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Two Minute Hate....

24th February 2007
Charlotte Ward

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The View, yet another happy go lucky, not quite indie, not quite pop, Northern band fixated on insulting our ear drums with their mish-mash of unoriginal music. Have the South just given up on their music now? Have we resigned ourselves to believing that only those who live further away than Wolverhampton can succeed in the charts?

Ok, so they may not be the most offensive band to grace our lives in recent months, but there is that one bloody song which I would deem both unnecessary and, well, stupid. I’ve had the same jeans on for four days now... good for you, now go and have a wash because you must stink! Plus who goes to a disco these days? "Hey mate what you doing tonight?" "Um dunno really, thought I might just try that new disco in town!" Maybe if we still lived in the seventies and if John Travolta was the mate.

I’m sure that uninspiring lyrics like this wouldn’t normally be enough to inspire a two minute hate, but when you consider that the accompanying tune is a blantant rip off of Cornershop’s Brimful Of Asha I think there is a definite case for locking The View in room 101.