Contrasts
I went to see Ash in about 1998. They were pretty good. But they had two support acts who were interesting.

The first support act were an all-girl band who jumped around a lot and played shouty, punky stuff. They were terrible. Miles out of tune and really tame. At one point the bassist tried to do the old 'throw the instrument in the air and then catch it' trick, and totally fumbled the catch, slamming the bass into the floor. From where I was standing up in the circle I could see a guitar tech facepalm in the wings. At the end the singer shouted abuse at us for being a shitty audience and got a full on chorus of boos.

The second support group were a band I'd never heard of before, and who's singer had been standing next to me laughing at the first lot (when he turned up on stage I suddenly realised why people had been coming up to say hello to him). They had a really good guitarist and were playing music that was aggressive, poppy, and pretty all at once. They were Idlewild and I thought they were brilliant.

Still, that first band were shite. I kind of feel sorry for them, looking back.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 15:48, 10 replies)

You've only been to one gig in the last fifteen years?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 15:51, closed)

Ummm No
When someone describes something that happened fifteen years ago, that doesn't mean nothing has happened since then.

You seem to struggle with the basics of narrative form.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 16:00, closed)

Ah right.
So you deliberately chose a dull and irrelevant anecdote. Fair play.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 16:11, closed)

The first band were called 'Chicks'

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 15:52, closed)

Yep
Couldn't remember what they were called.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 16:00, closed)

Chicks on speed
fucking shite...
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 16:58, closed)

no, it was chicks.
different band, possibly even more shite than chicks on speed. I was at the wolverhampton gig on that tour and halfway through one of their guitar techs walked on stage and took the guitar from one of the band, tuned it for her and gave it back as she was completely oblivious to it being out of tune...


edit - here they are - www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2vUwrChIS4
(evilging www.drivenlikethesnow.co.uk, Thu 25 Jul 2013, 23:32, closed)

Fucking hell.
I think I'm going to stop clicking links now.
(immadme, Fri 26 Jul 2013, 10:55, closed)

That's them
horrific.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 26 Jul 2013, 11:13, closed)

Duuuuude...
We were in the same hall at the same time in Wolverhampton, 15 years ago. That's pretty deep, man.

I still have the Ash beanie I bought that night featuring their 'new' logo. I wish I had one with the old logo cos the new logo's shite. Still, Ash were fantastic, seeing Idlewild before they 'made' it was pretty cool and laughing at those imbecilic chicks was tres amusant.

Anyone have an old-logo Ash beanie they'd like to trade...?
(Jerry Beans - eating Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast on, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 23:03, closed)