BOC-L Digest - 9 Sep 2004 to 10 Sep 2004 (#2004-223)

[CWarburton at OAG.COM]

> Date:    Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:52:05 +0100
> From:    Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
> Subject: Re: OFF: Hi Again
>
> Jon Jarrett wrote:
> >         I don't rate Foo Fighters myself, but maybe I just haven't
> > heard the good stuff. I'd back Queens of the Stone Age against them
> > for the MTV2-friendly end of things, but now that QotSA are working
> > without Nick Oliveri *or* Dave Grohl I think their tiem may be over.
>
> I never found either QotSA or the Foo Fighters fully
> satisfying. I mean, the Foos particularly have occasionally
> turned out well-crafted little pop-rock numbers -- I'll snap
> fingers whilst humming along to "Times Like These" with the
> best of 'em -- I've never warmed to either band's output as a
> whole.  They just never seemed like enough _fun_.

Well, I don't know about "fun" as such, but the more I hear of the Foos, the more I like them.  I took Julius to see them (his first real gig) and we had a rocking good time - the only downside being that it was ****ing Wembley Arena and we were stuck at the back on thye sideways seats... QotSA do alright for me too, but my personal advice is to avoid "The Eagles Of Death Metal" side project like the plague - and no, they're not death-metal in any shape or form, more like a bad country-polka-rock band.

> >         But yeah, even I begin to worry that the new bands aren't
> > coming up like they used to. I'm in the wrong place to be seeing it
> > though because Cambridge's music scene is dead as Dawson and Crick.

There are new bands coming through, but they're not necessarily (at the moment) to the taste of habitués of this list - the whole ska/punk scene seems to be truly thriving judging by my son's idea of a good night out.  Jon may wish to note that Josiah (who opened Canterbury a coupla years back) are still going, and appear to be recording now (I heard some stuff on (believe it or not) Radio Scotland while on holiday.
While I wouldn't knock tribute/cover bands - I was most entertained by Whole Lotta Led recently - I think that the large number of them that are touring may be having a stultifying effect on small venues.

> Effing dead, so it is :P   Anyone want to start a no-frills spacerock
> band? :)

Sounds good to me, if we can synchronise our calendars and find a suitable location to rehearse...

> Cheers,
> Carl

TTFN
ChrisW
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