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Cable Discussion => General Cable Discussion => Topic started by: Greg on August 11, 2006, 11:28:01 am
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Will Cable ever get back together?
Will they did for one song at the managers funeral. Which I was sad to hear about. (I wonder what song they played?).
It would be good seeing them do a short tour or a gig. I miss feeling the full force of Whisper firing line or God gave me gravity or New set of Bruises or Seventy hitting me in the face or Richies Ride cymbal blowing up my ears!
I hope they can. I wonder how long this stupid legal thing that stopping them playing goes on for before they can do a propper Gig!
So, Will they ever get back together. Englands needs a kick-ass band right now. ;)
What dose everybody else think?
Greg
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The band played a short set with no practise, after not seeing each other for seven years. I?m not sure of the exact set list but I know they listened to a few Cable MP3?s on a mobile phone and then took the stage and played together again.
I would love to see them get back together for a short tour or a one off full length tour but as much as I loved them I wouldn?t want any new material, I?d be worried that it wouldn?t be up to the standard of their first 3 albums. At the very least Cable made 3 great albums and then split before they sucked or wore out their welcome (but while they were still very special)
I?m glad Cable finally have their own site now too, they were too good to be forgotten altogether and I shall keep checking back here for updates to the site.
Russel
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We played whisper firing line and freeze the atlantic. These were martin's favourite songs. we listened to them backstage before we went on on my phone and of course, falling off a log style, we remembered exactly who did what when right there and then, went out and did them full justice.
After that we started serious talks about us reforming, but we always knew that for Matt especially, it would be very difficult. After looking long and hard at a list of provisional dates from our agent, we decided that, at this time, we just couldn't do it for logistical reasons. But we all would like to do so, very much. We've even discussed the option of recording something pavement style - i.e. sending each other material to add our parts to, in order to create new cable material. I know Darius thought it would make for interesting listening, Richie was tentative and wondered how we would promote such a record and I'm note sure what Matt thought at all.
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HI Pete Cable,
Your manager had great taste! Whisper Firing Line is an increadible song (Nice work remembering that song, its in 6/4 time if your not careful you could fool yourself in to thinking its in 4 and you'll come out on the 3rd beat of the bar).
All I can say is, You have this web site and The Myspace. How many people have looked at the Myspace page since you set it up. The market is still there!!! Your old record company will still be right behind you because they really loved the band and went out on a limb for you and most important of all the fans are all still there listening to those fine Timeless albums you guys made. Also all the ture Cable fans will Do most of the promotion work for you.
You all know the answer! :)
Greg.
P.s. Buy Richie a new 'Big Track' then he'll be up for it, for sure ;D
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Ahoy!
I gotta agree with Greg - the fact that there is now a proper Cable site and a forum 7 years after Cable split shows that there is still big interest in Cable! This time round, maybe Cable could get the recognition the deserve - by rights, Sub-Lingual should've been huge!
Like Greg says, all the fans would do the promotion and spread the word!
Cheers,
Corporate_Automaton
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Hello.
Pete - what did you mean when you wrote 'Dog's Flag' on my 'Sub-Lingual' album?
It's been bugging me for ages.
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Its all most been one week and this site has almost a 1000 views amamzing. There is one hell of a fan base for this band, For sure.!!!
Greg.
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When I started this site I was doubtful if it would have any visitors and that maybe I was the only Cable fan left, within two days I was receiving e-mails from people thanking me for making the site, asking me questions and offering pictures, unreleased songs, and video?s. I have been amazed by how nice everyone has been and by how well this site has been received and i was sent an e-mail today from Darius saying how much he liked the site (which was pretty ace?s).
I have neglected my own band in the making of this site but it became a passion, You can check out our website at www.Psychogenetic.co.uk (sorry for the shameless plug). We have more pictures, video?s and unreleased/live songs to add so keep an eye out for them
A huge thank you should also go to my co-conspirator UKJohnD whose help and patience has been invaluable in helping this site come to fruition
Thank you all for your support
Damon
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Alright Damon and UkJohnD,
Thank you sirs for this fine site!!
I was going to ask what your band was called. I'll check'em out, hope your playing in Leeds soon I'll come down and whatch.
Greg.
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Ahoy!
I think the fact that there have been 100+ views on this thread already suggest that there's quite a bit of interest in a Cable reunion!
Go on, Cable, do it! Reform and make our lives complete!
