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Anyone else think this monthhs NME article on the 25th September gig was crap? for instance one quote went along the lines of "the usual" (fuck that) "opening trio of French Open, Balloons and Olympic Airways seemed clumsy and old, the band knew it and so did the crowd". I mean I don't know about any of you but that is just bollocks. None of their songs get old in my opinion, and it deffinately wasn't clumsy. The writer can't even get the set list in the right order, saying how "a quick red socks pugie spilled out into Yannis beating the fuck out of a floor tom" (or something along those lines). corect me if I'm wrong (seriously), but I'm pretty sure Electric Bloom "spilled out" into red Socks Pugie, I remember forgetting they still had other songs to play at the time and hearing Red Socks Pugie after a song they usually do last was cool imo.

Thta's just my opinion, but I just thought the writer was just trying to get some fame out of writing an article for a well known band??

If any of you guys went say what you think...

We don't get the NME here in Australia, thankfully, but I just want to say something: the band have one album and Hummer/Mathletics that they play live.. if he was trying to say it was "old and boring", what the fuck else are they supposed to play, being a relatively new band.

Yeh I know what you mean, te man knows nothing.

nme = wank. dont listen to it. dont buy it. just flick through it in a store and make notes on bands you havent heard of.

(i havent read it but:) i think what he was trying to comment on was the order of the songs, which have been the same all through the summer festivals + the old america tour. so the setlist was quite predictable? i dunno.

kyle has a point too.

I don't understand why someone would need to swear in writing other than in an e-mail or on Facebook. The writer might think it sounds cool and blunt to say "fuck" in an article that is going to be published in a relatively prominent magazine, but really they just come off as a six year old who has just learnt what "sod" means.



So actually they're completely in tune with their target audience.

I actually think NME don't go to the gigs they review.

ive never actually bought nme. i dont intend to either.

^^me neither. don't think I've ever bought a music mag actually. only mag I've ever bought is one issue of another man...

i stopped reading the nme many years ago because it is written by sarcastic six year olds who have just learnt what the word 'sod' means

Yeh, there's a flaw in college. You can either buy NME for £2.30, or you can go to the library in your long lunch hours and pic up the issue there, read it, then go away. . I agree, hate it when "really cooooooolllllllllllll" writers swear. Just a twattish thing to do really

ah, NME shows off its true colours again... a shitty music magazine that's only good for looking up new music. (ignore all reviews, just look up the bands)

The Fly > NME.

i only flick through nme when my mum takes me to asda.
i read it for the info, not for nme's opinion on shit

do you pretend to read it but look up and grin at people in search of attention instead??

Can you even read yet?