DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?
Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s.
During 2008, I attended a shameful total of 4 gigs. To compensate this, I am trying to go to as many as possible during 2009. Having only just turned 17, I can’t drive yet, and am pretty lazy so won’t be learning any time soon. Not being able to drive means I struggle to find means of transport to and from gigs. This is a documentation of my journey through 2009 so far. Exciting, right?
You’ll know this lot. They’re the ones who released 2007’s weirdest single, ‘Bathroom Gurgle’: a behemoth of sound pretty much unprecedented in mainstream indie-pop with its threefold ability to be at once completely inexplicable, completely like Queen and a completely sensible thing to create. I mean, why the hell not? If you cross gender-indeterminate wails of pleasure/pain with quadruped rhythms lifted from an aerobics programme as practised by NASA, then sure, people are gonna LOVE it. D’you really think the public wants to slouch around beneath a beige veneer, dribbling into Caffè Nero froth? Nah. It’s all pretence. What people actually want is their drums to sound like 20 heathens bashing Neolithic totems into the ground; their falsettos to be sung by asexual witches casting a hex on the chorus.
Hmm. Tonight Alvin Stardust is playing…..verrrrrrrrrrrrrry tempting…but i think maybe Telepathe/Pens/chew Lips are a good bet too…hmmm. hmmm. hmml
pick n mix your own pops…
Telepathe!
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