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Lineup: Youthmovies
Date: 18/05/2003
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by Adie Nunn
Here we have another band who fully embody the phrase drowned in sound. Noise for noise's sake or noodling 'post' 'rock'? Four malnourished boyz with little hair make their second sojourn unto one of London's favourite pissy little venue stages, but to use an old cliché - NOT FOR LONG, LIKE. (Their next time in town will be supporting Hope Of The States at ICA, which is a nice step up.)

Easy references for those too dumb to read between the lines: ooooh let's say, ooh, Radiohead, Trail Of Dead, Sigur Ros, Tortoise… There's 5-10 minutes of faffing around with laptops and weird-looking electronic Theremin-type equipment before 'The If Works' finally kicks in and the "spastic stop-start" (their words) madness ensues. It's all grrrreat. All four songs of it. Get in.

But hey, where is the atmosphere in this place? There are people sitting on the floor, for smeg's sake. Where to hide? It's not like you could seek refuge in a vat full of kittens. Those kittens' got claws. They get up, eventually, but a silenced awe remains aside from one or two minor heckles from 'mates' in the crowd.

Dark, creepy, and eerie - as long as they don't stray too far into their experimental jazz phase this early then Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies will splatter your brains and soothe your soul.

You know when you've been Tango-d.

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Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

Apparently offered some sweet assed Simon Williams style Fierce Panda action.

No?

Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

they sounds inneresting. i wanna see em.

terrible name though :-\ =emu= as fuck.

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Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

WOT? It was the name wot made me want to listen to them in the first place!

Bah.

Grrrr they're not one of those =emu= bands.

Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

well i know.. the review didn't suggest any emo-ness. just..the name. it's a very emu name.

the 80s matchbox b-line disaster can get away with having a ludicrous name, because they're very clearly ludicrous individuals. [in the best way, i'm sure.] but...ergh. that name is just.. i'd never remember it. it would never stick in my brain..it looks like it was thrown at random from a computerised Emu Name Generator.

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Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

the cooper temple clause actually REFERS to something though :-p

[actually it refers to lots of things, they just don't seem to wanna make up their mind on exactly which one...]

and it's a memorable acronym. TCTC.

i'm clutching at straws here. someone gimme a hand.

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Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

youthmovie soundtrack strategies is a marketing strategy: it's a specific form of vertical intergration used in the music industry wherein they get songs by shit bands like 'wheatus' to be on the soundtracks of shit films like 'dude where's my car', by doing this they are able to elevate the notoriety of both without actaually having to convince the public that they are both good in their own right (because they are not).

Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

tsk.

and to think i did media studies for four years and didn't know that.

*hides under rock*

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Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

TCTC got their name from an old education act that was passed through parliament- look it up. I was told that by the band in 1998.

That is why Didz and pals will never tell you where they got the name from cos it SUCKS!

Somewhat like their music.

Re: Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies - London Kentish Town Bull and Gate

i knew this. on account of my history&politics-student sister telling me every time i mention the band. ;) it was something to do with catholic schools, wasn't it??

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