The Maccabees will play a tiny show at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury as they get into gear for the Carling weekend.
The quintet will appear downstairs at the venue on Thursday the 23rd of August. Support will come from recent Vertigo-signings Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit; special guest DJs will also be in attendance.
The night kicks off at 8pm - to get tickets email themaccabeescomp@hotmail.co.uk with your name and the number of tickets you require. They'll set you back £10 a head and allocation works on the age old premise of first come, first served.
Speaking of age old - you're gonna have to be 18.
For Fuck's Sake...
This really pisses me off.
If bands are gonna do secret shows can they at least not have the balls to see it through, keep it secret and play to whoever turns up rather than announcing the "secret" show beforehand to ensure enough of their fans are there to give 'em a good crowd.
Bottom line is this. You're either
a) Doing a secret show. So don't blood well tell us about it.
or
b) Doing a normal show in a small venue. In which case fine but don't pretend it's a secret show.
I hate the dishonesty of things like this.
and if it really was secret
surely it'd be announced on the maccabees forum first!
If it really was secret
it wouldn't be announced at all.
Rock Feedback
annoy me as well with all their 'Very, very bloody special guests' rubbish on their site.
http://www.rockfeedback.com/article.asp?nObjectID=2517
I can see how that'd be annoying
The phrase "Special Guests" as coverage for "we don't know who the act is yet" or "we can't tell you how the act is yet" should be outright banned.
I
don't mind the special guest bit, it's the very, very bloody or whatever. There should be an official chart of how many specials and bloodys you can use compared with the size and popularity of the band divided by size of the venue.
The problem is that "special guests" is so over-used in the first place
that, if someone actually has got someone genuinely special, they feel the need to excessively highlight the fact.
This is my problem with the phrase "Special Guests". It's used to describe pretty much any unbooked act who you may vaguely have heard of.
I don't think anyone should be described as a Special Guest unless they're
a) An established cult figure
b) An artist with several "hits" under their belt.
The last
time this happened at Rock Feedback the band that could sell out a venue twenty times this size was...The Magic Numbers...
If someone tells me there'll be a special guest somewhere
I immediately hope for Nick Cave.
If it isn't Nick Cave (or at least someone of similar stature/level of success) I'll be disappointed.
So unless people intened to give me Nick Cave or something of similar stature/level of success then they shouldn't tell me it's a "Special Guest" 'cos it'll only end in anticlimax.
By which I mean...
...that the promise of a "Special Guest" automatically promises an audience something special that they'll be impressed by and delighted to have seen. So unless you can deliver that, billing something as a "Special Guest" is just gonna disappoint people.
I think only once has a special guest
actually been special at something I've been to and that was REM at one of those poverty history things. That really was great.
That would impress me for sure.
I was hoping it was going to be Morrissey
or The Montrose Avenue. Damn.
The Montrose Avenue
don't play enough anymore, it's true. I was holding out for them headlining Reading above Thurman this year, but it wasn't to be...
now now...
the maccabees are one of the uks best live bands right now... and if that's not bloody special, well i don't know what is...
.
Has the one in the blue t-shirt (on the DiS profile) only got one arm?
Thats really unfortunate.
.
Look! him in blue!
http://www.drownedinsound.com/bands/8170
He's only got a stumpy half-arm! And some sort of proto-mullet.
Ideal "special guest" #1
Kool Keith
Poopy
The email address doesn't work :<
should do
didn't work for me either
ALL GIG PROMOTERS ARE CUNTS ETC.
/> joking
well
it doesn't
well...
it's not the same address that's listed on rockfeedback?... erm.. try thebasement@rockfeedback.com, well, that's what all young lovers do anyway. tee hee.
merci
beaucoup
surely you should have put
the word "secret" in quote marks.
b-
or should I?
Yes
given the inherent contradiction involved in writing an article for a widely-read online music magazine announcing what's something that's supposed to be a secret.
who said
... the gig wasn't meant to be secret anyway. it's an intimae show, but it's never been billed as 'secret'... who said secret besides the lovely chaps at DiS? did the band say it?
anyway... secret's out. ha. wish i could go, really fucking do, but i'm off up to leeds festival. woop woop. x
or should I?
WINK