My above comment was based off of this
James Holden
Appreciate the clarification chief.
I was out of there way before then.
Wow that is truely horrendous. I don’t know how long it takes to make a track, but just imagine after the many hours of coming up with this, you listen and think “yep I want to realise that to the public”. the bloke has lost the plot.
Looking forward to hearing the whole album
One of prog’s biggest disappointments is Holden.
And now a purveyor of absolute racket.
The last time I saw Holden he was playing a festival around 2007. I remember thinking “the kick drums are almost nonexistent.” We made our way up to the front and discovered that he was being yelled at by a bunch of the crowd. Holden was acting like it was the funniest thing EVA; laughing, clapping his hands, pointing at people ex ex… Like a year later I read an interview of his where he said something like “I love when people as me to play harder. I quickly turn the bass eq down and reach for my most annoying records. Thom York agrees with this approach” or something like this. It all instantly made sense. Completely binned him off at that time and am all the better for it.
I think the difference between Holden and Thom Yorke is about 20 million quid.
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Holden made the mistake of turning his back on the progressive lifestyle, and then his brain prolapsed.
He could have been the new DJ Tennis.
What a looser.
Holden I’m talking about, not Millsy.
I’ll never forget how everyone and their mothers couldn’t stop raving about his At The Controls mix, only to come back a year later to say it was noisy rubbish.
Did somebody say ‘blatant self promotion’?
Don’t believe anyone did, no
Remember Holden playing the Soundshaft at Bedrock and me quite enjoying it. Was the start of the Border Community stuff so the tunes were good and I was absolutely spangle dangled which would have helped.
Do remember the Medicine Bar, saw Carl Craig there.
Not the best night I’ve ever had.
Got Holden down as an anti-vaxxer.
Cheers!
Going by his appearance seems the sort that covid would ravage.
Watched him live once, the mixing was dire, the track selection not so bad. But he was extremely approachable at the end of the night, and just seemed like a very sweet guy. Letting the punters come in and mess around with his gear and having a laugh.
He also ended with this, which is an absolute banger… always goes down hard on a club system:
Wonder if he’s still with that manager girlfriend of his that caused a ton of trouble for promoters, terrible reputation and apparently extremely difficult to work with.
Did someone mention Oxford?
Cankles-McJeggings Lolz. Edward can tell you all about the scene there. Slide was a pretty good night for the provinces.
Slide was a great night!
Cankles-McJeggings Also there was quite a cool record shop. You might have worked there
Can’t imagine Dermo working in a record shop I must say.
His bedside manner does leave somewhat to be desired!
A punter innocently enquires about the latest ADID release and casually mentions to the chirpy shop assistant (Derms) that he thinks it’s ‘the best track Sasha has ever produced’.
A few hours later he returns home to find his front door kicked in, his family strewn about the living room with their heads caved in with a clawhammer and ‘Cunts’ written in their blood over the fireplace.
Christ, 2 letters in one day! Sent!!
Tbf the claw hammer would have given me away.
Millsy A punter innocently enquires about the latest ADID release and casually mentions to the chirpy shop assistant (Derms) that he thinks it’s ‘the best track Sasha has ever produced’.
A few hours later he returns home to find his front door kicked in, his family strewn about the living room with their heads caved in with a clawhammer and ‘Cunts’ written in their blood over the fireplace.
Lol, spot on!
Lol!