It's our summer ball, my last massive uni fling before I graduate next week, and who do we have soundtracking it? Two of the worst bands in living memory.
Rest assured I will not actually be watching either of them, but can anyone please suggest a worst pairing of bands? I want to be able to say; "At least its not..."
Puns based around "playing MY balls" will also be tolerated.
the feeling?
more like the feeling of wanting to die.
LOL
what uni is that?
take a can of beans
and a sock, put one in the other and start swinging.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ball
It'll be fantastic nevertheless... it would just have been better with good bands. Last year is was The Go! Team, year before The Rakes and the Guillemots. All considerably better than this year's bilge.
my sympathies.
it could have been the hoosiers
.
True.
This is true. If anything, they are worse than the Wombats... so in a sense, I win?
Yes!
You have won tickets to go and see not only the Wombats, but also Scouting for Girls...tonight!
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
Okay I'm stumped.
I can't think of worse.
^ Not helpful.
Now's a good time
to put those student bomb-making skills to practice then, innit.
Haha students.
I've never been to a formal in my entire life..
Oh dear...
It sounds like they didn't like your year very much. Did they?
The painful thing is, I was asked to be Ents officer 6 months ago.
I declined. This is the result.
That will teach you!
Now you'll have to endure a night of the Vombats
i have to do flyering for photo printing
outside Clare College may ball tonight.
YAY :(
two words
ting tings. *shudder*
and The Hoosiers
Also, Leona Lewis.
I would prefer "Bleeding Love" to "She's So Lovely". Fact.
^this
massively. hugely.
......
GARY GLITTER AND COLDPLAY?
Who wouldn't want to hear "D'you wanna be in my gang"?
Cue a dozen jokes about Vietnamese orphans.
coldplay covering
"do you wanna touch me?" (or whatever that song's real title is)
In my third year
we had Electric Six supported by Mousse T and Dario G.
Also massively shite.
At least yours are current.
That sounds amazing.
FAR BETTER
Electric Six??? Awesome!
I was once escorted from
a university ball for drunkenly (and quite halfheartedly) attempting to bottle Dane Bowers while he was performing. Not that I want to give you any ideas or anything.
And yeah as I recall Mel B and Chesney Hawkes also played
so maybe that's worse than yours?
Thank god it wasn't Josh Homme.
"You fuckin' dickless cunt".
This is very true
Although had he given me any gyp, I would hope to have had the wherewithal to go up and say "but i only wanted to get fweaky with you"
We Had Toploader.
Although Scouting for Girls are probably worse.
I don't mind the Wombats. I don't especially like them but I wouldn't think "oh fucking hell, the Wombats" in the way I might say "oh, fucking hell, Scouting for Girls".
True, SFG are a whole league beneath the Wombats.
But the ball next door has got Dizzee Rascal, and another has got Art Brut. I know it's all a matter of taste, but I feel a bit short-changed.
Well then
sneak the fuck into the one with Art Brut?
It if were just about the bands, that would be sensible.
In every other sense though, my ball shits on their ball.
.
Dizzee Rascal AND SHY FX are playing it too
We had Toploader too
but they only played for a few songs then it pissed it down and was deemed unsafe for them to play anymore. Other notably rubbish ones they had booked in later years: Liberty X, Toby Anstis, David ??? (can't remember his name - off fame academy).
There were occasionally some good ones: Cooper Temple Clause and Sash! (who was surprisingly good fun).
ENCORE UN FOIS!
It could have been Hadouken
Or some bellend from Britain's Got Talent/X-Factor/Cowell's Clunge (Delete as appropriate)
i think we had Cast at one of ours
generally speaking they were quite good - ash, basement jaxx, roni size. i think we had bjorn again - not really my cup of tea but a decent crowd-pleaser.
i can't think of a worse pairing. maybe the hoosiers and one night only. that'd be quite bad.
I haven't even heard of One Night Only.
They must be bad.
Worst band
I've ever heard.
Genuine Whiley-Indie.
"Whindie"?
come off it
one night only shit on scouting for girls from a great great height.
nah
i think one night only and scouting for girls are definitely in the same vauxhall conference as each other. although its probably not called the vauxhall conference anymore.
In the last 6 years at Aberystwyth
we've had headliners being
Chesney Hawkes/David Sneddon
Girls Aloud (before they became massive, played 2 songs and stormed offstage)
Jools Holland/GLC
Liberty X (did the same as Girls Aloud)
Jamelia (cancelled on the day with a "throat infection")
Sugarbabes (cancelled with a couple of weeks to go)
I think the year before was Reef, but I wasn't around back then.
Jools Holland/GLC?
Now that is a fucking night out.
We had Menswear once. They were brilliant.
(shows age again).
wow, Christ's College have Danger playing
I guess that explains the mysterious 'Cambridge' entry on his myspace. I don't think he's played in Britain before, I really want to see him :((((((
Bloody rich/clever kids having all the fun
oh and this year Sheffield Uni
treated the idiots stupid enough to pay £30 to:
Mutya Buena
Dario G
and Edwin from Foals DJing for a bit
Ha, we had
Scouting for Girls at our uni (along with athlete)this year.. We won a battle of the bands thing to support them and they were (SFG) such tits; turned up two hours late for soundcheck and proceded to run over an hour and a half late doing it, meaning that Athlete only got half an hour to set up their sound..and obviously we didnt get one, haha. The girls and boys will love them though..ugh.
Hour and a half soundcheck?!?!?
Just to get that plinky plonky piano right?
Yep
It was hilarious, then the singer kept walking around the surrounding area with an acoustic guitar doing renditions of their hits..classic. The Athlete guys were nice though..
Cheltenham?
I had a handful of friends "VERY EXCITED" about seeing Scouting for Girls.
They all proudly wave their Scouting for Girls keyrings from Propaganda too.
WHY?
& DOUBLEWHY?
Be thankful you didn't have...
The Foals
Nah, they'd be good.
We had Shed Seven and Chesney Hawkes
: (
.
I am also playing at your ball. At 1am
best summer ball "band" ever
karl kennedy from neighbours <3
TBH Its not THAT bad ......
I have X Factor finalists Same Difference playing at my freshers uni ball in Edinburgh.
Dundee Uni
This year's got the Venga Boys, Colin Murray doing a DJ set, a headphone disco and an Amy Winehouse tribute act called "Maybe Winehouse".
Rachel Stevens was booked but then pulled out, the bitch...I always thought Jo was fitter anyway
LOL - Jo always struck me as the hench one in the band
Anyway I forgot to add Zane Lowe is doing a DJ set.
Zane Lowe or Colin Murray?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
When I was 8
I basically went by hair colour, Blonde=fit in my book...sadly my standards haven't risen much since then :(
In conclusion:
Just woken up after the ball, and things were pretty much as expected. I watched the Wombats for 20 minutes, standing at the back chatting bitchily with a friend, and they weren't life-threateningly awful, just something I would never actively seek out. Some of their songs were catchy, they gave it a lot of effort - fine.
Scouting for Girls I can't review as I didn't see them, but apparently they were absolute wankers - came up with a ridiculous load of on the spot demands, before refusing to play unless they could have full access to the ball afterwards (expressly against thier contracts). The organisers said okay so they would play, then had security throw them out straight afterwards. What a terrible collection of human beings.
they were pretty
tripe at Cardiff Uni Ball too. We had Pendulum, Zane Lowe and Lost Prophets dj sets... urgh. I just went on the bumper cars and swooshed around in my big dress to ignore the music. Taio Cruz?? not sure who he is or how to spell his name cancelled at the last minute