bickster Posted December 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 8, 2021 22 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Robbie Shakespeare of Sly and Robbie has died. I am woefully under experienced to add anything more than that. Ah man that's a bugger. Half of one hell of a rhythm section, ignore their hits, that isn't what they should be remembered for. They should be remembered for being pioneers both as musicians and producers Robbie Shakespeare was literally a collosus of Jamaican music. He'd be on the same list as Bob Marley and Lee Perry. Above many others who've passed away in recent years Sly and Robbie were the go-to guys for a rhythmn section for well over a decade before they broke free and became a pop act Sad loss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat, aged 61. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 9, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 hour ago, theboyangel said: Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat, aged 61. Any opportunity to post the Bronski Beat video I'm in. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Masayuki Uemura, 78. Designer of the Nintendo Famicom and Super Famicom, rebranded as the NES and SNES in the West. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 9, 2021 Author Share Posted December 9, 2021 3 hours ago, bickster said: Any opportunity to post the Bronski Beat video I'm in. Time stamp please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 9, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Xela said: Time stamp please! I'm on the dance floor. I just had a quick look and definitely 1:47 - 1:49 On cleaner versions of the video (that one is awful) I can see myself a lot more. I can even attribute names to the feet shots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted December 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, bickster said: I'm on the dance floor. I just had a quick look and definitely 1:47 - 1:49 On cleaner versions of the video (that one is awful) I can see myself a lot more. I can even attribute names to the feet shots. I had you pegged as the sailor at the bar or one of the transvestites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2021 Some of the musical shite @bickster has pulled me up on and now here we are with Bronski Beat? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 9, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2021 Just now, il_serpente said: I had you pegged as the sailor at the bar or one of the transvestites. They are all in the film Letter to Brehznev. I wasn't Though it is the same club that was in the film, The State, a legendary Liverpool Club. I worked quite a few gigs there, a photo exists of me doing front stage security at a Voice of the Beehive gig. I look suitably bored and I'm smoking There's another photo of me Djing on that stage a few years later. We ran the Thursday night for a couple of years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 9, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, sidcow said: Some of the musical shite @bickster has pulled me up on and now here we are with Bronski Beat? The song is awful but when you get offered £25, free pizza and as much beer as you want to piss about in a club one afternoon in 1985, you took the money and danced 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 I think when another member of Bronski Beat died I outed myself as a fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, bickster said: They are all in the film Letter to Brehznev. I wasn't Though it is the same club that was in the film, The State, a legendary Liverpool Club. I worked quite a few gigs there, a photo exists of me doing front stage security at a Voice of the Beehive gig. I look suitably bored and I'm smoking There's another photo of me Djing on that stage a few years later. We ran the Thursday night for a couple of years What did Voice of The Beehive play in the remaining hour and twenty five odd minutes of their set? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 9, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 minute ago, sidcow said: What did Voice of The Beehive play in the remaining hour and twenty five odd minutes of their set? I have no idea, the photo really does display my level of interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2021 37 minutes ago, bickster said: There's another photo of me Djing on that stage a few years later. We ran the Thursday night for a couple of years Wow, you sound like a real big city mover and shaker. And there was me thinking you were just a Smalltown Boy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 37 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I think when another member of Bronski Beat died I outed myself as a fan. Seconded. Dow Corning Social Club, the DJ played Bronski Beat and a whole bunch of Hi NRG. Four of us were there every week, 20 or 30 old couples supping their drinks down one end of the room, 4 of us trying to dance Northern Soul to Hi NRG down the other end. Blissful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted December 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2021 47 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I think when another member of Bronski Beat died I outed myself as a fan. They codified into the mainstream the roots of 80's dance (born in gays clubs) which turned into house.* *(waiting for Bicks to tell me I'm completely wrong and should stick to trombone duets) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 9, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 9, 2021 Bronski Beat with Jimmy Somerville we’re a great electronic pop band. The next album with HTPBB as the lead single and the singer whose name I don’t think I ever knew were AWFUL Smalltown Boy, Why? and that Marc Almond I Feel Love collaboration we’re brilliant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, bickster said: Bronski Beat with Jimmy Somerville we’re a great electronic pop band. The next album with HTPBB as the lead single and the singer whose name I don’t think I ever knew were AWFUL Smalltown Boy, Why? and that Marc Almond I Feel Love collaboration we’re brilliant I liked their work with John as well in all honesty but the debut was the strongest of their albums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Demaryius Thomas, former Denver wide receiver, 33. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted December 10, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 10, 2021 2 hours ago, rjw63 said: Demaryius Thomas, former Denver wide receiver, 33. One of the great Broncos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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