Does anyone remember this band?
I have got one track of theirs called 'Old Folk'.
The lyrics were something like:
THE OLD FOLKS
ARE LOSERS
THEY CANT WORK
COMPUTERS!!
It was a great track, although I think that the rest of the album was a bit rubbish.
:D
yeah they were alright they were, then they went all 'nu metal'
Was the rest of the album that old folks was on
any good?
by 'nu metal',
do you mean 'sting gone metal'?
GIMME SOME SKIN
IF WE AIN'T GOT THAT,
WE AIN'T GOT MUCH
AND WE AIN'T GOT NUFFIN, NUFFIN!
^5
'Nothing' periodically
lodges itself in my head and won't get the fuck out.
'Going Down' is maybe one of the worst songs ever written.
...they die in December time
I remember seeing them at Reading 2000.
good stuff back then
I think I remember seeing them on the line up actually.
FOGHORN!!!
Anyone remember that tune? Been after it for fooking ages.
fogorn
was a great tune...also number 1 and lake Tahoe
yea they were one one of the
many terrible bands i had to sit through in order to be near the front for rage :(
It's potentially
the most unintentionally hilarious song ever. 'We're in the shit / Knee deep in it / I think that this may hurt a bit'
The most sensitive 9/11 inspired song ever?
Their drummer is in The Bloodhound Gang. :D
thier bass player
was in matt from busteds backing band
cos Jason Perry
wrote the songs.
The great lost A album, that was.
DON'T WANT YOUR JOB IN STARBUCKS
hmm.
I really used to think the lyrics to that were
'Don't want your chuffin' Starbucks'.
They are not.
probably the biggest career collapse of the last ten years
they managed to go from playing Brixton Academy and having top ten singles to playing, um, the Mean Fiddler and barely scraping the top 75.
BUT LOOK GUYS, they might be back soon!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_%28band%29#A_new_beginning.3F
The original bassist was called Stevie Swindon
:D
I was in their street team
First three albums: ace
Fourth album: not good.
How do you mean Street team?
how ace are buildings!?~
I used to live in Swindon
There was a track on the Ikara Cult Album that I had to skip every time because the lead singer sounded too much like the guy from A
Colt*
I grew up just outside Swindon as it goes.
Mark
the guitarist is in a band called Malpractice with Adam F (DJ) and Ben Calvert.
I auditioned and lost out to Ben Calvert....fair enough I guess.
Is Mark one of the guys from A?
Yes
they were one of my favourite bands
back in 1997-8. Must have seen them live about 10 times over the years.
I think at one point they really had a rabid hardcore following.
wasn't Ben Calvert in Vex Red?
He was Guntrip, yeah
he also played Killing Joke I believe.
*for
I think Malpractice played
Boro Music Live last year - if it's the band I'm thinking of their 'innovative blend of hardcore rock and dance music' was like horribly watered down Pitchshifter with all the good bits taken out.
I think Malpractice played
Boro Music Live last year - if it's the band I'm thinking of their 'innovative blend of hardcore rock and dance music' was like horribly watered down Pitchshifter with all the good bits taken out.
Nothing!
It's what you got what you ain't got something!
Haha worst line ever! Terrible terrible band too.
also worth pointing out:
jason perry and daniel carter from A wrote most of matt willis' solo record, and toured as part of his backing band :D
daniel carter as in the now Radio 1 dj?
?
the very same.
And they wonder why nobody takes the station's specialist coverage seriously any more
"Daniel P Carter has been hosting BBC Radio 1's Rock Show since 25th September 2006. He continues writing material with Jason Perry, for artists such as McFly, as well as previously playing bass in Matt Willis' band for his first album"
odd
considering this is the band he's in now
http://www.myspace.com/hexes
not so odd, it's probably paying for that.
The lead guy
1. looked like a parrot.
2. looked too old to be making jumpy pop-rock tunes about jobs in starbucks.
3. Terrified me for the two above reasons.
I liked...
Their video where they had to run into different locations to keep up with the shot and would appear all over the place when the camera turned around...
Old Folks was their only good song
even though he sounds dangerously close to a constipated Sting at points. The rest of the album was pretty poor I seem to recall...
I <3 Lake Tahoe was better
even if they did use fake snow that smelt of jizz at their gigs
"constipated Sting"
on helium. Exactly what I thought. Terrible. Stick with Symposium, Cable, even Midget...
Actually, what was the first song on that album called
'For Starters' or something? That was ok too. But that really was it.
I used to absolutely love them
I remember getting very excited about 'Hi-Fi Serious' coming out when I used to read Kerrang! on a weekly basis.
'Nothing' blew me away when I was 15, when they played at Reading I wore a sunvisor and everything to try and look like Jason Perry.
Awful band
Tried to jump on every bandwagon going, ended up getting run over by it.
Bad bad bad bad bad
bad bad bad bad
I've got their debut single somewhere....
quite fun on the various occasions I saw them at Reading.
if John Hughes had made a film about a British pop-rock band?
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8160842848207523316
top 6 'A' songs
1. Foghorn
2. Old Folks
3. If It Aint Broke Fix It Anyway
4. I Love Lake Tahoe
5. Starbucks
6. Bad Idea
they were great fun live for real.
I used to think he was singing
"Don't want your chocolate starburst"
And scoured newsagents looking for said confectionary.