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by Starfish
Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:10 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Welcome to the board!
Replies: 17
Views: 2954

Re: Welcome to the board!

bunnyben wrote: at least '...cunt...' is listening to spiritualized not slipknot...
Who the fucking hell are Slipknot...?
by Starfish
Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:08 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Big Ron
Replies: 5
Views: 1057

He was co-commentating on the World Cup on - get this - UK TV Gold's coverage. Fuckin bizarre. The commentator was, I think, ITV has-been John Helm and every time the tv pictures went away from the action, the commentary stopped. Like they were, oh I dunno, maybe watching it in a studio in London an...
by Starfish
Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:02 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: death in vegas
Replies: 25
Views: 4394

Their best album is still their first " Dead Elvis " . Side Two is a fantastic ambient odyssey. I've seen them a few times, but the best was probably at a dance festival at Finsbury Park in about 1999 (Herbaliser also played). I remember (and taped) the Mary Anne Hobbs show broadcasting li...
by Starfish
Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:25 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Big Ron
Replies: 5
Views: 1057

Big Ron

Did anyone see the Ron Atkinson tries to help out Swindon Town programme on Sky One last night?
It was meant to be the Big Ron Manager, but it all went tits up and they ended up at Peterborough.

Anyway... the soundtrack music at the end (I only caught the end) was, bizarrely, Mogwai.
by Starfish
Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:04 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Stop fighting. Now. Please.
Replies: 6
Views: 1458

Ah ha... just found it on the Smiths thread - I never opened that one.

Gentlemen, please... choose your weapons:



Image
by Starfish
Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:28 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Stop fighting. Now. Please.
Replies: 6
Views: 1458

What fight? Have I missed it? What thread was it in?


What was everyone scrapping over? The best version of Shine A Light? Superstar's affections? The best route to Melton Mowbray from Wolverhampton, avoiding motorways and low bridges?


And, more importantly, who won?
by Starfish
Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:45 am
Forum: Other
Topic: The Ashes 2006 thread
Replies: 31
Views: 5653

oh yes.

Melbourne and Sydney (by which time our makeshift team of crocks and inexperienced triers will have probably have handed back the urn...)

have designed a t-shirt though, which I may shell out on
http://www.t-shirts.com/custom/default. ... md=enlarge
by Starfish
Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:47 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: .....
Replies: 1
Views: 630

The things you do when you're drunk.

"Room for one more on top."
"Hang on, just let me register for the Spiritualized message board first..."







(reminds me of the time - oh no, never mind...)
by Starfish
Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:34 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Feel so good
Replies: 13
Views: 2923

The Archies - Sugar Sugar Hanson - mmmBop Hoodoo Gurus - I Was A Kamikaze Pilot the Kingsmen - Louie Louie Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United AC/DC - It's a long way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll David Holmes - 69 Police Mr Bl...
by Starfish
Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:40 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: keef
Replies: 1
Views: 607

keef

" Keith Richards has quit drugs, claiming they're not strong enough anymore. The Rolling Stones guitarist is famed for a history of narcotic experimentation across a rock'n'roll career that has spanned some 40 years. However, in a new interview, Richards, who underwent brain surgery earlier th...
by Starfish
Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:08 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: ...
Replies: 22
Views: 4034

will this do? wrote:The first rule of Spiritualized... you don't talk about Spiritualized...


remind me what the second rule is again...
by Starfish
Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:02 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: ...
Replies: 22
Views: 4034

what happens in the spiritualized message board STAYS in the spiritualized message board.









except when it's edited out
by Starfish
Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:59 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: SIlent Sound!
Replies: 66
Views: 14061

not jealous, me. no way. :x
by Starfish
Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:18 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: New show in Nottingham
Replies: 18
Views: 4629

do you think he'll play that song about snubbing Jesus for sweet heroin?


