Includes shots of when they played Ireland a few months back. It's not quite the "Born to Run" video with footage of Springsteen's Slane gig but those poorly painted cows on the wall of the gourmet burger place beside Whelan's are pretty distinctive.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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it's a nice little promo. I see after singlehandedly creating a huge shitstorm over nothing (his bum gig in Spain), pitchfork offered him the chance to rehabilitate himself via an interview. He must feel sick having to jump through such hypocritical PR hoops.
Yeah, I read that yesterday. I thought it was pretty funny him basically saying that he plays shitty gigs all the time but it's normally only to 25 people.
Yeah in fairness, he's hardly ACDC. They should have known from the nature of his reputation, his relative inexperience and all that the gig might not have ended up a slick success.
The subsequent dumb outpouring of hate against him on American blogs was a freaky Brass Eye type moment, and a reminder of why this business of blogging can be questionable. His career will forever be marred by Ryan Shcreiber's overblown little reaction.
In a just world he would never have had to do that interview with pitchfork. I'd say he was pressured into it and hated every minute.
Bang on the money Gardenhead.
The whole episode ran like a pointless tabaloid saga...the fall, the apology and then the rising from the ashes. Pitchfork were on hand to document every lurid little twist and turn. At one point they even quoted Jared Swilly from the Black Lips in an interview on Norwegian radio saying what a dick etc... he thought the lad from Wavves was!
Ironically, the whole episode will mean larger than 25 crowds and enhanced rep down the line, but I can't help feeling sorry for the lad considering his age, his inexperience etc... And Pitchfork come out of the whole thing looking like the indie equivalent of the National Enquirer.
Pitchfork do seem to have a puritanical streak at times. There was that shitstorm they kicked up over Bradford Cox's "gay child porn" previously.
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