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Re: The Wrong Door (611) Another very poor offering from the BBC. What has happened to comedy shows on TV these days? The writing was so abysmal it should never have made it to our screens.
The ideas which have clearly been taken seriously by the creative team behind this poor effort are ineffective and childish. There is little class and no panache to warrant the large sums of money spent on it. It would seem that the comrnissioners at BBCS need to have their P452; handed to them for gambling on this kind of mechanical dross.
Fart gags and a man being run over by a car . . . weak. The superhero sketch was taken from the movie with Ben Stiller. One to miss. Quenby23 London Comment left at |ist.co.uk
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Re: Glasvegas (611)
Heard the singles and went to see them at Connect expecting good things. Disappointed by a decidedly average ‘ive set. coupled with riear-inVisible stage presence: black—clad band before a black backdrop. Style
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So Mogwai reckon. 'If they don't like our music because of the football team we like [Celtic] then they fall into the bigot category.' Well. I say it is the band themselves who fall into the
They recently said on their website that if their single ‘Batcat' fails to reach the top ten in the UK. they wrll proceed to release one home address per week of a Glasgow Rangers football player. They go on to say. 'Nacho was the warning shot. wait till we get round to yOur first team players' This is in reference to threats made to the family of Rangers player Nacho Novo after his address was published on online forums.
Apart from the poor spelling and the fact they don't know that the proper name of the rival team doesn't have the word Glasgow in it. the band should take note that their music isn't as good as they think it is and the single sunk without trace.
They are atteiition-seekers of the highest order and should concentrate on improVing what they do to at least some level of mediocrity. I see they're off to Berlin — good riddance to
bastard. but they're not a patch on JAMC or Joy Division to whom they owe a very large debt. They've some OK songs and their sound is fresher than some of the drivel dressed up
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Harriet
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There could have been more information about the organic food. It seems like more of an advert for the companies here.
Jessie
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Organic food festivals are imr.)ortant to showcase good local food and support farmers rather than supermarkets.
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as ‘indie' that has assaulted our ears of late. but they ain't the new black. JUSI yet more of the old one gone corporate.
It's not the 1980s any more. people. Columbia isn't
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Creation. Sony isn't Factory. Just because Alan McGee likes them. it doesn't make them great (cf. the lame-arsed tribute band formerly known as Oasis). And if you want a real ‘working class poet' (whatever that means in these outsourced. principle-free times). go read some Tom Leonard. Those Oxbridge- groomed wannabe schemies at the NME who set the Glasvegas ball rolling are in a ii/x-fren/y that they might at last have tapped the /eitgeist of the hoi-polloi. Look beyond the hype. We've been here before. Hype Mchper Glasgow Comment left at |ist.co.uk
PRICEY ICE Re: Finding Nemo on Ice (612) What a fantastic show. the skaters were terrific! The costumes and colours were out of this world and you are truly transported to the ocean world. The only downside is the cost of the inerchaitdising: $314 for a light-up toy and 5.77 for a bucket of popcorn: well out of the reach of a family with more than one child. I would recommend the show to all: Just make sure you have arranged your bank loan first! Heathmacduff Comment left at |ist.co.uk
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