentioned above to buy one of their albums. They are truly awful.

A bunch of lads from a working class housing estate trying to connect with the middle classes through the vector of student humour!!! How pathetic is that?

It's like admiring the Germans for their food, or the Irish for their punctuality and discipline, or the Italians for their road manners.

Sneery presumptuous supercillious ****e. Definitely on my list of things/people to send into Room 101.

Just to let you know there's an alternative view. I'll go away now.......

German food is great.

old hippy · 11-11-2011 01:37PM

Snickers Man wrote: »

No it's not. It's pretentious, pseudo artsy fartsy rubbish.

Can't believe that I was once attracted by some of the song titles mentioned above to buy one of their albums. They are truly awful.

A bunch of lads from a working class housing estate trying to connect with the middle classes through the vector of student humour!!! How pathetic is that?

It's like admiring the Germans for their food, or the Irish for their punctuality and discipline, or the Italians for their road manners.

Sneery presumptuous supercillious ****e. Definitely on my list of things/people to send into Room 101.

Just to let you know there's an alternative view. I'll go away now.......

You've completely missed the point, the raison d'etre of the band. They satirise pseuds and artsy fartsy stuff - nobody does it better - and they appeal right across the social strata. Fancy taking them to task over class! :rolleyes:

DublinWriter · 11-11-2011 02:12PM

Snickers Man wrote: »

A bunch of lads from a working class housing estate trying to connect with the middle classes through the vector of student humour!!! How pathetic is that?

The vector of student humour? I might just steal that now to use later.

HMHB : If I Had Possession Over Pancake Day

Outside Goldsmiths’ coughing up blood,
Turner Prize judge gasps “Christ that’s good -
Leave it as it is, it’ll get first place
We’ll call it a full shift at the coal face”
Oh well you’re neither a Stuckist or a YBA
and you’re no longer a miner as of today

Praise for the wardens ready to fine
Anyone caught saying “graphic design”
Rag-mag seller said I’d be in pleats
Only when he’d been cleaned from the streets
Oh I could squeeze my lemon ’til my blues went away
If I had possession over Pancake Day

Give a philosophy student a glass of limeade
and he will say: “is this a glass of limeade?”
and “if so, why is it a glass of limeade?”
and, after a while, he’ll die of thirst

Salmon Leap · 11-11-2011 02:22PM

Trumpton Riots!

Blackhorse Slim · 26-11-2011 12:43AM

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

They played TCD in 1986 as far as I remember.

I'm pretty sure they didn't. I took the day off school to see them, but Nigel "had a sore throat" and they didn't make it.

I got to see them in Reading a few years later (maybe 1990?) and they were great. There was a large crowd who knew all the songs and sang along, great party atmosphere.

nlgbbbblth · 26-11-2011 12:51AM

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they didn't. I took the day off school to see them, but Nigel "had a sore throat" and they didn't make it.

I got to see them in Reading a few years later (maybe 1990?) and they were great. There was a large crowd who knew all the songs and sang along, great party atmosphere.

ok - never heard any reports of it, just remember it being announced. So that means no shows here ever.

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