The Darkness are only doing what the criminally underrated Terrorvision did a few years back. It just goes to show what an image and a large helping hand from the NME can do for you. That's not to say I don't like them, their songs do rock amd anyone who can sing like Zed off Police Academy has my vote.

A word on The Thrills that I read in a review and I agree with totally 'One Horse Town...one trick pony.'

Best Regards.

LD - you dont need to do the Garden Crawl now...

Terrorvision = Awesome.. Look out for Laika Dog !!!  It is Tony Wrights new band... playing *cough* Bumley on Wednesday, which is most inconsiderate as i'm in bloody Turkey.

Can somebody tell me why so many people think the Darkness are so fantastic?  To me, they sound like a bad heavy metal band of old.  

The Strokes have a new album out in about 10 days.  First impressions are that this will be worth a listen.

Couldn't agree more Rosie, apparently it's all to do with irony. More than anyone else they remind me of Love Fist (fictional British 80's metal outfit in GTA Vice City). Just bought the new Four Tet album (deeply odd, but in a good way) and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by The Herbaliser, which is the business.

Ok, the Darkness sound like a dodgy 70's metal band.

Its a lot different from all those who want to sound like bad 60's bands like the Strokes, White Stripes, Kings of Leon and their countless clones that keep jumping on the bandwagon.

Just got back, should not have lost that one.

Hit the underside of the bar once in each half, and Grabbis penalty came off the inside of the post.

Barker showed some good touches, but didnt quite have the first touch.

Yelldell should have done better with Leeds winner, although it was a good powerful strike from distance to be fair.  

Back to top

Alan Mahon was lively, Harkins sent off earlyish for 2 bookable offences, Winter went for a professional foul bringing Keith Barker down just outside the box.

Emmm just don't go offering a page to that Jason Whalley chap there's a good mod  

I'm sure that Wally has enough problems already finding enough material to fill one column, never mind one on here

Bearing in mind that the LET sports desk is Dingle dominated, Revidge probably got binned for upstaging Cummings too many times, and the LET have searched high and low for somebody who would be incapable of taking advantage.

Good grief ! I hope this awful piece by Revidge's successor isn't a sign of things to come .

Afraid so Phil

I took my place among the football geniuses in the pub, you know the sort, those whose sum total of tactical knowledge is to shout `get rid' or `boot it' at the screen for the full 90 minutes.

I'd just about jostled in to my viewing position when, before you could say `ITV Digital have ruined us', we're 1-0 up. Scorchio - Andy Cole. Then for some reason the pub erupted into song. I was even half expecting my old mate the drummer to walk in!

Ah, we have a *true blue* going to games now.  At least Revidge attends them, whatever you think of his comments.  Mind you, it does appear very similar in content to Mr Cummings effort the previous week where he described going to a pub to watch a game.   Perhaps Jason wants to prove that he too is old enough to go to the pub.

It appears our new correspondant managed to find people with the same amount of footballing acumen as himself in this pub.

Then of course, Mr Wally managed to then get a dig in at the drummer.  Although the chances of the drummer walking in when he was 250 miles away actually watching the match were rather remote.

ps Linkin Park-utter S***e!

Did they mime like when I saw them earlier in the year ??

p.s Metallica Indoor tour this december - first confirmed date Earls Court 20th Dec...

I only got the Friday in. but

Metallica were as professional as usual, even though they missed out One from their set list (probably due to all the messing around fixing the safety barriers)

System of a Down surprised me, considering I dont normally like their stuff.

Hell is For Heroes in the Radio 1 stage stole the show for me though.

There used to be a bloke called Melvyn who liked to beat what was in front of him in Corporation Park but he got sent away to what we used to call the 'looney bin'. Probably back on the streets as Care in the Community now.

Possibly, I can think of a couple of other alternatives.

a) Transported to Australia

posting on here as Samuel Dingle

Not much point in cummings articles, surely it would be more relevant to Burnley fans if you gave them something to colour in.

Perhaps he should rename his Ewood Eye column to "A letter from America"

I heard that on the Plane back from Dublin that some people congratulated him on making this foriegn trip

Jason Whalley has written 2 columns so far, I'd give him time to settle before its fair to criticise him.   Revidge didnt always get it right, and perhaps the sports teams are editing his columns like they did with Simons.   That said they are a bit bland at the moment, and he has a lot to live up to.

As for how he lost the column - Revidge must have upset the sports team somehow.

Perhaps he told Andy Neild that you don't need a work visa to report on the Washington DC game.  

Its looking like Kirsty Gallachers or JD's beside the train station about 50 metres from the Carlisle Grounds.

After match - Temple Bar in (strangely enough) Temple Bar seems good.

Is it me or is anyone else getting a little sick of hearing about the darkness?  I think these guys have got to be the most over-rated band since Coldplay (that in its self will upset some of you)

Anyway, what do the rest of you think?

The Darkness rock... New gigs at Manchester Apollo just gone on sale.

Overrated bands are the White Stripes and the Strokes.

On LeChucks different subject, I'm at Leeds only on the 22nd.

(some of you oldies may feel a bit out of place in there though)

 

Now the really important things

Which pubs are we going in

Saturday was the first time I'd bought something you could class as Metal for probably 10 years. I picked up Metallica's St Anger. Absolutely brilliant. The free DVD of a rehearsal for the album in Metallica's studio 'The Sanitorium' was really interesting. Revealing insight into what makes a good band tick, i.e. after all these years they're all still best mates, really enjoy their music and know how to have the craic.

The album sounds like utter s***, a 5 year old could have produced it better with a dictaphone and a couple of bricks.   The DVD does sound much better, and I can imagine some of the songs (esp Invisible Kid) work really well live.

Armageddon the Musical, first book of the series try that and then carry on

You can't go wrong with Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Brilliant book

anything by Terry Pratchett based in the discworld is a good bet,

If you want a holiday book, try any of Lee Child's Reacher Novels, good action thrillers. Also Nelson DeMile is worth a look.

Who wrote Armageddon the Musical? - now theres a great book - Elvis Lives

Robert Rankin.

Top bloke as well, went for a few ales with him after his last Manchester book signing.

Rovers U-19 Team have won the National U-19s title against Aston Villa

A 0-0 Draw at Villa Park tonight, to follow up the 5-3 victory at Ewood last week was sufficient.

Bobby Downes’s U19 players tonight played a game out of the Colin Hendry, Henning Berg coaching manual when they ground out a goal less draw against Aston Villa to claim the U19 Championship.

Defending a 5-3 lead from last weeks home leg, Blackburn’s academy players were'nt prepared to let a determined Villa side snatch the trophy from their grasp. Villa went close to scoring early in the game, creating a string of chances in the first half but couldn’t find a way through a resolute Blackburn defence.

In the second half Rovers played a possession game allowing Villa few chances, although Villa did hit the woodwork late on and Rovers also had to clear one attempt off the line.

After leading the league for most of the  season it was a fitting finale for the U19 to finish the season as Champions.

news update 23-15

The only members I know of so far that have booked flights are myself, SteB and Lee but I'm guessing a lot of people had to wait until today to find if they could get the time off work.

I'm going with Lee though I don't know any details. I'm leaving it all to him

Talk about the blind leading the blind