I was very pleasantly surprised to hear The Features' new single on BBC 6music today!

Anyway, I've had a look at the 6music website, and they've been added to the B-list straight away. You can vote to add The Features to the A-list.... please, do it for ME, if only so I can hear it everyday until it's released!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/music/playlist.shtml

I never saw a place to vote?

You know what? I needed some music to accompany my hellish paper grading yesterday and decided to listen to Steve Lamacq's (did I spell that right) show out of the blue and heard it too. It made me feel that perhaps the Features are already getting played all the time over there. I guess I'm wrong. I'll vote!

This is great, I really like the harmonies, and I'm glad this one is going on the album. It's one of my favorite Features tunes. The Lamaq shows really do put out a nice mix of good music, some of which I surely intend to check out/buy. Listening to the three-hour program is great by itself, with a little Features mixed in to spice it up.

Nothing to do with The Features (really), but I noticed Andrew Bird on the "listen again" section. He did a tour recently with Clem Snide, someone else worth noting, and if anyone forgot, he toured with The Features in '02.

(Edited by Bowl of Fire at 11:29 pm on May. 3, 2004)

That recording of MWTSTB is top-notch. Now I really can't wait for the album.

Here's URL to the clip:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/6music/6lamacq.ra?start=01:28:00.0

Yes, I copied the trick from Tom Foolery.

(Edited by FeaturesTroll at 11:55 pm on May. 3, 2004)

Looked like The Features were doing pretty well in the poll considering the competiton. I was interested to see Nashville's The Bees on that poll too.

No, The Bees aren't from Nashville. There must be a few bands with that name. Well, I could be wrong, but I presumed it was the British band who released Minha Menina a few years ago... although their new single sounds very different to that.

By the way, I clicked on the link from work (I posted from home before) and could vote again.

Not that I would condone poll fixing in anyway...

The Beta Band are the current frontrunners, followed by Kaiser Chiefs, Morrisey, and The Features.

Suck it, Ben Kweller.

That made me laugh.

Oooh, I'd suck Ben Kweller.

*cough*

Well, he's a lot more charismatic and entertaining than you'd think live.

And hott.

I would assume that it's the Bees (UK) and not the Bees (US), who are from Nashville.

(Edited by richarddawson at 11:26 am on May. 4, 2004)

Man, why do bands take names that other bands already have? That's totally lame.

(Edited by Keith at 12:41 pm on May. 4, 2004)

I just realized that there aren't even close to being a million ways to sing the blues.

have you been counting all this time?

No, I had my staff counting for me, of course.

Check it out Here, The Features made the A-List in a week. I'm not sure how popular radio 6 is or whatever, but this can only be a good thing! Of course the real indicator they've made it big is when they are findable on kazza or Weird Al transforms a song into a parody.

(Edited by joeywade at 11:07 am on May. 8, 2004)

I couldn't even imagine...actually I can...*shudders*

from hmv.co.uk

The clip I listened to sounded really good- I wasn't a big fan of that song when it was birthed, but now I pretty much love it. I like TWIMTB, but I think this song will gain more favorable attention/ fewer annoying comparisons.

see: here

Powder P's first post

Well done everyone

BBC 6music isn't a 'big' station, because it's a digital/internet station. But it is national, and if an indie song is a big hit on 6music, it stands more chance of being played on BBC Radio 2, which is the biggest station in Britain. This has happened with Franz Ferdinand and Dogs Die in Hot Cars for example... and some DJs on 6music are also DJs on Radio 2. We'll have to see what happens

They certainly seem to be gathering momentum though.

Yay Features!

It's looking good at the moment, and I hope the song stays on the A-List for ages, and they can have a hit single, and get on Top of the Pops or CD:UK or something that will propel them to superstardom!

I'm SOOO looking forwards to the gig at the 100 Club in London in a couple of weeks time.

We should meet up! I'm there on me tod.

Then yes, we should.

I'll be there with a tall blonde girl (sister) and short brunette girl (girlfriend), along with anyone else I can get to come from a 'festivals and general nonsense' message board I frequent.

