#42

Every other publication seems to REALLY despise East India Youth. No idea what’s going on there.

#43

Weird. I quite liked me the two EIY albums and William Doyle seemed really humble and personable when I met him.

#45

A guitarist playing something like this

And a bass player with this thing

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#46

masks, uniforms, facepaint, etc.

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#47

not being willing to provide the appropriate transport for the listener to visit the Matthews Bridge.

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#48

christ, the quietus is awful

*i love britpop and suede

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#49

Portmanteaus (exception to the rule being The Brian Jonestown Massacre)

#50

He’s quite good live, the records are hit and miss. The long dancier instrumentals are much better than the poppier singles.

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#53

Personally if they had war paint & shoulder pads I would probably never even listen, but I actually completely try to only hear the music and then decide. I read things about the being in the name or wearing certain clothes…etc… if the music is solid then I don’t care.

#54

When their twitter account is actually just the personal account of one of the members.

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#55

wait, which band does the name Rolling Blackouts CF reference?

#56

Big, clever, swear words in the band name always puts me off. Very try-hard.

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#57

Mentioned elsewhere recently but the band having things like mullets and deliberately ironically lame fashion is irksome

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#58

I’ve seen there’s a Go Team album called Rolling Blackouts but I hadn’t assumed there was a deliberate connection there. Go Team aren’t particularly big anymore are they?

#59

i have noticed an Irish band called Search Party Animal after an ASIWYFA song but that feels a bit like stealing another band’s pun and it’s a bit too recent to get away with imo

also hate those emo bands just named after very famous classic novels and stuff. incredibly lazy. (not including Titus Andronicus, that’s a good name)

#60

This is a pretty obvious, cliché way to kick things off, but: I’ve looked, and I can’t find anything about how you guys got your incredible name.

Aw, thanks! I’m glad you like it. A lot of our friends sort of think it’s a bit silly. We used to be just Rolling Blackouts. When we started, we didn’t take it very seriously. We knew that there were other bands called Rolling Blackouts in existence, but it really didn’t matter for us because we were pretty much sort of a bedroom kind of band. Then, when we put the EP [2016’s Talk Tight ] out and we signed to Ivy League [Records], we had to take it a little bit more seriously. So we had to do something about the fact that we had exactly the same name as a few other bands, which was just causing a bit of confusion. So we expanded it, and yeah, it’s sort of vague and melodramatic. That sort of fits with us—a bit chaotic, or something. I think it actually came from—well, one of the first songs we had was called “Rolling Blackouts,” that was before we had a name, it was about [guitarist] Tom [Russo], when he was holed-up in Cambodia in a hostel, he had some sort of unknown virus. It actually kind of stuck with him, and he was bedridden for a while. So when we were trying names around, that one sort of came up—extensions for the name—and felt right, an extension on the earlier theme. That’s where it came from. It’s sort of nice to just have it unexplained as well. I just sort of like unexplained, melodramatic things [ laughs ].

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#61

then you sir are Fucked Up

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#62

Anyone that participates in/is considered for/wins the BBC sound of competition. Just check this horror show out - “chosen by a panel of 136 influential music industry insiders made up of Radio 1 DJs, industry experts, artists including Ellie Goulding…”

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#63

same goes for battle of the bands, or any musical competition ever in fact.

Bands with numbers instead of letters in their name.

any band who describes themselves as pornogrind.

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#64

generally bands who win awards suck also