From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V8 #268 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, October 5 2005 Volume 08 : Number 268 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Git pics update [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] OT: Darkness Sweet Microdisney (was Franz F but we got bored ofem!) [PaulRab] [idealcopy] Re: Darkness Sweet Microdisney (was Franz F but we got bored of em!) ["Keith A" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 03:00:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] Git pics update To: idealcopy@smoe.org Final four frames fill Flickr photoset: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/1025842/ Fergus Fantastic Fergus,fucking fine fun photo's for fans...... If it's fun............do it.................. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:33:16 -0400 From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Darkness Sweet Microdisney (was Franz F but we got bored ofem!) >I'm a big fan of The High Llamas, featuring ex Microdisney man Sean >O'Hagan. I was a bit late for Microdisney themselves I think they split >up just before I started listening to Peel etc. >What do they sound like? ////saw microdisney mid-80's at an aston uni indie night (headlining an interesting bill with hurrah! and terry and gerry). they were an odd bunch , very MOR music with heavy lyrics , songs would go on quite softly for a couple of minutes and then cathal coughlan would go off on one and start writhing around on the floor in a manner that didn't seem to fit with the music at all. SO'H was on keyboards i think. they were OK but nothing to get too excited about really. i actually saw them namechecked as the template for the beautiful south once (hard hitting lyrics and radio 2 tunes). always thought of the high llamas as the thinking mans world party. do we really need more brian wilson tributes? , i think it's time we moved on..... did like some of the cathal coughlan solo stuff (1000% , only losers take the bus) but not heard much from him in recent times. that sort of seriousness is not in bvogue now i guess. p ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:50:13 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] Re: Darkness Sweet Microdisney (was Franz F but we got bored of em!) > > Sweet on speed though? I was watching an old TOTP2 yesterday and it had Fox > > On The Run on it. > > > > What a glorious single that is! > > > I have limited knowledge of The Sweet, apart from the fact the > Blockbuster was No.1 when I was born, and I find the TOTP clip of that > hilarious when the guy with the bad make up looms into shot and says "We > just haven't got a clue what to doooo". Well I wouldn't say they were my fave band by any means , but they did the odd pop classic. The likes of Ballroom Blitz always brings a smile to my face, as does the footage you mentioned. Even on Fox On The run when they were supposedly taking themselves a touch more seriously he couldn't help camping it up. >Also saw some documentary about > them a while back with the lead singer looking like the ghost of Glam > Rock, made Ozzy Osbourne look like Cliff Richard. Yeah, I saw that, too. Scary telly that was!! > > My question is, is "Fox on the Run" the song that Vic and Bob sing when > Donald Cox (The Sweaty Fox) comes out on Shooting Stars? Haven't seen it in a while but IIRC it was Manfred Mann's (different) Fox on the Run. K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:05:07 EDT From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] OT - for all you sweet fans near stourbridge ;-) Fri 18th The Sweet with Andy Scott - Andy Scott returns for a "Blockbuster" of a show. Perhaps the greatest glam rock band of them all, inspire all the US glam bands such as Motley Crue & Poison. Loads of top 10 hits including Blockbuster, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Action, Little Willy, Co Co, Wig Wam Bam, Hellraiser, Fox On The Run, Love Is Like Oxygen, The Sixteens - awesome show not to be missed! #12.00 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:03:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Noorda Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT - for all you sweet fans near stourbridge ;-) And my first own 7inch vinyl single Sweet: Block Buster (1974?) j Fri 18th The Sweet with Andy Scott - Andy Scott returns for a "Blockbuster" of a show. Perhaps the greatest glam rock band of them all, inspire all the US glam bands such as Motley Crue & Poison. Loads of top 10 hits including Blockbuster, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Action, Little Willy, Co Co, Wig Wam Bam, Hellraiser, Fox On The Run, Love Is Like Oxygen, The Sixteens - awesome show not to be missed! #12.00 - --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:20:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Fergus Kelly Subject: [idealcopy] RIP Ronnie Barker 1929 - 2005 Very sad news to hear of the passing of comedy legend Ronnie Barker, one of my all time favourite comedians. Porridge was also one of my favourite comedy shows. God knows how many times have I seen