Thanks,
Corporate_Automaton
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I never got the chance to see Cable so i think to get back together for at least a few gigs would be awesome.
I noticed on the drowned in sound site about the tribute album coming out and so i dug out my copy of When Animals Attack to listen to on the way to work the other day. Man, i forgot how good this stuff is.
Nice site by the way!
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i was lucky enough to have sporadic email chats with matt recently and it seems that the cable reunion is off for now which is a huge shame. There were tickets actually on sale for a gig in derby at first floor for a couple of days. The idiot promoter put up the tickets even though they hadnt said yes yet and they got pissed off (understandably),,,,i thinkthey couldsell out any decent sized venue especially in london or derby!
Its a fucker as ive had tickets to see cable reform twice now..,,once with hundred reasons when they cancelled and now in derby! oh well theres still hope i guess....
...its amazing that so many people still love them after all these years. Tue testiment to the music
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Thats a shame First floor would have been perfect. The only band they should get from Derby to Support is Twinkie.
What a gig that would be.
Ace
Greg.
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The second John Peel day on Oct 12th would be an ideal reason for a reunion and tribute to Peely, as the great man loved and continually championed the mighty Cable. How about it chaps?
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Good point mate, even if it was just a one off type thing.
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DO IT FOR THE KIDS!!! ;D ;D
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....and for the 20somethings the kids have since become! ;)
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Damon..
Don't thank us man.. I'm well chuffed I found a Cable site as I was starting to think I'd have to resurrect my old Cable TV site which I used to run.. I spent ages on the flippin' navigation tool so maybe I should.. looks a bit "noob" though :D
There's been a big musical hole in me ever since the boys parted ways and everyone that I pass stuff on to (ahem.. I mean everyone who listens to my cds..) goes "holy crap these guys are brilliant.. what stuff they got out / where can we see them" and I have to re-tell the whole sad tale. Still, I'd only want them to get back together for the right reasons.. I'd say saving music would be a good one but I'm a selfish git in that respect.
Tim
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....and for the 20somethings the kids have since become! ;)
Don't forget us 30somethings ;D
Tim
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Just because it hasn?t happened yet doesn?t mean that it never will, from talking to Pete and Richie they both seem up for playing as Cable again. I would like to see at least one last tour if not a reunion but perhaps did have their short time, we?ll always have the music and that after all is the most important thing.
Damon
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Not to sound negative here, but are they allowed to perform using the Cable name again? Werent they forced to split up the court because they coudnt afford the fees.. ??? Im only asking because im curious what the situation was, not in any way trying to put a dmaper on things. The fact Pete and Ritchie are still both up for it seems to prove me wrong so thats good to know.
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Funny I was talking to Wiskers about this same subject the other week. He seemed to think that all the leagal stuff still applied after he was speaking to Paul Tipler about it. We both came to the conclustion that we just were'nt sure.
We'll just have to wait and see
Greg.
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Cats can't speak Greg! ;)
I think Matt living in Norway has to be the main issue. Unless he decides to move back I can't ever see Cable full-on reforming. I can defintaely see some one off shows in the vein of Kerbdog however.
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I can defintaely see some one off shows in the vein of Kerbdog however.
What's the score with Kerbdog anyway? I know that they played some shows in Ireland. Hope they play in England again, they were amazing live.
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Cats can speak. Wiskers from Forward Russia. jonnygogogo
Hope everyones well
Greg.
P.S
Been enjoying the Refused Dvd, David Sandstrom's ace. Wow Cable and Refused on the same bill now there a gig! ;)
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What's the score with Kerbdog anyway? I know that they played some shows in Ireland. Hope they play in England again, they were amazing live.
I think i'm right in saying they've only played Ireland so far, at least i bloody hope i am, but are definately back up and running at least semi-permanently for now.
Much more info here though:
www.kerbdog.com
You can buy a DVD of one of their reunion shows there too. It's pretty decent quality!
Cats can speak. Wiskers from Forward Russia.
Ha ha yeah sorry, i was just being a little facetious in response to your horrendous name droppping! ;) :D ;D
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Thats fine that why I didn't mention the band name. I've known Wiskers for agers. We're just talking about the tribute album and that how we got on to the subject. I hate name dropping to.
Kerbdog are great.
Greg.
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I'd love to see Cable back together at some point!
Only saw them live a couple of times up here in Aberdeen.
Hopefully something will happen sometime in the future!
