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Comment on Zines and Beyond: A Manchester Subculture by Steph Thompson

Steph Thompson — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:17:16 +0000

Thank you so much for reading (I know it’s a bit on the long side!) I really appreciate your positive feedback.

Comment on Zines and Beyond: A Manchester Subculture by Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:07:13 +0000

An interesting, professional piece of writing. Most enjoyable & informative!
By the hand of an up and coming writer!!

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Comment on The Musgraves @ Fruit, Hull 16/03/2012 by Luke

Luke — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:20:10 +0000

@Joe >implying someone is uneducated and making numerous grammatical errors and whatnot.
Also, your argument makes a lot of assumptions, disconnected conclusions and sweeping statements. It covers a lot of ground, too. Say, Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You’d better beat it; I hear they’re gonna tear you down and put up an office building where you’re standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can’t get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.
(Apologies for the slightly odd argument here, wrote the one below first and really couldn’t be bothered to write anything serious for this)

@Curly yeah, because one blog that criticizes them they’ll neeeeever make it in the music industry. And part of being able to make it is being able to just roll with technical difficulties. For example, Abney Park’s instruments break now and then on-stage and they’ll occasionally have a couple false starts, but they deal with it easily enough, and a guitar string broke at a Jonathan Coulton concert I was at; he dealt with it easily enough by switching to a backup instrument whilst the support act replaced the string and retuned the guitar.

Comment on The Musgraves @ Fruit, Hull 16/03/2012 by Curly

Curly — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:03:54 +0000

So which bands are “Special” on their first gig together? Criticising a band this strongly and unconstructively on their first gig despite the fact that they snapped a string a short way into it seems a bit harsh to me. No wonder there is such a shortage of young breakthrough bands when they are being criticised online, by people with nothing better to do, from day one. Also I don’t understand the part where you complain about people blocking other peoples view, did you expect everyone to sit down or something?

Comment on The Musgraves @ Fruit, Hull 16/03/2012 by Katie

Katie — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:14:27 +0000

Like other people have previously commented, the Young Jack section of this review is a considerably minor aspect of the article as a whole. The fact that so many of you seem fixated on this aspect and completely disregard all other aspects of this review clearly demonstrates your closed-minded attitude and complete immaturity in regards to accepting constructive criticism and people’s individual opinions! It’s not a Young Jack review, it is a review of The Musgraves. Young Jack are merely a minor support act. And quite frankly, if the band and their followers cannot cope with not everyone regarding them as the best thing since sliced bread, Young Jack are not really going to get very far in the music industry. Learn to take criticism on the chin! I’m sure the Kings of Leon have.

Comment on The Musgraves @ Fruit, Hull 16/03/2012 by Joe

Joe — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:11:26 +0000

In response to your review of ‘Young Jack’ I have to note numerous mistakes made throughout the review;

Firstly you complain about the large amount of support, which if you didn’t realise the music industry is a money-making business so without fans there wouldn’t be gig’s and for a large amount of people that would be a relief as they wouldn’t have to listen to your unjustified pedantic comments which prove arrogance, in some points are very ageist.

Secondly I know the band personally and have experienced them on numerous occasions; I have also given them constructed criticism throughout proving great improvement in the short period of time before this gig.

I’m sure the band will take any relevant comments on board however ridiculous comments that you have removed such as ‘jack wills wearing rock band’ when jack wills isn’t actually iconography for rock bands at all and the fact none of the band wear these clothes proves your lack of intelligence within the music industry.

You appear to have made numerous comments about the audience Young Jack had attracted; clearly the target audience of this band is that of the band member’s age which proved the same for the Musgraves who attracted middle aged couples which clearly proves how ageist you are to the younger crowd.

You also made a comment about the band trying to be from the Bronx however this just proves your uneducated comments again due to 3 out of 4 band members living within estates in hull however the band are not attempting to create a ‘youth centre’ band image.
Lastly you also happened to criticise the Kings of Leon’s lyrics from the song ‘Four Kicks’ I’m sure you’re so amazing at creating lyrics that you can criticise a song from a band as big as Kings of Leon.

Comment on Meeting The Musgraves by Katie

Katie — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:54:00 +0000

Brilliant interview, which I was glad to be witness to. I love how chilled out and relaxed the band is, I hope they don’t stop being lovely and down to earth as a lot of other bands do as their fame increases.

I have a lot of love for The Musgraves now after going to their Hull gig. Wish I’d been able to get a mug though

Comment on The Musgraves @ Fruit, Hull 16/03/2012 by Rocky

Rocky — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:27:41 +0000

What the reviewer has said should be taken as nothing more than constructive criticism to the band. If they want to make it in music, believe me, they are going to have to get used to not everyone liking them. Cold hard facts hurt and while they may feel like what the reviewer said was a little close to the bone the stark reality is that they supported a band that showed their flaws.

The Musgraves are bright, bold, colorful and a seasoned gigging band with many years of playing shows between them. i’m sure they have had their fair share of bad press but i believe the difference here is that they have pushed forward, developed, taking things on board.

The hardest part of playing in a band when you are just starting out is impressing people and getting the truth from who you play in front of. Taking criticism from someone who is not a mate or family member is far more important than hearing “you were great” from someone who probably feels like thats what you need to hear because, it wasn’t great.

Its what you do with these remarks after the show thats important, not who made them.

Comment on The Musgraves @ Fruit, Hull 16/03/2012 by aranburton

aranburton — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:00:06 +0000

Very poor effort, must try harder. See me.