it (like Fawlty Towers), and still get a kick out of it. And the classic sketches.. about pisspronunciation, the four candles/fork handles.. amongst many others. A great loss. Fergus __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:50:28 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] RIP Ronnie Barker 1929 - 2005 > Very sad news to hear of the passing of comedy legend > Ronnie Barker, one of my all time favourite comedians. > Porridge was also one of my favourite comedy shows. > God knows how many times have I seen it (like Fawlty > Towers), and still get a kick out of it. And the > classic sketches.. about pisspronunciation, the four > candles/fork handles.. amongst many others. A great > loss. > I was sorry to hear that, too. Porridge was classic. One of my all-time fave shows. Came across this... http://www.heady.co.uk/b3ta/rbrip.jpg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:30:28 -0700 From: Eric Strang Subject: Re: [idealcopy] RIP Ronnie Barker 1929 - 2005 I finally saw Porridge for the first time here in the States just in the last year or so. Great show. This is too bad. Eric On Oct 4, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Fergus Kelly wrote: > Very sad news to hear of the passing of comedy legend > Ronnie Barker, one of my all time favourite comedians. > Porridge was also one of my favourite comedy shows. > God knows how many times have I seen it (like Fawlty > Towers), and still get a kick out of it. And the > classic sketches.. about pisspronunciation, the four > candles/fork handles.. amongst many others. A great > loss. > > Fergus > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:09:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: For Shriekback fans............ http://www.cleartrails.com/shrk_i10.html If it's fun............do it.................. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:26:07 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] The Fall... Just got back from seeing The Fall in Wrexham... Only caught the end of opening band, Resist, who were quite simply awful. It sounded like Hazel O'Connor singing over a punky beat, and not even the shirt-skirted singer and keyboard player could divert my attention from just how bad they were. And what was going on with the big bald bassist - i know there's freedom of expression and all that - and god knows I was brought up watching a very pretty man with long curly hair and glitter on his cheeks - but is the world really ready for a Marco Pironni lookalike in a kneelength denim skirt? "Check out out website www.resistmusic", said the gothy looking singer before she left the stage. 'Resist music' seemed so appropriate for them somehow. Some bloke with a projector then showed Freddie Mercury in various repeated poses, to a soundtrack of long repeated notes and thundering beat (taken presumably from some Queen song or other). I liked it. It was vaguely fascinating. The last time I saw John Cooper Clarke was supporting Elvis costello on his Armed forces tour, so it's fair to say a lot of smack has flowed through his veins since then, and look beyond the trademark hair and shades and you can see he's not the healthiest looking bloke - my arms are thicker than his legs! - - but he was sensational. There was very little in the way of poems - and none of the classics from yesteryear - he doesn't agree with fitness or marriage he said when telling the audience he was going to perform Fitness Instructor or I Married A Monster From Outer Space, but this was laugh-out-loud funny. There were lots of Welsh jibes...no place for a dyslexic, went to Cardiff and got approached by the Tafia who made him an offer he couldn't understand, etc, which probably doesn't work so well on the page, but he was excellent... And the for The Fall... Kicking off with an excellent Sparta, it was typically Fall-like in that there were a number of tracks that were just OK (I wasn't that wild about a new one called Ride Away), but there were lots of amazing tracks tonight with Mountain Energei, Pacifying Joint, What About Us and Blindness standing out. This band really go for it live - I love it when they do those numbers with an incessant beat and so did the ladies in the audience. They were far more animated than the blokes! Maybe it's that mic that MES keeps putting in the bass drum that does it, somehow releasing some inhibitions in our fairer sex - or maybe it's just Mark's good looks! Whatever, with the amount of fiddling with mics, amps and keyboards he's doing these days i think it's maybe time he learnt to play an instrument. I think he'd look cool with a harmonica! Dunno what song it was but he kept going on about smiling and stared at me (I was enjoying myself and was grinning accordingly!) It was quite uncomfortable but I held my gaze - I'm nearly 6'2" - I'm not gonna be out-stared or intimidated by a short-arsed Manc singer with a drink problem. There was no encore. I didn't really care. They'd played Blindness the number before last. There was no way they were gonna better it. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V8 #268 *******************************