FOLLOW THE LIGHTS REVIEW

[MarvinThePipe]

http://www.groundcontrolmag.com/detail/3/644/

Written by yours truly, Woohoo!


M_T_P

[JackStark211]

i like the tracks

[ewok.online]

nice review, man. :upyours

[taparoo]

I agree with the review; it's not really anything special. Overall, I found it enjoyable. I wasn't too impressed with Blue Hotel. I guess I was just used to the incredible live versions.

[yaka24]

"Overall, this album isn't anything amazing and I doubt it was intended to be, but it does make a nice companion to a pack of Marlboro Reds and a rocking chair."

:upyours :upyours

[Layne]

niceeee

[hold on magnolia]

good review. down in a hole is the first song i have heard off of this release and it sounds pretty good, recorded well, etc. i hope the record stores here have it in stock on both vinyl and cd tomorrow.

[fairbanks142]

Nice Pretentious Review... Sounds like it is from a poor man's version of pitchfork...

[MarvinThePipe]

^^^

Nice blanket statement with no actual commentary, thanks for the constructive crticism dude! And its ok if you saw a word you didn't recognize, 4 syllable words aren't as scary as you think!

[Sydneyfan]

I just hope that he is currently working on something that sounds nothing like Easy Tiger. Mellow is one thing. Bland is another.

And I thought your review made some good points.

[MarvinThePipe]

Thanks for all the feedback amigos. This was my first full-fledged review and I didn't link it just to fish for compliments cause I would love to hear CONSTRUCTIVE criticism as well but this joker Fairbanks really had nothing to say and / or offer, which is why I think he belongs on another board where this type of lame hatred is a more common practice, (alt-country.org) Boo. Check it out buddy, I think its right up your alley. You can post lame responses about how pretentious everything is all day long and you will be right in line with all the other pessimistic dribble you’ll find there. Happy trails!

[scuba.steve]

i love that track sound bite.

[taparoo]

I actually had Follow The Lights stuck in my head today. I don't find it to be all that bad.

[Sydneyfan]

Thanks for all the feedback amigos. This was my first full-fledged review and I didn't link it just to fish for compliments cause I would love to hear CONSTRUCTIVE criticism

I write for a living and the one thing I know only too well is that people have wildly different responses to the written word. Especially reviews because they are basically subjective and open to debate.

It's no big deal really. As long as you are happy with your work and are writing from an honest, fact-based perspective, criticism is just a tiny part of a much bigger picture.

[burgerqueen]

I think it was a pretty fair & accurate review. It's far from being his best work, but it's still nice to get a few new songs.

I have to admit though, I like his Down in a Hole cover better live. This wasn't bad, but just didn't seem as good to me.

[fairbanks142]

Thanks for all the feedback amigos. This was my first full-fledged review and I didn't link it just to fish for compliments cause I would love to hear CONSTRUCTIVE criticism as well but this joker Fairbanks really had nothing to say and / or offer, which is why I think he belongs on another board where this type of lame hatred is a more common practice, (alt-country.org) Boo. Check it out buddy, I think its right up your alley. You can post lame responses about how pretentious everything is all day long and you will be right in line with all the other pessimistic dribble you’ll find there. Happy trails!


Thanks for the website information. IMHO, these reviews are a dime a dozen--first, we get a brief history of the artist, then we find oud that the new music could have been better etc. etc. etc.

All of it comes across as "look at me--I'm a music expert" and "nothing is as good as Heartbreaker."

Personally, I think Ryan Adams is the greatest songwriter since Neil Young... and I think he deserves somekind of lattitude with anything that he creates.

thats all

[Rob]

My Love For You Is Real is great.

[mattinmass]

i agree, the music in MLFYIS is great Rob

i can't stand the lyrics though, pure cheese. especially the first part of the song.

[Rob]

i agree, the music in MLFYIS is great Rob

i can't stand the lyrics though, pure cheese. especially the first part of the song.
I wasn't paying attention. I'll have to listen closer next time.

[FrigidRoses]

This EP is absolutely horrible.

[ewok.online]

This EP is absolutely horrible.

I'm tellin' ya, man.
College Rock fodder.
More drunk sorority girls and the dudes who wanna fuck them at shows.
Ryan Adams and Jack Johnson in the same sentence.

