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London is the centre of the universe: 2004 edition

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Any takers for the bet that NME will run a 'London is the most amazing place in the rock n' roll world ever' spread in the next few months? This thought came to mind when watchign Chelsea beat manchester United, yet mroe proof that London is just more spunkably fabulous than anyone else in the world. Maybe. Except Barbados.

I actually bought my first issue of NME for over two years the other day. The Ian Brown interview was nice.
DrFurry | 15 Aug '04, 21:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: London is the centre of the universe: 2004 edi

I thought they'd already done that a couple of weeks ago.
New Cross is killed off now that the Paradise Bar has lost its entertainments license.
Maybe.
shadyadie | 16 Aug '04, 11:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I heard that next week's cover story is about the supercool NME staff getting fucked up on 'shrooms and hanging out in fashionable shoreditch with the beardy one out of Selfish Cunt...
brian_international | 16 Aug '04, 12:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm sick of Londoners whining about little music venues closing or changing.
Be grateful for where you live, everything happens in Lon-fucking-don.

All one off gigs are in London. No tour ever misses playing London and yet Birmingham, the Uk's second city and centre of the counrty is constantly overlooked for no good reason.

If you live in London and like live music, you have it made.

Mind you, i think if I lived in London, I'd spend so much money on gigs I wouldn't be able to afford food
Podge9 | 16 Aug '04, 12:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I live in Watford, where there is about one gig every two months.

The moral of this: There is always someone worse off than you.
Effloresce_Sean | 16 Aug '04, 13:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Er yes, there are a lot of London venues, but when one which actually has some soul and is run by good people has to close (for the time being at least), it's a little sad. I certainly wasn't "whining".

If you're sick of Birmingham getting overlooked, then move to somewhere the tours go. :-P That's one of the main reasons I moved out of Aberdeen...
shadyadie | 16 Aug '04, 13:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dedication's what you need
YOSHIMI | 16 Aug '04, 13:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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sorry Shady, wasn't meant to be a personal attack on you. You get my drift anyway
Podge9 | 16 Aug '04, 13:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Ha! U make me laugh! North Wales, people! Mind you, Supergrass and the Doves have played in Llandudno over the last couple of months, but no way near enough bands pass through Wales.
killabunny | 16 Aug '04, 14:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Almost every tour comes to Wales, but to bloody Cardiff which is like four hours away! Yeah some bands play Llandudno, but very rarely indeed. Then there's central station where hardly no-one good plays! This is what we get for living near Rhyl you see.. We have to go all the way to bloody Manchester most of the time
Mystery_White_Boy | 16 Aug '04, 14:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: London is the centre of the universe: 2004 edi

try growing up in Wells in Somerset and then you'll understand why people come to London once they're old enough to jump the train though not all the venues are how you think they will be and I even get a pang of envy at the lack of abject smugness (that lurks in pockets of the capital) when I see a band outside the m25

Can't wait for the Freshers NME issue (tied in with London is Great - best until apr. '05) - even when i was one, my eyes wept blood at the whole sorry shebang - think it was the interview with Sonia Echobelly that did it
KTCfac | 16 Aug '04, 14:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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London IS the best though. :-P
shadyadie | 16 Aug '04, 14:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh yeah without a doubt - five years and counting............!
KTCfac | 16 Aug '04, 15:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah...

NME already did that, about 50 times over.
roseability | 16 Aug '04, 15:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It was the whole footie thing that got me thinking about it again, I could see McNicholas running a spread entitled "Sir Alex Ferguson! Oasis! The bloke we used to call a miserable racist twat who we now love even though he's Northern! Strange pints of foamy intoxicant!Your boys took one hell of a beating!" with a huge picture of Didier Drogba fellating Carl Barat in Charing Cross railway station.

Then I stopped drinking and woke up. Sigh. Perhaps it's the fear of losing James Beattie to Villa that's done it.
DrFurry | 16 Aug '04, 19:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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