RATM to play Electric Picnic

[Halo]

Thought they'd be on the Sunstroke bill but thought some here would be interested.

EU/UK dates are:
August 28 — Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
August 30 — Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
September 1 — Paris, France @ Rock En Seine Festival
September 4 — Stradbally Laois, Ireland @ Electric Picnic Festival
September 6 — Berlin, Germany @ Lollapalooza Berlin Festival
September 8 — Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
September 10 — Krakow, Poland @ Tauron Arena

[Emphyrio]

Ah balls

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

So, Eastern Europe to avoid having to go to a festival?

[Emphyrio]

I wouldn't go to electric picnic but that's my school planning weekend every year anyway. But again, Eastern Europe would indeed be preferable to that fuckin place.

[Halo]

So, Eastern Europe to avoid having to go to a festival?

You still in France/Paris? Rock en Seine worth it? They're playing the Tuesday, which seems weird.

I'll probably try to do the Reading date (can stay in a friend's nearby hopefully) tempted by one/both NY dates as well ...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

So, Eastern Europe to avoid having to go to a festival?

You still in France/Paris? Rock en Seine worth it? They're playing the Tuesday, which seems weird.

Hey man, still in France but down in Bordeaux. The "rock" in 'Rock en Seine' should be very much understood in the vein of the famous quip attributed to John Lennon ; "French rock is a bit like English wine." It's a pop festival. I think Macklemore played it a couple of years ago.

[Airneanach]

There's a few thousand yoked out of it young wans with jewels on their head anyway who'll get to do the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" bit.

[StrangersWithGuns]

They are catching a lot of flack for just going after the money gigs, which would be fine but does it not go a bit against their ethos? Can't say I mind but there's something to it.

[Juggz]

Ethos 

[Juggz]

When they played here in 93 the t-shirts were comfortably more expensive than anyone else who had been through. Take the ethos at face value and not much more than well meaning cos these guys like to get paid the same as everyone else.

[Airneanach]

The music they've made is the dog's bollocks. Couldn't care less about the ethos. What I will say, though, is that they've become a bit of a Fight the Power caricature. Maybe they've always been that to some people anyway, who knows, but that stink's fairly heavy on them now having gone a whole generation without new material and being known primarily for that song.

What I'm saying is that the Manic Street Preachers are still your boy's favorite socialist Dad Band.

[Juggz]

Yep, still love the music, even liked Prophets of Rage. They spin a good line on social awareness but I don't expect any more than that from them.

[Scáthach]

Fuck you I'm not doing me homework.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Could never stand that whiney nasal rat headed cunt.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

When they played here in 93 the t-shirts were comfortably more expensive than anyone else who had been through. Take the ethos at face value and not much more than well meaning cos these guys like to get paid the same as everyone else.

Interesting. The same year they had a quibble with the Lollapalooza organisers because they wanted to sell their own t-shirts at a much lower price than the official fest shirts and, supposedly, when the organisers said no dice, they decided not to sell any at all rather than sell them at twice what they had wished.

Anyway, almost as predictable as the "any new Sepultura album" responses innit!