What if he plays "Lord Can You Hear Me" and a big booming voice bellows out
"Of course I can you silly sod, you're in my house.
And turn it down."
by Starfish
Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:39 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Silent Sound - literally
Replies: 5
Views: 1580

Sorry to hear about that mate. I can sympathise as can many others on here, probably. Anyone who doesn't live in the UK is probably unaware of the concept of a completely hopeless public transport system. I rarely use it these days, preferring to drive, even if it means missing out on a drink. On th...
by Starfish
Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:21 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Manchester Lowry gig
Replies: 38
Views: 6662

are they the old-fashioned (ie proper) degrees or one of the new ones like hospitality or market research?
by Starfish
Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:20 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Manchester Lowry gig
Replies: 38
Views: 6662

Nothing new in a woman having a hissy fit when the painters are in....
by Starfish
Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:46 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: New show in Nottingham
Replies: 18
Views: 4629

by Starfish
Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:21 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Butthole Surfers - genius or unlistenable?
Replies: 33
Views: 5660

my first experience of the Buttholes was at the Reading Festival when it turned from a grebo festival to an indie one. I was nearer the mixing desk than the stage but was still shocked to find myself caught up in an almighty moshpit as soon as the first chord crashed out. It was pretty amazing. And ...
by Starfish
Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:37 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Take Me To The Other Side
Replies: 30
Views: 4816

I'd just like to point out that I don't have a beard.

Nor do I own a Genesis 1980 tour t-shirt or the entire back catalogue of Jethro Tull albums.
by Starfish
Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:13 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: SIlent Sound!
Replies: 66
Views: 14061

my email came from the silent sound people. that's who I contacted.
by Starfish
Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:09 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Take Me To The Other Side
Replies: 30
Views: 4816

Marston's Pedigree supported Theakston's Old Peculiar and Bombadier at the Square Peg in Birmingham.

A bit flat, to be honest.
by Starfish
Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:08 am
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: Sonic and Magnetophone at The Luminaire 3/09
Replies: 10
Views: 3623

AMAZING FACT..... one of They Came From The Stars I Saw Them was a Zombie extra in Shaun Of The Dead.
by Starfish
Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:29 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Take Me To The Other Side
Replies: 30
Views: 4816

is that Marston's Pedigree?
by Starfish
Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:52 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: SIlent Sound!
Replies: 66
Views: 14061

I can't go..... I got an email back from them saying I wasn't one of the first ten selected for an invite.

TEN!!!

How small is the venue?
by Starfish
Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:11 am
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: Spacemen DVD
Replies: 42
Views: 12373

I had to wait a long time too. Ended up emailing him a reminder. He said it must have got lost in the post and sent out 'another' one.
by Starfish
Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:05 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: ... on the subject of Oz icons
Replies: 10
Views: 1990

The bloke had a job that I would have loved to do. One of my heroes growing up was Terry Nutkins The theme to Wildtrack was taken from the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack. Is Johnny Morris dead? I got his autograph when I was a kid. Anyway, my favourite Steve Irwin clip (probably on YouTube somewhere) w...
by Starfish
Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:34 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

... and the closing Got It Together Again is really sweet. It really captures the chemistry between them.

St Etienne did a nice cover of it on the tribute album.
by Starfish
Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:36 am
Forum: Other
Topic: ... on the subject of Oz icons
Replies: 10
Views: 1990

... on the subject of Oz icons

You may have seen that Steve Irwin has been killed by a sting ray.
by Starfish
Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:23 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: favourite song ever
Replies: 107
Views: 20474

well, today's answer is:

After The Lights Go Out -- The Walker Brothers







oh, and by the way....
The Breeze wrote:A Taste Of Aggro by The Barron Knights
No way, man, they like totally ripped off the Smurfs on that one.
by Starfish
Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:32 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Birdmen over USA
Replies: 5
Views: 1323

Birdmen over USA

Radio Birdman have finally made it to America. US TOUR Sep 2 2006 8:00P Double Door Chicago, IL Sep 3 2006 7:00P The Majestic Theater Detroit, MI Sep 5 2006 8:00P Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH Sep 6 2006 8:00P Black Cat Washington D.C., VA Sep 8 2006 8:00P Irving Plaza New York, NY Sep 9 2006 8:0...
by Starfish
Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:43 pm
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: take me to the other side 7"
Replies: 5
Views: 2337

so worth the £30, then?
by Starfish
Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:16 am
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: take me to the other side 7"
Replies: 5
Views: 2337

take me to the other side 7"

does anyone know anything about this....?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0022295137
by Starfish
Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:31 pm
Forum: Gigs
Topic: don't look back
Replies: 43
Views: 8865

mark wrote:Sorry... Is superstar are you a girl, didn't realise. I wasn't trying to chat you up last week with brighton pub names etc.
I think it happens all the time in Brighton
by Starfish
Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:29 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: SIlent Sound!
Replies: 66
Views: 14061

I sense a Guitar Loops part 2 on the horizon.

