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- Stupid and whose army?
We played at Staffordshire Uni Battle Of The Bands last night - not a bad gig, despite the distinct lack of a crowd when we were playing - the campus was completely deserted when we arrived, which was extremely creepy.
The night was won by You And What Army?, who just completely destroyed the room and [...]
- Kelly’s
When I first moved to Leamington, a scary 10 years ago now, our drinking establishment of choice was Kelly’s - at the time the only alternative-student-friendly pub in town. It had gigs once or twice a week, a decent selection on the jukebox and it was only 2 minutes from our house. Granted, The Townhouse [...]
- Two years on and still Stupid
I woke up at about 5am this morning with the realisation that our gig at the Dog And Trumpet in Coventry tonight will be exactly 2 years to the day since I first performed with the Stupids at Robbin’s Well. Looking back at the photos of that gig, I’ve put on weight since then…
- A Study In Ska-less
One of the Stupids’ biggest bugbears is the insistence of people to use the word ’ska’ when describing us. I accept that for some people it’s a simple shorthand for ‘a punk band with brass’, but it’s wildly inaccurate.
For the record, the dictionary.com definition of ska describes it as
Popular music originating in Jamaica in the [...]
- Gig listings by podcast
This is very interesting, and a great use for some of these technologies that are currently being dubbed “Web 2.0″ (Lord, I hate that phrase,even though yesterday I found myself using the phrases ‘old web’ and ‘new web’).
Podbop is one of these increasingly-popular web “mashups” (an award-winning one, no less). Powered by listings site Eventful (itself a [...]