[FrigidRoses]

I'm tellin' ya, man.
College Rock fodder.
More drunk sorority girls and the dudes who wanna fuck them at shows.
Ryan Adams and Jack Johnson in the same sentence.

:boohoo

You're right and that's what makes it sad. I hope they're getting this mom-rock out of their system before the next album.

[ewok.online]

me too.
but i bet they're gonna continue on this mellow (read: no balls, no bite, no fire) streak.

i'll just sit back and listen to stuff like the Fucker sessions, Faithless Street, RNR, The Pinkhearts, and remember when Ryan loved to play kickass tunes with heart.

i hate to be so down on the guy, but seriously.
half the reason i loved the guy from the get-go was because he could sing a song that made me want to pour out my soul to a girl, and then play one that made me wanna get drunk and fuck her best friend out of spite right after it.

[ArkhamAsylum]

The reinterpretations aren't bad, especially the much-improved Dear John, as well as the Down In a Hole cover, but the new songs are just....fluff.


Though I do like My Love For You Is Real, just the Cowboy Technical Sessions version.

[fairbanks142]

Harsh stuff here...

The new version of Blue hotel is perfect. Follow the lights is great too...

now that I have listened to the whole EP; I will restate my comments about the self-important posted review...

[fairbanks142]

Here is a link to better review: http://www.amazon.com/Follow-Lights-Ryan-Adams-Cardinals/dp/B000VZC4DK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-5889928-1431843?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1193166199&sr=8-2

I like how it gets to the point... and it doesn't reek of self-importance...

[ewok.online]

Dude, you can not like his review, that's fine.
don't be a fucking douche about it.

so shut up and go listen to the EP if you like it so much.
love, Ewok.

[Rob]

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Follow the Lights EP
[Lost Highway; 2007]
Rating: 6.5


Poor Ryan Adams' press still reads like it did four years ago, perpetuating the idea that he's a scruffy-haired, shaggy-dog troubadour with loads of ambition but no direction, a prodigious pen with no internal editor. Every onstage incident is reported as a "fit," and people still wonder if he's dating Parker Posey. But Adams has changed. Possibly. As Marc Hogan commented in his album review earlier this year, Easy Tiger is Adams' most consistent and concerted effort since 2001's Gold. Perhaps no longer confident that fans or passersby will follow him down just any avenue, Adams has focused his songwriting and settled down with a band, the very capable Cardinals. His new sound draws equally from the lite country he made with Whiskeytown and from the Grateful Dead noodliness the Cardinals brought to Cold Roses. Sheryl Crow dueted on the first single from Easy Tiger, a sure sign that Adams was making a go of it commercially. But he wasn't selling out so much as finally getting his head in the game-- which is just what armchair detractors had been advising him to do for years.

Such modesty and straightforwardness suit Adams well, nowhere more so than on Follow the Lights, a satellite EP orbiting planet Tiger. In a sense, however, this is the Cardinals' record, with Adams graciously stepping aside as if to make up for not giving them cover billing on Easy Tiger. It's easy to see what Adams sees in his group: It has the range to follow him anywhere-- from punk to alt-country to nu-Dead to Starbucks rock-- yet the band focuses his creative energies in one direction instead of letting it spray everywhere. Offering a jumbled chronology of their ongoing collaboration, Follow the Lights contains a few new songs, bonus tracks from previous Cardinals albums, at least one worthwhile do-over, and an Alice in Chains cover that's only evident as such if you look at the liners. The halting acoustic arrangement on "If I Am a Stranger", from Cold Roses, creates a lonely space for Adams' heartbroken lyrics and Heartbreaker vocals, which recapture a little of the twang of his earlier material. The piano-lead "Dear John", which Adams co-wrote with Norah Jones and originally appeared on the Australian edition of Jacksonville City Nights, showcases his easy harmonies with Cardinals guitarist Neal Casal.

