Carter USM - Classic Or Dud?

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I have a vague recollection of trying to actually make that (or something like it) happen at one point via the power of alcohol and wishful thinking.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link

24th Oct Edinburgh, 25th Oct QMU Glasgow. Same week as Carter!

ah. fuck. see, i already know i can't make the weddoes gig. can't remember why, but the runes would point to me being on holiday. and therefore missing carter too. will need to check when i get home.

fuck.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Time to rapidly reschedule and hope your work/wife/etc. don't all kill you. Peasy!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link

I couldn't get a ticket for Brixton :'(

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Come to Glasgow!

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link

I might be.

― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link

I am watchin' ebay. Pondering the sanity of spending over £30 a ticket.

― ledge, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I HAS A TICKET :)

it cost 31 fucking quid :(

BUT FUCK IT, I AM GOING TO SEE CARTER and that makes me very happy indeed.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link

31 FUCKING QUID!

i suppose this is me putting my money where my mouth is. despite the grief i get for voicing this opinion, i genuinely, genuinely believe carter to be one of the most underrated bands in the history of the universe (qv the wedding present).

hurrah.

31 quid, though. jeesus.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link

31 quid to see carter? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link

WELL SPENT. DON'T HEED THE MOCKERS GRIMLY.

― ledge, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link

we has a ticket (for london)

also, i think the anon post near the top

fantastic

-- , Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:00 AM (6 years ago)

was my first ILX post

― Alan, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link

loving the martian post, its an early neglected martian classic

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Martian's mellowed over the years, like Idlewild.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link

He was right though..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

absoutely, hed read his systems thinking notes while on the pitch at fratton park with that one. cant argue with him there

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link

the crappy indie Neds Atomic Dustbin, except I called them Neds Automatic in the Dustbin.

I'm sure no-one has any problem believing that the uni-aged Martian did indeed do this, at every opportunity.

Glasgow t-shirts on sale now!

http://www.carterusm.co.uk/shop/shoppics/clockworkorange.gif

― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Hans up to the life-hating massif

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link

loving the martian post, its an early neglected martian classic

It's eerily similar to any Lex post concerning students! oOoOoO

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link

horrible vile sing a long indie wank, indie karoake for the worst type of student twats

See I wholeheartedly concur with this, and at the same time think that Carter at their best had 2 pairs of sweet Pop ears.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Still not as good a description as fearful biscuit tin shaking rubbish though, that always makes me larf. (NB I quite liked Carter.)

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Falling back in love w/these dudes thx to video streaming service. The only living boy in new cross is really fucking great.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 3 August 2013 06:26 (ten years ago) link

Goddamnit I just choked up a little listening to it again

― click here to start exploding (ledge), Saturday, 3 August 2013 09:05 (ten years ago) link

The summary of Reading 91 upthread makes me wish I could have been there :(

― PaulTMA, Saturday, 3 August 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link

The first and only time I ever crowdsurfed was to Carter, at one of their reunion gigs. I was over 30 at the time. It was a beautiful moment.

― click here to start exploding (ledge), Saturday, 3 August 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

Falling back in love w/these dudes thx to video streaming service. The only living boy in new cross is really fucking great.

Yeah I'm on a YouTube binge tonight, haven't listened to them in forever. They sound really contemporary, at least if your reference points are M.I.A. and Sleigh Bells.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 18 November 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Carter USM In Session with Steve Lamacq

On Friday 7 November 2014, Carter USM will be playing their final ever radio session before calling it a day, at the legendary Maida Vale Studios for the Steve Lamacq Show.

We have 108 pairs of tickets for this exclusive event.
You can register for tickets at any time until Friday 24 October at 7pm.
Anyone attending this show under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult 18 years or older.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link

Once the registration period has closed successful applicants will receive one of the final pairs of tickets to see Carter USM.

All other shows on Carter USM's final tour have sold out, so this really is the final opportunity to see the band. Anyone lucky enough to attend is invited and encouraged to wear their old band T-shirt to see the show!

Date: Friday 7 November
Venue: BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Doors open: 5.30pm

To enter the random draw, visit : http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/carter_usm_7nov14

― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

These guys - such an early 90's anomaly

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 April 2015 08:57 (nine years ago) link

Their best stuff can be pretty devastating for all its archness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Lv0wAvCHM

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 April 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link

still shite

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 17 April 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link

eight years pass...

I still wonder why "all their songs are about politics" was a bad thing. was it because pretty much every cunt who used to slag them off for that is now a centrist dad at best?

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 7 October 2023 03:22 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

stunned that they weren't a barenaked ladies side project

i mean, you chose that band name and now you're the kind of band that chose that name

― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:51 (five months ago) link

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