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Ah yes, saw Dr Feelgood a few times, the sadly gone too soon Lee Brilleaux one of the all time great front men.
Spot on re the Nicholsons Clive, Winifred far superior imho too, inspirational use of colour, and the Hepworth Studio/Garden in St Ives is a real oasis, i pay a visit there most years.
“Knew a few people that knew him well and as it happens hersham where he came from was anything but middle class. Other side of sandown park semi industrial area and he was as down to earth as anyone in that scene. The clash were the genuine posh middle class band”.
Remember a “live” Sham 69 single “Hersham Boys” and “If the kids are united”.
Didn’t The Clash live in a squat for a while before signing a record contract? Doesn’t sound very “middle class”, unless they chose that life.
Value Is EverythingSquatters we’re almost all middle class “drop outs” ging!
Those two sham 69’singles were ******* awful
I’d have thought that was more the flower power hippy types, Clive.
The Clash don’t seem that sort.Value Is Everything“Ivor Cutler and some weird song that i only remember being about Fish heads ???”
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Fish heads
Fish heads
Roly poly fish heads
Fish heads
Fish heads
Eat them up
Yum.Value Is EverythingThere was a lot of humour around them ging. No one took themselves seriously. There is a whole tradition through john cooper clarke madness and the pet shop boys of genuine wit. Nowadays everyone would be screaming for it to be cancelled
X ray spex oh bondage. It’s mad and brilliant and **** u in spades. Adverts Gary Gilmores eyes is pitch black and then there was wreckless eric and so many others Ian dury always made you smile
It’s not nostalgia to say this generations is totally po faced
But the most brilliantly funny single made. These immortal beautiful romantic lyrics
“Listen john I love you
But there’s bloke I fancy
I don’t want to two time you
So it’s the end for you and me!”Too true Illavim. You did better than me there
The finest English artist of 20th century for me was david Bomberg
He wasn’t really part of any sect and a bit of an outsider ) but I think his work is outstanding and remarkably wide ranging too
Ah The Dead Kennedys, more wonderful memories.
For me Clive, the best comedy group are Half Man Half Biscuit.
They should have been included in my list.
Their Trumpton Riots and Referee’s Alphabet two classics.“Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
that – they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
and – keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
cos – there’s gonna be a riot down in Trumpton tonight”.“A is for my authority
which many players seem to question
thinking they’re somehow going to make me change my mind.
B is for babies
which a lot of managers cry like
after a decision has not gone their way
C is for the continual criticism i receive from the touchline
– get back in your technical area!
D is for the dunderheads
who seem to think we have a conspiracy
against their particular team
E is for the eery silence that echoes around the ground
after I’ve booked a home team’s player
and it’s obvious to everyone he deserved it…”Value Is EverythingCancel culture was already in full swing by the 1970s thanks to that awful bigot Mary Whitehouse.
Enough of all that noisy stuff, here’s the epitome of sweet ’60s Motown: a desert island disc
It charted on re-release in 1971 when a 14yo Drone found his first Queen and thought he was truly, madly, deeply for ever and ever: love’s young dream
Heigh-ho, easy come easy go
Music is without equal in evoking memories of time and place; hence this will always arouse warm but wistful emotions. Pit of the stomach and all that
Thanks Ginger, I now have a ‘fish heads’ ear worm
My favourite Half Man Half Biscuit track is All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit, classic.And a classic Motown pick from Drone, a heavenly song.
Clive, showing great taste again
the Slade School artists and that early 20th century period of British Art certainly produced some amazing powerful work.Drone
Did she dump you by saying
“Listen drone I love you but there’s this bloke I fancy”
As some have mentioned before an impossible task to choose just one. Some of the bands mentioned by others I have managed to see although not necessarily in their prime, The Stanglers at De Montfort Hall Leicester, Wedding Present at the Marcus Garvey Centre in Wolverhampton for all of 45 minutes in a marijuana haze. Also saw the Stone Roses at Leicester University before they “made it”. I am however a folkie at heart and the likes of Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, David Ackles, Bob Dylan etc etc are generally the artists I keep going back to and I do love a bit of Leonard Cohen who contrary to most peoples view does cheer me up! Saying that I’ll put up a couple of tunes, one that I keep going back to after finding the 45 in a collection someone kindly gave me which is a track by Spooky Tooth and another that is as beautiful a piece of music you could wish to hear from Edward Elgar. It’s the obvious choice from the Enigma variations, Nimrod No.9. I listened on youtube to the whole 14 last night performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk and it’s a complete joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMribdsSv4
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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