angels and airwaves and plus44

I thought AvA were remarkably poor at Hyde Park... Utterly lacking in anything. Shame, they're not bad on record but they just lack the substance for the sort of messianistic nonsense they come out with.
 
I don't know much about blink and haven't got any of their music, but some of their songs were good fun and they were pretty entertaining.

I saw Angels and Airwaves back in Manchester when they were supporting the strokes/foo fighters; they were awful. Really awful - Tom Delonge's preaching killed off an already poor act. I'll listen to the actual recording later, but if the live performance is anything to go by I'm not looking forward to it.
 
Heard Angels and Airwaves at Hyde Park in june. The music was OK, but Tom Delaney managed to annoy people. If his set had carried on another 5 mins he prolly would have been booed of stage.
 
MookJong said:
Then I saw them Live at Leeds festival in 2003 and just totally got it. Loved them ever since.
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they were good live i'll give you that... i thought travis was a damn good drummer
 
I have heard of both bands but not actualyl had a chacne to check any of their stuff out, I'm at work at the mo so will ahve to wait till later to have a listen.

I'm a big fan of Travis as a drummer, I think his style is great and I love the work he's done with the Transplants!!!

Valve
 
Meh. Never been keen on Blink. Just had a listen to a few +44 tracks and I don't see what the fuss is about, its nothing new or interesting. Just seems to be Blink fans stuck on their obsession.

(and A+A is just pure emo whiney crap!) :p
 
well ive listened to the +44 album non stop for a while now. Pretty much learnt the words to all the songs (when it gets to this stage I feel I can rate it).

Really good album, prefer it to the a&a album (which I liked at first but then went off it drastically). Baby come on and Make You Smile are two awesome tracks!
 
I went to see them on Sunday night at Rock City, Nottingham. +44 rocked the place but the support acts wernt that special. The damn sounds or something accompanied them. I didnt catch either of there names. There was a band full of guys from Manchester and a Girl Band from Nottingham were also there. Top night though in such a small venue!

+44
 
saw Angels and Airwaves at Hyde Park last Summer and thought they were ******** **** going on about 9/11 and the Iraq War :o

Give me Joe Strummer and the Clash anyday :cool:
 
Will_3rd said:
saw Angels and Airwaves at Hyde Park last Summer and thought they were ******** **** going on about 9/11 and the Iraq War :o
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sam here but in manchester supporting Foo Fighters - probably same tour. they were dire. i hadn't heard of them before and i'm normally optimistic about seeing bands live who i've never heard but these were poor (in my opinion of course) And the lead singer guy Tom (i think) started talking about the war etc but what's he done since - he's probably out in L.A chilling - it annoy's me. I was sick of the 2 minute intro's to songs as well.

And it was their fault it rained :p
mini rant over
 
I loved Blink 182 (up until a point). Despite their relatively sloppy performances, poor lyrics and simple three chord tunes, the song arrangments and catchy-as-hell hooks along with the dick and fart jokes made them irresistable. Dude ranch has got to be one of the best pop punk albums ever made.

Their newer stuff after enema wasn't really for me even though they did put out some great tunes now and then (Miss You, First Date, etc).

Anyways, what has happened now (in my eyes) is that Delonge has dissapeared up his own backside due to fame and a new family life which gave him the 'epiphany' to quit blink and go and start-up some atrocious U2-meets-the-Cure *******-child, leaving Hoppus and Barker to try and basically remake Blink songs without the Delonges punky edge.

Both bands suck. AvA is like a music equivilent of 2-stripe tracky bottoms. Some cheap imitation of a big rock band. It certainly doesn't hep when Tom claims that the band is bigger than Hendrix and Zeppelin combined and then comes onstage during their ghastly performances to preach about politics. the guy is losing the plot.

I have a soft spot for +44 and was actually thinking about seeing them in manchester tomorrow because at least they are real and are playing music they are good at. However, it's incredibly unoriginal and just doesn't pass the grade for me. There are plenty of bands out there already that are doing what +44 are trying to pull-off but much more successfully (see hellogoodbye, mates of state, LCD soundsystem, et al). At least Delonge is trying to produce something different. Musically, I'm not sure who is worse.

Just my 2p.
 
jojothemonkey69 said:
started talking about the war etc but what's he done since - he's probably out in L.A chilling - it annoy's me. I was sick of the 2 minute intro's to songs as well.
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Yeah when he started talking about it...he isn't?...nah he's talking about it...what's the point...don't really see the appeal of bands like that...got too much of a grounding in older music these days.
 
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