Blossoms and Rick Astley are performing two Smiths cover shows

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This is not a cheese dream.

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:confused:

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There Is A Light That’s Never Gonna Give You Up

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I posted this in the tribute band thread as I thought it sounded horrendous but this actually looks very good and fun:

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Indeed. Well, I’d rather watch it than a reformation of The actual Smiths for reasons that are hopefully obvious. :slight_smile:

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  • Don’t think I ever heard of Blossoms before this business
  • I was well aware of Blossoms
  • Dad joke about the the TV series called Blossom

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Why is this a thread

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None of us can believe it.

Or @Damian is a Blossoms street-teamer. You decide!

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I’ve heard of Blossoms and know they’re doing pretty well, but have never heard a note of their music, in answer to that question. Funnily enough, I did used to do street teaming up until about 15 years ago…

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Yes, yes, yes!!! Love it!

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An anagram of Rick Astley is “Racist, leyk” :no_mouth:

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Seems like a good month to enjoy the Smiths without the dubious presence of the real Morrissey - this is coming to my town with the official backing of Clint Boon! :smiley:

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Saw Blossoms at Reading the other week. Not my thing, but was also quite enjoyable while drinking in the sunshine. That said, I think this might also have happened 3 or so years ago too.

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When I heard about this on radio 4 I thought I’d quite like to see it if they did a full tour. The video of them doing this charming man was pretty good as well, the band sound dead on

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That is so much better than it has any right to be.

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Oh, shit, I thought I knew who Blossoms were (I know that quite annoying Charlemange song), but I also thought I knew them for another song they did, but can now find no evidence of, so maybe it wasn’t them?

Used to be on Radio 6 maybe four years ago, was quite anthemic, had a lyric like “It’s getting stormy there was thunder in the city I was ALMOST THERE, ALMOST THERE” or something. Fuck this is really going to bug me now. I remember posting on DiS about it at the time being like “This song is great, don’t know much about the band though”. Shit.

Going to make a thread.

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coz rick astley has a better voice than morrissey?

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think i’d rather cut my own head off than go to this

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Rick astley seems like a good dude so why not? Rather him than morrissey, actually how about Neil morrissey?

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Only know them from their feud with the Sleaford Mods a few years back