From the Telegraph review (thanks to purpledoris):
'Where is David Bowie when you need him? Arguably the boldest and most creative solo artist in the history of rock, he seems the ideal icon for these uncertain times, the kind of future pop visionary who might bring the blurred possibilities of a disintegrating music culture into sharp focus.'

I'll tell you where he is: hanging, twitching from a length of electrical cable in a fume-filled lockup in the East End.

If only this were true...


EDIT re-reading that, there's one bit I have no argument with: he is indeed the perfect icon for these times: shallow, image and fame obsessed at the expense of quality, really fucking shit and disliked intensely by me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:34, 30 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yes, where is David Bowie?
What we really need is for someone to take all the shitty forms of music being spunked out of the radio these days and consolidate them into one manageable, bite-sized bandwagon...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:36, Reply)

How was your show?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)

On balance, not bad
Due to the arrangement of the stage, our drummer couldn't hear our amps and so the timing was a bit ropey in places. It's also hard to sing a slow blues number with much feeling when you're painfully aware that the bottom string of your bass has slipped out of tune.

Still, the audience seemed to enjoy it, which is the important thing. My friend filmed most of our set, and, watching it back, it didn't actually sound too bad out the front-of-house, so I won't complain.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:42, Reply)

You guys do blues?

( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:46, Reply)

Yup
Edit: Well, blues-rock is probably more accurate.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:48, Reply)

Way cool.
If ever I go back to the UK, I'd love to come see you play. Or if you make it big and come out here I'd love to see you play.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Tell you what
There's some ropey live recordings from a few years back on our myspaz. (We really should put something fresh up there...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Best of all the rocks.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:53, Reply)

That it is
I do believe the decline in popular music after 1975 can be at least partly attributed to a lack of blues.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:24, Reply)

Reading B3ta
While cowering in his panic room.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:38, Reply)

But is is true

Bowie truly is "the boldest and most creative solo artist in the history of rock"
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)

He's also a 'future pop visionary'
Don't forget THAT.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:39, Reply)

"Future pop visionary" - Trend assimilator

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:44, Reply)

"Future pop visionary" - massive fucking shirter

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:49, Reply)

I love Bowie.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:41, Reply)

Bowie cock
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:45, Reply)

No I meant what I said in the first place.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:02, Reply)

*Pssst, chompy*
I quite like some of his stuff too
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:06, Reply)

So do a shit load of people,
that's why most people on here dislike him, because they're desperate to be unique and interesting.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:14, Reply)

Rather like football then

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:17, Reply)

Yes, that's the reason
*pats head*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:20, Reply)

I also don't mind some of U2's earlier stuff
But concede the point that Bono is, in fact, a massive dong.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:25, Reply)

That's rather like
being a crashing dullard from Milton Keynes in reality, but naming yourself a crazy 'psycho' in attempt to raise oneself out of the morass of mediocrity in which one finds oneself, isn't it?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:47, Reply)

It's based on the fact I did a degree in psychology mnhhhggg

(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 15:56, Reply)

You know, Monty
After reading your posts with interest for a while now, I've come to realise something. Something that has been bugging me for some time; something that that sheds a lot of light on your psyche and why you are the way you are...


You really, REALLY don't like David Bowie, do you.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:48, Reply)

What makes you say that?
I think he's really cool. I'm really 'into Bowie' - so much so that I pronounce it to rhyme with 'now-ee' rather than 'Joey'. It's how we true fans say it.

*wears eyepatch*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Oh, I dunno
It's just something in the words you use that gives it away. That, and I'm a perceptive bastard.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:05, Reply)

You should be a detective, mate.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:20, Reply)

*Sighs.*
*Adds Telegraph to the bombing campaign list*
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:32, Reply)

ah
no thanks necessary mate, it was a pleasure!
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:36, Reply)