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"The new Smiths" - The Boyfriends at Glastonbury
posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM

 Claudia writes:
After dubbing them "the new Smiths" in their festival guide a couple of weeks ago, the NME described new London band The Boyfriends' music as a "mix (of) the stylish pomp of The Smiths with the ramshackle clutter of the Buzzcocks" in last week's Glastonbury preview issue. The Boyfriends became the first band to ever play the new John Peel Stage at the festival yesterday and an early review in The Independent today has described how they "warmed people's hearts with a Smiths-style racket." Perhaps worth investigation by Smiths/Mozheads. There are free mp3s available on their website, www.theboyfriends.com

 
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If anything, The Boyfriends are the new Gene. I suppose I could consider more new music with equinimity if each (even passingly) English band with a thesaurus weren't compared to The Smiths. Certainly it's a testament to the landmark position The Smiths maintain in contemporary rock / pop music (especially within the pantheon of the new garage neo-post-punk bands of the past few years), but please: must every emerging Irish writer be the new James Joyce?
jeremy -- Monday June 27 2005, @12:30PM (#168813)
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no one will EVER (Score:0)
be as good as the smiths
Anonymous -- Tuesday June 28 2005, @09:56AM (#168965)
    Swayed (Score:2, Interesting)
    ...and I do believe that one of the members (THE DAVESTER!) wrote the Suede biography Love & Poison and helped run their fanclub. Sorry, 'information service'. I hope that The Boyfriends get somewhere - poor ol' Dave needs a job! ;)

    Weren't Suede 'the new Smiths' as well? And didn't Moz call Gene 'the Smiths of 1994' or sommat similar?

    Helvissa -- Thursday June 30 2005, @05:50AM (#169195)
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