Aphex Twin The bloke from The Streets calls Aphex Twin a knob-jockey

  On 3/25/2012 at 10:12 PM, tec said:

Don't get me started on the Aphex Twin, though. He's an absolute knob-jockey. I'm not generally one for speaking harshly of other musicians, but he's been quite vocal in his distaste for the Streets over the years, so fair's fair. I don't normally mind people not liking me, but people who don't like me who are absolute shit, I do have a problem with. I spent the entire evening cussing him over the PA at a German festival called Melt once, after he came onstage with about 20 disabled people playing netball in wheelchairs. I realise that on paper this might look like quite an impressive spectacle, in a Spinal Tap kind of way, but to those who were actually there, it just felt really wrong.

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian....moir?intcmp=239

please don't use rage faces.

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:58 AM, kaini said:

please don't use rage faces.

Only for the most extreme of offenses. Let's be nice to each other. :)

That's Expert Knob Jockey, you cunt.

Never heard of Aphex saying anything about The Streets or the wheelchairs and netball incident.

Gossipy gossip.

  On 3/25/2012 at 10:48 PM, Lindrum Larry Cocopipe said:

i say we kill him

Yeah he insulted aphexy that can't be left like that

let's forcefeed him big cheesys til he bursts

i bet hes a huge aphex fan and he was genuinely hurt by aphex's comments

Knob Jockeys sounds like the name of a rock band made up of all the WATMM Featured Artists. It would sound like early punkier Devo meets crraayyyy-zzzeeeee noisessssss

the lineup would be

Squarepusher - Bass (duh)

Aphex - keys

BoC - lead & rhythm guitar

Autechre - beats

Cylob - lead vocals

all the other guys - horn section and or tambourines

Ceephax - Unsynchronized analog miscellanea

  Quote

Turn The Page

Has It Come To This?

Let's Push Things Forward

Sharp Darts

Same Old Thing

Geezers Need Excitement

It's Too Late

Too Much Brandy

Don't Mug Yourself

Who Got The Funk?

The Irony Of It All

Weak Becomes Heroes

Who Dares Wins

Stay Positive

It's hard not to read every single song title off the debut ironically after this.

  On 3/25/2012 at 11:52 PM, roasty said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZ4OTnB0Tk

holy shit, i love cassetteboy.

  On 3/26/2012 at 7:07 AM, psn said:

  Quote

Turn The Page

Has It Come To This?

Let's Push Things Forward

Sharp Darts

Same Old Thing

Geezers Need Excitement

It's Too Late

Too Much Brandy

Don't Mug Yourself

Who Got The Funk?

The Irony Of It All

Weak Becomes Heroes

Who Dares Wins

Stay Positive

 

It's hard not to read every single song title off the debut ironically after this.

That reads like the average WATMM thread as well, actually.

We have become the streets? The amount of knob jockeys can hardly be ignored, to say the least. ;P

From RA Forum:

"...so it was the 2006 Melt festival, my first time going. Aphex Twin was the headline act, but The Streets were very popular at the time so they had booked them to play right before AFX. Apparently Mr Skinner had heard Mr James say something along the lines of ‘his music is garbage’ about Mr Skinner in private, to one of his friends. This completely set him off, so between songs he would rant about how Richard James was a wanker, and Oh, isn’t it obvious that The Streets are great? Anyway, their performance was OK, hardly anything to write home about, but the blatant disrespect in a public forum really put me off.

Richard James played next. It was obvious that he was a bit irritated but he said nothing- not a single word, and played a wonderful DJ set- a mix of new and old material, his stuff as well as some interesting old school hip hop. Suffice to say, Aphex Twin will be remembered well into the next century, and The Streets will not."

Published schedule:

Medusa Mainstage

17.00 Regina Spector (40 Min)

18.00 Klee (45 Min)

19.05 Editors (45 Min)

20.10 Blumfeld (60 Min)

21.30 Tomte (60 Min)

23.00 The Streets (60 Min)

00.20 Aphex Twin (90 Min)

02.00 Nightmares On Wax Soundsystem (75 Min)

03.15 Roni Size & Dynamite MC (120 Min)

So Mike Skinner was actually on stage before Aphex, not the other way round as he claims.

