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by g.spaceman
Mon May 08, 2006 10:10 pm
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: Spacemen 3 Tribute Band
Replies: 11
Views: 4728

Re: sound of confusion - 20/05/06

anorthernsoul wrote:the spacemen 3 tribute band the sound of confusion are playing in chorlton, manchester on saturday the twentieth of may. also on the bill are sundowner and so mortal be, who are both great. you should go. it's four pounds.
What pub/venue in Chorlton are they playing?
by g.spaceman
Thu May 04, 2006 3:02 pm
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: Forged Prescriptions
Replies: 7
Views: 3366

I totally agree, apparently a lot of the demos on Forged Precriptions were intended as templates for release but J & Sonic (I assume both - don't take my word for it!) wanted to make the album simpler so they could reproduce it live easier. I find this curious when such a sonically (no pun...) s...
by g.spaceman
Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Good underground bands anyone?
Replies: 22
Views: 3621

Try http://www.theearlyyears.net for some good downloads and a link to their myspace page where there should still be some more goodies.
by g.spaceman
Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:12 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: chip buddy
Replies: 56
Views: 10762

I'm currently having to jack off the chips as my chip buddy is having her jaw wired up.

I may have to consider looking for another friend to eat with, maybe I could find a nice looking pie partner if I hang around outside Greggs during my lunchtime :?
by g.spaceman
Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:08 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Last five albums/lp's you bought?
Replies: 2585
Views: 658407

a beautiful noise wrote:hey g.spaceman,

how is that 'fans only' release from b&s??



thanks

Really good mix of biography and tunes -worth checking out, or at least dl'ing
by g.spaceman
Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:26 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Last five albums/lp's you bought?
Replies: 2585
Views: 658407

BJM - Methodrone
Jam - 'Live Jam'
Jam - Setting Sons
Jam - Sound Affects
Belle & Sebastian - Fans Only
by g.spaceman
Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:27 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Howling Bells + Greenspace + Simon Raymonde (Apr 20)
Replies: 4
Views: 2236

Soniccathedral - surely you should be mentioning this Wednesday's fantastic line up with the superb Early Years with dj'ing from Tim Holmes (death in Vegas) who produced the Early Years last single, and did a mighty fine job!
by g.spaceman
Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:07 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Howling Bells + Greenspace + Simon Raymonde (Apr 20)
Replies: 4
Views: 2236

I saw Greenspace around 1 year ago at the old Riverside in Newcastle (purely because got in free) and they were a bit bland, but showed some promise...not sure I'd be that bothered about seeing them again but they could have come on in leaps and bounds by now. They were far better than the 2 other b...
by g.spaceman
Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:50 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Spiritualized on the TV
Replies: 14
Views: 3961

Cheers for that - any chance we can get the whole set they played?
by g.spaceman
Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:15 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Guitar Loops #25 of 500
Replies: 10
Views: 2865

Re: Guitar Loops #25 of 500

Cerealization wrote:That's pretty darn low.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1
Seems like the guy who thought it was worth $50 likes his Coldplay remixes :?
by g.spaceman
Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:06 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: mother mix
Replies: 5
Views: 2307

Re: mother mix

eeee22 wrote:she liked 'the wall' once when i was first listening to it
Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Mother, should I build a wall?
by g.spaceman
Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:44 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Medication £33?
Replies: 51
Views: 12078

Medication on Pure Phase is surely a far better version. I got the original 12" on eBay a couple of years ago for about fiver, just for those Peel Session tracks. The red vinyl 7" looks really cool mind especially alongside Lay Back in the Sun 7" etc, but even that still isn't worth Â...
by g.spaceman
Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:53 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Han Bennink London 19 Jan 2006 *DAB*
Replies: 16
Views: 4088

I've got a copy of the Radio 3 show from a few Friday's ago. It's got some of this at the end (aswell as some other Han Bennink stuff and a pretty decent interview with him). If anyone wants a copy PM me. It's the full 90 minutes from Radio 3 and is in MP3 format. Any chance you can put it on youse...
by g.spaceman
Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:33 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Audiophile Help
Replies: 11
Views: 2365

What would seem appropriate is a purpose built headphone amp - QED make them for under £100 (or used to) but for a little more a Musical Fidelity or Creek are worth listen. There are more upmarket valve headphone amps I've seen but they don't come cheap. The headphone circuit in your Technics will ...
by g.spaceman
Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:56 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Red Rose
Replies: 5
Views: 1535

I'm coming down for this and then another gig on Friday, staying quite near Seven Sisters Rd. The last one sounds good from the descriptions I've read here - is this gig likely to be much different?
by g.spaceman
Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:43 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Glastonbury
Replies: 2
Views: 1408

