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Great new band for 2008

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? by MrJingles

http://music.guardian.co.uk/newbands/story/0,,2262788,00.html

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MrJingles | 22 Apr '08, 10:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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missing out on that sense of disappointment you'll inevitably feel when you take a listen to them?

I'd like nothing better than to hear something coming out of Manchester which justifies the hype but this is toss.

dawale | 22 Apr '08, 10:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Manchester

Sometimes I think all you need to do if you come from Manchester is throw on a leather jacket, pick up a guitar and spout some trite lyrics over generic lad rock to be declared working class heroes. Oh and going on some diatribe about another band to grab some column inches tends to help.

notclassicallyhansum | 22 Apr '08, 11:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

True dat.

It must be harder for genuinely good bands from Manchester to get notice, when there's this dominant template distorting everything. Maybe that's why it took Elbow so long to get anywhere (though that God they did).

What really annoys me about this is that the great wave of Manc bands: the Smiths, Joy Division, and so on, were at least all fairly distinctive in style. Now it's just all the same interminable four-lads-and-a-sneer nonsense.

Liam! Noel! You've got a lot to answer for.

ColdGlassEye | 22 Apr '08, 11:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

manchester has

a really good scene going on at the moment and it involves nothing to do with lad rock, there is lots of noise/experimental bands floating round at the mo whom i could list but wont as im lazy haha
to be fair though it does get overshadowed by the likes of the courteeners so i cant blame anyone for thinking thats all the unsigned world of manchester has to offer, but really it isnt :)

fistyness | 22 Apr '08, 11:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Agreed

and it seems to exist entirely outside of the Courteeners/Lowlife axis of evil - I've never even heard of Lowline.

chuff | 22 Apr '08, 11:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

shhhhhhhhhh....

shh............

MrBones | 22 Apr '08, 11:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

once a thief

once a thief, look them up, like the new specials with a electo edge, amazing i tell ya.

www.myspace.com/oncewerethiefs

piethief | 22 Apr '08, 11:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

greg haines is from manchester

and he's ace.
www.greghaines.com
his album arrived on my doormat the other day and it's incredible.

worrier1 | 22 Apr '08, 11:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Cats in Paris

I'm not sure if they're actually from Manchester though

Abso | 22 Apr '08, 11:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply