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Graham Coxon

It sure was. I found it hard to stomach and I'm not even Welsh. Great effort playing a man short for 3/4 of the game - despite that they had the best of the play and should really have still won. 11 points went begging from kickable penalties and the conversion that was missed - and they only needed 2 of them. That's probably not making you feel any better I guess? France were complete and utter merde (and that might be overrating them slightly) so Dusautoir had every right to look a bit sheepish in the after match interview. I just hope you're wrong about them always having one fantastic

Indeed it was. There have been some cracking games this tournament - and last weekend was no exception. The only result I didn't pick was the SA v Australia game, although I have no idea how the Bokke managed to lose that match (the way it was refereed certainly didn't help the team doing all the attacking) Would love to see the Welsh boys make it through to the final - they have impressed plenty of us down in this part of the world with the way they have played and deserve to go further. An NZ v Wales final would be perfect. A nervous watch coming up for NZ fans on Sunday - given that we

I hate to be the pooper of the party - and I'd love to be wrong on this - but I think those dates listed are are just Nick Lowe gigs. None of the European dates listed for Nick correspond to the Wilco tour dates - so I think Yeproc have just neglected to take the note that related to the shows he did in the US with Wilco off the foot of Nick's tour dates page. Jeebus, I hope i'm wrong though!

The Chills. Last saw Martin Phillipps (and one of the many versions of the Chills that have backed him over the years) around 15 years ago and I'm pretty stoked to be seeing them again tonight.

"Someday Soon" has that chord progression....

Apparently it's not always that straight forward.....

The Low Anthem covers Wilco

Dunno about cool, but definitely fun. Eddie Vedder and a very young Liam Finn and bandmates tear through an old Split Enz chestnut

For mine, that's more of a pop song than alot of what's been posted on this thread, but pop is in the eye/ear of the beholder I guess..... Anyhoo, I'm quite enjoying "popping" into this thread every so often, and don't want to spoil it for the other kids, so I promise if i do post again it will only be nice, obvious pop songs from now on. Like this one? Pop enough for everyone?

These guys don't generally make what you'd call pop music, but this a rather lively performance of what i think is a great pop song.....

Chances that a fair few people on here will think it sucks - 100% Chances that it will in fact suck - 0% (or as near as)

It's free! It's rather good! A nice 18 track retprospective sampler form Aucklands Arch Hill recordings. This label kind of grabbed the baton for indie pop/rock in NZ following the decline of Flying Nun. There are few former FN luminaries (The Bats, The Clean) included on here, some up and comers, and a good selection of the labels earlier releases. Available for a listen and/or download here; Arch Hill And a bit of the back-story from the label founder here; Ben Howe

Not sure if you saw last weeks Groove Guide, but there's a great photo of you showing off your mad dance stylings in the photos accompanying the Wilco show review...

When I referred to you as the “lone guy”, I didn’t mean you were the only one in the whole theatre up dancing early on, just something of a lone ranger in your area (that was a mint spot you had by the way…we were a couple of rows further back and off to the right) I don’t think you need to apologise. As you point out, it was a rock show after all - and I think JT was (very subtly) on your side (after all, you were dancing out of respect for the bands feelings as I recall ). He didn't disagree with your "campaign", I think he just said something like "they look like comfortable seats" (which

OK, have had time to gather thoughts and actually sit down and write a bit about the show. Wasn’t going to this late in the piece but, given the lack of other reports forthcoming (with exception of excellent comments from Sonic & Kudzu), thought I should do the decent thing. My third proper Wilco show (not including a 2002 festival) and they seem to get better every time. Fantastic show; as usual the playing was spot on from all the band and Jeff was in fine voice and humour. My only very small complaints were the lack of a “bolter” in the set-list (lucky old Welly getting “Magazine”) an