Re: Glastonbury

I've managed to download a couple of Spz Glastonbury gigs off of SoulSeek. I think 1 of them is from 1998 (a kind of shortened version of the Albert Hall set) and the other is from 2002. Does anyone know if either of these gigs were captured on film (perhaps as part of the official BBC coverage)? T...
by g.spaceman
Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:32 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Favorite Lyric
Replies: 44
Views: 9158

a beautiful noise wrote:well probably because the sun always fucking shines over here

"lay back in the sun.."
I ain't all that sunny up here, but those feel-good words always brighten my day...usually make it warm as the dope running down my spine 8)
by g.spaceman
Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:27 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: 2005 - albums of the year
Replies: 23
Views: 7676

There's not been that many future classic albums this year from what I've heard, but off the top of my head I'd say:

1) Engineers - Engineers
2) The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike

...have yet to be convinced of the longevity of others :?:
by g.spaceman
Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:22 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Happy, Upbeat Spz Songs, and more...
Replies: 12
Views: 2531

The live show hasn't always had the same amount of noise, - they started off very quiet. I think they've got progressively louder and more intense since then. Although if the show they played at the Sage gig year year is any pointer, they could be moving to a softer, slightlly more mellow sound. I ...
by g.spaceman
Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:01 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Interesting Morrissey statement
Replies: 11
Views: 2504

Mike Joyce is currently selling demos and other Smiths stuff via a third party on eBay - obviously the demos are not his (intellectual) property to sell as they have not been officially released, presumably this is why he is using someone else to sell them. It seems curious though if he is so comfor...
by g.spaceman
Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:45 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: R.I.P. George Best
Replies: 43
Views: 11157

Fuzzhead wrote:G Spaceman, you sound like such a fine human being.
Well hand on heart I can say I have not knocked about more than one wife nor ruined more than one liver, and if Eamonn Holmes shows up at my funeral I hope my family and friends treat him with the contempt and disdain worthless TV celebs deserve.
by g.spaceman
Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:43 am
Forum: Other
Topic: R.I.P. George Best
Replies: 43
Views: 11157

a few people have said now that theyre not surprised at the reaction of a section of the leeds and liverpool fans... perhaps my faith in the decency of human beings is too much, but i was pretty surprised that even through the bitterness they couldnt rise above club loyalities (and im not buying th...
by g.spaceman
Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:33 am
Forum: Other
Topic: New Joke
Replies: 2
Views: 1525

New Joke

Variation on a theme...

How many Spiritualized fans does it take to fix a message board?

Answers on a postcard, closing date 19th November 2009 :(
by g.spaceman
Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:41 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Fuckwitted Islamic Cybergeeks...
Replies: 16
Views: 4196

Thanks!
by g.spaceman
Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:03 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Fuckwitted Islamic Cybergeeks...
Replies: 16
Views: 4196

Fuckwitted Islamic Cybergeeks...

...are a bunch of cunts :x

I can only get on to the 'Other' part of the forum but has anyone had any unwarrented intrusions apart from the redirection?
by g.spaceman
Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:43 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Engineers
Replies: 21
Views: 6537

They were criminally wasted at Glastonbury starting the Other Stage at 11am on Saturday, but what I heard from my (reasonably close by) tent sounded as good live as they are on the album,, shame I didn't get up for them! I heard about them by chance a few months before, but until now hadn't read/hea...
by g.spaceman
Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:37 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Methadone
Replies: 47
Views: 12144

Re: "DRUGS NOT JOBS"

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by g.spaceman
Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:47 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Best ever Spacemen 3 / Spiritualized show?
Replies: 108
Views: 57650

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by g.spaceman
Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:25 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Best ever Spacemen 3 / Spiritualized show?
Replies: 108
Views: 57650

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by g.spaceman
Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:47 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Methadone
Replies: 47
Views: 12144

Re: "DRUGS NOT JOBS"

What about the Doherty Technique? Fuck up The Worlds 'Biggest' Supermodel TM 's life and indeed career....while you pile on the pounds and create the most dismal fuckin' shitey music ever heard....ever... I reckon fucking Kate Moss would help...but when you're rattling you get so horney you'd proba...
by g.spaceman
Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:34 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

And whoever it was (bad with names) What fiddle set up did you find worked? I got a solid based one (which i made in gcse woodwork - the quality shows) which i'm willing to abuse as much as possible (again good musical murder weaponage) and a normal violin that i relly don't want to hurt. Any advic...
by g.spaceman
Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:00 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

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by g.spaceman
Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:06 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

ORBITAL wrote:Shonn. YOu have been convictd by your peers of first degree celloside. Take him down.
Celloside - inventive verbosity of the highest order :D
by g.spaceman
Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:19 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

