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I will be there too my friend and you need have no fears you are heading for a brilliant night. He is doing the whole of The River album followed by a mix of oldies that changes every set and you will I am sure be won over. It will be my seventh time of watching my second favourite artist of all tim...

The National- quality American indie outfit. Playing their albums Boxer and High Violet a lot at mo.


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Top five members of 5ive 1 that bloke with the boy band style haircut 2 That other bloke with the rather similar boy band style haircut 3 that third bloke with a boy band style haircut that was a bit different to the other two 4 that bloke with a boy band style haircut that never really worked 5 Abz

Top 5 punk/new wave

1 Stranglers
2 Clash
3 Jam
4 Ramones
5 The Boys

Top 5 non-punk

1 Springsteen
2 Arcade Fire
3 Dexys
4 Beatles
5 Killers

Top 5 people called Norman

1 Norman Normal
2 Norman Wisdom
3 Norman Hunter
4 Norman the Doorman
5 Norman Conquest

theraven1979 wrote:Busted
Green Day
Buggles
Snap
Metallica


Jim

Nailed it there Jim. Bought the Buggles greatest hits album last week – four minutes of sheer quality that.

Mobile phones in the cinema. Went to see Spectre again yesterday - even better second time around – and the people either side of me clearly couldn't get through the whole film without looking at their phone, texting responding to other people. It's irritating enough in itself but in a completely da...

Would grab four (well, you don't know how long you going to be on that island!) -

London Calling - The Clash
All Mod Cons - The Jam
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Don't Stand Me Down - Dexys

Ps I do hope the island has electricity....

Jon I always like your posts and even share your dislike of Mercury Rising but I am definitely leaving your fan club now as you say you hate Dexys. How could you old boy??? Dexys are IMHO one of the greatest British bAnds of all time and along with the MiB and Springsteen (which also may well produc...

That was indeed an interesting article and a lot of it reads true. Perhaps unlike many people reading this forum I actually do get a vote in the selection because I've been a member of the Labour Party since the age of 16 - which is also incidentally the age when I first saw the Stranglers which sho...

Anyone else like The Courteneers? I love them and think they are quality indie song writers who have made four very enjoyable albums with glorious melodies abounding.

Happy to (and expect to!) be alone in this on this 'ere forum - but would love it even more if someone agreed.

People who say 'you can't have your cake and eat it'. Really? Then what is the point of having the cake? It is the worst oft-used phrase ever: it is like saying 'you can't have your car and drive it'. A close second is the over-use of literally. My wife once told me she had 'literally' died laughin...

People who say 'you can't have your cake and eat it'. Really? Then what is the point of having the cake? It is the worst oft-used phrase ever: it is like saying 'you can't have your car and drive it'. A close second is the over-use of literally. My wife once told me she had 'literally' died laughing...