The wording here - pretty lolsome?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/28/bmgallows128.xml
Gallows, a ferocious young punk band from Watford, have just exploded into action at their first UK gig of 2008. Already, all hell is breaking loose inside the packed venue in Norwich. Their singer, a diminutive blur of tattoos and flame-red hair named Frank Carter, prowls the stage, screaming and shaking, as if in the throes of a convulsion.
Below him, the audience response has gone far beyond the usual pogoing and slam-dancing. A large space has cleared, in which about 50 kids are running at high speed - a new-ish ritual known as a "circle pit".
Within seconds, the circle closes again, and Carter, still palpitating, hurls himself into the crowd, where he is held aloft, face crimson, eyes wild - a terrifying sight.
That is probably the funnies thing in the entire galaxy
Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Is Neil McCormick still the lead rock critic for the DT?
He's usually pretty good once you get past the whole failed rockstar, I used to go to school with Bono thing.
Bono told him: 'Your song needs to be heard now'
When Telegraph pop critic Neil McCormick wrote a song in reaction to the London bombings and set about getting it recorded and released for charity, the response from friends and contacts in the music industry was phenomenal - and fast
How can music respond to something as devastating as the London bombings? It is a question that has been weighing on my mind. Somehow, without quite intending it, I have stumbled towards a response of my own. By this time next week, I hope to have a single available to download with proceeds going to charity to help victims and their families.
McCormick: 'I felt Bono was right when he insisted that it was a song whose time had come'
The song is addressed to our terrorist enemies, posed as a series of hard questions about why they would attack fellow human beings they have never met. It is called People I Don't Know Are Trying to Kill Me. The response to the song within the music business has been hearteningly supportive. If all goes to plan, it will have been written, recorded, mixed, mastered and released within the space of two weeks.
Ha!
"A large space has cleared, in which about 50 kids are running at high speed - a new-ish ritual known as a "circle pit"."
Erm, what?
they make him sound like a cartoon villian
which isnt really that far off the mark thinking about it
I like the quotation marks around "hardcore" too!
New-ish?
in the grand scheme of human/geological history
yes, it's relatively "new-ish"
Not true.
What do you think stonehenge was for? The pagans were X_HARDCORE_X
*heavy rock joke*
I have no
idea what a "circle pit" is, it sounds like some sort of Eaton wanking gag punchline.
*Eton. yes though, it does rather
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wow
these kerayzee kids these days.
a circle...what?
that's great
i actually do like it! sure it's all very outside looking in, but he/she sure does a nice descriptive number on the proceedings.
Circle pit only happens in Norwich
generations of inbreeding has left the population with a left legs that are 4 inches shorter than their right.
Spastics in Norwich, if they get excited by that it probably explains their zombie state they were in when I saw BSP.