Southall followed by Jagger, presumably.

Ah but instead of making adverts for Coke like Jack White, Kele says the word “POLITICS” occasionally.

Lord.

Actually, if the spons is to help keep ticket prices down, more power to them! (Nokia basically giving every gig-goer £3 toward the ticket price! OK so it all goes straight back to ticketmaster, but hey!)

apparently you have to pay money for the records, and the band get a cut of it. not only that, but all of the people working at the venue — they get paid. it’s a crazy world out there.

Best Buy just sent me an e-mail offering me the chance to buy tickets for the reunited Police tour shows in NY and Boston, before they’re on sale to the public.

You not public then?

I’m special. I have a Best Buy Rewards card, just like about 2 zillion others. I get more spam this way.

The Exeter gig sounded as if the soundsystem was a large mobile phone, I guess.

The Cambridge gig was sold out some time last year by the sounds of it. Not that I’d have remotely wanted to go.

I was just wondering if anyone has anything to say about this fact.

it’s the 21st century?

enrique amusingly OTM.

(nb: i’m aware there’s at least one ILM thread where i rail against music by my bands i like being used in adverts. but then i grew up.)

the bloc party aren’t exactly fugazi, what is surprising about this?

2007 will be remembered as the year of the sophomore slump.

Surely 2AD was the year of the sophomore slump?

I stand corrected.

assOciation.

has there ever been a year without a sophomore slump?

2003: the strokes

2005: the franz

im sure u can fill in teh blanks on either side.

2004 The Polyphonic Spree?

the 2nd albums were probably better in strokes and franz cases tho

neither had the impact of their debuts though which seems to be how it works with “indie” acts now. have one song that resonates beyond core consituensy (take me out, last nite) and see how far you can ride that.

2006: Scissor Sisters

i liked the lead singles off ‘room on fire’ and er ‘the second album by franz ferdinand’ more than those two, it’s just that they failed to break large, and it is a similar syndrome at work. it’s not overhyping that’s the problem exactly, but maybe the array of non-music media outlets doing it.

it feels like you get a leader in the times these days just for having your own myspace page blah blah blah

though to be honest bloc party never had a break out hit of l“ast nite”, “take me out” proportions. tbh i think the kaiser chiefs could possibly have a second album as big or bigger than their first. not that i endorse that. totally disagree about the scissor sisters a slump maybe “artistically” but for ubiquity only “crazy” came close to “i don’t feel like dancing” last year. razorlight have already had a second album biger than their first, i think “second album slump” only comes into play really when people have musical rather than comercial expectations of an act.

2007: not the shins

Why would it be? It’s the Shins’ third album.