The Wildhearts

Dunno whether this has been posted before (as it's an old review) but I just stumbled across it as I was searching for reviews of the great gig last night in Manchester. They were as tight as a nuns chuff btw! Anyway, if anyone knows where this Ian Jones prick lives let me know and I'll knock on with a bottle, a rag and some petrol!

Manchester Evening News Review

I was at the said gig in 2004 and I may have spotted Ian. I think he was the one wanking for pennies in the gents.

Ian - I fart in your general direction.

hmmm opinions eh !
i also fart in his general direction

Clearly this guy turned up at his work..stuck on his Colplay album,which he thinks is genius,and is informed he's going to review the wildhearts.
He hasn't heard any of the wildhearts stuff since they last appeared in NME and is raging he's got to go out to a gig when Queer as Folk is on tv.

As a result he mentions the few tunes he knows and decides anything else he might recognise is now shite.

Why send folk like that to review a band?

DangerousBeans wrote:Why send folk like that to review a band?

Yet again we find ourselves asking this same question. But then these kind of cunts make their living by attempting to destroy other people's "art" as they are not capable of creating anything themselves. I can't imagine they sold any extra newspapers by publishing this article, and maybe even lost a few sales from people who objected to it's content, so why not either send someone who might like the genre and so stand a chance of enjoying the gig or just don't send anyone at all?

...And even if your a reviewer who doesnt like the band, why take shots at the audience for gods sake?

The odd thing is that he calls 'Schitzophonic' a 'classic' in the middle of it all. Maybe he was taking the piss there too, but he seems to have some familiarity with the material as well, knowing what's older and calling new material 'weaker'. He almost sounds like a disgruntled ex-fan who's decided to put the boot in, or something. Probably not. Confusing, though.

I've seen a fair few comments in places on the 'net from people who seemed to think that The Wildies were exciting for 5 minutes in the 90's but apparently find them repellant or irrelevant now.

Well I was there.. and I wasn't wearing denim OR drinking bitter!

I remember seeing an interview with Brian Johnson where one of the questions was about AC/DC getting crap reviews, and his response was something like "a critic is just one ticket or one copy of the album - and they get theirs for free anyway, so fuck 'em."

I know I'm a bit off the pace but I just got here! I reviewed that same gig, so to redress the balance:

http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/tou ... SetID=1422

I write reviews, I don't get paid for it, I do it because I like hearing live music & checking out bands I haven't heard before. Sometimes they're great, sometimes they're sh*t but I always try & find something constructive to say, that other review wasn't worth a second of anybody's time, it said nothing. That AC/DC quote is pretty spot on, a review is just one persons opinion at one given moment in time, it doesn't mean that much really.
If we (as a website) get offered a band to review & nobody that likes the band wants to go, then someone else ends up going, it's all part of the PR game, you review our band, we'll send you some cds of our other better known bands & maybe get you an interview etc etc blah blah blah & so the bullsh*t goes on.