White Lies debut

[Dave Smith]

Well dont expect the Bunnymen.Expect a twenty year old saying 'Tonight Matthew,I'm going to be Julian Cope' being backed by early Spandau Ballet and Pulp.But...after a few plays the grandiose production fades and the songs start to kick in.Okay they must have Great Dominions etched on the brain but they pick up the baton dropped when The Open cruelly were and run with it.

No big cigar but a few Hamlet miniatures.7/10.Worth a listen.

[withahip]

That seems to be the consensus.

http://forum.villiersterrace.com/viewtopic.php?t=1313

[Scouser]

Yeah, fucking open your eyes Smith

[Dave Smith]

I cant.I'm blind with a dog.This braile keyboard is shite as well.Mind you I go parachuting .People ask me when I know when to bend my knees on landing.Its easy.The lead goes slack.

[withahip]

Why is their braille on the drive up ATMs?

[Scouser]

I cant.I'm blind with a dog.This braile keyboard is shite as well.Mind you I go parachuting .People ask me when I know when to bend my knees on landing.Its easy.The lead goes slack.

Can lead go slack?

[blinkilite]

White Lies are playing a few dates in the states/canada in march-april, i grabbed this info off their myspace... might try to make it out to the philadelphia show

Mar 20 2009 Filter at Cedar St Courtyard, SXSW Austin TX
Mar 21 2009 Stubbs, SXSW Austin TX
Mar 24 2009 Black Cat Washington, Washington DC
Mar 25 2009 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia
Mar 26 2009 Bowery Ballroom New York
Mar 27 2009 Bowery Ballroom New York
Mar 28 2009 Paradise Rock Club Boston
Mar 30 2009 Les Saints Montreal
Mar 31 2009 Lee’s Palace Toronto
Apr 1 2009 Blind Pig Ann Arbor
Apr 2 2009 Radio Radio Indianapolis
Apr 3 2009 Double Door Chicago
Apr 4 2009 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis
Apr 7 2009 Neumo’s Seattle
Apr 8 2009 Richard’s on Richards Vancouver
Apr 9 2009 Doug Fir Lounge Portland
Apr 11 2009 Slims San Francisco
Apr 17 2009 Coachella Festival California

[guitarplayer on here too]

Saw them support Glasvegas a couple of months ago, not bad live at all.

[withahip]

Ok - I got the cd - It is predictable, rehashed, overly dramatic, cliche chord progressions - like a less interesting Mission U.K. - And I enjoy it.

[Scouser]

There is a term in the UK for bands like White Lies - "Landfill Indie"

In other words...you buy it, play it for a couple of weeks, then never touch it again. Abit like I did with White Lies, Glasvegas and Editors.

[withahip]

I still like Glasvegas - half the cd is good - but they look to need a big learning curve in the song writing dept if the follow up is to do anything.

I like the Editors first one still - the second was just to redundant and I highly suspect I just can't take the over compression - it is killing the listening experience for most cds I am getting.

White Lies - sadly - I got to track 4 and - omg - the lyrics are just pathetic.

I think it is time to invest in some old deus cds.

[Dave Smith]

There is a term in the UK for bands like White Lies - "Landfill Indie"

In other words...you buy it, play it for a couple of weeks, then never touch it again. Abit like I did with White Lies, Glasvegas and Editors.

The UK is full of landfill indie-you buy the cd,play,quite like and then never get excited agian. Glasvegas only have three good songs.White Lies need time to develop and Editors have just gone shit.

Meanwhile in the land of Smith I just discovered a band called Envelopes whilst flicking around Sky arts.They were playing on 'In the basement'.Swedish band with a Mo Tucker lookalike playing a Rickenbacker.Choppy guitars but sounded quite original.Definately will investigate further-have been around since 2005.I'd never heard of 'em.