| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1487 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anyone hereabouts going to see Canadian powerpoppers Sloan at the Spectrum on Oxford St tomorrow night? Please send me an email if you are. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 647 Registered: 01-2005 |
A tidbit I learned about Sloan from listening to way too much Canadian radio in the 90's, the band came up with the name while releaving themselves in a urinal and noticed the name of manufacturer of the of the urinal, Sloan. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1992 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hmm, good thing it was that brand. Kohler doesn't have the same appeal... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 29 Registered: 05-2005 |
So if there's ever a tribute band, will they be called portaloo? (I'm going to see Engine Alley in Kilkenny, so unless the "beam me up scotty" has actually been invented, I don't think I'll make it!) | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 649 Registered: 08-2006 |
What!?! Dude, Kohler totally rocks! American Standard was okay, but they just weren't the same after their guitar player OD'd. Does this qualify as bathroom humor? Does it qualify as humor, period? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 35 Registered: 03-2007 |
It's certainly a bit more hip sounding than Armitage Shanks. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1223 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm reminded of my last trip to the EU. I kept seeing these "Ideal Standard" fixtures in front of me and then -- ding! -- I realized where April March got the idea for her song of that title (which is about an abusive alcoholic father). | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Pádraig - not going to Sloan. But I am going to the Metro tonight to check out UK powerpoppers 'The View'. I don't know anything about them but a mate has convinced me I should go - based almost entirely on the strength of the blurb he got below from the Metro. Totally OTT press release - I'll let you know next week if they live up to this ridiculous hype! Spence - your a man with a finger on the UK zeitgeist. Has The View backlash started there yet? >>>THE VIEW, THE VIEW, THE VIEW are on fire…..so goes the chant from their rabid fans at their apocalyptic sold out UK gigs. Seemingly from nowhere to Number 1 in the UK album charts, an NME song of the year and audiences in excess of 5000 in a matter of minutes….there can be no doubt that THE VIEW, THE VIEW, THE VIEW are indeed, on fire. The Australian tour dates will be a bit like seeing the Sex Pistols, Oasis or The Arctic Monkeys in a tiny pub before anyone else knew about them. Sharpen your pencils, get your tickets coz this ones going down in the history books. Its riot rock and it’s the sound of a teenage band euphorically re-energising guitar music with a swagger, a grin and a belly full of real life punk flecked top pop tunes. It’s the sound of the streets of Dryburgh, Dundee filtered into songs that are certifiable anthems reaching for the stars. Some people are saying they are a generation defining zeitgeist band. We’re saying we think it will be a pretty good gig!<<< | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 118 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of urinal porcelain - how about Adamant? Whenever I'm relieving myself on it I think of a certain UK punk. | ||
| frank webb Member Username: Frank Post Number: 9 Registered: 05-2005 |
My son tells me the music played to introduce Sloan on stage at Spectrum in Sydney was "Streets Of Your Town" .... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1490 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'd forgotten that Frank! Yes, they did. I'm glad I went but they were probably too jetlagged. I heard someone saying afterwards that they didn't look like they were really into it. They didn't, but tiredness will do that to you. I'm assuming they didn't fly first class to play a few 200 capacity, $30 gigs in Australia! They played my favourite song of theirs, The Good In Everyone, as the penultimate song in the regular set. The also played a lot of their current, great, album Never Hear the End of It (30 songs on one disc!). Have a listen to your son's Sloan discs Frank. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 120 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dunno if they quite lived up to the hype, but The View were great in concert at the Metro in Sydney on Friday night. Four kids from Dundee with an average age of under 20 banging out a relentless stream of powerpop with energy and conviction. I guess it what if must have been like seeing The Undertones or The Buzzcocks early in their careers.... |