To go slightly off topic we had a 4 or 5 apprentices at my last place of work who all had decent GCSE grades and were doing a college course that was an alternative to A-Levels.
Could not believe how poor their basic education was. Some of then literally struggled with reading and writing and...
Any early shouts for next years headliner?
Going with the mainstream indie / rock band theme that seems to be the criteria for Saturday headliners I'd love to see the Manics there but they are probably too big. More realistically Feeder or Ash would suit me.
Not sure off the top of my head but from memory the story that was spun was not so much that he was scared off, more that the chap (can't remember his name) had other investments he would have to liquidate, when the name was 'accidentally' dropped out on CWR calls started going in to the...
He was supposedly involved along with some chap who Orange Ken name dropped on CWR when it was all supposed to be confidential.
Surprisingly enough once the people who wanted to remain anonymous were named on the radio and started getting calls from the press the whole thing fell apart. Thats...
That works in the short term but if you're hoping for return visits, which a site like the Telegraph certainly is, you don't want your users getting pissed off that the site takes hours to load and starts playing video's automatically with adverts popping up all over the place.
Won't be long...
UK sales seem fairly equal for the two acts although the Darkness' figures skew massively to their debut with not much in the way of sales since. First week figures for their last album are sub 5K so it would be surprising if it topped out at over 10K given it was released via a pledge campaign...
There is one venue on the Editors tour that is 1K capacity or lower and that is exactly 1K. A lot of the venues are the same ones The Darkness, who apparently were a coup for Godiva, played on their last UK tour. :banghead:
Its almost like the club shop is run by a third party who employ low / minimum wage workers who aren't supporters and don't know the name of a player we've just signed.
Wouldn't be surprised if he makes a move to player coach while he's there. Seems to have an eye on his post-playing career with his academy and taking his coaching badges.