White Rose Movement have many a fan. Can't say I'm one of them, but then again I've never heard 'em. Guess this tour might present me with an opportunity. Perhaps I'll see you there?
March
01 Liverpool Barfly
02 Loughborough Uni
04 Cambridge APU
05 Southampton Joiners
06 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
08 Glasgow Barfly
09 Sheffield Leadmill 2
10 Birmingham Barfly
12 Manchester Night And Day
13 London Kings College
Nice Alsatian remix
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It pains me
but i really like Kick, tis a pretty good album and definitely a grower, even if Love is a Number is Transmission by joy division transposed into a different key! Cheeky scamps.
they are
absolute shit. you should be glad youve not heard of them. Run while you still can
I liked them live
but the recorded stuff hasn't been quite so exciting yet.
I'll just see how I like girl in the back when I hear it, that was AMAZING live
opposite for me
i really like their recorded stuff, very slick but there's something quite compelling about it. seen them once live, though, and it was awful; gonna go to this kings college date and PRAY they make up for past follies. i'm told they do better at club slots than gigs, but we'll see.
I saw them
in the louisiana. It was very cramped and they were spot on great. I hope they are that good when you see them live.
Awful
pushed the singer for acting like a cunt and falling in to me before i knew about the band, at a rakes gig.
half hour alter he was up onstage.
again, haters
wrm are amazing. go listen to your brother's garage band and claim to be indie. in the meantime, outstanding music is coming out.
& though not listed, i have my own tix for them when they make their debut in los angeles. joy.
OMFG
yeah we saw the rakes and they were in support, i can't remember how they performed musically, this is probably quite shallow but what they were wearing was the most memorable.
The lead singer was sporting yellow skintight drainpipes, with an inside out t-shirt for ironic appeal. (somehow). He aspires to be ian curtis, thats a random fact, nothing to do with what they were wearing.
And the bassist i think or something else, the guiy with black curly hair. He looked like something from a nightmare, or a film i may have watched as a child. does anyone know who i mean?
and plus, ive forgotten the name of this film. It has a small boy in it who goes on an adventure with time hole travelling thieving dwarfs. time- something.
bandits
time bandits.
i'm inferring from this that they're some sort of dwarfcore outfit.
nah
it wasn't that the guitarist was short.
He reminded me of the bit in the film where they find his parents in the microwave or something in the microwave. and a bit of when the baddy blows up reeeeallly big and absorbs all the arrows or bullets. but not orange.
At
the risk of being shot down hard. I saw them they ROCKED. A lot better than lots of the selfindulgent shite being praised all the time.
i think
DiS poisoned me to them. They do it with a lot of bands. But then i suppose they just Open My Eyes.
White Rose - Fantastic Newcastle Show
WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT casually walk onto the stage looking calm and confident like they play there each and every night of the week.
They are met with much cheer and applause as we are greeted by swirling analogue synth chords and punchy bass lines while the singer 'Finn Vine' glides back and forth accross the stage like an robot on ice while delivering vocals with precise timming as 'Taxxi' female member on keyboards pounds us with a hypnotic melody that is still in my head this morning long after the gig is over.
This band are worth all the fuss that many were making in the que prior to the gig and the crowd are loving every minute of it. Already, only ten mins into the set, the crowd are jammed in tight and moving to this infectious rythmn, people are being hurled around over our heads. The singer 'Finn Vine' leaps from the stage and leans over the front safety barrier, the crowd surging forward to get a glimpse of this new found band, and cheekily asks the crowd 'what took you so long!'
The next track their new single 'Girls in the back' turns the crowd into a heaving swaying mass as again this hypnotic pumping synth swirls through our minds and its quite impossible to stand still to. The band is cheered by all and after brief thankyou's they quietly slip from the stage.
I hope this isnt the last time i see this band live - they are for me the star of the evening and deserve much more publicity because what they delivered tonight was truly spellbinding.
Andrew