repeating your post over and over again does not make your point.

That is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. You're such a no-brainer Sam.

// lead singer Michael

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OMG! paul reid is my hero!!!

what photo was that?

review?

I will give to you my firstborn. Its name is Cynthia. It has a $5 note taped to its arse.

Thank God for some people seeing through the emperor's new clothes. My only complaint is that you didn't include Die die die. Saw them at the KA's. I thought they suck suck sucked. The bass player and drummer are selling themselves short - they were fucking amazing, tight and punchy, like an aural clenched fist smashing into my ears. Wicked drum parts, too. I would have quite enjoyed if just the two of them had jammed on a few riffs for 45 minutes.
But that singer/guitarist - pretentious SHIT. It might have won over the hipster scene in Auckland, but that doesn't qualify his performance as musical. Energetic, yes, entertaining, sort of. But it sounded like ten babies who need their shitty nappies changed. And the lyrics, when I could hear them , as with everything else he did, sounded like it was the first thing that had popped into his head.

They really are selling themselves short. Thanks The Deputy
I had no idea it was that bad. I quit.

Hey Andrew - What do I know? Obviously you've got plenty of fans and by all accounts you have a healthy self-image - maybe I just caught you on an off-night or something. Or maybe the beauty of the music IS the ugliness of the music. Or something.

I feel a bit bad for emphasising the negatives - Andrew, sorry I pciked on you personally, let me also say (on top of my criticism) that your physical performance was inspiring and I went home and wrote songs that night, so I guess I got something from it. Although i didn't actually 'enjoy' the music in a traditional sense, I did enjoy the energy of your band, and I liked how you sort of left harmony and melody and that stuff at the door and instead concentrated on something else - creating audio chaos, maybe? The guitar getting thrown into the drums was just excellent. I know that's not exactly new, but it was still great. So there were good things and bad. At the end of the day, I'll be going along to another gig when I get the chance, so I guess I like it more than I don't.

Yes, everyone does have their own opinions - it seems that lots of people agreed with me about Gestalt Switch. They went to #1 on the mp3.com.au charts with This Home, and got to #2 and #7 at the same time on the amplifier.co.nz charts for about two weeks (The songs were Seventh Day and This Home respectively). Bear in mind these recordings were just demos - there are bigger projects in the pipeline for 2004, which I believe will lead to them doing a video and possibly an album in 2005. Certainly there has been interest expressed by several record labels, and they show no signs of slowing down. So what the fuck do you know?

Decide for yourself at www.gestaltswitch.co.nz or

http://www.amplifier.co.nz/amp/view?item_id=7265&session=tVIP92SpgAbh

Please take Gestalt Switch right out of the Die! Die! Die! forum. There really is no comparisen.

// I tried to make it a bit more balanced

but you DID say that the drummer and bassist were good...

Yeah, I was frightened he might write mean things!

No, I felt a bit nasty pointing out all the bad things (in my view) about DDD, but without mentioning the good things. So I tried to make it a bit more balanced.

Look, I'm sure this is getting sort of boring for everyone else, so hopefully manamana will let it go, but actually I didn't "bring" Gestalt Switch into this forum, manamana made reference to them a little further up the page and I was just answering him, although I notice his comments aren't directed straight at me but rather in reference to me. I put in the web addresses so anyone who is interested can find out for themselves if it's good or not.

I have come to think of manamana as one of those kids who got picked on at high school for being a bit different (am I getting warm here?) who then found an outlet for his frustration in the internet. I imagine manamana as looking and acting a bit like the comic book shop guy on the simpsons. I notice that manamana has taken the trouble to make reference to Gestalt Swtich in numerous other forums, and he seems to have come to the conclusion that they must be christian, no doubt based on guitarist Blair's "Jesus" guitar strap, intended as a joke which I guess you missed. Either way, get over it you sad fuck.

I don't give a shit whether you think what I have to say is valid or not - it's clear to me that you practically live on this site and probably don't have much else going on in your life, so what sort of judge of people and music can you be, really? I am around music and musicians all day every day, I studied music right through school and am about to start my fifth year of music study at tertiary level, and even though I realise this doesn't automatically qualify me to say what is good music and what is bad music for everyone, it does allow me to understand why I get a kick out of some music and don't like other music. I can back my opinions up and articulate what I like and don't like in a piece of music/musical performance, where you, manamana, seem more inclined to just criticise constantly. I come on this site to share musical experiences, review gigs, learn from others, check out what bands are up to, download new music and find out about new bands, not to argue back and forth with some sad loser. Let me say again that after reading your comments, I don't give a fuck what you think anymore, and you're wasting your time to direct any comments either at me or about me from here on in.

he's got one leg dammit
you insensitive /SARC bastard

yea i did! It was on c4, and i reckon they suck!