Following on from the most awkward thread, who has th eworst onstage banter?
Johnny Marr is obviously at the top of the cringe-pile, and Trail of dead remain an utter embarressment, and should just belt through the songs.
Anyone else?
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I remember hearing about some big guitar band (possibly Linkin Park)
who had the same 'spontaneous' between-song banter every night. They'd probably be on my list if I'd seen them...
The Wonderstuff
used to say the same things every night. Wankers.
^^ POTD with a genuine LOL from me
ha ha
I remember a local musician
Playing his first electric set. He started off with the most cringing line....
"Goodbye acoustics, hello rock"
A bit Alan Partridge perhaps?
Very Alan Partridge.
I once saw a local musician doing covers and he introduced every song with "I don't really know this one but I'll try it anyway". Finally he came to cover "Let it Be" which he introduced with the slight variant "I don't know this one and I don't know the words but I'll try it anyway". He wasn't lying. It wasn't good.
^lol
the guy out of the dirty three
with the beard was pretty embarrasing to listen to. there again he a bit embarrasing to watch as well, hmmm.
Travis.
Embarrasing hippy bullshit banter. Yuk!
GET THE FUCK OUT!
^BAN REQUEST
*REPORTS THIS*
there is
so much wrong with this post that I'm going to purchase a dukebox-sized voodoo doll
i suppose all dancing about like
a fiddle player in an irish pub is a matter of taste. i stand by the worst between song chat thing though.
get out
sorry
:'(
but.....but.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7iV11UIhE
<3
"We'd like to do a song, ladies and gentlemen, about how love kind of disappears after about 3 days... and you sort of like think 'I kind of like you but maybe it's not really working'. You decide that you'll lock yourself away in a room and fill yourself with as many drugs as you can. And you do this, ladies and gentlemen, and you have such a good time that you forget that you don't actually love them anymore and it doesn't matter. You're walking along one day, and because you're sort of like this indie rocker, you sort of like hear this Weezer song that says 'Oooh I look like Buddy Holly and she's Mary Tyler Moore' and you think you're Buddy Holly and she's Mary Tyler Moore and you kind of like start to think 'That's pretty cool.' Then you kind of look in the window of the shop that you're going into to buy some bread and you realize that you are actually ... Burt Reynolds ... and she's Sally Fields ... and you've been cast in Smokey and the Bandit 98. You have a toupee... and she's not The Flying Nun anymore. So that's kind of bummed you out and you think 'We really didn't find love, but we had a lot of fun on the drugs ... but if it's going to make me look like Burt Reynolds and you look like Sally Fields maybe we have to look at doing something else or maybe take another drug that makes us feel, like, kind of better than that.' But you know in this time, ladies and gentlemen, you know in this time that ... Everything Is Fucked."
dukebox must DIE!
my favourite was his introduction to
I think it was I Remember A Time When You Once Loved me, where he described a relationship breaking down and the arguments over who is going to get the indie rock collection and in the end sitting in a room burning it and inhaling the fumes.
There were loads!
I wish I could remember all of them (I copied that one from wikipedia)
this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7iV11UIhE
so so so wrong
yep..
Total arse. Warren ellis = don.
At Swn last weekend
Bland singer-songwriter Jaymay: ummm... so, any of you guys have trouble finding a hotel?
Punter: no, we live here
(silence)
I loled a lot at that ^
haha
'Could I have some more applause in my moniter please'.
was one that I actually liked.
Who was that from?
Johnny Marr
'helo-alo-alo-alo' (after three songs)
'are you bored yet' (after eight songs)
His guitar playing didn't seem that good as well.
He ruined Trailer Trash man!
it sounded so cheesey
Finn out of white rose movement.
yeah.
i thought
this would be another anti George Lamb thread.
I like one of the Trail of Dead guys
but not the other one. I can't remember which is which.
Jason Reece is the tubby one
Conrad Keeley is the one who sings more.
Reece is the more embarrassing
I think.
Ian Brown?
Surprised no-ones mentioned Bono.
I like Bono
Nothing makes me happier than a ludicrously overblown, self importnant tit.
Rather that than a shuffly indie boy bravely saying thank you from behind his fringe.
a played with a band called
millenium once when i was 16ish and they had scripts onstage with them.
sample quote:
"who here likes the beatles?"
*Crowd applauds and cheers approvingly*
"Oh well, we're gonna play it anyway"
They cheered you fuckwit!
trail of dead are fun
their banter lives up to the rest of their set, their last london show they revealed that Jason had leaked their last album after interscope did zero publicity for it :D Also in brighton they had a huge shouting match with the soundguy and ended up pouring water onto the mixing desk - a bit c**tish but I assume he deserved it..
really crap stage banter is when a band tries to do a running joke, i.e. bearsuit "this song's about wanking", or das wanderlust "this song is dedicated to <some frined of theirs>", must be hilarious for them but it wore really thin quickly...
It ain't no joke
The Love Will Never Find You actually is about wanking...
It's one of our fave hobbies, alongside topless titty boxing
x
FUCKING AIDEN.
Cringeworthy to the max, constantly goes on about putting your arm round the 'dude' next to you, and loving each other and never giving in to suicide.
S-T-F-U.
Hes talking to the kids man!
one band who opened the main stage at reading said,
"GOOD AFTERNOON MUTHA FUCKERS!"
which i thought was actually pretty cool
Johnny Marr
Modest Mouse - Royal Albert Hall
'Are You Bored Yet?'
*shudders*
The Feeling
"We're not trying to be cool or hip or down with the kids, we're just having FUN and we wanna sing about falling in LOVE. So COME ON! EVERYONE! Let's get clapping and feel the warmth. Who gives a shit if its cheesy or uncool? Let's just have some fun, people!"
When I took my bro to see MCR
Gerard Way actually said "it's mine and Mikey's dead grandma's birthday today, so on the count of three I want everyone to shout 'FUCK YEAH, GRANDMA!'"
He wasn't joking either.
i saw
reuben twice on one tour and jamie did the same between song banter each night. it was funny and entertaining stuff but i always thought he was ad-libbing this stuff every night not repeating a few good lines most nights.
used to love
wayne coyne's onstage banter untill my friends band supported them on tour.apparantly he used to say the same thing,word for word,every night
I've DEFINITELY found the geekiest between song chat.....
of.all.time. (Magic: The Gathering centric)
These guys seem quite likeable though:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CO5WJH6Shu8
Me.
I have NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING OUT OF MY FACE.
Jamie from Reuben
is responsible for my favourite onstage banter ever. He came onstage at Bedford Esquires with his face covered in gaffa tape, with a kind of beak tapering off his nose, and said nothing about it until halfway through the set, when he casually asked the audience, "Is it hot in here, or am I wearing a gaffa face mask?"
He hates my guts, but he's so cool.
yeah
the first and only time i saw Reuben i thoroughly enjoyed his banter although there was a slight awkward moment when he realised one of his school mates was in the crowd, stood very near us, who apparently both used to get beat up by this one guy at school. felt a bit cringe for the guy stood in the crowd.
why
does he hate your guts?
'OK EDGE, PLAY THE BLUES!'
MegaLOL