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Post by goodeeveening on Dec 6, 2014 8:58:10 GMT -5
My favorite band is making a new album after 10 years apart! www.nme.com/news/the-libertines/81560I went to see the reunion gig at Reading in 2010. I couldn't make it over for Hyde Park this past summer, but I will definitely do all I can to get over to see them if they tour off the back of the new album. So nice to see them all looking happy in the photos - as a Libs fan I'm pretty much used to tragedy and despair with this band so hopefulness is a weird emotion. So cool! Congrats on your favourite band's reunion My favourite band is a local one and they only come up to my state once or twice a year. It's nice loving a band with a smaller following because when I go to their shows it's always in a great new venue and I get introduced to new bands through their supporting acts. Also I've been able to chat to the band members after the show and they are just the loveliest and most passionate people. I'm not super familiar with the Libertines, are there any songs that you would reccomend to someone to get an idea of their thing?
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Dec 6, 2014 10:39:37 GMT -5
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Post by courtneyk on Dec 6, 2014 19:22:49 GMT -5
My favorite band is making a new album after 10 years apart! www.nme.com/news/the-libertines/81560I went to see the reunion gig at Reading in 2010. I couldn't make it over for Hyde Park this past summer, but I will definitely do all I can to get over to see them if they tour off the back of the new album. So nice to see them all looking happy in the photos - as a Libs fan I'm pretty much used to tragedy and despair with this band so hopefulness is a weird emotion. So cool! Congrats on your favourite band's reunion My favourite band is a local one and they only come up to my state once or twice a year. It's nice loving a band with a smaller following because when I go to their shows it's always in a great new venue and I get introduced to new bands through their supporting acts. Also I've been able to chat to the band members after the show and they are just the loveliest and most passionate people. I'm not super familiar with the Libertines, are there any songs that you would reccomend to someone to get an idea of their thing? Ha ha, asking me about the Libs is a dangerous thing! The Libertines are an English rock band (though their drummer is American) formed on the basis of the intense, often stormy, frequently co-dependent and wildly homoerotic friendship between Peter Doherty and Carl Barat. You may have heard of Peter through his near daily drug arrests due to his heroin addiction in the mid-2000s as well as his former relationship with Kate Moss. They combine Britpop, punk, music hall and literary influences, and talk a lot about reaching an idealized version of England called Arcadia via the Good Ship Albion (more a metaphorical thing), which is also sort of a byword for the fandom as a whole. On a comics sidenote, the Libs are mentioned in Phonogram, and it is a measure of how much I love Kieron Gillen that I am O.K. with the fact that he is totally wrong in his opinion about them. The band imploded in 2004 due to Peter's drug use, after some nasty fights, on-stage mental breakdowns and an attempted suicide by Carl. And, oh, yeah, Peter burglarized Carl's flat and went to jail for it. Out of the wreckage emerged Peter's band Babyshambles (ongoing, though currently on-hold, and with plenty of drama of its own), Carl and Gary's Dirty Pretty Things (sadly defunct AND I MISS IT FOREVER), and John's very underrated Yeti (I don't think it exists anymore? It's always hard to tell with John). Reunions between Peter and Carl happened sporadically over the years, including the Reading and Leeds gigs in 2010, but Peter's addiction kept them from re-forming properly. Now he's in rehab in Thailand of his own volition (something I honestly never ever thought would happen) and things are positive and happy in Libs-land for the first time in forEVER. You may wonder why, having read all this, I or anyone else would choose to follow such a band. The answer is that when they're great, they're amazing, with songs that are actually about something. Also, I and pretty much everyone else I know who's into the Libs is invested in Peter and Carl personally. I don't even want to tell you how much time I've spent reading and watching interviews with them over the years. We all genuinely want them to be friends, and want them to be happy. I've met all of the guys, and they could not have been lovelier to me. I think everyone who has followed the band has had their life changed in some way by it. I've made friends I never would have met and been to places I never would have seen without this band, and I didn't even become a fan until after they'd already broken up. Just seeing Peter post a picture of him and Carl together on the beach in Thailand on the Libs Facebook saying he was happy, made me happy, because they've given me so much through their music. Libs must-listens! Time for HeroesUp the BracketThe Good Old Days ("If you've lost your faith in love and music, the end won't be long") Don't Look Back Into the Sun (from the NME Awards in 2004, with bonus poetry reading!) Can't Stand Me Now (this song is quite literally about Peter and Carl's relationship circa 2004, as in they are actually singing to each other about what has happened in the band to that point) What Became of the Likely Lads? (on the same, last album as CSMN, because why not twist the knife in the fans and each other EVEN MORE?) Music When the Lights Go Out (from Reading in 2010...I'm somewhere far, far back in that audience!) And if you're interested, Roger Sargent just released the intro footage for Hyde Park with photos and video he's shot throughout their career. The end has shots from the alley in east London the "Up the Bracket" video was filmed in. I've been there and have graffiti'd that alley! Aaaannnnndddd...now everyone knows my not-so-secret crazy, LOL. I'd love to hear something from your favorite band!