Maybe we can get another debate going between the Just-Don't-Get-It Numpty Philistines and the ArtWank Appreciation Society.

Handbags at the ready...




"You're going home in a fucking ambience"
by Starfish
Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:22 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Great cover songs
Replies: 48
Views: 8445

Anyone in the West Mids this weekend might wanna check out Hayseed Dixie at the Moseley Folk Festival on Sunday. For the uninitiated, they do AC/DC songs, along with Motorhead and Bruce Springsteen, Queen etc, in a bluegrass country style. If you ever wondered what it would be like to see Jedd Clamp...
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:17 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: The official guitarloops appreciation thread
Replies: 264
Views: 55648

what thing?

what are you doing..?
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:15 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Great cover songs
Replies: 48
Views: 8445

"And there was a Neil Young one called The Bridge which was superb. It had Loop doing Cinnamon Girl, Nick Cave doing a fantastic version of Helpless and the Flaming Lips doing After The Goldrush." Is this worth tracking down? Bearing in mind I absolutely love Neil Young's music. Yes. Try ...
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:05 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

gimperella wrote:Cheers Starfish...

apologies for asking a potentially daft question - are these a selection of albums / tracks produced by Lee Hazelwood?
no, it's all him singing (with the occasional duet)
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:43 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

and finally, everything you need to know is here:

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/wilkens/Lh06.html



(my "work" is done)
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:42 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

... and while you're gorging yourself, check this out http://rapidshare.de/files/13397950/LH_1929_Crash_Band.zip from a blog..... " Here's a bizarre recording from 1967: Lee Hazlewood conducts the 98% AMERICAN MOM & APPLE PIE 1929 CRASH BAND, performing a selection of his compositions in th...
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:36 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

The 1972 album Did You Ever/Nancy & Lee is one of my favourite albums ever. Such warmth and good humour throughout, some great songs and sounded like a lot of fun to make. / Anyway check out these rapidshare downloads (some of them have artwork in the zips). All albums have been ripped from viny...
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:23 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Great cover songs
Replies: 48
Views: 8445

There was a clutch of tribute albums came out around that time.... a Byrds one, a couple of VU ones and I remember a Dylan one which had some good stuff on it. And there was a Neil Young one called The Bridge which was superb. It had Loop doing Cinnamon Girl, Nick Cave doing a fantastic version of ...
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:56 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

Ok, not end of discussion...

There's loads of LH albums available on rapidshare. I'll find the links when I get home.
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:40 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Lee Hazlewood
Replies: 43
Views: 8316

Hero. Genius. End of discussion.
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:54 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Great cover songs
Replies: 48
Views: 8445

I don't recall that one. But I imagine it would be rubbish as I can't think of any covers of Stones songs that are any good.




apart from Chris Farlowe's "Out Of Time".


and Wayne Gibson's "Under My Thumb".
by Starfish
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:44 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Great cover songs
Replies: 48
Views: 8445

There was a clutch of tribute albums came out around that time....
a Byrds one, a couple of VU ones and I remember a Dylan one which had some good stuff on it.
by Starfish
Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:41 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Youtube highlights
Replies: 26
Views: 5614

... anyway, while we're in the region,
did anyone see Joanna Malin's classic piece of Roger Mellie on Central TV News last week?
Inevitably, it's already on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz4VFg9ns1M

and will no doubt feature in Dennis Norden's next hilarious out-takes programme...
by Starfish
Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:39 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Youtube highlights
Replies: 26
Views: 5614

That's Prolapse isn't it?
Dunno what the connection is with the Spacemen. Is Natty in the video?




