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Posted 10 May 2003 - 8:35 PM
Advantages of living in the UK
1) Good record stores :)
2) Lots of hot chicks :)
3) Football is most popular sport
4) Loads of cool dance acts (chems, fatboy slim, groove armada, leftfield etc) :)
5) You can take the piss out of the French/Germans/Irish and get away with it
6) Health service is free
7) Lots of live shows
8) Nice countryside
Disadvantages
1) Trains are always late
2) Cold and rainy most of the time (it is here in the north)
3) Football hooligans :(
4) Man Utd scum keep winning the league
5) People don't like change and if it happens, it happens very slowly
6) Stuff is more expensive than in US, Japan.
7) The government sucks up to Uncle Sam too much
8) UK Garage
May think of some more adv/disadv later.......
1) Good record stores :)
2) Lots of hot chicks :)
3) Football is most popular sport
4) Loads of cool dance acts (chems, fatboy slim, groove armada, leftfield etc) :)
5) You can take the piss out of the French/Germans/Irish and get away with it
6) Health service is free
7) Lots of live shows
8) Nice countryside
Disadvantages
1) Trains are always late
2) Cold and rainy most of the time (it is here in the north)
3) Football hooligans :(
4) Man Utd scum keep winning the league
5) People don't like change and if it happens, it happens very slowly
6) Stuff is more expensive than in US, Japan.
7) The government sucks up to Uncle Sam too much
8) UK Garage
May think of some more adv/disadv later.......
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Posted 11 May 2003 - 5:09 AM
mc marsh you forgot to mention the pubs! Pubs galore! Nothing like ducking into a nice warm pub on a rainy day and having a good strong beer. You mention the trains are late and this is true but the ease of public transport rivals that of where I live, that's for sure. I loved visiting England, fell in love with London and would love the opportunity to live over there one day... one day...
England has its ups and downs but that goes for every place. And hey, you got the Chems! ;)
England has its ups and downs but that goes for every place. And hey, you got the Chems! ;)
be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
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Posted 14 May 2003 - 7:33 PM
i live in England too!!!
UK garage is an embarassment to music. It all sounds the same and has no artistic merit at all. As far as I can tell people who are into garage only seem to care about champagne and gucci.
I like living in England though, great countryside but rubbish weather :)
UK garage is an embarassment to music. It all sounds the same and has no artistic merit at all. As far as I can tell people who are into garage only seem to care about champagne and gucci.
I like living in England though, great countryside but rubbish weather :)
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Posted 14 May 2003 - 8:24 PM
I haven't heard much garage, I got a taste of it when I went to some shitty club in Brixton back in 2000. I couldn't even tell you the name of the club but as me and my husband's friend who accompanied us to this place put it, it was dodgy at best. In the front room there was garage playing and I had never heard it before (the second room played hardcore and straight-up techno and trance) I found garage to be moody, not something I would want to dance too, not really into it then again I don't remember much of that night *thankfully* hehehe. Anyway - the garage crowd were a million light years different than the crowd in the other room, and not the kind of people I wanted to dance with anyway. Mostly skanky looking women, and there were a few pimpin guys there with feathers in their hats, lots of leering men doing coke in the unisex bathrooms. Bleh.
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Posted 14 May 2003 - 11:11 PM
Thankfully that's one of the few things that never got a foot down outside the UK in Europe. Ok, Netherlands still think Happy Hardcore is the next big thing (although they are ten years late I think)... every country's music seems to have it's dark spots best forgotten.
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Posted 19 May 2003 - 3:08 PM
I discovered the Brothers in 1995 I think.
A friend of mind gave me a CD of exit planet dust.
At this moment I was a fan of crossover, fusions ( urban dance squad, senser,papa brittle, credit to the nation...) and of course the beastie boys.
A friend of mind gave me a CD of exit planet dust.
At this moment I was a fan of crossover, fusions ( urban dance squad, senser,papa brittle, credit to the nation...) and of course the beastie boys.