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Post by sailormarvel on Dec 6, 2014 20:54:32 GMT -5
So cool! Congrats on your favourite band's reunion My favourite band is a local one and they only come up to my state once or twice a year. It's nice loving a band with a smaller following because when I go to their shows it's always in a great new venue and I get introduced to new bands through their supporting acts. Also I've been able to chat to the band members after the show and they are just the loveliest and most passionate people. I'm not super familiar with the Libertines, are there any songs that you would reccomend to someone to get an idea of their thing? Ha ha, asking me about the Libs is a dangerous thing! The Libertines are an English rock band (though their drummer is American) formed on the basis of the intense, often stormy, frequently co-dependent and wildly homoerotic friendship between Peter Doherty and Carl Barat. You may have heard of Peter through his near daily drug arrests due to his heroin addiction in the mid-2000s as well as his former relationship with Kate Moss. They combine Britpop, punk, music hall and literary influences, and talk a lot about reaching an idealized version of England called Arcadia via the Good Ship Albion (more a metaphorical thing), which is also sort of a byword for the fandom as a whole. On a comics sidenote, the Libs are mentioned in Phonogram, and it is a measure of how much I love Kieron Gillen that I am O.K. with the fact that he is totally wrong in his opinion about them. The band imploded in 2004 due to Peter's drug use, after some nasty fights, on-stage mental breakdowns and an attempted suicide by Carl. And, oh, yeah, Peter burglarized Carl's flat and went to jail for it. Out of the wreckage emerged Peter's band Babyshambles (ongoing, though currently on-hold, and with plenty of drama of its own), Carl and Gary's Dirty Pretty Things (sadly defunct AND I MISS IT FOREVER), and John's very underrated Yeti (I don't think it exists anymore? It's always hard to tell with John). Reunions between Peter and Carl happened sporadically over the years, including the Reading and Leeds gigs in 2010, but Peter's addiction kept them from re-forming properly. Now he's in rehab in Thailand of his own volition (something I honestly never ever thought would happen) and things are positive and happy in Libs-land for the first time in forEVER. You may wonder why, having read all this, I or anyone else would choose to follow such a band. The answer is that when they're great, they're amazing, with songs that are actually about something. Also, I and pretty much everyone else I know who's into the Libs is invested in Peter and Carl personally. I don't even want to tell you how much time I've spent reading and watching interviews with them over the years. We all genuinely want them to be friends, and want them to be happy. I've met all of the guys, and they could not have been lovelier to me. I think everyone who has followed the band has had their life changed in some way by it. I've made friends I never would have met and been to places I never would have seen without this band, and I didn't even become a fan until after they'd already broken up. Just seeing Peter post a picture of him and Carl together on the beach in Thailand on the Libs Facebook saying he was happy, made me happy, because they've given me so much through their music. Libs must-listens! Time for HeroesUp the BracketThe Good Old Days ("If you've lost your faith in love and music, the end won't be long") Don't Look Back Into the Sun (from the NME Awards in 2004, with bonus poetry reading!) Can't Stand Me Now (this song is quite literally about Peter and Carl's relationship circa 2004, as in they are actually singing to each other about what has happened in the band to that point) What Became of the Likely Lads? (on the same, last album as CSMN, because why not twist the knife in the fans and each other EVEN MORE?) Music When the Lights Go Out (from Reading in 2010...I'm somewhere far, far back in that audience!) And if you're interested, Roger Sargent just released the intro footage for Hyde Park with photos and video he's shot throughout their career. The end has shots from the alley in east London the "Up the Bracket" video was filmed in. I've been there and have graffiti'd that alley! Aaaannnnndddd...now everyone knows my not-so-secret crazy, LOL. I'd love to hear something from your favorite band! You know, I have lived in London for years and had heard of the libertines' drama, but I never actually listened to any of their songs! I will rectify that immediately! my absolute favourite band of all time is My Chemical Romance. And yet, I have never, ever seen them live, which is something that pains me greatly. I could never afford the tickets when they were touring over here and I was a student. When they came later for the Killjoys tour, I was working but they only played in Reading and I couldn't afford that either. So so sad! when it comes to favourite singers, mine is Janelle Monae, who I have been lucky enough to watch in concert this year! Janelle is amazing and you guys should be listening to her stuff! Her songs are about social justice and all of her albums so far are chapter in a greater story: that of Cindy Mayweather, an android fugitive from the future. SHE IS AWESOME!!!! Listen to Q.U.E.E.N and revel on how brilliant this woman is: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddixS-UoUHave you guys listened to Janelle before?
