I have just finished watching a TV highlights package of 2005's Summer Sonic music festival (in Japan). It was pretty good. But I was really disappointed in the La's.
Remember the La's? Sure you do! Theeeere she goooes, there she goes agaaain... Anyway, I really liked that song way back when, and I bought their album on the back of that one hit. The album was quite good (but never matched the ethereal heights of that track. Anyway, I always thought that if the notoriously difficult Lee Mavers ever reformed La's it would be good to see them.
As it turned out, I didn't even know until tonight that they had reformed, and I was surprised (and excited) to see them on TV).
They sucked.
From my couch, it looked like they were under-rehearsed and uninterested in what was going on. Maybe that sound was what Mavers was after, in which case sorry for the misundertanding, but given the sweet-as-candy pop perfection of There She Goes, that shambolic performance was disappointing.
Ah well... you can't have everything.
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ahh, that's a pity. Still, can't ...
ahh, that's a pity. Still, can't blame Mavers for trying to cash in. That song was one of the great over-looked pop songs of last century.
The rest of the band were probably didn't care because they don't get any of the royalties for 'There She Goes'.
The good thing is if my favourite band of that era (Stone Roses) ever reform, expectations will be so low (they sucked live to start with) that whatever they come up with will be at least on a par with their shambolic live gigs of old. (Can't be far away, I imagine, John Squire's probably starting to get a bit short of cash...)
//if my favourite band of that era ...
//if my favourite band of that era (Stone Roses) ever reform, expectations will be so low
So low that Uncut has devoted the cover and about 10 pages of magazine in the latest surfacemail issue (june 2006) to interveiwing the whole band and britains top promoters on the likelyhood of such an event - turns out it runs about second to a smiths reunion in terms of anticipation.
One promoter would expect to sell a couple of stadiums worth of tickets.
But, Squire & Brown are still not talking, and both seem too stuborn to start now.
// So low that Uncut has devoted the ...
// So low that Uncut has devoted the cover and about 10 pages of magazine...
time heals all wounds, including the memory of Ian Brown's live singing voice, it would seem.
But yeah, I'd still go and see them, it's just I wouldn't be expecting much in the way of a decent live performance. the smiths, on the other hand...