Anyone remember/like this band?
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DO I???
Fucking love them.
FUCK YOU AND YOUR OPPOSITE SEXXXXX
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I certainly do. Wish they’d play live more but also respect their reason for not doing so
REACTIONARY
Got well excited for a second then.
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Oh as far as I remember they just they were more focussed on family life.
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READY INTENSE
Can’t you tell from the vocals? Did you think they were Jamaican?
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He sings in a pretty broad American accent on most of their stuff. Used to get loads of criticism on here for it BITD.
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Around the time of Zero for Conduct me and a friend started a website about music on the Isle of Wight (where we lived) called Tiny Bombs. It was a small success.
I first saw Jetplane Landing on my 17th birthday. Ferris bought me a pint. After that we asked them to play on the IoW a couple of times, which they did! But one of the dates was when we were in a school trip to Berlin, so we couldn’t go. Our parents secretly went and filmed the entire thing for us, they’d been in secret communication with the band to organise it.
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That’s lovely 
Those ludicrous 30-50 date tours they did in 2003/4 we’re so much fun. Saw them three times in five days once. Remember by then-gf and I being at a loss for something to do one Saturday so just getting the oxford tube to go see them, even though we already had plans to see them the following day in Kingston.
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Don’t Try was fucking amazing wasn’t it.
HEY MAGGOTS GET OFF MY TURF I WROTE SHIT LIKE THIS FUCKIN YEARS AGO
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The thing that made me love them was that they put Courage/Danger out as a single that included B-sides, a radio session and a whole live album, 23 tracks in all for a fiver, profits going to the Red Cross. Heroes
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Awesome band, found out about them a bit too late to really catch them many times. To go from Once like a spark, a full on rock album to Backlash Cop, a jazzy/rocky album is amazing to me.
Fighting with Wire afterwards were awesome as well. First saw them on a tour supporting Seafood and they were better than them that night
Spent weeks practising for this vid and a whole day filming in our student kitchen for our 2 seconds of air-time.
What a band. Fucking incredible live shows and they had so much time for everyone.
I PUT IT TO YOU, HOW EXPLOITED DO YOU FEEL
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SILENCE THE CRITICS I MAY HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
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sorry apparently today all I’ll be doing is typing jpl lyrics in caps
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I was at the show on that CD, it was the last date of a ginormous tour and they were absolutely brutal 
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Can safely say they never released a duff album. Lost touch with them after OLAS but was urged to check out Backlash Cop and Don’t Try by someone on here (possibly @shucks) not too long ago. Great call
Obligatory Calculate the Risk paste job
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