Nowhere is the backing band's impact more evident than on "This Is It", a salvage of a track from Adams' spectacular 2003 disaster Rock N Roll: The Cardinals abandon that album's Strokesy bluster for a sweeter, scruffier sound that enhances the song's hook and showcases Adams' adaptable songwriting. They don't fare nearly as well, however, on "My Love for You Is Real", which is as forgettable as its title suggests. The song ends with an instrumental coda that lets the band stretch out but doesn't give them a lot to do. What should be a big moment is just a transition to "Blue Hotel", which sounds cleaner than the version on Willie Nelson's Songbird but lacks his elegantly rough-hewn vocals. Best of all is the title track, which sounds as good as anything on Easy Tiger, with Jon Graboff's pedal steel draping over a delicate melody and a strong hook assaying Adams' tender imagery: "Follow the lights that line the streets connecting telephones," he sings, his voice fuzzing out at the edges to give the song a strong dreampop quality. "Follow the lights from house to house and they will lead you home."

Perhaps this newfound sense of focus-- this (gasp) professionalism-- is just a phase, like new wave was in '03 or godawful hardcore was in, um, that same year. Rewriting industry rules to suit your own disposition-- releasing as many damn albums as you please, playing whatever style suits your fancy, rapping on your web site, flipping the bird at the rock norm-- is certainly admirable, but in Adams' case, the spectacle often overshadows the music. As Easy Tiger suggested and Follow the Lights proves, Adams sounds best when he's going strictly by the book.

-Stephen M. Deusner, October 23, 2007

[ewok.online]

Boooo.


The piano-lead "Dear John", which Adams co-wrote with Norah Jones and originally appeared on the Australian edition of Jacksonville City Nights
Huh?

[FrigidRoses]

As Easy Tiger suggested and Follow the Lights proves, Adams sounds best when he's going strictly by the book.

This couldn't be farther from the truth.

[burgerqueen]

Best of all is the title track, which sounds as good as anything on Easy Tiger, with Jon Graboff's pedal steel draping over a delicate melody and a strong hook assaying Adams' tender imagery: "Follow the lights that line the streets connecting telephones," he sings, his voice fuzzing out at the edges to give the song a strong dreampop quality. "Follow the lights from house to house and they will lead you home."




I know many of you don't like ET, I do. Maybe not as much as other stuff but I do think it's a good album. But this statement is shit. Actually, that whole review is. I really don't like FTL at all, I think it's probably one of the worst things he has written since RnR.

[ArkhamAsylum]

This couldn't be farther from the truth.
Exactly, we'd have no Cold Roses if he decided to always "go by the book".

[FrigidRoses]

Screw the book. :)

2005 was Ryan's greatest year. I don't understand why critics creamed themselves over Easy Tiger, but never game him more credit for those 3 amazing records we got in 05.

[Rob]

Ryan has lost his edge.

[JackStark211]

this album is growing on me. it is really really mellow and i want him to go back to the cold roses style, but considering this is simple an EP it is rather amazing. over 31 is more like an album then EP.

[foggy]

Personally, I like the EP. I especially like My Love For You Is Real, I think it came out really nice.

[foggy]

All Music Guide:

The steady, streamlined Easy Tiger was a sure sign that Ryan Adams was attempting to straighten up and play the game, but its quickly-released EP follow-up Follow the Lights takes this self-conscious sobriety to a whole different level, as it finds Adams writing two songs for the ABC drama October Road, then rearranging three of his own songs to fit the same hazy, mellow vibe of his new tunes, adding the previously unreleased "Blue Hotel" and a cover of Alice in Chains' "Down in a Hole" to the mix. This isn't so much a sell-out as yet another one of Adams' savvy genre exercises — the only difference is, here he's gunning for the Grey's Anatomy adult-alternative crossover market instead of crafting a tribute to the Smiths or Grateful Dead. Adams pulls it off, possibly because the abbreviated length of the EP is just enough time for him to dwell in one place without being bored, but also because the lazy, low-key vibe emphasizes the empathy between him and his excellent backing band the Cardinals, who add warmth and a ragged humanity to Adams' tunes. Indeed, the dullest moment here is "If I Am a Stranger," where the Cardinals recede to the background, but the rest of the record places the band on equal footing with Adams, giving this a gently ramshackle appeal not all that dissimilar to either the Dead or the Band. The Cardinals help sell the new songs and a less insistent, strident take on "This Is It," but where they really shine is on that wonderful reinvention of "Down in a Hole," turning AIC's dirge into heart-on-the-sleeve country-rock that is arguably Adams' best single recording in recent memory.
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[MarvinThePipe]

Dude, you can not like his review, that's fine.
don't be a fucking douche about it.

so shut up and go listen to the EP if you like it so much.
love, Ewok.

