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rosiedoesYou know, I get that Decaydance is a business and all, but I'm kind of sick of seeing Pete use Fall Out Boy as a free advertising platform.
The new tour line up:
Fall Out Boy
Cobra Starship
Metro Station
All Time Low
Hey Monday
Ugh. I'm obviously not going to this tour (although the UK Tour is still a possibility and I doubt the line-up will change much) it's just... why do we need five bands on a tour, for starters? I'd rather have just have one support - two max - and then get a decent length set from each and not have to stand for so long.
Why do more than half have to be shitty bands on Decaydance that Pete is trying to convince everyone that we must like so we can make him money? Especially when all three bands are shit.
I'm really sick of seeing Hey Monday forced down our throats and his using the FOBR journals to promote them. His own blogs, that's fine - they're independent (even if it is still annoying) - but really. Hey Monday are a poor-man's Paramore (and no, I'm sorry - that isn't a compliment, I don't care what you claim in interviews, HM. Being a cheap rip-off of someone else is never a good thing). Most of the bands he pimps incessantly also suck. I've sat through ATL at Cobra shows - and left during their set every time because they were shit. It's actually quite funny to see them go from headlining above Cobra to being two bands below them.
Also, this may be controversial, but do they really believe, at this stage, that they can follow as high-energy and infectious a band as Cobra, without being, ultimately, an anti-climax? Not because FOB are a bad live band- I wouldn't have seen them so many times if I thought they were, would I? - but because Cobra shows are a party. Everyone is really into it. And after them, without a buffer of other bands in between, the energy is going to change so severely that it won't be quite right.
I saw Cobra supporting FOB as middle support last year; it was the first time I'd ever seen them and they blew me away. Now that I know the band and know their songs, I honestly don't know if a FOB set immediately after would have the same impact as if another band had been supporting them. The bands are just too different in how they manage the crowd.
Even though FOB are my favourite Bandom band, of that line-up, I know I would enjoy the Cobra set the most and I know that all my gig-going friends are pretty much in the same boat.
But yeah; I wonder if Island have realised that they're basically funding Decaydance's tour schedule.
The new tour line up:
Fall Out Boy
Cobra Starship
Metro Station
All Time Low
Hey Monday
Ugh. I'm obviously not going to this tour (although the UK Tour is still a possibility and I doubt the line-up will change much) it's just... why do we need five bands on a tour, for starters? I'd rather have just have one support - two max - and then get a decent length set from each and not have to stand for so long.
Why do more than half have to be shitty bands on Decaydance that Pete is trying to convince everyone that we must like so we can make him money? Especially when all three bands are shit.
I'm really sick of seeing Hey Monday forced down our throats and his using the FOBR journals to promote them. His own blogs, that's fine - they're independent (even if it is still annoying) - but really. Hey Monday are a poor-man's Paramore (and no, I'm sorry - that isn't a compliment, I don't care what you claim in interviews, HM. Being a cheap rip-off of someone else is never a good thing). Most of the bands he pimps incessantly also suck. I've sat through ATL at Cobra shows - and left during their set every time because they were shit. It's actually quite funny to see them go from headlining above Cobra to being two bands below them.
Also, this may be controversial, but do they really believe, at this stage, that they can follow as high-energy and infectious a band as Cobra, without being, ultimately, an anti-climax? Not because FOB are a bad live band- I wouldn't have seen them so many times if I thought they were, would I? - but because Cobra shows are a party. Everyone is really into it. And after them, without a buffer of other bands in between, the energy is going to change so severely that it won't be quite right.
I saw Cobra supporting FOB as middle support last year; it was the first time I'd ever seen them and they blew me away. Now that I know the band and know their songs, I honestly don't know if a FOB set immediately after would have the same impact as if another band had been supporting them. The bands are just too different in how they manage the crowd.
Even though FOB are my favourite Bandom band, of that line-up, I know I would enjoy the Cobra set the most and I know that all my gig-going friends are pretty much in the same boat.
But yeah; I wonder if Island have realised that they're basically funding Decaydance's tour schedule.
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on 2009-01-15 06:28 pm (UTC)At this point, for me, I think it's up to the ticket price. I'm not paying a whole lot to see two bands that I love and then three I can't stand, just not happening.
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on 2009-01-15 06:30 pm (UTC)I wish he'd stop pushing Hey Monday.
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on 2009-01-15 06:36 pm (UTC)Hey Monday... ugh, I don't even want to get started on them.
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on 2009-01-15 06:40 pm (UTC)*stabby deaths*
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on 2009-01-15 08:12 pm (UTC)Pete just made that post with bullshit in about paying it forward.
Paying it forward to his own bank account, as far as I can tell. If those bands get big, his label will profit from it. I think he thinks we don't realise that.
The bands he's promoting, he's promoting because his label "needs one" - like "the punky, girl-fronted band" and the "pop-y guitar-based pretty boy band".
Four Year Strong are the only band on that label, since the days of TAI, CS and PatD, who I genuinely believe have some talent of their own.
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on 2009-01-15 08:04 pm (UTC)Looking at the line up, I'm not sure if I truly want to go just to see two bands. I'm not a fan of Hey Monday or Metero Station and I don't even KNOW who All Time Low is.
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on 2009-01-15 08:14 pm (UTC)All three of those bands suck.
We don't even NEED three bands when you have FOB and Cobra.
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on 2009-01-16 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-01-16 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-01-16 06:22 am (UTC)WHich I think is awesome
:-D