Daughters

Just seen Deafheaven and they played Black Brick - wasn’t expecting that. The final transition is fantastically discombobulating; like two drummers merging into one mental octopus.

On 11/4/2018 at 1:23 PM, Merzbow said:

So the new Daughters album is stellar, top tier noisy industrial rock and it seems to be getting praise from major publications too. It'd be hard to find a better comeback album.

I was gushing about them a few pages back. Got tickets to see them in April at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds (where I’m also going to be seeing Built To Spill). Didn’t think I’d get to see them, let alone of the back of a decent comeback.

As my username suggests, I was always going to dig the new Daughters album. Very dense and more industrial sounding. Not as enamoured with it yet as I was their self titled one back in 2010, but that’s one of my favourite albums ever.

If you like Killing Joke plus a bit of Birthday Party and a dollop of weird then I recommend these last two albums (first two are a bit too grindy for me, apart from ‘Fiery’ which is a great 1min26sec)

Watching the Jubilee my Nan commented, when Shirley Bassey came on stage, "I like Tina Turner". I pointed out it was Shirley and she wondered why she was singing a Tina Turner song (she wasn't). My Mum responded by noting "Why is Shirley Bassey always getting whiter?"

Later Mum also said "someone is making a lot of money off flags today, bet it is the Chinese."

Also my Nan calls my mum a "Jew" because of her thrifty nature.

Saw SBTRKT live recently and really liked Sampha's vocals the live setting for 'Trials Of The Past', so have not stopped listening to this live version recorded at Abbey Road:

SBTRKT (feat. Sampha) - Trials Of The Past (Live) -

Cheers for the warm welcome chaps! Also I like Mrs Serra. A wife who looks like that and lets you get fat? Some internationally renowned, 3rd degree black belt, funny-as-fuck former Welterweight champions get all the luck.

Jim, not surprised to hear that The Smashing Machine was hated by MMA fans. By focusing on an individual like Kerr, there was inevitably going to draw assumptions that MMA was rife with drug abuse and lawlessly brutal (especially the WVC and confusion over Igor's knees on the ground). For a non-fan watching, it would reinforce a lot of the hearsay, rumour and some misrepresentations about MMA that has existed since Telia Tuli's teeth flew into the front row, and still do today. It is monumentally depressing, now very dated, representative of only one individual and not the sport as a whole, but there is no way the compelling image of Kerr having his face stitched up wouldn't stick with anyone who watched it.

If it that had focused on someone like recent retiree Dan Severn as the subject, I suspect it would have given a much more positive and professional impression of MMA, but would have been a far more dull documentary as a whole (obviously bar the suplexes, 'tasche and high-waist-banded-budgie-smugglers that the Beast would bring to the table). I don't enjoy it as much as Like Water, just can't shake the impact, which I guess is why I think its a more affecting documentary despite its negative impact on the sport. I will most definitely be following your sound advice and not watching it when I need cheering up!

The moustaches definitely seem to be a highlight of the early days of MMA. Don Frye's is especially luxurious. Loved that he was also working as a fireman whilst fighting. If you ever needed evidence of how brave he was, don't just look at his fights, look at the fact he ran into burning buildings with that fiend of a 'tasche on his face. Surely facial hair so thick and substantial must have been a flammable disaster just waiting to go up in flames?

What are you favourite "day jobs" of fighters both of the past and, I guess due to the relative small pay offs prelim/regional fighters receive, the present?

Howdy, long time lurker, first time poster. As someone who only started getting into MMA at start of 2011, and since then only really seen UFC, I enjoyed last year. Found that I enjoyed more cards than in 2011, rather than just individual fights, which was more of a case in 2011. Probably as much due to becoming better acquainted with fighters and their histories. Along with the cards already mentioned, I enjoyed the Heavyweight broadside of UFC 146, especially Cain turning the Octagon into a sasquatch abbattoir, and the UFC on Fuel 5 card in Nottingham, just wish Paul Sass had won but my heart was in my throat throughout those 4 minutes with Wiman