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by graingerman2
03 Jul 2005, 10:50
Forum: General Other stuff
Topic: Just watched... Live 8
Replies: 11
Views: 1043

Re: Just watched... Live 8

The Who - Fuck me! Amazing.

Yes, absolutely, they were. Kept their gobs shut and let the music do the talking.

Pink Floyd. Anyone who isn't dumb struck after watching that.... Fucking superb. Is there going to be a Floyd tour after that......?[/quote]

yes...and yes there will be.
by graingerman2
23 Feb 2005, 21:33
Forum: Contact Fans/Arrange Pre-gig piss-ups etc.
Topic: Academy in the uk - Brum
Replies: 31
Views: 4402

HanGreenwell wrote:I hope everyone decides not to go cos I'm going, cos then i get all the bands to myself, which is h awrt!
don't suppose you and Crass has ever been seen together in the same mini ?
by graingerman2
11 Feb 2005, 21:09
Forum: Other Bands
Topic: New Order - New Album
Replies: 17
Views: 1889

evonx wrote:Got it on the MP3 now; it's ok, some classic New Order, bit boring after 7 or 8 songs. More of the same. Still, Hookys basslines remain superb.
the mp3s aren't the final mixes. I've got the album - yes, some of it plods but the title track is a classic.
by graingerman2
27 Jan 2005, 21:01
Forum: Other Bands
Topic: New Order - New Album
Replies: 17
Views: 1889

evonx wrote:yep it's not very special eh? and those lyrics....appaling
got the single, ok but not classic - really ought to flog it on ebay and buy 100 copies of the Hugh single in the great chart push. But that would get me into trouble. Should get the album in the next couple of weeks.
by graingerman2
27 Oct 2004, 11:25
Forum: General Other stuff
Topic: John Peel RIP
Replies: 31
Views: 4099

nickinblack wrote:I.If there was a chart that ever mattered,it was John Peel's Xmas Festive 50.Would be fantastic to see a run down of the charts for those years.
http://www.rocklist.net/festive50.htm
by graingerman2
26 Oct 2004, 17:20
Forum: General Other stuff
Topic: John Peel RIP
Replies: 31
Views: 4099

I I remember one night in April 1978, he announced that he'd be playing the whole of the first side of the new Stranglers lp the next evening.. I, too, remember that night. I also remember the night he played Duchess. "First Stranglers single for a year, maybe they should have waited for anoth...
by graingerman2
25 Jun 2004, 09:10
Forum: General Other stuff
Topic: GUTTED!!!!!!!!!!!
Replies: 17
Views: 2182

Hard when you're only playing with seven players. The midfield was non existent!! David Beckham has gone from one of the best players in the world to one of the worst. He was shocking in all four games. Why was'nt Joe Cole used? spot on on all accounts defence excellent, no midfield, Beckham's off-...
by graingerman2
07 May 2004, 00:32
Forum: General Other stuff
Topic: fascism in Hampshire
Replies: 16
Views: 2656

Apologies for the wayward choice of topic but i've just seen tonight's Channel 4 Dispatches programme about the (one time) proposed asylum centre at a disused navy barracks in Lee-On-Solent, Hampshire. Frankly, i was shocked. It seems Fascism is not only alive and well in affluent Southern suburbia...
by graingerman2
11 Mar 2004, 13:29
Forum: Other Bands
Topic: John McGeoch - another one bites the dust
Replies: 16
Views: 4613

philjxn wrote:He was brilliant with Magazine. Part of the best line up they ever had and superb live.
his solo in Shot By Both Sides remains one of the best i've heard