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Blah Rubble Bicycle Cubs Fill Jack White's Slot

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Boring, boring, boring... nothing to see here...BRMC play Reading/Leeds.

Because poor old blues rip-off merchant Jack White of the White Shites has bust up his finger, they're not playing Reading and Leeds no more, as previously reported. They've been replaced by a band with one less song than the average festival punter will know, tho they will be ripping off a slightly different era of music to most of the bill.

Anyway, yeah, Mean Fiddler "are pleased to announce" that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will fill the White Stripes slot at this year’s Reading Rock... whoops, I mean, The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals. The band will play the Main Stage before headliners Blur on Saturday 23rd August at The Carling Weekend: Reading Festival and Sunday 24th August at The Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival.

Here, we don't want it, have some marketing spiel...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club release a new single 'Stop' on August 18th, which is followed by their second LP, 'Take Them On On Your Own' on August 25th. Their debut LP, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, released in 2001, was a critical and commercial highlight of the year achieving gold status in the UK. The band also won an NME Award for Best Video for the 'Whatever Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll' single and the album was featured in many of the year’s best LP’s lists.

DiScuss: What other overhyped band who've had one big single and an average selling album which was full of filler tracks will be added to the bill next? Can you say New Order and Spacemen 3? Am I wrong, are BRMC the greatest band in the history of the world ever and worthy of such a high billing on the biggest festival of the year?


Blah Rubble Bicycle Cubs Fill Jack Whites Slot

they really are incredible live, and it could actually work on the main stage

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yeah, they're quite good for a few songs, but in the sunshine infront of 40,000 people, prime time, not so sure it's gonna be very exciting or make me wanna dance, sing and/or cry. hardly the same as Muse last year or RATM the year before, that's for sure.

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not sunshine - dark by then

and rage was three years ago

ill try the beck

loser
devils haircut
new pollution (do do, da do do da dum, tiggle tiggle tiggle)
where its at
sexx laws
tropicana
mixed bizness

2 3rds there

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I just find it hard to believe that BRMC (few good singles, not greatly established, average album, average live) are on the bill above Beck (over a dozen well known singles, around for years, 7 great albums, the best thing i've ever seen live).

At least this solves the White Stripes vs. Cooper Temples/Mars Volta dilemma.

Re: Blah Rubble Bicycle Cubs Fill Jack Whites Slot

Beck - over a dozen well known singles?

go on them, name them, well know ones that is, to everyone etc

ollie.

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Mee Mee can name... and quote the bits to help folks remember...

Devils Haircut ("IN MY MIND!!)
Sexx Lawws ("i-i-i wanna defy, the logic of all..")
Loser ("so why don't you kill me?")
Where It's At ("got two turntables and a microphone")

That's half a set. He'll fill 10mins with some of his funky dance music, another 10 doing his lush acoustic stuff, few minutes stage show deejay headspinning on the decks and then leave.

And then Mee Mee will cry between mee mees thighs...

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Actually by the time of the festival BRMC will have two, critically-acclaimed, albums under their belts.

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...but not a tune in sight!

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Fuck me. Some of you really are children of the commercial revolution aren't you. Maybe you should check their placing on The Box chart before you go to decide whether they're worth seeing... BRMC are a band with the potential to move people (hell, to tears even), sometimes it's not all about hit singles y'know. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about? They make deep powerful music for you to get lost in and I think that's the perfect slot for them, seeing off the last straggles of daylight infront of a whopping crowd. Lights'll be good too. If those few good songs you talk about are the singles, then you probably haven't even given the album a chance, and you should. 'White Palms' and 'Rifles' for two are stunning live. And as for 'Salvation', takes your breath away. They have been hyped to hell, yes, but they exist outside of that hype. They'll make better use of that spot than The Strokes did with their lame headline effort last year, that's for sure. Hey, you never know, maybe they'll bring along some go-go dancers...

Oh and for fuck's sake, do yourself a favour and don't go and see the Cooper Temple Clause. If Glasto was anything to go by they're going to keep falling short for ever more. If it wasn't for that tit of a singer they might have a sporting chance. Twat.

Beck is a towering God of a man, and one of the best towering Gods of men on the planet. In all honesty though, he'll work better in the daylight than BRMC. Something nice to have your tea to. And if I hear anyone saying Sea Change was lame I'll be dishing out a deserved slap. He just continues to soar to new heights. God.

And Dave, don't worry, Linkin Park will be there to look after you on the Friday with their stockpile of tunes...

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My two cents:

Heard the singles - thought they were very average

Seen them live - was bored to tears. Wearing black and mumbling into the microphone doesnt make up for the lack of songs.

But nothing surprises me about this year's Reading, it really is the pits.

I think people only mentioned their commercial success, or lack of, as the music does nothing for them and they were looking to justify their billing some other way.

I bear them no ill will, but playing after Beck is a complete joke (he is, indeed, a towering god of a man..).

Oh, and I walked past the Cooper Temple Clause's set at Glastonbury. AAArrrrgghh. I quickened my pace.

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"this year's Reading, it really is the pits"

thing is people say that EVERY year.

the main stages are vaguely shitty this year but it seems like there's plenty decent stuff on the other stages.

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I'll make do with seeing Beck next to the beach in Spain next week. That way I'll have learned the songs in time for Reading.

Merry Xmas.

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Lighten up, it was a joke! Personally i don't happen to think very much of what BRMC do, more of a Mary Chain man myself with Spiritualized for the rest of it, but obviously some people like them. There's no need to accuse people who like some form of melody to appear somewhere in music of being teenyboppers!

Enjoy BRMC if you're going.

Michael
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Blah Rubble Bicycle Cubs Fill Jack White's Slot

Yeah, you may remember we said this back when the original line up was announced.

Could it be that White Stripes never intended to play at all?

Either way, BRMC will be fucking superb.

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They were pretty amazing at the forum last night.




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