Fat White Family & various offshoot bands (Moonlandingz, Insecure Men, Warmduscher, Pregoblin etc)

[rutabowa]

Are they big enough to do the Academy then? I saw they're playing there in September.

Black Lips have just been announced as support, which should fill it out if it wasn't already going to

 

[redchris]

Are they big enough to do the Academy then? I saw they're playing there in September.
Bit underwhelmed by their latest offerings.

Yea, I was really surprised to see them playing the Academy. I saw them a few months ago at the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth and they couldn't sell out a 400 capacity venue.

 

[rutabowa]

london is home crowd though... coronet was sold out for sure

 

[redchris]

london is home crowd though... coronet was sold out for sure

Yea, I appreciate they're Brixton boys, but to go from 400 to 4,500 is quite a leap! I'm tempted to go but I frigging hate the Academy and I just know it'll sound awful.

 

[editor]

Yea, I appreciate they're Brixton boys, but to go from 400 to 4,500 is quite a leap! I'm tempted to go but I frigging hate the Academy and I just know it'll sound awful.

They played the Brixton Fightback show at the Electric last year and a lot of the crowd were there for them.

 

[rutabowa]

Yea, I appreciate they're Brixton boys, but to go from 400 to 4,500 is quite a leap! I'm tempted to go but I frigging hate the Academy and I just know it'll sound awful.

coronet is at least 2000 isn't it? much more than 400 anyway!! But yeah it is still a big step up i agree

 

[salem]

Lady Gaga was tweeting them and they've been on David Letterman dontchaknow.

If that isn't enough I'm sure their PR team will probably get them a front cover spot on Smash Hits and they can swear when they're on Blue Peter for a few more column inches.

 

[redchris]

coronet is at least 2000 isn't it? much more than 400 anyway!! But yeah it is still a big step up i agree

Wow, didn't realise the Coronet was so big. 2,600 apparently. Did they sell that out?

 

[rutabowa]

Wow, didn't realise the Coronet was so big. 2,600 apparently. Did they sell that out?

It was definitely sold out.... I think 2600 is the full club capacity though so i doubt it is quite that capacity for a gig where people need to see the stage, probably more like 2000 just guessing... + black lips are a pretty big name themselves so I guess that could just about fill the academy or at least make it fairly full

 

[Sweet FA]

Sell outs

Decorative cock n balls on the top cup

 

[Mation]

How can any of you bear to listen to them with that awful fucking name?

 

[Brainaddict]

I had enjoyed them on spotify a bit (despite the very shit name) but I saw them live the other day and it put me right off them. The lead singer was an arrogant, strutting prick, and not in a fun way, and the sound was more stadium rock than punk. A disappoinment.

 

[8ball]

How can any of you bear to listen to them with that awful fucking name?

Can't say the name bothers me.
Can't bear to listen to them, mind.

 

[Kesher]

They look and sound horrendous

 

[Favelado]

I had enjoyed them on spotify a bit (despite the very shit name) but I saw them live the other day and it put me right off them. The lead singer was an arrogant, strutting prick, and not in a fun way, and the sound was more stadium rock than punk. A disappoinment.

Singer is the biggest nobhead I've ever seen on stage.

 

[Brainaddict]

Singer is the biggest nobhead I've ever seen on stage.

Yeah, the people I was with who had never heard of them before took an instant dislike to him, which prevented them from enjoying the music at all - and I can't really blame them.

 

[Favelado]

Yeah, the people I was with who had never heard of them before took an instant dislike to him, which prevented them from enjoying the music at all - and I can't really blame them.

I wrote a post on this thread about his behaviour at a gig in a Madrid if you want to search for it. A dickhead.

 

[Brainaddict]

I wrote a post on this thread about his behaviour at a gig in a Madrid if you want to search for it. A dickhead.

Are you in Madrid at the moment btw? Thinking of a little trip there.

 

[Favelado]

Are you in Madrid at the moment btw? Thinking of a little trip there.

Yes. PM me for any help I can offer.

 

[editor]

Another of their spin off bands are playing the Effra Social next week at 10pm, And it's free

Pregoblin is formed of an array of local musicians including Jessica Winters of the indie synth-pop outfit Will Sin For Love, ex-Fat White Family Alex (writer of Touch The Leather) and Scud FM and Meatraffle drummer Adam Bremmer, and they combine to create an offbeat, disco-powered sound.

See south London’s hottest new band Pregoblin at the Effra Social, Fri 23rd Nov for free

 

[editor]

New video

 

[AverageJoe]

It's....... Not my cup of tea

 

[Part 2]

It's rubbish. Tour not selling well so they've taken to slagging off Idles on Facebook.

 

[8ball]

Another of their spin off bands are playing the Effra Social next week at 10pm, And it's free

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See south London’s hottest new band Pregoblin at the Effra Social, Fri 23rd Nov for free

Pregoblin?

I’d kind of be half-expecting a band member to have a seizure onstage.

 

[twentythreedom]

Meh

 

[editor]

Pregoblin?

I’d kind of be half-expecting a band member to have a seizure onstage.

You understand why the band has the name, yes?

 

[8ball]

You understand why the band has the name, yes?

No, but it sounds very much like a common anti-convulsant.

 

[Part 2]

No, but it sounds very much like a common anti-convulsant.

Also used to come off heroin apparently...

Why did you chose the name Pregoblin?

Alex Sebley: I don’t normally tell people this, but I’m a recovering heroin addict. I take a drug called pregabalin to get off the heroin. I had been on it for a very long time and a friend of mine got me off heroin about a year ago using this drug which is normally prescribed for anxiety or epilepsy. The BBC just did a documentary about it; there are whole communities in Dublin and Glasgow totally addicted to this stuff. It’s a non-opiate painkiller so it’s very good at mimicking the effects of [heroin] if you take a high enough dose. But it’s quite trippy– it’s like a psychedelic.

 

[8ball]

Also used to come off heroin apparently...

Makes sense.

 

[InfoBurner]

New video

Heard this today on Radio 6, whilst doing a 12 mile round ,without having a scooby who they were. Thought it was great, not immediately sure what it was about but 'Feet don't fail me now', rings nicely as a postie in a lashing rainstorm.

Got home, found it on Youtube, still rated it, sampled some other stuff. Digged it.Then discovered this thread. Lordy. Still loads to read ( And listen to) but it's a fly in the ointment when music you like is probably made by cockwombles.