More lies from Falmer Parish

[Uncle Spielberg]

2. THE STADIUM
The stadium is to have a 25,000-seat capacity for football matches, expanded to 35,000 for pop concerts. To achieve financial viability it will have to operate 7 days a week for conference and hospitality events. Also fifty-six other large-scale events are planned in the first years to generate as much money as possible. With crowds of this size and daily intensive use, traffic impact will be huge.

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Just a small bit about the stadium. Good to see they have their facts straight, apparently the stadium will hold 25000 and not 22000 which somehow 35000 will cram in for the many pop concerts to be held there.

Also the ground will be used 7 days a week for conferences and hospitality. What hospitality what that might be, 12 business suited men having a meal and drinks on a Tuesday lunchtime whilst over looking the empty Football pitch, I can see it now.

What are these 56 large-scale events

Perhaps they could enlighten us with some facts.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

2. THE STADIUM
The stadium is to have a 25,000-seat capacity for football matches, expanded to 35,000 for pop concerts. To achieve financial viability it will have to operate 7 days a week for conference and hospitality events. Also fifty-six other large-scale events are planned in the first years to generate as much money as possible. With crowds of this size and daily intensive use, traffic impact will be huge.

See my comment on the other thread about Simon Barnes, Joseph Goebbels and the Big Lie.

http://85.234.132.19/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70703

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Well personally I think its outrageous that we want to concrete over the pond and deposit a football stadium right next to the pub.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Pop concerts ? - only heavy rock concerts please at Falmer. Open 7 days a week - too right as it will be a community stadium.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Falmer Stadium
Monsters of Rock Concert
Saturday 10th July 2009
2pm - 12am

Motorhead
Saxon
Metallica
Judas Priest
Status Quo

Tickets £ 40

35000 available

 

[The Large One]

I assume Status Quo is the quiet warm up act for the villagers?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Simon Barnes favourite band.

I envisage Metallica on stage from 8-10 and then Motorhead to round things off from 10 to midnight.

 

[The Large One]

Simon Barnes favourite band.

I envisage Metallica on stage from 8-10 and then Motorhead to round things off from 10 to midnight.

Then the seminal classic 'Fingernails Screeching Down Blackboard' from midnight til 4. VERY LOUD.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I am looking forward to the midsummer Kraut rock all-nighter. Confirmed acts so far:

Faust
Amon Duul II
Einsturzende Neubauten

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I am recommending this concert to be held with all 10 bands.

Top Ten Nu-Metal Bands

10. Three Days Grace
These guys have a lot of the self-righteous “this song goes out to those people who didn’t want to be like everyone else” type thing going on, but they make up for it with an awesome streamlined guitar sound and some undeniable hooks. And as far as Break Shit anthems go, give me “I Hate Everything About You” over Freddie any day.
Nu-Metal Classic: “Just Like You”

9. Hoobastank
Yeah, these guys kind of suck, but they deserve inclusion for having created the first truly great nu-metal power ballad in “The Reason”. Now I know you all hate this song now—I did too at first, after all, it’s Hoobastank—but I defy you not to sing along to the chorus when no one (including yourself) is paying attention. It’s impossible, and if you don’t know it now, you’ll know when you’re karaoke-ing this song at some nostalgic I Love the 00s party 10 years from now.
Nu-Metal Classic: “The Reason”

8. Slipknot
I’m actually fairly new to these guys, so all I’m basing this on is their ’04 single “Duality,” but what a great single—five times as brilliantly complex (and five more times as headbangable) as anything on modern rock radio right now. Lyrics still kinda weak (“I PUSH MY FINGERS INTO MY EYYYYYYYEEEEEES!!!!”) but what do you want? After all, it’s still nu-metal.
Nu-Metal Classic (for now): “Duality”

7. Rammstein
These guys might technically be more industrial than nu-metal, but they merit classification as nu-metal due to their participation in the infamous Family Values tour of the late 90s (featuring other genre stalwarts KoRn, Orgy and Limp Bizkit). Plus, the hook to their biggest hit is (when translated) “You. YOU HATE. YOU HATE ME.. Can you get any more nu-metal than that?
Nu-Metal Classic: “Du Hast”

6. Lostprophets
The second band (see #4) to really make use of the Linkin Park template of electronic production flourishes to make their brand of nu-metal more distinctive. It’s nice to see Lostprophets getting this kind of airplay, hopefully more bands like them will follow.
Nu-Metal Classic: “Last Train Home”