Honestly. I don't write reviews for a living. I wrote the fucking thing because I enjoy writing and I think Ryan is brilliant. That's about it. Jesus.

Thank you Ewok for understanding that there is more to the internet, message boards, etc. than intellectual COMBAT (DUCK AND COVER FAIRBANKS JUST LOGGED ON) just trying to express myself in the only way I know how. Sorry for being myself!

[hold on magnolia]

haha, the pitchfork review is pretty rediculous. i actually like the ep as a companion piece to easy tiger but i definitely want him to get away from this soft rock direction that he is taking at the moment. i just hope he comes back next year with something better...and i really do not want jamie candiloro producing anymore adams records. i don't think it's ryan's songs that have lost the edge, i think it was candiloros production.

and follow the lights may be one of ryan's worst songs in my opinion. it's got a melody that would fit well on a children's song.

[thunderoad]

The new versions of the songs on FTL are pretty damn sweet,
I was fairly bored with 'My Love For You is Real".. it was very 'meh' and never went anywhere, ..Follow The Lights was a sweet and nice song.. nothing spectacular but not horrible either..kinda reminded me of Travis.
Whatever is next for the Cardinals , I just hope it's fresh, different, new, edgier, whatever as long as it moves forward and doesn't stall like it appears to have for now.

[mattinmass]

down in a hole sounds likje a good neil young rocker

that said, follow the lights and my love for you is real sound like an episode of Dawsons Creek gone wrong

[JackStark211]

i wish he had released "trouble on wheels" & "arkham asylum" on this ep as well. I am happy to finally have "blue hotel" released. i love it when he plays that song.


one other strange thing, i am a major jimmy eat world fan (9have been since 96 when they still played good music). they jsut released an album titled "chase this light" and ryan "follow the lights". seems funny that two of my favorite bands have just release such similar sounding album titles.

[GILMORE104]

Didn't Ryan himself say he hated RnR? He wrote RnR because LH told him "no freaking way are we releasing 'Love is Hell'" because they said it lacked depth and wouldn't reach people. So he wrote RnR with the gayest lyrics he could think of. I believe that's how he told it in an interview.

He's always been this mellow writer who appreciates all genres of music. His greatest works of genius really aren't these heavy rock songs he has in his repertoire. I site Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, Pneumonia, Heartbreaker and 29

[Sydneyfan]

Didn't Ryan himself say he hated RnR? He wrote RnR because LH told him "no freaking way are we releasing 'Love is Hell'" because they said it lacked depth and wouldn't reach people. So he wrote RnR with the gayest lyrics he could think of. I believe that's how he told it in an interview.



I think that's right, yeah. He said that RnR was a joke designed to get back at LH.

[GILMORE104]

Thanks for confirming that. I guess what I was trying to say is that Follow the Lights is nothing out of the ordinary for his style. I haven't gotten my copy yet, but from what I have heard it's the same old great tunes. But I'm also a fan who thinks his undisputed genius are Pneumonia and Jacksonville

[ewok.online]

i think he likes that record more than he admits, though.
sure, it was a means to an end, but the songs are fun, i'm sure he had fun making it, and it's got a handful of great songs.

[GILMORE104]

I think the coolest thing about Rock N' Roll was that even though he did it as a way to get released what he really wanted, it did still have those good songs. Very true ewok.

[dearprudence65]

The greatest thing about Ryan Adams is that his music is ephemeral. If you don't care for it, give him a week so the band can rework it into something else. Ryan usually gets bored of his music before his fans do. Music is at its zenith when it goes down unexpected avenues. Those who write "the book" that artists such as Ryan are supposed to follow are the laggards who try to keep up.

Now for Follow the Lights, it's a quaint 30 minutes of concentrated Cardinals performances, just long enough to have a glass of wine and smoke a couple, nothing more and nothing less.

[hold on magnolia]

He's always been this mellow writer who appreciates all genres of music. His greatest works of genius really aren't these heavy rock songs he has in his repertoire. I site Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, Pneumonia, Heartbreaker and 29

i don't think it holds up to any of those albums nor did i expect it too.

