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Title: Metallica in Dublin - Therapy? on the bill?

Are any of the Irish members here going down south to see Metallica in Dublin during August?

It struck me that it would be rather nice to see Therapy? on that bill, since the promoters having been saying it’s going to be a “one day festival” with more acts to be announced.

So, after reading Andy’s recent rant about T? not getting invited to do any festivals and whatnot this Summer, I was wondering who we’d e-mail/write to/phone to plead for Therapy? to be included on this bill?

Semi-Detached is the only record that’s really disappointed me from Therapy?
I got very nearly expelled from school for mitching off on the day it was released, to go and buy a copy in Belfast then go home and spend the day listening to it. I hated it for a long time, but over the last five or so years, it’s definitely grown on me.

I remember hearing Church of Noise for the first time, and being convinced it was some kind of terrible joke… then the album came out, and it in itself was even worse on the whole.

I met Michael McKeegan at an Ash gig in Belfast the year of Semi-Detached… I talked to him for a bit, and said as nicely as I could that I didn’t think much of Semi-Detached, and he himself sort of gave me a funny knowing look and said “Yeah, I know… not our best”, or something along those lines. That was only a few months after it came out.

But like I say, once it’s had time to work it’s way into your head, it’s a pretty good LP.

Chump Change wrote:

How can anyone put Turn in their worst? It’s one of Therapys best ever songs!!!!

*shrugs* I dunno… after however many years of hearing it, it’s not aged as well as most Therapy? tracks in my opinion. For instance, I can imagine tracks like Innocent X still exciting me, ten years from now, but I usually skip Turn these days. It’s wore out it’s welcome, or something.

Plus, it never really felt “at home” on Troublegum, if you ask me.

If yer ask me (and no-one did, since I’m new and isolated from the group dynamic ;)), SP-YF is one of Therapy?’s finest hours. It’s a corker of an album.

When it comes to Shameless and High Anxiety…
Well, I have to agree with the folks in this thread. HA seems to be just more of the same kind of stuf from the Shameless album. I like both albums a lot… but, and I may be alone on this, I actually think Shameless is a better LP all round, when compared to HA.

I think people are still on the high from having a new T? LP to bang their heads to. Once they’ve calmed down and really listen to it, and see how it sqaures up to the band’s illustrious discography, they’ll see that it’s very good yes, but not as good as the last few records.

Don’t get me wrong… I love High Anxiety… I just don’t rate it above anything from the Ark21 years. For all those who don’t rate Shameless, I advise several more listens. It’s a great wee record, in my humble opinion.