5. The Deftones
Probably the only band on this list with anything resembling indie cred (hell, they even covered a Jawbox song once), these guys still aren’t quite my favorite nu-metallers, but they certainly had a nice batch of alternative metal singles in the late 90s. Their success even predates that of KoRn, getting them arguable godfather status. And damn, that video of theirs with the sharks was twice as awesome as Deep Blue Sea.
Nu-Metal Classic: “My Own Summer (Shove It)”

4. Evanescence
Or, as everyone likes to call them, the female Linkin Park. And they’re fairly right. Evanescence the LP formula to the letter—quiet, nifty electronic intro bursting into LOUD GUITARS followed by quiet verse and ANTHEMIC CHORUS and so forth. Except, of course, that they’ve got semi-goth superstar Amy Lee fronting the band. And she really is a star—quite possibly the most beloved (and deserving) metal chick since the days of Heart, if not ever. Her straight-from-the-diary lyrics and enchanting stage presence transform the boring angst of boy-metal into simply music with a grand sense of drama—their songs are just as much Andrew Lloyd Webber as Jonathan Davis. It’s refreshing.
Nu-Metal Classic: “Bring Me to Life”

3. KoRn
The band that made nu-metal possible. If it wasn’t for KoRn and their infamous 65-day stay at #3 on TRL with “Got the Life,” none of it—for better or for worse—ever would’ve happened. And if there had to be a poster band for nu-metal, they could do far worse than KoRn—when they started out, they were a legitimately genre-bending, innovative, fantastic rock band. And let’s face it, post-grunge wasn’t getting any younger (ahem, Matchbox 20 and Third Eye Blind—not terrible but hardly encouraging for a new guard)—in some ways nu-metal was for the best. So let’s not hold too much against KoRn.
Nu-Metal Classic: “Got the Life”

2. System of a Down
“But wait, these guys aren’t nu-metal! They’re too good!” So the cries will inevitably go, which speaks more to the initial prejudice the public has against nu-metal than to System of a Down’s qualifications for the genre. System of a Down do in fact bear all the hallmarks of a nu-metal band, but they play with such passion, complexity and bizarreness that many consider the label of nu-metal to be beneath them. And while that’s ridiculous, it is true that they are that far ahead of the curve—in fact, they’ve replaced Rage Against the Machine in my heart as the best pseudo-topical, bizarre, f***ing rocking band out there right now. Not bad.
Nu-Metal Classic: “Toxicity”

1. Linkin Park
For the first time in almost a decade, the most popular rock band in the country is also one of the best. These guys set the bar almost impossibly high for the rest of the genre in ’01, instantly making the old nu-metal guard—bands like KoRn and Limp Bizkit—totally irrelevant. Still-questionable lyrics aside, these guys continue to break ground for what you can do in a modern rock song—check out the restraint they show for the majority of “In The End,” making the despair that much more palpable, or how the constant conscious/subconscious interplay between MC Mike Shinoda and vocalist Chester Bennington ups the emotional intensity of “Somewhere I Belong”. And that production! Check it out in any of their songs—the haunting piano loop in “Numb,” the stunning (and “Toxic”-predating) string intro to “Faint,” the drum stutters in “Breaking the Habit”—Linkin Park keeps getting better. If this article inspires you to briefly re-evaluate nu-metal, be sure to start with these guys. Believe me, there’s a ton there to discover.
Nu-Metal Classic: “In the End”

 

[Lady Bracknell]

The Simon Barnes pick of the week?

 

[Cian]

The Simon Barnes pick of the week?

5 8 6 at top volume, each individual drum beat of the intro shaking the stand roofs. That'll do nicely, thanks, from that album...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

 

[Dave the OAP]

you like living on the edge dont you

LOL

 

[Dave the OAP]

5 8 6 at top volume, each individual drum beat of the intro shaking the stand roofs. That'll do nicely, thanks, from that album...

I take it you missed the irony of the album name........

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

love it!

 

[Cian]

I take it you missed the irony of the album name........

I knew I shouldn't have had those drinks at lunchtime.

 

[Grendel]

I am looking forward to the midsummer Kraut rock all-nighter. Confirmed acts so far:

Faust
Amon Duul II
Einsturzende Neubauten

I'd be well up for a gig with that line-up!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Don't forget the Monster Truck Fest to be held at Falmer stadium too, with personal invites to the entire Hell's Angel community of the world.

 

[Caveman]

Time to get some pay back me thinks.