The Las - gig tonight

[Plastic Paddy]

Anyone (I'm looking at you POB, Sylvo) remember The Las? Early 90s Scouse songsters with a tortured twist. Well, they made one album, imploded but reformed for their first gig (I think) in the last ten years or so. I went along tonight to the Shepherds Bush Empire on a freebie courtesy of a mate.

Well, they (with the addition of John Power of Cast, another Scouse scribe of some repute) were polished and clinical, but overall it was so obvious they were there to milk the fans and therefore the cash. They didn't come on until ten to ten (over half an hour late), played pretty much all the tracks from their first and only album competently enough, but I could have been at home for all the emotion their performance aroused.

That's the last time I listen to any mate who tells me that four mopheads with a loose rhythm, long fingers and BO can play the blues, even after ten years apart. It's back to the experimental dance choons for me.

If they're going on tour, save your cash. Enough said.

PP

[Slash/ED]

Ah but There She Goes will always be a classic.

[tiktok]

Well, they (with the addition of John Power of Cast, another Scouse scribe of some repute) were polished and clinical, but overall it was so obvious they were there to milk the fans and therefore the cash.

Wasn't John Power always in the La's? I thought he just formed Cast after the La's broke up.

They played in Dublin last week, it clashed with another gig I wanetd to see, but to be honest, when I heard them announced I thought it'd end up pretty much as you described PP, glad I didn't go now.

[The Good Son]

Played in Cork last week as well and I thought they were excellent.

[Pat O' Banton]

Ahh yes, album was a rush release I seem to remember possibly on the back of 'There She Goes' (a song about heroin apparently!) and the band themselves gave out about the standard of it.
Was suprised to see them get back together at all as the split and subsequent slanging match was not a pretty sight? - yeah John Power was in the original line up, but I'll forgive you the oversight as I believe you were to busy happily singing along to 'The Temple of Love' at the time.

[sylvo]

Ahh yes, album was a rush release I seem to remember possibly on the back of 'There She Goes' (a song about heroin apparently!) and the band themselves gave out about the standard of it.
Was suprised to see them get back together at all as the split and subsequent slanging match was not a pretty sight? - yeah John Power was in the original line up, but I'll forgive you the oversight as I believe you were to busy happily singing along to 'The Temple of Love' at the time.

Funny enough there was a bit on XFM yesterday about the real subject of that song, bit like The Pogues ''Rainy night in Soho'' a love song yes but not about being in love with a Woman but about being in love with bottle after bottle after bottle's of Whiskey, and about how Iggy Pop would say having ''a lust for life'' .

[Pat O' Banton]

What about the real meaning of The Vapours classic 'Turning Japanese'?

[paul_oshea]

what bout guns n roses mr brownstone or metallica master of puppets:

"chop your breakfast on a mirror"

[wws]

saw them in Dublin last week
great band great gig
they keep you waiting but its ok - they only have one album (and contrary to the posts above there she goes is just the most commercial tune on it but not by a long shot the best)

giveme the one album LAS OVER oasis any day of the week