We can bounce around and yell out requests.

Be sure to get a "Psycho Killer" in there for me.

you crazy brits and your crazy language.

Seriously. I've been wondering what a "tod" is, for four days.

'on my tod' means to be on your own, if you hadn't figured it out yet...


haha!!

That's a curse of being from near Manchester... no one knows how to speak up there.

I remember last time I was in Nashville I was looking at the liner notes for The Office DVD. I thought it was hilarious that they offered translations for you crazy yanks

(Edited by ladytron at 11:17 am on May. 17, 2004)

Hey, I needed that shit. Morcambe and Wise? What the fuck?

(Edited by MissSeptember at 6:20 am on May. 17, 2004)

Aaah, owd Eric and Ernie. They slept together (in the programme). Comedy genii.



Well, I'm quite happy to offer any translation services you require lol

yeah i really really needed that. they spoke way too fast and mumbled way too much for this southern belle.
not that i didnt try, though. im working really hard on my english accent for when i visit in july. i dont want people to hate me for being american. i want them to hate me for being me, damnit!
look out london! stopforme is coming to a store near you, and buying all of your clothes.

You dress to nice for them to think you're American. Wear t-shirts with a great big US flag kicking the ass of France's flag, and then you're set.

and don't forget to be really cocky, take lots of pictures, and ask lots of stupid questions.

What you want is a 'Back to the Future II' top. Then you'll fit right in.

That and to ask where Lie-cest-er Square is. Then you'll fit right in

My pervading memory of the first time I went to Nashville:

Butterflies: An American tradition.

(Best. T-shirt. Ever.)

God, if only they sold it at Target. It'd be practically cult be now.

(Edited by ladytron at 11:35 pm on May. 17, 2004)

Do you have Target there? Interesting. When I was in Canada a few months ago, my relatives were talking about how they drive 2 hours across the border just to go that lovely store.

I, too, am looking forward to visiting England...NEXT WEEK. I am very excited.

youll have to forgive me, but i have no idea if youre being sarcastic or not considering i know nothing of these two subjects [the tshirt, not the movie]

I think she got boards confused. The t-shirt talk is from De Novo Dahl.

And wear tennis shoes.

be sure to throw around the word 'khaki' as many times as possible...

Oops, sorry about that. I was drunk when I posted last night.




Nah, I wish we did have Target. Miss September introduced me to the delights.... such beautiful tights. Such beautiful belts. *sigh*

So are you you going to be in London to see The Features?


(The Features are on the radio at this very moment )

Our schedule is getting harder and harder to coordinate with the Features. We shall see.

Let's hope so then. I'd be up for a drink or two

...as would I, and my friends.

i will not get to see the features unless they add more dates in the uk. i will be at the hampstead campus of kings college from july 8th to august 9th. i am going to see wilco on the 15th at the astoria, though. is that a good venue?

Stopforme,

You might just get lucky. I don't know specific dates, and of course this can change, but the band should be venturing back to the UK at least one more time in the mid to late summer, if not more than once.

Crikey. They should just move here.

Add some kind of joke about "getting lucky" and a visit to Carl's house.

Great, she's going to vomit on her keyboard when she reads that!

Beware of the Finchley Road CHUDS. You have been warned.

strangely enough, during class this morning, I was wondering if they'd ever relocate out of the Nashville area b/c of their music...

hmm, ill try. any tips on how to avoid a street that leads to the tube?

You'll be on Finchley Road. There is no way to avoid it. I don't know anything about these CHUDs of which Craig T. Nelson speaks.

They could live with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. It would be like Big Brother, but without the turning psycho.


What's CHUDS???

*coughs, but it sounds like "Play a bunch of festivals"*

Yay, the more Features gigs in London the better. Last time I took one other person... this time three other people... and the time after I will take everyone in the world!

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!

The CHUDS live under the Finchley Road Tube station. They only come out at night after the tube closes.

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers?

somebody checked dictionary.com too

Dictionary.com? Don't make me laugh. I did a Google search for:
"chud stands for"

So there.