Inky A&E Desk Swings, Misses At Buzz Band Review Due To Pesky, Profane Name
Buried at the back of Steve Klinge’s review of Saturday night’s Super Furry Animals show at the Starlight, comes this bit:
A Canadian quartet with an unprintable name opened with a set of frenetic dance-oriented instrumental grooves that mixed bumping techno rhythms and pulsing Krautrock with swirling dub reggae effects that recalled the late, lamented Tackhead or current artists like LCD Soundsystem and !!!.
It’s times like this that, while we still don’t have health insurance and haven’t eaten a vegetable in days, that we can still rejoice that we’re not in a newsroom somewhere engaged in ponderous arguments with a team of editors, layoffs looming over one and all, acting like we care (and the readers care) that a band is called Holy Fuck. Yeah, that’s right, Holy Fuck. Oh, look, and we just said it! There’s even a picture of them! With no conferencing, no editorial sidebar discussions in the 11th hour before we went to press about what to do, and certainly no delusions that anybody reads the concert reviews in the Inky. Gosh it’s liberating. Holy Fuck Holy Fuck Holy Fuck! Wooo!!!!!
Inky: They Who Cannot Be Named
Related: Wikipedia: When They Came For The Holy Fuckers, I Said Nothing, Because I Was Not A Holy Fucker
January 29th, 2008 at 10:34 am
holy fuck is always what i proclaim with joy when i see a post before 10 am on philebrity. but the band was awesome too.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I’m surprised they didn’t just use a dash in the appropriate place (i.e. Holy F-ck). I remember arguing with an editor years ago about writing about Come.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
holy fuck! fuckermost and i actually left the house on a saturday night for that show, something that hasn’t happened in weeks.