KILL ALL HIPPIES: Your web guide to Glasto Rage –
- A conspiracy against students.
- Web designer gets the blues.
- Oasis newsroom not happy.
- Some excellent ideas from XRRF
- BBC quote provides silver lining.
- “Unprecedented my fucking arse.”
- A conspiracy against the Amish!
- A punter’s dilemma.
- A picture of frustration.
There, stress relief.
WIR SIND HELDEN – “Guten Tag” (aka PopNose7): Jerky new-wave pop pastiche by a group who recently swept the German-equivalent Grammies. Judging from scrappy translations and the few English-language mentions the band has got, WSH’s thing is snarky critiques of consumer society. All well and good I’m sure you’ll agree but what the non-speaker is going to get off on is the caffeineous keyboard bounce and jabbing delivery. The first thing I thought of when I heard it was Blur’s “Girls And Boys” and “Guten Tag” may well be covering similar ground – a discoid take on Neue Deutsche Welle, which is a term I’d never heard of until Friday but means (well I never) German New Wave. The page which told me about it had a MIDI of “99 Luftballon” playing. Colin Meeder mentioned this track on an ILX thread – he implied it’s the band’s only good track but you can test this by buying the album if you like.
Yeah yeah who’s the clown here exactly?
Surely the only acceptable time-specific hoax left would be for every media outlet to run EXACTLY the stories they would have run anyway!
(Like y’know DO YOU SEE!?)