ORBITAL wrote:Yep. YOure right. I wouldnt let Shonn set about the poor lass.
....however if he did, I reckon a cello would make an excellent weapon, plus you could easily dispose of the evidence in a small fire :D
by g.spaceman
Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:25 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

ORBITAL wrote:Let her have it the next day.
Now she really doesn't deserve that :shock:
by g.spaceman
Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:04 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

I guess it's a bit harder to pick up your cello, stool etc and leave the stage than it is with a fiddle! I was always surprised how well you could hear the fiddle in the main mix. Does your cello player have a solid bodied instrument or a pickup on a normal cello? I think the cello is one of the mos...
by g.spaceman
Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:48 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: U.S Recommendations?
Replies: 13
Views: 3786

spzretent wrote: It also has Studio A intact. This is the same freaking studio where all the hits were recorded. Saying it was hallowed ground is an understatement. The place was magical.
Je suis trés envious...sounds rather good!
by g.spaceman
Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:31 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: U.S Recommendations?
Replies: 13
Views: 3786

TheWarmth wrote:I can help with Chicago:

My band, The Saturday Nights, is playing on Sat. Oct. 15th. Not sure when you'll be here..
He'll probably knackered afer all that record shopping it you's have anything to do with it :)
by g.spaceman
Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:50 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: hissy fits
Replies: 23
Views: 5891

Had it happen to me when I played electric fiddle in a few bands years ago several times - I found (stage permitting...if there was one!) the easiest thing was to go out and stand in front of the PA, curiously never got any feedback from that unless I stood absurdly close, but I guess it looked stra...
by g.spaceman
Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:50 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: New Spiritualized T-shirt
Replies: 24
Views: 9501

purespace wrote:I quite like my 'highest show on earth' shirt, but can't help wondering why it couldn't have been a nice blue like the classic logo shirts.

Yeah, but it glows in the dark !!! I love mine :D

It does look pretty cool...in the dark
by g.spaceman
Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:37 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: New Spiritualized T-shirt
Replies: 24
Views: 9501

hey hey, e.a.r; just a quick note ... i haven't got any of those t-shirts kicking around spare, but i shouldn't think they've sold out. they were a tenner at the festival hall concert and they might've been at the sage gig, so it's worth putting a shout out to someone on here asking if they'll pick...
by g.spaceman
Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:20 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Favorite Live Albums
Replies: 29
Views: 6051

Simon & Garfunkel - 'Live in New York City 1967' ...just 2 voices and 1 guitar
Paul Simon 'You're the One' tour DVD (Paris 2001)
by g.spaceman
Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:14 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: how fucking nuts is this? coogan and courtney love...
Replies: 10
Views: 3015

...unlike Bangkok Chickboys, even though he only watched it for 5 mins :wink:
by g.spaceman
Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:25 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: how fucking nuts is this? coogan and courtney love...
Replies: 10
Views: 3015

back of the net!
by g.spaceman
Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:29 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: how fucking nuts is this? coogan and courtney love...
Replies: 10
Views: 3015

ORBITAL wrote:Good to see he's taking care of all her sexual.....intercourse.
Apparently she prefers a fitness instructor who's an idiot, he drinks that yellow stuff in tins!
by g.spaceman
Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:03 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: favorite movie soundtracks?
Replies: 65
Views: 12097

Aimee Mann's songs from Magnolia which actually inspired the film as well as featuring in it.
by g.spaceman
Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:38 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Audiophile help
Replies: 6
Views: 2645

If you're going to spending nearly £100 or more on phones you should look at a specialist headphone amp - try looking for a s/h Musical Fidelity or any of the decent hi-fi brands. Whilst Technics amps did achieve a degree of acclaim in the 1980s and early 90s, like virtually all affordable amps fro...
by g.spaceman
Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:57 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Island Arts Centre, N.I. - 17th August 2004
Replies: 9
Views: 1988

Re: Island Arts Centre, N.I. - 17th August 2004

Spiritualized - Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N.Ireland - 17th August 2004. Hi Guys, I have thought long and hard about what to do with my recording (please see my other post - "Rare Recording" Missing Post) I hope some of you will understand how hurt and annoyed I was to have something I ...
by g.spaceman
Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:51 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: "Rare Recording" (Missing Post?)
Replies: 49
Views: 9232

If you ever find yourself in a hostage situation try and take a shot anywhere along the central line . He's going down. If you get close enough try a headshot. Again, he's going down. haha, a bit of Partridge there!? :lol: ...and you really can't beat a bit of Partridge :lol: Seriously though - how...
by g.spaceman
Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:29 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Music to wake up to
Replies: 45
Views: 9722

I just noticed someone mentioned the Engineers above - great band but would wake you gently rather that rouse you vigorously.
by g.spaceman
Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:44 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Music to wake up to
Replies: 45
Views: 9722

Not the Jam, but for a while I was using the Style Council's Shout to the Top 12" to get started in the morning. Oh, hang on, maybe this should go in the guilty pleasures thread.... No, no, no! The Style Council are another criminally underrated band - I think their lyrics are often in the vei...
by g.spaceman
Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:31 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Music to wake up to
Replies: 45
Views: 9722

Saturday's kids live life with insults, drink lots of beer..

