After getting bottled off at Reading Rock festival 2000, by knuckle-dragging twonks, the duo split up. Now they return with a rather spiffing single!
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/29/daphne-and-celeste-you-and-i-alone
Daphne And Celeste are back with an excellent track!
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I was one of those twonks! Actually I never threw anything but it was a grand laugh in reaction to a pathetic publicity stunt that virtually killed their career stone dead. It’s been worked up ever since to this metal v pop bullying culture clash but it was a great unifying force of utter derision rather than hate/
Can you see the desperation in their eyes?
D & C were the best on that bill.
What a sorry bunch of meat and potatoes merchants that line up was*
*with the exception of Slipknot
http://www.readingfestival.com/history/reading-festival-2000
Crikey, I see what you mean. I think I will save my derision for people who parted with both cash and time to be entertained by Stereophonics, Placebo, Slipknot,RATM and Blink 182.
I was there (on a freebie, mind you). I remember Slipknot were colossally disappointing. I was hoping for people being set on fire on stage and stuff, but it was just some idiots in gimp masks jumping up and down. RATM were pretty good, as was Beck on the Saturday. Also, looking at the poster I realise I may have seen the mighty Limp Bizkit, but I have no recollection of it.
I went one more time the next year, because it was feee again and Mercury Rev were playing, but this was where I fell out of love with Reading. Oh, and Supersuckers were obviously the best band of the weekend.
What’s wrong with RATM????
Antithesis of ‘meat n potatoes’ surely?
I’d never heard of them. So this was quite useful.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/29/daphne-and-celeste-you-and-i-alone
They seem to have a sense of humour anyway.
RATM ? Meat n potatoes rap rock Keraang fodder to my ears, but each to their own.
I was at Reading for the Daphne and Celeste “moment!” I was over stage left by the burger vans so could see the onslaught side on. 2000 was the last time I went, not a great line-up.
I like this single, very good. It immediately rang the bell in my head………”what does this song sound like??” After a few minutes of singing the verse melody I remembered. Not The Same by Dinosaur Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKUigrPqy_o
The first RATM album, unhip as it may now be, is an authentically great record that contains some of the best riffs and production of its era. Probably more than any other band, they delivered a proper, mind blowing “WTF is this” moment when I first glimpsed them on the Word as an impressionable 13 year old.
Slipknot… there is no objective defence of them, but I am glad they exist and have enjoyed some of their records very, very much. Sometimes you just need to go maximum heavy.
Neither of these bands deserves to be lumped in with Blink 182 or Placebo, let alone the bloody Stereophonics.
The Battle of Los Angeles is a fantastic record too. “Sleep Now in the Fire” has one of the best guitar riffs knocking around for years. Morello is a truly great guitar player too.
I understand they could be oh so worthy and “PC” but they were different and politicised a hell of a lot of slackers back then.
That’s why I excluded Slipknot in my list.
I have to disagree with DFB. It obviously was a publicity stunt for Daphne and Celeste to do Reading but it also took balls. It was still a bunch of men chucking bottles at two teenage girls because there not playing rock music. Now that’s pathetic.
I just find that behaviour at gigs repellent.
U.G.L.Y. you ain’t no alibi. You UGLY!
The sound of playground bullying across the UK in 2000
U.G.L.Y. was an old American cheerleader chant staple. Fishbone turned it into a punk ska track in 1985.
Wow forgot what a shocking bill that Sunday was – RATM aside. I can’t have stayed around for Stereophonics as I’d rather eat my own eyelids. Maybe I just got a burger and sat by a campfire instead.
Although I went to the Radio 1 tent and ended up getting down the front to see Elliott Smith for the one and only time whilst Placebo were on.
I recall being in the comedy tent when this huge feral roar went up from outside and, I think it was Ed Byrne, said “Fuck me, that must be Daphne & Celeste” as half the tent ran out.
What history airbrushes aside is that the same thing happened at Leeds the day before. Except I think they finished two songs not just the one.
I was also there when Kevin Rowland got hit with a bog roll.
I somehow missed out on these two the first time round. Having read the interviews, they seem to have largely been amused observers of their own careers. They are very funny people.
Anyhow… this is a great track… I love it.