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Fuji Rock Festival - cover band "These Charming Men" plays

posted by davidt on Wednesday August 04 2004, @09:00AM
Belligerent Ghoul writes:

Courtney, Franz, White Stripes amaze Fuji Rock crowd - NME.com

Morrissey was unable to appear at this year’s event, and, astonishingly his replacement was a Smiths covers band that left most confused, angry or amused.
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akira sends links to photos of These Charming Men on the Fuji Rockexpress site - page 1, 2.
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  • all smiths/morrissey cover bands are a bit like jerry lewis playing hamlet, just doesn't seem to work.
    Johnny Marr -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @09:33AM (#117944)
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  • I saw them on a trip to Dublin about two years ago, they were very good actually.

    I don't know why the audience would have been upset - for crying out loud - it was common knowledge Mozzer had cancelled.

    Thank you and good bye.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @10:13AM (#117951)
  • Go on,Irish Moz,ya good thing!!!!!!
    O'Muirgheasa -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @10:19AM (#117953)
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    Perhaps my best years are gone.When there was a chance of happiness.But I wouldn't want them back.
  • Sing in Japanese ? If they can maybe they will
    make Kill Bill III !
    Anonymous -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @11:00AM (#117964)
  • "Morrissey was unable to appear at this year’s event, and, astonishingly his replacement was a Smiths covers band that left most confused, angry or amused."

    funniest story of the year.
    chrisarclark <[email protected]> -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @04:38PM (#118003)
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    "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
  • Thank god it wasn't the Sweet and Sour Hooligans, they would have been booed off the stage if it were to happen.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @09:58PM (#118022)
  • Even though it was known Morrissey had cancelled something like this just rubs it in!

    Tribute bands are sad...
    Tiki Goddess -- Wednesday August 04 2004, @11:58PM (#118031)
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    ...because we must...
  • Having seen several of their gigs, and talking to a couple of them after the shows, I can honestly say hand on heart that these fine men are a credit to Morrissey & The Smiths...

    They've been gigging for years - all through the bleakly unfashionable Smiths/Morrisey dark-ages of the late 90's - and deserve to be recognised for that at least.

    I can see why some people would be a bit annoyed if they thought that they were there to see the real Morrissey & were fobbed off with a tribute, but I don't think that that was the case. Moz announced his withdrawal from the festival yonks ago.

    These Charming Men would go down as a very palatible break from standard festival fodder in my book.

    If you ever get a chance to see them, don't hesitate.
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 05 2004, @04:35AM (#118055)
  • I've seen these lads play many many times, even in thoese dark days of the late 90's when they played to 15 people in Eamon Dorans in Dublin...
    these boys are a class act, they create a great buzz and put a lot of effort and detail into the work they do.
    fair play, if I knew mozzer wasn't going to appear at a festival and they turned up to play, I'd be delighted...FFS, the bootleg Beatles seem to play lots of festivals, why not a Smiths cover group.
    Anonymous -- Friday August 06 2004, @06:28AM (#118182)

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