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Thursday 26 February 2009
Monday 23 February 2009
Silver Spoons and Broken Bones - The Stone Gods
The Darkness were something of a Marmite band: you either love 'em or hate 'em. People that leant more towards the 'hate them' side were usually because they couldn't stand Justin Hawkins' ear-splitting castrato and questionable dress-sense. Thus, I present to you the Stone Gods, made up of the remaining Darkness members following Justin's departure, and they are everything that you would expect 3/4 of the Darkness to sound like.
Bassist Richie Edwards has moved centre stage and taken on as the vocalist, and he is everything that Justin wasn't. His voice is deeper and raspier, think Rod Stewart during his rockier moments. Edwards knows how to summarise his feeling in a few short words, for example in lead single Knight of the Living Dead he succinctly expresses his feeling towards a lady friend: 'Fuck! You! You Liaaar!'
The Stone Gods style is a throwback to late-70s hard rock and though perhaps somewhat out of fashion it is refreshing to hear a band strip back the sound and belt out some land-fill indie obliterating riffage. There ain't no pussy shit here - the Stone Gods know how to rock like only the British know.
SSABB is at its best when the riffs and solos are flying, but the band pulls off the quieter moments with aplomb too. Magdalen Street is a predominantly accoustic strummy song about a prostitute with a heart of gold and is suited far better by Edwards' gravelly rough sounding voice.
Anyone dissapointed by the break up of the Darkness or simply looking for an alternative to the boring indie clogging the airwaves need look no further
4.5/5
Bassist Richie Edwards has moved centre stage and taken on as the vocalist, and he is everything that Justin wasn't. His voice is deeper and raspier, think Rod Stewart during his rockier moments. Edwards knows how to summarise his feeling in a few short words, for example in lead single Knight of the Living Dead he succinctly expresses his feeling towards a lady friend: 'Fuck! You! You Liaaar!'
The Stone Gods style is a throwback to late-70s hard rock and though perhaps somewhat out of fashion it is refreshing to hear a band strip back the sound and belt out some land-fill indie obliterating riffage. There ain't no pussy shit here - the Stone Gods know how to rock like only the British know.
SSABB is at its best when the riffs and solos are flying, but the band pulls off the quieter moments with aplomb too. Magdalen Street is a predominantly accoustic strummy song about a prostitute with a heart of gold and is suited far better by Edwards' gravelly rough sounding voice.
Anyone dissapointed by the break up of the Darkness or simply looking for an alternative to the boring indie clogging the airwaves need look no further
4.5/5
Sunday 22 February 2009
The First One and the Dark Knight
Whey, my first blog, and it only took an hour trying to find a URL that wasn't taken.
So, to start, three reasons why the Dark Knight is overrated:
1. The characters suck. Did anyone care when Rachel died? No, she was a whiney bitch.
2. The plot made no sense. So let me get this straight, everything that the joker did up to blowing the guy up with the mobile was orchestrated by him? That guy has some seriously good foreward planning.
3. The bat-bike sucked hugely. Despite Mr. Nolans best effort to disguise it, it was patently obvious that it had a top speed of 30mph and basically couldn't turn.
Disclaimer: I said it was overrated not bad, it still gets a 4.5/5 from me, I just think its not the like, totally the best mover everrr.
So, to start, three reasons why the Dark Knight is overrated:
1. The characters suck. Did anyone care when Rachel died? No, she was a whiney bitch.
2. The plot made no sense. So let me get this straight, everything that the joker did up to blowing the guy up with the mobile was orchestrated by him? That guy has some seriously good foreward planning.
3. The bat-bike sucked hugely. Despite Mr. Nolans best effort to disguise it, it was patently obvious that it had a top speed of 30mph and basically couldn't turn.
Disclaimer: I said it was overrated not bad, it still gets a 4.5/5 from me, I just think its not the like, totally the best mover everrr.
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