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I also saw Bob Dylan at Hop Farm Kent about 12 years ago, that was turd!!!
I am a big 60s head and like Dylan on record but that gig pissed me off, the only highlight was I kissed a girl I liked at the end of it, but the gig itself sucked so much
best Spritiualized 1997 London Astoria - I was 11 years old, a real music head, went alone as my folks were quite trusting of my whereabouts.... mind blown.... set the course of deep music love.
worst - One of the band I play in gigs in Belgium, just an absolute disaster, wrong type of venue for us, wrong audience, wrong day a Saturday night when loads of young folks were out and then to top it off, the Belgian police losing their shit with us when we were loading the gear into our van.
I don't think anything will be the worst gig than that.
I doubt I will be buying this one, I'll probably get it on Ebay in a few years when its £20
I will agree with the poster above, it just doesn't feel very QPR. I like the nod to the old badge, But I think the design is a bit bad, the collar, the black itself, I also don't really get the "rasta" colour scheme.
I mean don't get me wrong, I am in favour of having a nod to the localities' west indies roots/population and all, but it just feels a bit phoney and cliche, doesn't really make sense to me really.
I also find the PR of these a bit odd too... the home one had some random bloke screaming at the camera and this one had some odd Ikea couple going about the shopping centre.
On one hand I get involving the local shopping centre and using John Lewis, but I think there are better ways at trying to attract local fans... John Lewis won't be the answer.
Although not a cry-fest at all, this is for the Mazzy Star heads, are you aware of Kendra Smith, original Mazzy Star singer when the group was called Opal. This tune and her solo LP is great. She's a bit reclusive, but I actually feel she's got more of a edge over Hope Sandoval in the artistic stakes. Hope, obviously has a great voice and looked great. But Kendra Smith, has something special going on.
I would actually elevate her to the weird zone of where songwriters are actual artists. Bush is in that level which seldom any musicians can actually get too.
She's there because she's been inventive, her lyrics are good, her songs have emotional depth, the albums are decent and she started so young and NEVER sold out. For me, Kate is in this strange place of ARTIST MUSICIAN which very few actually get to.
Some songs and albums get into this zone, but its rare for an actual person to be there IMO.
if anyone else can think of other GENIUS' who are like Kate, post them and explain why.
Adding to the guy who mentioned Mick Head. Although I am not super keen on his solo work, he wrote some of the best songs of the 80s in Pale Fountains and 90s in Shack.
For me Shack's Waterpistol album is about as perfect a Britpop era LP gets.
I definitely feel Mick Head is a way better writer than Lee Mavers for example, but Lee Mavers wrote one of the all-time best songs ever in There She Goes, as much as everyone complains about Mavers not doing much since, this tune is timeless and is definitely one of the best in UK music from 1957-til now.
for me the guys from Liverpool shat over the guys from Manchester if you get me gist, there's something in the Mersey with alters the consciousness.
Another bloke from the same neck of the woods, who I feel also doesn't get the recognition he deserves is Julian Cope.
The guy knows how to knock out a nice melody and writes songs really well, even his more 80s style over-produced work, had great tunes.
I think he's pretty dynamic too, with off-the-wall weirdo pop like his LP Fried, his really a-typical 80s style indie pop with LP's like My Nation Underground, Saint Julian and World Shut Your Mouth. He then made two epic albums in the 90s - Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill and has since done a load of really cool outsider style stuff not too mention he was the driving force of 70s group Teardrop Explodes and later Brain Donor which were really different heavy but in a good and fun way.
From the South, I'd also add Robyn Hitchcock, I was talking to a mate recently about him, The guy is a great song-smith but his album output has been hit or miss.
Anyone who likes Hitchcock should check out his lesser-known equal The Cleaners from Venus (Martin Newell) the first 4 CFV albums are DIY pop greatness.
Another songwriter I like is Douglas P (Crisis and Death In June), what I like about Douglas P is since the formation of Death in June in the early 80s, he's more or less just sounded the same and done the same thing. In a way its like the opposite of Cope, there isn't variety but he does his own thing really well. I am always interested by groups that kind of stick with their style of writing and go with it for their whole career easily identifiable groups in this vein would be The Fall and Stereolab for example. But Douglas P he's the same but really has some very haunting tunes that make you feel a certain way.
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