[sipowicz]

You know, I dig the EP too. It is an EP for petes-sake, they are suppose to be stop-gap and filler. For what it is, I think it is pretty darn good, plus, I am just glad to have a studio version of Blue Hotel, man, I love that song.

[hold on magnolia]

You know, I dig the EP too. It is an EP for petes-sake, they are suppose to be stop-gap and filler. For what it is, I think it is pretty darn good, plus, I am just glad to have a studio version of Blue Hotel, man, I love that song.

i dig it as well. it's a good ep and it's better than i expected. actually, i consider it a nice treat for the end of the year. i also hope that he ditches the easy tiger sound on the next album.

[sipowicz]

i also hope that he ditches the easy tiger sound on the next album.

Yeah, I think its time. We need the Sweetheart Rev. or the Pinkhearts back to melt our faces.

[ArkhamAsylum]

I think anyone not satisfied with Easy Tiger or the EP should just listen to the live shows, because they more than live up to those standards.

[sipowicz]

I think anyone not satisfied with Easy Tiger or the EP should just listen to the live shows, because they more than live up to those standards.

Yeah, I agree, I have seen him 4 times this year, 3 being the Easy Tiger-type show, and yes, they are great. But that doesn't mean I am not ready to hear something new, and just because it works live, doesn't mean it works on plastic all the times.

[JackStark211]

i like it more and more with each listen.

[hold on magnolia]

I think anyone not satisfied with Easy Tiger or the EP should just listen to the live shows, because they more than live up to those standards.

I definitely listen to the curtain of lights sessions more than I do Easy Tiger. I think that if the songs on Easy Tiger sounded more like the live versions then it would have been one of his best albums.

Besides, I really don't have a problem with Easy Tiger and I have been listening to Follow The Lights on repeat. I really like both albums and think it was a necessary progression in the Cardinals catalogue. But with that being said, I also don't think that ET and FTL are up to par with the standards I hold for RA&TC. They lack the edge and rawness that his greatest albums have. I would just like to see him and the cardinals place that back in the albums (because the live shows definitely don't lack those things).

I would also be interested to see what Ethan Johns could add to a Cardinals album and I think we all know that Tom Schick can make a great Cardinals album.

[ewok.online]

I would also be interested to see what Ethan Johns could add to a Cardinals album and I think we all know that Tom Schick can make a great Cardinals album.

Exactly.
Candilloro's production was too clean and shiny.

John's work with Ryan is clean. (Gold and Heartbreaker are two of the best produced and recorded albums i've hever heard. Just like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours) But it still has an edge and some balls. I cite Rosalie Come & Go and Tina Toledo's Streetwalkin' Blues.

Schick's work is more raw and REAL. Stuff like during the opening chords of Magnolia Mountain, you hear someone shooting pool in the lounge at LoHo Studios. Awesome. And the guitars on Cold Roses are so fuzzed out, it's great.

[Faded Rose]

Exactly.
Candilloro's production was too clean and shiny.

I'd agree with that - it's sort of a sanitized Ryan. Over produced.

[ewok.online]

Yep.
Sounds like it was made for the radio.
...and college chicks.
thus furthering my hypothesis.

[hold on magnolia]

Exactly.
Candilloro's production was too clean and shiny.

John's work with Ryan is clean. (Gold and Heartbreaker are two of the best produced and recorded albums i've hever heard. Just like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours) But it still has an edge and some balls. I cite Rosalie Come & Go and Tina Toledo's Streetwalkin' Blues.

Schick's work is more raw and REAL. Stuff like during the opening chords of Magnolia Mountain, you hear someone shooting pool in the lounge at LoHo Studios. Awesome. And the guitars on Cold Roses are so fuzzed out, it's great.

Rumours is one of my favorite albums. I love the production on it.
As for Candiloro, he's not a bad producer but he's not right for the Cardinals.

I would love to hear Johns produce the Cardinals. If they could get a Heartbreaker-ish sound (not necessarily music wise, although that would be awesome, but production wise) on the Cardinals record then I think the album (depending on the songs) would have the possibility of being amazing.

and to be honest, I wouldn't mind Ryan producing the album either. I don't think a lot of people really loved the production on Songbird but I thought it was fantastic. It was so raw and messy. That's what made Willie Nelson's Blue Hotel 10x better than Ryan's version.

[ewok.online]

If they could get that Heartbreaker "band in a room with mics out wherever" feel, i would die.