(I used to know Linda quite well, when we both lived in an idiosyncratic Derbyshire town)
by Starfish
Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:26 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Youtube highlights
Replies: 26
Views: 5614

Nick Cave doing Madness? Cool. He's probably a Nutty Boy at heart.
by Starfish
Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:23 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: 30
Replies: 14
Views: 2693

30 isn't as old as it used to be.
by Starfish
Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:51 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: tHiS mOnTh I aM lIsTeNiNg To
Replies: 69
Views: 11384

I have been listening to the bastards upstairs in my flat clomping around in shoes on a wooden floor ALL THE F"KIN TIME. The couple above me, I'm sure, chuck their furniture around for recreation. I can't believe how much noise they make. Oh, and the rows they have. The other night she WAS thr...
by Starfish
Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:06 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Youtube highlights
Replies: 26
Views: 5614

anyway, while we're being crude, this one's been doing the rounds on mobile phones lately....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d593I8cFUHM
by Starfish
Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:48 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Youtube highlights
Replies: 26
Views: 5614

Sir Jimmy Saville wrote: "Come and suck me clinkers"
Has anyone ever tried that line? Does it work? (other than in Tamworth)
by Starfish
Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:49 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: The Q Festival
Replies: 5
Views: 1417

I went to the Big Chill. That was really nice. Tickets were £120, but all the stalls were reasonably priced (for a festival). More family and "grown-up" orientated, really. No bands worth making the effort for really (Lily Allen, Sparks, Arrested Development, Blue Man Group, several DJs),...
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:41 pm
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: So I had a bit of time on my hands...
Replies: 29
Views: 7184

How about "Pi in Binary". It's by Claude Le Fountainbleu.
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:35 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: our newest registered user
Replies: 26
Views: 4638

what was that Pooh Sticks song...?
On Tape.

Lyrics went something like "I've got the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle 1986 Peel Session. On Tape"
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:20 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: mary anne original?
Replies: 16
Views: 3405

jack white wrote:that juicy lucy debut has a sweet cover. shame its out of print. cheapest i found it was on an amazon seller in the US at £23.
it's on sale here a bit cheaper.... 5.99

http://www.101cd.com/detail.aspx?productid=43429
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:18 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: the mystery song on jason's breezeblock
Replies: 54
Views: 10188

and I think he gets a bit pissed off with her doing that and so starts the track again when she's finished yacking
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:57 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: our newest registered user
Replies: 26
Views: 4638

do you two HAVE to turn every thread into a Mills & Boon novel?

Honestly.... can we get the PMs fixed soon?
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:55 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: our newest registered user
Replies: 26
Views: 4638

are you lot seeing something different to me...? Maybe my Mac at work is playing tricks.


for the record, to me it says (typed in instead of cut-and-pasted this time) <,<1/2Ñ,<_<1/4<1/2Ñ<<µ Ñ,<3/4<<sum><?[/i]
by Starfish
Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:24 am
Forum: Other
Topic: our newest registered user
Replies: 26
Views: 4638

our newest registered user

is ‹¸‹½Ñ‚‹¸‹¼‹½Ñ‹‹µ Ñ‚‹¾‹<sum>‹°

He must be flipping bonkers with a crazy name like that
by Starfish
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:30 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Eating Out In Glasgow
Replies: 7
Views: 1641

ORBITAL wrote: have a few drinks to get the juices going....
that's what I was talking about
by Starfish
Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:19 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: Acoustic Mainlines
Replies: 119
Views: 28448

moop wrote: o-|-<
o-\-<
o-/--<
(people lying down)
sweet, it looks like they're holding hands...
by Starfish
Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:13 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Eating Out In Glasgow
Replies: 7
Views: 1641

"Eating out in Glasgow"....


... I must say I'm a little disappointed Orbital hasn't, uh, dived in here to make some kind of Viz reference to Dining At The Y.
by Starfish
Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:05 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Fantasy Premier League
Replies: 31
Views: 5210

Starfish, I love the fact that you've put Rooney on your bench! Is that just to intimidate your opponents? Err, no. It was an oversight - I now realise his 3-match ban doesn't start til next week. Still the lad Todorov and the boy Kitson both scored for me, so I mustn't grumble (tempting though it ...