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British India album debut predictions

mathieson  said about 1 month ago  or at  6:28PM on Thursday, July 17 2008.

Second album ''Thieves'' is out on Saturday and they're touring - do their fans buy albums?

I'm calling 12.

You?


aquatic  said about 1 month ago:

top 30


josejones  said about 1 month ago:

44


knerf  said about 1 month ago:

Smoking pole.


knerf  said about 1 month ago:

Hoffing dong.


knerf  said about 1 month ago:

Dickphixiation.


crackwhore  said about 1 month ago:

18


Angelic  said about 1 month ago:

22


email  said about 1 month ago:

15


Bittervictorian  said about 1 month ago:

Is the guy on the right of that photo Beetlejuice?


Angelic  said about 1 month ago:

is the guy on the left wearing my 80's leather tie I had at 16?


andyr  said about 1 month ago:

i'll go with...

7


switchbladesisters  said about 1 month ago:

I'll pick 8. first album still sells real well.


Bugsy.  said about 1 month ago:

does anyone really care ?


Angelic  said about 1 month ago:

after all this posting I cahnge mine too 21


southernbelle  said about 1 month ago:

Sure, they are adorable. They were much more adorable as teenagers, granted...

And my God, that is an AWFUL picture!


Angelic  said about 1 month ago:

due to the slowness of posting rates over the last 9 minutes, I'll go back down to 22.


goldslip  said about 1 month ago:

angelic was 16 in the 80s? i thought angelic was 60 years old?


Angelic  said about 1 month ago:

I got old when I had children.


Hendrix's Dog  said about 1 month ago:

I go soft and say top 10 - did a show with them in Canberra, and manned the merch desk after - sold PLENTY at the gig. Depends on their launch schedule I reckon. Plenty of shows might work in their favour.


goldslip  said about 1 month ago:

same week as the vines, wheres teh vines thread


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goldslip  said about 1 month ago:

How many units is that?


Gbus  said about 1 month ago:

not as many as ABBA!


crackwhore  said about 1 month ago:

i went to that school as well ltherpantsisbackfan and although it is a private school it's at the bottom rung of the ladder, never met so many drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, musos,and tough cunts in my life, i loved that school.


andyr  said about 1 month ago:

from shiny:

Melbourne indie champions BRITISH INDIA’s second album Thieves debuted in the ARIA charts at #5 this week

alongside Coldplay and The Living End. It’s an unprecedented achievement for an independent band,

who released their debut album Guillotine only one year ago.


andyr  said about 1 month ago:

oh wait

you all knew that yesterday


andyr  said about 1 month ago:

hey and i won!!!


ashthetenth  said about 1 month ago:

crackwhore said 19 hours ago:

i went to that school as well ltherpantsisbackfan and although it is a private school it's at the bottom rung of the ladder, never met so many drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, musos,and tough cunts in my life, i loved that school.

really? when did you go? when we were there it was pretty much bogan-central, footyfootycricketfooty, not that there's anything wrong with that. they kicked all the nutters out in the early years.


crackwhore  said about 1 month ago:

yep, late 70's early 80's, always been bogan central and as you mentioned big on sports which was cool, i had 8 mates expelled in yr 10 and was lucky to hang in myself. A mate teaches there now, reckons after lunch 60% of the class are stoned, it was only 10% in my day, good school though.


ltherpantsisbackfan  said about 1 month ago:

i went to that school as well ltherpantsisbackfan and although it is a private school it's at the bottom rung of the ladder, never met so many drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, musos,and tough cunts in my life, i loved that school.

i agree. outta my friends in year 7, there was a murderer, attempted murderer (who i became friends with again in w2 franga psych unit after an involuntary stay. lol. and all the dudes i was friends with were hard n got expelled promptly...but unless, like me, you are from frankston or even dingley/south of aspendale/in a lower socio-eco area, you can really begin to see a culture of boys clubs and mates helping mates - all those beaumaris-chelt-sandy-mentone clicks...twas a hard school till about 98, but then nah...they all went to parky high...i dont think the hardman image would work for declan though, cunts never take cunts in lenseless glasses seriously for some reason.


loveparade  said about 1 month ago:

this band sounds to my ears like another fall out boy. i don't get the description of their sound that most people are buying.


ashthetenth  said about 1 month ago:

i dont think the hardman image would work for declan though, cunts never take cunts in lenseless glasses seriously for some reason

haha awesome!

i thought there were murderers at all schools though. there was also the guy that raped an old woman or did he double-up and murder too?

On-topic. I've always found the drummer to be a champ. And I could've told you this album would chart well. The suburbs are abuzz with British India fever.


katiepotatie  said 39 days ago:

the front page says 'a whole 153 albums sold' - obviously there is some hating going on here, but how many is 'usual' for a #5?


Backyard  said 39 days ago:

unprecedented? maybe unprecedented for a band from whatever school youse are all rambling about.

but good on em. didn't seem like the new stuff was cutting through. they're ambitious and precocious but who isn't these days..


Backyard  said 39 days ago:

number 5 is probably around the 3000 - 3500 mark but it fluxuates significantly week in week out. then again heaps of indie stores don't report to aria.

whoever wrote that news item, whoa.. bring out the claws.


katiepotatie  said 39 days ago:

so maybe if they only sold 153 copies they had an easy week with no real competition (or i'm guessing thats what the report was implying), but if stores dont report to aria it could have well been higher... ok.

i think good on 'em, they seem to work hard so i wouldnt begrudge them any success they might have. then again i might br the only person here who didnt go to school with them, maybe if did i would have something to hold against them!


josejones  said 39 days ago:

whoever wrote that report was clearly being irreverent.


Gbus  said 39 days ago:

over 4K


drtoupee  said 39 days ago:

I got suspended from St Bede's in the late 80's because my hair was too long. Kind of ironic now that I have a shiny dome. Maybe they were right and I was wrong and God had his revenge


team ham sandwich  said 39 days ago:

So I was talking about the 153 albums joke on the tram on the way home from Polyphonic Spree last night and my friend nudges me telling to shut up. Turns out their manager had been at the gig and was sitting next to us. Ouch.


katiepotatie  said 39 days ago:

ahaha looks like the reporter got the name of the album wrong in the news brief thing. doh, how embarrassment!



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