chrisp65 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 I ‘met’ PP Arnold once @Seat68 and obviously by met, I mean walked past. I was in Maida Vale, she’d just come out of the studios and as we passed I weirdly said this big friendly ‘hiiii’ like we were old mates. i can only guess it was the surprise and lack of thinking time coupled with listening to her music for 20 or 30 years. Anyway, she responded in kind with something along the lines of ‘Hiya darling, how are you?’. No sooner said then we were walking in opposite directions and the moment was gone. My mate was astounded! Do you know her then? I didn’t lie, I said not really. I might have said not really in way that made him think I did. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 I've got a new trick. Annoying driver phones me and I tell him I'm putting him on hold, when really all I'm doing is going for a shit and playing Tangerine Dream on the Hi Fi Result! I was right though, Electro Hippy Bullshit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Similar thing happened walking passed Channel 4 once, up in that London. I was with my boss walking down a street and Will Self walked by in the opposite direction with a gaggle of hangers on around him. For no reason at all as we crossed we got eye contact and he gave a slight eyebrow tilt / head nod. ’d’you know him?’ Says the boss. ‘Nope’ says I. A week later same place, same time, same happens again except this time he gives me a little wave of his coffee cup. ’you bloody do know him!’ Says the boss. ‘Not that well really’ says I. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 Just now, chrisp65 said: Similar thing happened walking passed Channel 4 once, up in that London. I was with my boss walking down a street and Will Self walked by in the opposite direction with a gaggle of hangers on around him. For no reason at all as we crossed we got eye contact and he gave a slight eyebrow tilt / head nod. ’d’you know him?’ Says the boss. ‘Nope’ says I. A week later same place, same time, same happens again except this time he gives me a little wave of his coffee cup. ’you bloody do know him!’ Says the boss. ‘Not that well really’ says I. "Yeah we shared a toilet on a plane once" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 1 minute ago, bickster said: I've got a new trick. Annoying driver phones me and I tell him I'm putting him on hold, when really all I'm doing is going for a shit and playing Tangerine Dream on the Hi Fi Result! I was right though, Electro Hippy Bullshit They had a new album out a week or three ago, but they’re one of those bands now where none of the originals are in it / alive. Which for me, makes them their own tribute band. As you say, 20 minute ambient backing track for working from home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 Pulled another mellow one out of the pile, definitely better that that German hippy nonsense Former On-U Posse member, now world reknowned tabla player Talvin Singh This was his debut, it won the Mercury prize, when it was worth winning, so no-one remembers Talvin Singh - OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 18 hours ago, bickster said: I got bored of Pavement by about track 11, mainly because I knew half of the material and it's OK but not top drawer, I don't dislike it but the fascination some have for Malkmus baffles me Anyway onto, the Cornershop Album everyone has, if they own a Cornershop Album - When I was Born for the 7th Time It's the one with Brimful of Asha on. I always feel like I should own more Cornershop and listen to them more, yet I can't for the life of me remember past the first two tracks of this but every time I hear them, I like them. Outside of 70s and 80s light entertainers I don't really have any name drop stories, I was mates with a middle to lower tier indie band but I lost touch. That said Pete Bengry, Cornershops percussionist and me both worked, or should I say volunteered, at Lion Street Cultural Centre in Telford in the 90s, before he was part of Cornershop. His brother also worked there and prior to that was my milkman. Both the Bengrys were lovely people. It was big news one day reading the NME and seeing him staring back at me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Outside of 70s and 80s light entertainers I don't really have any name drop stories, I was mates with a middle to lower tier indie band but I lost touch. That said Pete Bengry, Cornershops percussionist and me both worked, or should I say volunteered, at Lion Street Cultural Centre in Telford in the 90s, before he was part of Cornershop. His brother also worked there and prior to that was my milkman. Both the Bengrys were lovely people. It was big news one day reading the NME and seeing him staring back at me. I had a twitter DM conversation with Tjinder once, that he initiated. It was about Villa oddly because he was telling me he wasn't into footy but his brother was. Very surreal, still not sure why it happened apart from me replying to a tweet of his... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 Going a bit Trip Hop now, great album this, one of Lavelle's best Unkle - Psyence Fiction 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 Here's one for the gong show, made it to track 8 but christ it's shite Why I ever bought this I have noooooo idea. Why were they a thing? Like a really shite version of early Jam with a wanky Billy Bragg on vocals. Dire Can't imagine I've ever made it to the end if even I've ever played it. The free live EP fills me with such dread, I know it'll never get played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 What the **** is going on. Are you infected? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 13 minutes ago, Seat68 said: What the **** is going on. Are you infected? I'm going through my Cds. There could be a lot of posts of shite, consider that a warning This one is next and before I put it on I really have no clue, don't remember them, don't know a thing about it The Open - The Silent Hours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 it's very honest I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 That really didn't last long, it's gone into the charidee shop pile, utter drivel Next Up, Wonderstuff Tribute band - Kingmaker - Sleepwalking Probably a freebie this one and used for DJing. It'll be a keeper for posterity but they really did have a hard on for Miles Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 1 minute ago, bickster said: That really didn't last long, it's gone into the charidee shop pile, utter drivel Next Up, Wonderstuff Tribute band - Kingmaker - Sleepwalking Probably a freebie this one and used for DJing. It'll be a keeper for posterity but they really did have a hard on for Miles Hunt I never thought of them as that, the wonderstuff, but you are right. I have and loved this album but I can't recall the last time I heard it. Probably could dig it out but don't think it would do anything for me now. What I do recall is I saw them a number of times and the singer was always a tool. Not even in a Mark E Smith way. Just an unlikeable prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 12 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Just an unlikeable prick. Yeah I seem to remember that, we put them on a couple of times at the Krazy House in Liverpool and possibly at the Tivoli in Buckley and he came across as a bit of a tool Not to dissimilar to Miles Hunt himself if the truth be known. He's a great showman but he's also a bit of an arse iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 I have no words... Oxfam it is then 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 I think I bought this because peaople were raving about them at the time DIstinctly average. Though just about a keeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 Just in the mood for this. It should need no introduction to anyone so I won't bother 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2020 And onto The Stands - All Years Leaving Local Liverpool Muso Howie Payne (brother of Candy Payne), I put him on a few times when he was in a band called Magic Clock A bit like Shack / Pale Fountains in that pile of bands that we're touted for success but never made it and again typically steeped in something 60's. Shades of Dylan in this one Keeper this one just for the association. It's not bad but it's not as good as Howie Payne thinks it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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