Boombats wrote:shevek and Marsupialized are one and the same. Marsup knew nobody would join his new 23-piece orchestra project if he posted under his own name, plus he just felt like winding everybody up. JGP doesn't know it yet but he's about to get fired from BBGS and replaced by Marsup's 22 alter egos.

John George Peppers wrote:

Boombats wrote:shevek and Marsupialized are one and the same. Marsup knew nobody would join his new 23-piece orchestra project if he posted under his own name, plus he just felt like winding everybody up. JGP doesn't know it yet but he's about to get fired from BBGS and replaced by Marsup's 22 alter egos.

LOL!!! I don't know what they are putting in the water in NYC these days but I want some.

Boombats wrote:I found shevek's band on MySpace.

The Code is Almighty wrote:

shevek wrote:Someone, tell me: has the U.S, thrown up more than say 3 bands (which i cant even name) over the past ten years whose work will survive? at all? as anything more than 'a good example of their type'?

Bloc Party?

simmo wrote:

The Code is Almighty wrote:

shevek wrote:Someone, tell me: has the U.S, thrown up more than say 3 bands (which i cant even name) over the past ten years whose work will survive? at all? as anything more than 'a good example of their type'?

Bloc Party?

They're from Croydon, guv.

Croydon is definitely not the US.

Colonel Panic wrote:

Boombats wrote:I found shevek's band on MySpace.

Gigantis Lobe = best band name ever

simmo wrote:

The Code is Almighty wrote:

shevek wrote:Someone, tell me: has the U.S, thrown up more than say 3 bands (which i cant even name) over the past ten years whose work will survive? at all? as anything more than 'a good example of their type'?

Bloc Party?

They're from Croydon, guv.

Croydon is definitely not the US.

The Code is Almighty wrote:Actually the joke was that none of them are from the US.