Ham Sandwich For Leccy Pic!
Ham Sandwich have been confirmed to play Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co. Laois at the end of August.
Brilliant news for the bready heads as they’ve yet to play such a large-scale event. With a Meteor award, a debut album, countless tv appearances and constant radio airplay along with a string of packed-out live performances, this is the year the Hammbos cap the process of ‘making it’ from unsigned obscurity to a force to be reckoned with.
They’ll make good acolytes in the shadow of My Bloody Valentine, The Sex Pistols and Use. Let’s keep our eyes peeled for more shock announcements from POD….
April 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
can you get them to do that Hot Press chat thingy?
that’d be SOOO deadly.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I tagged you in this thing. Blame Sinead Gleeson and Gardenhead!
April 29th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I hope the next announcement is that the Sex Pistols have canceled.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Sandwichette: you overestimate the extent of my HotPressy powers. All I can do is make people stand still before firing laser-flash-beams into their eyes…
Adam: Thanks…I think!
OFTR: Mmm. The hour of main stage mayhem for SP has definitely passed. Except for the SP of mangled vegetable fame.
I don’t know a single person under 45 who’s excited about Lydon & co. ‘Meh’ much?
May 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
If one of the most important bands in music history can only illicit a “meh” from so called music fans then the hell with them.
Lets not forget the impact this band had on, well, everything.
How many bands frequently name checked by modern bands simply would not exist without them?
The answer is pretty much all of them.
Hell most subsequent genres that happened after punk owe their existance *at least* in part to Punk, everything from nu-wave to dance to grunge.
No they didn’t invent Punk, but without them acting as it’s personification it would never have taken off the ground, The Ramones simply didn’t have the fire required to do that.
*ahem*
Anyway, it’s cool about Ham Sandwich playing EP
May 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
“I don’t know a single person under 45 who’s excited about Lydon & co.”
You exaggerate
May 6th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I am under 45 I am excited.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Ooh, so people are looking forward to The Sex Pistols! Why?
To me, they’re just another dead rock band missing a member, flogging their career. I wouldn’t go and see the new Alice In Chains without Layne Staley and while his and Sid Vicious’ roles were different, it amounts to the same thing to me.
That said, I just don’t give a toss for the Sex Pistols sound. The bands who quote them as massive influences usually ain’t great themselves! They never struck me as a brilliant band. The most interesting thing about them would be the divine-providence gig they played in Manchester which laid foundations for a whole new chapter of British music?
Considering the many other bands who could make proper use of that big stage. New Order and JAMC over the last few years: Sex Pistols are a let down in comparison. I’d rather see Bad Brains
That said, I’ll go and watch them with an open heart. If they’re amazing I’ll dedicate 6300 words here on their magnificance..
May 6th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I never said the bands that were influenced by the pistols themselves (although don’t forget that list includes the likes of Joy Division, The Pogues, Siouxsie & the Banshees….bleh I’m not going to bother with more, it’s endless), I said the bands that were influenced by bands that simply wouldn’t exist without them.
Screw Sid Vicious, he was nothing to the pistols, except possibly their biggest mistake.
Layne Stanley was an integral part of both AIC’s sound & creative process, Sid Vicious was a replacement bassist that couldn’t play bass.
I’m not sure what your using as your definition of a “brilliant band”, but I agree, their not a great band, and some of their riffs where stolen from the R. Stones….but then….that’s not the point is it? It’s punk, *real* punk, thats the point.
A shot in the arm to Rock n’ roll, rousing it from it’s slumber and a gob in the eye to the mainstream & society in general, the inspiration for the genesis of 100’s if not thousands of bands the world over, then and now.
People are probably looking forward to the Pistols because unlike most bands : they matter, their important.
That and John Lydon is still every bit the little punk he ever was, just a little more eloquent.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Your logic is flawless and eloquent. I love to hear a music fan in full flow!