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Post by courtneyk on Dec 6, 2014 21:55:35 GMT -5
Ha ha, asking me about the Libs is a dangerous thing! The Libertines are an English rock band (though their drummer is American) formed on the basis of the intense, often stormy, frequently co-dependent and wildly homoerotic friendship between Peter Doherty and Carl Barat. You may have heard of Peter through his near daily drug arrests due to his heroin addiction in the mid-2000s as well as his former relationship with Kate Moss. They combine Britpop, punk, music hall and literary influences, and talk a lot about reaching an idealized version of England called Arcadia via the Good Ship Albion (more a metaphorical thing), which is also sort of a byword for the fandom as a whole. On a comics sidenote, the Libs are mentioned in Phonogram, and it is a measure of how much I love Kieron Gillen that I am O.K. with the fact that he is totally wrong in his opinion about them. The band imploded in 2004 due to Peter's drug use, after some nasty fights, on-stage mental breakdowns and an attempted suicide by Carl. And, oh, yeah, Peter burglarized Carl's flat and went to jail for it. Out of the wreckage emerged Peter's band Babyshambles (ongoing, though currently on-hold, and with plenty of drama of its own), Carl and Gary's Dirty Pretty Things (sadly defunct AND I MISS IT FOREVER), and John's very underrated Yeti (I don't think it exists anymore? It's always hard to tell with John). Reunions between Peter and Carl happened sporadically over the years, including the Reading and Leeds gigs in 2010, but Peter's addiction kept them from re-forming properly. Now he's in rehab in Thailand of his own volition (something I honestly never ever thought would happen) and things are positive and happy in Libs-land for the first time in forEVER. You may wonder why, having read all this, I or anyone else would choose to follow such a band. The answer is that when they're great, they're amazing, with songs that are actually about something. Also, I and pretty much everyone else I know who's into the Libs is invested in Peter and Carl personally. I don't even want to tell you how much time I've spent reading and watching interviews with them over the years. We all genuinely want them to be friends, and want them to be happy. I've met all of the guys, and they could not have been lovelier to me. I think everyone who has followed the band has had their life changed in some way by it. I've made friends I never would have met and been to places I never would have seen without this band, and I didn't even become a fan until after they'd already broken up. Just seeing Peter post a picture of him and Carl together on the beach in Thailand on the Libs Facebook saying he was happy, made me happy, because they've given me so much through their music. Libs must-listens! Time for HeroesUp the BracketThe Good Old Days ("If you've lost your faith in love and music, the end won't be long") Don't Look Back Into the Sun (from the NME Awards in 2004, with bonus poetry reading!) Can't Stand Me Now (this song is quite literally about Peter and Carl's relationship circa 2004, as in they are actually singing to each other about what has happened in the band to that point) What Became of the Likely Lads? (on the same, last album as CSMN, because why not twist the knife in the fans and each other EVEN MORE?) Music When the Lights Go Out (from Reading in 2010...I'm somewhere far, far back in that audience!) And if you're interested, Roger Sargent just released the intro footage for Hyde Park with photos and video he's shot throughout their career. The end has shots from the alley in east London the "Up the Bracket" video was filmed in. I've been there and have graffiti'd that alley! Aaaannnnndddd...now everyone knows my not-so-secret crazy, LOL. I'd love to hear something from your favorite band! You know, I have lived in London for years and had heard of the libertines' drama, but I never actually listened to any of their songs! I will rectify that immediately! my absolute favourite band of all time is My Chemical Romance. And yet, I have never, ever seen them live, which is something that pains me greatly. I could never afford the tickets when they were touring over here and I was a student. When they came later for the Killjoys tour, I was working but they only played in Reading and I couldn't afford that either. So so sad! when it comes to favourite singers, mine is Janelle Monae, who I have been lucky enough to watch in concert this year! Janelle is amazing and you guys should be listening to her stuff! Her songs are about social justice and all of her albums so far are chapter in a greater story: that of Cindy Mayweather, an android fugitive from the future. SHE IS AWESOME!!!! Listen to Q.U.E.E.N and revel on how brilliant this woman is: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddixS-UoUHave you guys listened to Janelle before? I have a few Libs fan friends who are also MCR fans - I hope you get to see them live someday! And YES Janelle Monae is amazing!
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Post by theboogieman on Dec 8, 2014 18:57:45 GMT -5
Woah, I've just looked at the publisher Black Mask Studios, and the comics they're putting out, and the publisher as a whole has really piqued my interest. Ballistic looks like it may very well be the next big thing in comics, and more or less everything else that I can see they're putting out sounds and looks really interesting, creative and unique, diverse and original. The whole transmedia aspect of their stuff also sounds really interesting, where they're putting out that comic to accompany the new Ghostface Killah album, as a way of further telling and conveying the story of the album to the consumer.
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Post by theboogieman on Mar 8, 2015 9:49:53 GMT -5
You know how when you see protests and riots on the news or in photos and videos on the internet, and like 80% of the time there's that one dog there right up in the thick of it all with the protesters, and it's always that same kind of dog? Well, I was just talking to a journalist about that and he said that it's a Super Protest Dog that travels round the world helping protesters out and protesting with them. Well, he didn't quite say that really, but we did both agree that that would make an AMAZING idea for a comic book. Super Protest Dog! Helping out the down-trodden with it's super-protest powers! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_dogIt says that they're an Athens thing, but I'm reasonably certain I've seen these dogs at protests in news videos from Chile, Brazil and all over.
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Post by antmarley on Mar 9, 2015 16:21:55 GMT -5
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