Quote: George Kaplan @ 25th November 2015, 11:05 PM GMT

Thanks, man. Not sure I deserve it though.

Not familiar with this band. Nice and high-energy. Seems like they didn't get the recognition they deserved, and got dropped by their label prematurely.

Any more details about that New Years Eve?

See! This is where all the action is.

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I think it was Highbury Garage 1999 or 2001. I didn't do many live gigs at NYE and that was all that was available in that year. I also did New Order etc at Ally Pally for NYE a couple of years or so later. You???

Tell you what though George. I used to think I could quite easily spot a band heading for great things. Around that time, I woke up in my tent at Glasto before most had stirred and I was always way, way, back from the throng near the cinema and where the new bands were in those days. I walked hazily through the new band tent each morning, generally almost empty, even if the first of the day were playing and I caught this one. I just stopped in my tracks and thought they were going to massive. Have posted it before but they should have been very significant. They had a bit of everything. When I look at the video now, they were so young.

JJ72 - Oxygen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQUy5IhBq4

Quote: A Horseradish @ 25th November 2015, 11:10 PM GMT

I think it was Highbury Garage 1999 or 2001. I didn't do many live gigs at NYE and that was all that was available in that year. I also did New Order etc at Ally Pally for NYE a couple of years or so later. You?

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Don't think I ever went to a gig on NYE, just parties. Andrew Ranken turned up at one in Willesden, some time in the mid/late 80s. Didn't speak to him though.

Saw New Order (without Peter Hook) a couple of weeks ago at Brixton Academy - pretty good. Only other time was at the Royal Festival Hall around 1983-4 - fantastic!

Never been to a gig at Ally Pally, but it hosts quite a few now, I noticed.

Quote: George Kaplan @ 25th November 2015, 11:21 PM GMT

Don't think I ever went to a gig on NYE, just parties. Andrew Ranken turned up at one in Willesden, some time in the mid/late 80s. Didn't speak to him though.

Saw New Order (without Peter Hook) a couple of weeks ago at Brixton Academy - pretty good. Only other time was at the Royal Festival Hall around 1983-4 - fantastic!

Never been to a gig at Ally Pally, but it hosts quite a few now, I noticed.

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Andrew Ranken's a good reference.

Pleased you enjoyed New Order. I'm not sure how many times for me - I saw them in Hyde Park in the last decade with Moby supporting. Ally Pally three times - Blur/Pulp/Corduroy but more memorably The Stone Roses which was very exciting in the anticipation. RFH - I insisted on taking my slightly bewildered father to Brian Wilson and "Smile" as I felt it was a halfway meeting point musically. We enjoyed it. I also have a feeling that it was in the RFH forum where I went to a retrospective punk exhibition which was very eerie because all of the artifacts were in glass cases and there was silence. Never less than interesting though.

For 2000 NYE I was on Westminster Bridge for the damp squib fireworks but the key song was the one by Ultrasound with its rather dark Gary Glitter reference. That reference was clever. Notwithstanding what he actually represents there was a feeling of the innocence of ordinary youthfulness going as we moved into the 2000s with the suggestion that while the past was great it was not necessarily as wonderful as we thought. It was definitely insightful given what later cropped up in the news. So, yes, it said something about everyone's mixture of looking forward and looking back as 1999 turned to 2000. They too should have achieved more:

Ultrasound - Stay Young - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48qMbjpwVg

Chelsea - right to work

Quote: lofthouse @ 29th November 2015, 8:41 PM GMT

Chelsea - right to work

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I used to have a copy of that single - bought at the time.

And Now For Something Completely Different -

Ane Brun "Song No. 6 (Featuring Ron Sexsmith)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSvZ_VlF5s

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Yes - I had that too plus most of the early Step Forward singles including the Cortinas.

Currently listening to Baby Please Don't Go by the Amboy Dukes featuring the great Ted Nugent on the Nuggets CD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xPecXqIU1g

The Killjoys- Recognition

Quote: lofthouse @ 30th November 2015, 10:22 PM GMT

The Killjoys- Recognition

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Ah good old Kevin Rowland. I had Johnny Won't Get to Heaven. The punk before Dexys.

Can you believe I'm listening to All Down the Line by the Stones. I bought Exile on Main Street on special edition CD a couple of years ago and this is the first time ever I've heard the album in its entirety.

Quote: Chappers @ 30th November 2015, 11:06 PM GMT

Can you believe I'm listening to All Down the Line by the Stones. I bought Exile on Main Street on special edition CD a couple of years ago and this is the first time ever I've heard the album in its entirety.

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One of their best. Listened to it loads in my teenage years, and twenties. Has a nice, loose feel.

Jools Holland's programme on Radio 2. Doing a special about Rico. Some great music.

Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty, Lofty,
LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY,
LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY, LOFTY,

The Mekons - Where Were You?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71s-T8oUTQs

Pie Jesu-Aled Jones

Fairytale Of New York-The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-The Pretenders Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree-Mel & Kim

99 Red Balloons-Nena

I Think We're Alone Now-Tiffany

House of the Blue Danube - Malcolm McLaren, Jeff Beck and Bootsie Collins.

A wonderful meld of classic, rock and disco. I love the album it comes from "Waltz Darling".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQzYUgzbg6w

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"Waltz Darling".

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Loved Double dutch.

But this reminded me of London Grammar; haunting, mesmerising, one of the UK's best new bands (in my humble view)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkeDBwsIaZw&list=PLt88NoMyuUwuXci8AgtnfdByXvNsHIiSw

Dreamin-Johnny Burnette

Bobby's Girl-Susan Maughan

The Sideboard Song-Chas and Dave

Bette Davis Eyes-Kim Carnes

Happy Christmas (War Is Over)-John Lennon

Last Christmas-Wham