What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

The knee-jerk "...really good live band..." statements get on my tits.

Why, Rich?

i dunno. i guess it is because it is used as a bog-standard comment to say "yeah, i've seen them live"*

hardly anyone says that a band is shit live, because going to watch live music IS good.

*not aimed at anyone in particular

maybe i am just being a wanker.

Nah, I completely agree. It's one step away from saying "I prefer their older stuff".

Test Icicles were great in my opinion. Boa Versus Python or whatever it was called was an ace song.