What is it with blokes in bands? I've yet to find one who isan't a playboy, that doesn't play his guitar like he's masturbating, and isan't a complete and utter knobjockey. It seems that as soon as one joins a band, their 'cred' , or rather their ego, inflates and they become this 'sunglasses in the winter' monster. Tut. I don't know. There seems to be a vast lack of blokes in London generally. Except of those who are prone to having Toni&Guy haircuts. Maybe I'm picky. Hmmph. Oh by the way, is Afterskool any good? I've yet to find many good clubs around.
Haha. I know what you mean. The style's known as fretwanking. Always makes me laugh. That said there are also a lot of shoegazing guitar players who go to the opposite extreme - there's got to be a balance to be had I reckon :)
Anyway. We're not all toni & guy haircut torn jeans strokes t-shirt and suit jacket clones y'know!
Afterskool appears to be one of those 'cheap and cheerful' indie clubs full of underage rock kids clones getting wasted... you could do a lot better in london (depending what you're looking for of course)
What I'm looking for? A boy! Hhahaa, only kidding. I quite like White Heat on a Tuesday and Frog's alright. Metro's can be ok too I just want somewhere new. New people, new environment. :0)
Maybe it's the scene. I know some bands around here (and my band) can't really prance about because it's Coventry an not London. So maybe 'It's a Laandon thing' ?!?
(Although when we go down to London to play in a few weeks we'll probably get laughed at for being a bunch of hillbilly, Irish Gypsies from Coventry!)
As for sunglasses in the winter it tends to be shit lead singers/musicians who do that....or people who wish they were singers. I saw a guy in a club with some short stone washed jeans, a sheapskin coat and some shades - kinda like a Gallagher/Motson hybrid. I reckon Bobby G can get away with it though as he's normally f*cked an could do with the shades!
Yea,perhaps it's the scene. I don't know. Some people can pull it off. London is a whirlpool of competition, and most people are always trying to be taken seriously i guess. I mean, if any band went to the town where i used to live in Wales, they'd proberly get their head kicked in. Every band wants to be taken seriously, and every band has an image.
As far as the playboy thing goes: find a sXe band. Any sXe band :P They'll all be fundamentalist wankers who *still* have fancy haircuts, but they won't be a playboy..
Guh, i'm not exactly feeling at my least misogynistic at the moment.. so don't help me down that dark road, woman -_- All my (female) friends seem to whinge about how they just want nice sensitive men who'll treat them right.. and then go out with the rankest, bastardest, lowest cunts around (and know that's how they are), because they're exciting and dangerous, or something. And then whinge AFTERWARDS about how all men are bastards and they only want nice sensitive men..
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Anyway. We're not all toni & guy haircut torn jeans strokes t-shirt and suit jacket clones y'know!
Afterskool appears to be one of those 'cheap and cheerful' indie clubs full of underage rock kids clones getting wasted... you could do a lot better in london (depending what you're looking for of course)
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(Although when we go down to London to play in a few weeks we'll probably get laughed at for being a bunch of hillbilly, Irish Gypsies from Coventry!)
As for sunglasses in the winter it tends to be shit lead singers/musicians who do that....or people who wish they were singers. I saw a guy in a club with some short stone washed jeans, a sheapskin coat and some shades - kinda like a Gallagher/Motson hybrid. I reckon Bobby G can get away with it though as he's normally f*cked an could do with the shades!
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I must learn not to ramble!
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Play in a band, learn the middle ground between dancing on stage and shoegazing. Don't go to Toni&Guy for the standard mullet.
Then, if you're a schizophrenic playboy/b*stard-emotional/sensetive man you're well away.
There's only two Andy Gorams!
Speaking of mental health issues....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3732368.stm