I recommend anything by The Jam to get you up in the morning: Thick as thieves us, we'd stick together for all time, And we meant it but it turns out just for a while, we stole...the friendship that bound us together... We stole from the schools and their libraries, We stole from the drugs that sent...
by g.spaceman
Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:17 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: have you ever.......
Replies: 7
Views: 1574

Brove wrote:in backwards, mi decks got a reverse play on it. when it ran out i pressed reverse instead of stop when i was leathered. i was havin it.
And how did it sound when you were straight?
by g.spaceman
Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:41 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Big bands. Small gigs.
Replies: 16
Views: 5501

A bit more well known by this point, but Jeff Buckley in '96 in front of only a few hundred people at the Palace in Melbourne was a pretty darn good one for mine. Rumour has it that Jimmy Page & Robert Plant were somewhere in the audience that night, after having played a show nearby the night ...
by g.spaceman
Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:37 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Jason - intensive care post on Spacemen forum
Replies: 80
Views: 43533

Best wishes for a speedy recovery - hope they taking care of you (babe) and getting plenty of good dope (good fun).
by g.spaceman
Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:49 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: rain
Replies: 8
Views: 2621

As someone who sat through their whole set I can`assure you the White Stripes were dissapointing...basically they just sounded like Led Zep practicing. He may be a good guitar player but needs to do something more with it in my opinion, as on Saturday they just sounded self-indulgent :(
by g.spaceman
Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:34 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: What don't you get
Replies: 67
Views: 12079

Re: What don't you get

Paddy wrote:What in God's name is all the fuss over the Beach Boys?
In a nutshell, Pet Sounds in glorious 5.1 surround on DVD-A :D
by g.spaceman
Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:07 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: What don't you get
Replies: 67
Views: 12079

U2 for me too. I really liked The Joshua Tree and some of the one they did with BB King afterwards, but since then I'm at a loss to understand their enduring popularity :?
by g.spaceman
Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:31 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: new Spiritualized CD
Replies: 50
Views: 13941

Last time i checked gagage rock didn't include brilliant compositions or horns. This statement is ridiculous in a number of other ways. A lot of garage-rock was briliantly composed. Think of things like Love's "Seven and Seven Is". ..plus pretty much the whole of Forever Changes, plus the...
by g.spaceman
Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:32 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: "Ladies and gentleman we are floating in space. ."
Replies: 46
Views: 10578

err, i think northern was referring to primals screams 'motorheid'. fantastic tune. and ohh i agree i feel that 'brokn heart' is a much better track than 'wind of change'. i mean both of them on their own are beautiful tracks, but placed side by side, c'mon my good man, 'broken heart' is simply stu...
by g.spaceman
Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:49 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: "Ladies and gentleman we are floating in space. ."
Replies: 46
Views: 10578

anorthernsoul wrote: ... seven and seven is, oh yeah, motorhead ...
err...shouldn't that be Arthur Lee and the mighty Love from their underrated second album 'Da Capo'???
by g.spaceman
Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:47 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: new Spiritualized CD
Replies: 50
Views: 13941

jb wrote:The record just sounded like a rock n roll garage record and most of the tracks could have been written by any band really...
Well maybe, if the garage sold Aston Martins and the 'any band' were nearly as good as per Spiritualized's output from 'Laser Guided Melodies' through 'Let it Come Down'...
by g.spaceman
Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:43 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: new Spiritualized CD
Replies: 50
Views: 13941

A sidenote: I think "This Little Life of Mine" is the worst Spiritualized song. Amazing Grace would be 10x better without it-and it's the first track. Probably scares people off...haha. When I first listened to Amazing Grace that song had the effect of putting me off the whole album - it'...
by g.spaceman
Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:04 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: mainline
Replies: 22
Views: 5132

Cheers :)
by g.spaceman
Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:17 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: mainline
Replies: 22
Views: 5132

a beautiful noise wrote:then again, maybe you didn't read the interview where thighpaul discussed the "group" effort of this album.
I haven't read that interview - where was it/what was it in? Any chance of posting a link :?
by g.spaceman
Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:13 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: the verve and spiritualized
Replies: 48
Views: 9746

Re: the verve and spiritualized

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