It's a shame this video doesn't go on just a few seconds longer... Skip past the comedy Butlins rapping and head for the last few seconds.

[youtubehd]Yp5trPjDdTY[/youtubehd]

  On 3/25/2012 at 10:12 PM, tec said:

Don't get me started on the Aphex Twin, though. He's an absolute knob-jockey. I'm not generally one for speaking harshly of other musicians, but he's been quite vocal in his distaste for the Streets over the years, so fair's fair. I don't normally mind people not liking me, but people who don't like me who are absolute shit, I do have a problem with. I spent the entire evening cussing him over the PA at a German festival called Melt once, after he came onstage with about 20 disabled people playing netball in wheelchairs. I realise that on paper this might look like quite an impressive spectacle, in a Spinal Tap kind of way, but to those who were actually there, it just felt really wrong.

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian....moir?intcmp=239

Is there any video evidence of this?

Skinner doesn't get Aphex Twin. simple as.

therefore he's a "knob jockey"...

yeah.

but somebody like him isn't going to appreciate Aphex, is he.

Mike Skinner. what a chav.

It's impossible not to laugh hysterically at every single line that comes out of skinner's twatty mouth. What's that old ceephax tune that takes the piss out of him???

Also skip to 1:10 for the lols. Fucking twat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voH_-EarX-E

  Quote

What's that old ceephax tune that takes the piss out of him???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHM0F4V_edg

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:01 PM, LUDD said:

It's impossible not to laugh hysterically at every single line that comes out of skinner's twatty mouth. What's that old ceephax tune that takes the piss out of him???

 

Also skip to 1:10 for the lols. Fucking twat.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voH_-EarX-E

Oh my fucking lord, that is a fucking crime, the whole thing.......just fucking diabolical. Wow. Skinners rhymes are pathetic, just pathetic.

Was your opening post a qoute from the book, or did you just call Aphex Twin "absolute shit"?

Coz that's gonna blow my mind.

On another note, a member of The Streets, can't remember which one, happened to be the BBC studios in London one day and I was in there with my friend, who's an electrician and was working there. We were in the lift going up when it stopped and he entered the lift with me and my mate, my friend said hello to him and he looked at him and spat on the floor. So maybe the streets are massive dicks too, one of them definetly is.

frank skinner > mike skinner

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:46 PM, abusivegeorge said:

Was your opening post a qoute from the book, or did you just call Aphex Twin "absolute shit"?

 

Coz that's gonna blow my mind.

 

On another note, a member of The Streets, can't remember which one, happened to be the BBC studios in London one day and I was in there with my friend, who's an electrician and was working there. We were in the lift going up when it stopped and he entered the lift with me and my mate, my friend said hello to him and he looked at him and spat on the floor. So maybe the streets are massive dicks too, one of them definetly is.

You should have spit right back in his face and punched him. Hard.

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:08 PM, Axxon N said:

  Quote

What's that old ceephax tune that takes the piss out of him???

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHM0F4V_edg

1,000 thankyous

*plays a ukelele daily*

  On 3/26/2012 at 3:43 PM, Candiru said:

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:46 PM, abusivegeorge said:

Was your opening post a qoute from the book, or did you just call Aphex Twin "absolute shit"?

 

Coz that's gonna blow my mind.

 

On another note, a member of The Streets, can't remember which one, happened to be the BBC studios in London one day and I was in there with my friend, who's an electrician and was working there. We were in the lift going up when it stopped and he entered the lift with me and my mate, my friend said hello to him and he looked at him and spat on the floor. So maybe the streets are massive dicks too, one of them definetly is.

 

You should have spit right back in his face and punched him. Hard.

My mate didn't punch him, he just laughed at him and called him a stuck up prick to which he didn't reply. Also, the same friend was with me when we were walking into a harvester eatery at a motorway service station when the Gallaghers were walking out and Liam shoulder barged my mate and said "look where you're fucking going, cunt", and my mate punched him, He didn't quite knock him clean out but he was too dazed to stand up, and his brother stood there laughing.