In the spirit of the campaign season...

"ETHAN JOHNS FOR NEXT ALBUM PRODUCER."

Ethan seems to bring out what makes Ryan really Ryan better than anyone.
They need to do a record again that's really him.
29 was it's own animal, and i don't think of it as a classic Adams/Johns record.

[hold on magnolia]

If they could get that Heartbreaker "band in a room with mics out wherever" feel, i would die.

In the spirit of the campaign season...

"ETHAN JOHNS FOR NEXT ALBUM PRODUCER."

Ethan seems to bring out what makes Ryan really Ryan better than anyone.
They need to do a record again that's really him.
29 was it's own animal, and i don't think of it as a classic Adams/Johns record.

haha of course, but i think 29 has that raw ryan feel as well, albeit a little more depressing. i think both 29 and Carolina Rain shine in production.

[Faded Rose]

Like it or not, 29 was a much better album than ET. I can't come up with a better word than "raw". There's so much more feeling in those songs whereas although I like ET there's not a lot of emotional depth in the way Ryan sings the songs. Follow the Lights I haven't got yet but I imagine it's more of the ET sameness.

[pneurotic]

If they could get that Heartbreaker "band in a room with mics out wherever" feel, i would die.

In the spirit of the campaign season...

"ETHAN JOHNS FOR NEXT ALBUM PRODUCER."

Ethan seems to bring out what makes Ryan really Ryan better than anyone.
They need to do a record again that's really him.
29 was it's own animal, and i don't think of it as a classic Adams/Johns record.

I had the pleasure of seeing Ray Lamontagne in concert last Friday and the bonus was Ethan Johns on drums and mandolin!

The support act also had two artists who had been produced by Ethan who were also extremely good. It appears Ethan has quite enough work on at the moment!!

Amazon hasn't despatched my FTL but as I've purchased mainly on the basis that it contains Blue Hotel I'll be happy whatever. I do agree with all comments regarding the current overproduction of his work, it sounds far better live.

[hold on magnolia]

I had the pleasure of seeing Ray Lamontagne in concert last Friday and the bonus was Ethan Johns on drums and mandolin!

The support act also had two artists who had been produced by Ethan who were also extremely good. It appears Ethan has quite enough work on at the moment!!

Amazon hasn't despatched my FTL but as I've purchased mainly on the basis that it contains Blue Hotel I'll be happy whatever. I do agree with all comments regarding the current overproduction of his work, it sounds far better live.

trouble is another album that i like production on.

i saw bright eyes last night and david rawlings was playing guitar. that man can rip. It is always a pleasure seeing him live. He and gillian welch played an amazing set here about two months ago. they played too be young (haha it was very nostalgic, not that i long for the past because i don't).

[Faded Rose]

It's not fair - Amazon have just emailed me to say that FTL has been delayed and won't be despatched until 26/27 October. Sometimes life just isn't fair.

[burgerqueen]

Yep.
Sounds like it was made for the radio.
...and college chicks.
thus furthering my hypothesis.

I promise you, not all college chicks suck.
Yes many of them may think, "OMG!!!&*(& he's so cute, I love him." But there are some that are not so bad. At least, I really don't think I'm that bad.

[ewok.online]

I promise you, not all college chicks suck.
Yes many of them may think, "OMG!!!&*(& he's so cute, I love him." But there are some that are not so bad. At least, I really don't think I'm that bad.

Well, i am kind of overgeneralizing. :D
But anyone who's been at a college for more than 5 minutes know what i mean.

[burgerqueen]

I do, most college students tend to annoy the hell out of me too, I just felt the need to defend myself. :)

[ewok.online]

I just felt the need to defend myself. :)

Nothin' wrong with that. :D:upyours

[Starlite]

I had the pleasure of seeing Ray Lamontagne in concert last Friday and the bonus was Ethan Johns on drums and mandolin!
I only bought Ray LaMontagne's Till The Sun Turns Blacks b/c Ethan Johns produced it. I ended up loving it :upyours

[pneurotic]

It's not fair - Amazon have just emailed me to say that FTL has been delayed and won't be despatched until 26/27 October. Sometimes life just isn't fair.
Now I've just had one saying 16th NOVEMBER!!

They better not bloody send me the European version!