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First up - Dog's Flag. One of Richie's sayings - it came off the back of us doing a give away 7 inch on the tour with groop dogdrill, i think - that was called 'wolf table' after a mad piece of art that was a table with a stuffed wolf's head and tail nailed to it that we thought was hilarious. So we just carried on the silly combination of animal+object=art I think. I seem to remember Horse Fez was another favourite.
As for getting back together...it was Matt who went a bit floppy on us because his work schedule was so mental, he just couldn't see how to fit it in and because he's freelance, if he don't work, he don't eat to paraphrase James Brown. As for the legal $hit, we were technically able to perform together again as cable after october 2000, when the contract that had us snared was due to expire. Basically, about 18 months after the original split.
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Ahoy!
I had a dream last night that I was watching Cable play and I got on stage to sing Oubliette even though I don't know the words so I just kept repeating the "change your mind/ for the very last time/salt-water reptile/dancing with a friend of mine" bit for the whole song!
A strange dream but maybe it was some kind of premonition of a Cable reunion? Let's hope so!
Thanks,
Corporate_Automaton
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I have yet to find a band I liked as much as cable. I doubt I ever will. I think the saddest thing is that after the tribute album and the launch of this site both of which a lot of work went into and the fans truly appreciate, that this is possibly going to be the last thread left going on this forum :'(. Unless cable really do something else (like another reforming and another record) then eventually this forum will die a slow death as there will eventually be nothing to write about (sorry Damon). So Pete if you read this, please reform. Do it for sublingual.co.uk, do it for the fans. ;D
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Hi,
Stumbled across this website a couple of weeks ago + it brought many fond memories flooding back. Cable were an amazing band. Was lucky enough to see them live quite a few times + no one else rocked liked them (the Dingwalls gig broke my heart!). Its great to see that they haven't been forgotten. Every time I listen to their stuff it still sends a shiver down my spine...PLEASE PLEASE reform lads (the girls need to see Matt's sexy ass back on stage again in those Wrangler jeans...delish!) ;)
Is there anyone on here from Ireland? I moved back here a few years ago + haven't met any Cable fans here yet but I'm spreading to word!! Fair play to you Pete for keeping the fans informed of any updates. Reading the interviews on the site with the lads, its great to hear that the band have mostly fond memories of the Cable days too.
There are a lot of great bands out there but no one has managed to take Cable's crown so I reckon its about time they reclaimed it! Your fans are ready and waiting....
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Hey, welcome aboard! Iive not heard anyone mention they are from Ireland on here but Pocket Promise, one of the bands on the tribute album are Irish i believe. I remember a good band called Griswold from Ireland that were around the mid 90's.
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I would love to see Cable reform as much as the next man. They've been my favourite band since I first heard them on a cd I got free with a box of breakfast cereal. However, I do fear that the 'legend' of Cable would be ruined. We have to remember that current trends and politics influence bands more than even they realise, if Cable were to reform and do new stuff would it be at the same level of genius or just generic twaddle like every other band at the moment? Not that Cable would ever be capable of twaddle of any sort, generic or otherwise, what I'm trying to say is that it might be better to quit while you're ahead. Still it's highly unlikely now that Matt lives in Norway. But, I do think that it would be cool if Cable could muster a greatest hits tour at least, if not a new album, for people like me who were too young to be able to go and see them live. Sorry, that sounds like I'm demanding it as if they haven't done enough for their fans. Perhaps the "at least" was unecessary. In the time it took me to type that I could have just deleted the "at least".
P.S. Did anybody else find the Get cape, wear cape, fly cover insulting?
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I was thinking the same thing funnily enough, a best of CD could be a great way of testing the market and a short tour to follow across the UK would shut everyone up who annoys the members of the band by always asking about them getting back together.
Sadly as much as I would like to see a reformation of the band, too much time has gone by and all the members have moved on. Maybe we should e-mail Infectious and keep bothering them about a best of CD, the From Here You Can See Yourself CD was kind of hard to find and too quickly released so maybe now would be a good time for such an effort.
I receive an astonishing amount of e-mail from people saying how much they loved Cable plus loads of messages from the SubLingual Myspace site so there are a lot of people out there still who still love the music, I just can?t see the band reforming unless the money is right or it is actually worth there while.
I really would like to go and see them live again though and will always hope that I get the chance again one day
Damon
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Cable should have reformed at the same time as the Pixies, those two playing together would surely be the ultimate comeback tour!