Quote: A Horseradish @ 1st June 2020, 10:06 PMHey, I saw The High live at the ICA in The Mall.
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They were great , until they got caught chart rigging and ended up splitting up as a result
The band that came on stage after them were The Railway Children
Who, to quote Mr Monkhouse- were f**king shit
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 1st June 2020, 10:08 PMMy first gig was Electronic in 1991. I had a good time but mainly cos I was a sad little nerd. Now I'm a sad big nerd.
I love Getting Away With It. It's a great song. New Order always had attitude live, whatever the strength of their records. I don't know whether that was a good thing or not. I lived with it. I went to the Jesus and Mary Chain for Christ's sake although I veer mostly to the miserable and the sunny, often in one go. I've never known what is serious and what is not and it gets worse. It makes me like an unfeasibly glorious sunny day on valium. And I'm not on valium etc etc.etc.
Quote: lofthouse @ 1st June 2020, 10:10 PMHow was Barney?
Wildly out of tune as usual?
After Revenge he's Adele. Technically it wasn't that great but I had no frame of reference and I was still an obsessive.
Woaw I bet JMC were awesome live
Quote: lofthouse @ 1st June 2020, 10:16 PMWoaw I bet JMC were awesome live
I got in and out without getting my head kicked in. For someone who was convinced he stood out in a bad way, I was incredibly anonymous which was often good. Brixton, from memory. Then 15 miles back alone by bus. It was a tower of sound. Obliterating, like a guitar fuzz Spector. Very dark on stage. So, yes, pretty awesome. I was the one being told not to say that I liked the more melodic Darklands album best but I did although the critics went wild about its predecessor. I guess they were a slowed down Ramones in some respects. The Ramones at one point were produced by Phil Spector.
I know I've said this before but my favourite Electronic comment was 'the only band to START with a Best Of'.
Quote: A Horseradish @ 1st June 2020, 10:15 PMI love Getting Away With It. It's a great song.
Not when you consider their combined CV. The video was total etc too. And the alternative vid.
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 1st June 2020, 10:24 PMI know I've said this before but my favourite Electronic comment was 'the only band to START with a Best Of'.
Not when you consider their combined CV. The video was total etc too. And the alternative vid.
Haha.
It all blurs in me across 1987 to 1992 especially. I was telling myself I was Irish in Irish London pubs and listening to Suedehead, Show Me Heaven and Getting Away With It before heading off to gigs. I was so pleased when that stage was over so that I could move on to a retrospective The Boys Are Back in Town, Girl From Mars and the hits of Frank and Walters, mainly at the Arsenal or thereabouts. There was more of a crossover English thing at that juncture which was helpful as I don't have a celtic bone in my body and never have done. It really pissed me off when they started bombing again, not least because I went out of my way much earlier on in the Whitgift Centre with Roger Scott and Mary O'Hara.
New Order are so overrated it's embarrassing. A handful of half-decent singles, two of which they release three times, and then f**k all.
Pretty please, can I, I will, I will, I will, do my fabulous Pwefab Sprout cover versions now.
In memory of the so, so special Sir Alan Hull, The People's Poet, 1945-1995 : I have to purse my lips every time I write that 1995 because its earliness disgusts and appals me. What is wonderful is the number of young people on the talented fringes who get it.
NORTH EAST SPECIAL REVISITED
Prefab Sprout 1
Eleanore & the Lost - Lady Eleanor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHuNAB-xKs
Harbottle & Jonas Trio - Winter Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JxJU3ZkFj4
Ivan Lychkov - January Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IKKkFTbls4
Susan & Colin Parrish - Meet Me On The Corner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93gfuZHDcFs
Prefab Sprout 2:
Willard - Make Me Want To Stay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrhLXGGD8w
Alo Phogg - Train In G Major:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLNvIcE5sP8
Hayley McKay - Run for Home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SKzWZXZZo
The Attention Seekers - Marshall Riley's Army:
I'm such a Beatles obsessive I buy Ringo albums. Sometimes I even listen to them.
Me too
They're actually pretty good
Except the drumming, it's dreadful
This selection includes a clip in which in a different life Simon Farnaby may or may not have been on vocals (and, no, it isn't Art Garfunkel) and a very well known tune which is closely associated with M & S although the video may now have too many wet market scenes for their sense of commercial security. Ain't it funny how time changes contexts in that way.
Bubbles
One Horse Band - Uh Hu Hu Yeah!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Q0Nu3g3P4
The Rockmelons - Sweat It Out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmMdnH87tE
Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-LGpte_ZLU
Gutalax - Megamix : Live At OEF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anh0Kn9nGV4
Squeaks
Flo and Eddie - Keep It Warm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkW8I4Bv6M
Ozomatli feat Gabriel Iglesias - Hey It's Fluffy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zeUivkBr4
The Hairy Family Jam Band - The Animal Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkXEsTsgA_w&t=10s
Clean Bandit ft Jess Glynne - Rather Be:
Speech.......SPEECH........
I decided with these selections from the past couple of months to go completely off track from my lifelong framework of historical musical appreciation to entertain and also see what, at Christ, 57, my tastes were in the round. I'm seeing contemplative, offbeat, childish, rude, colourful, sunshiny, madcap, edgy, outdoorsy, unconventional, laddish, not uncool, funny, wide ranging, nudey, worldy, arty, crass, middle of the road, borderline offensive, cartoony, sometimes downright miserable, distantly communal - I wouldn't go anywhere near any of them without a mask unless moshing : I really don't think I can do Tescos ever again but if this crisis ever ends I'm heading straight to the audience for Gutalax - and fun.
But I'm not getting downright nasty which I see in a lot of things these days. It's alright - even good - in individuals but as a culture it gets repetitive. Dare I say black lives matter do matter a great deal but the six thousandth video about bitches and guns could be assessed for the white corporate exploitation that it is, a drug promoting community depression, and a return to Marv the Gaye and Scott-Heron is well overdue in my humble opinion. To be frank, I am sick to the back teeth of confrontational over-drama and that very much starts with Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail. Then it goes to all radio/TV.
You know, I checked out the hip-hop version on watersports 'cos that is the open minded weirdo I am and I just knew the one from that genre would be horrific. Whereas outside the genre it would just be some bloke like me in a festival tent having a fist fight because some c**t had urinated on his tent. Then we laughed and it was alright again. Whatever, my brand, urgh, is fine by me. I like it. It ain't me. It's what I like but I susspose that is me too in some ways. There is a conveying here of sommat. Rather than growing up, I have definitely gone seriously backwards and am entirely without category. If anyone doesn't like it, complain to the people on the clips. It's all their fault. Then they can write to me and complain and I will let all of them off as they cheered me up. Apart from on the minor points I raise, I am uncontroversial.
Bugger you've edited it.I wanted to post this :
OK. 80's music people just for you(not me!)