KT Tunstall, "The Stranglers & a Kangaroo?"

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Burn e 77 wrote:There's a great story the Australian rock band "Cold Chisel" once told at one of their London gigs back in the day... they said that once, while driving British N.M.E journalists
around the ozzie outback bush, they spotted a "roo" hopping around... and one of the British N.M.E journo's insisted on throwing a boomerang out of the vans open rear doors, to experience what an Aboriginal hunter might feel while hunting dinner (albeit in a van!)... anyway it was a good chuck, and the boomerang returned near the stationary van (With traces of blood on it)... when the occupants left the vehicle, to find the source of the blood on the boomerang... they found a very dazed "roo" in a Stranglers t.shirt!

The "roo" survived the attack dazed but unharmed, and a few minutes later hopped off back into the bush... BUT not before photographic evidence was taken by the N.M.E
photo journalist! these pictures can be seen in N.M.E issue 237, April 1st 1979. (Front cover picture of Lord Lucan's Punk daughter)
Perhaps it was on some of your "Adders Venon / Death Rattle" or "RATTUS PSYCHEDELICUS".
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What a great story that is.
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MULLY wrote:
Burn e 77 wrote:There's a great story the Australian rock band "Cold Chisel" once told at one of their London gigs back in the day... they said that once, while driving British N.M.E journalists
around the ozzie outback bush, they spotted a "roo" hopping around... and one of the British N.M.E journo's insisted on throwing a boomerang out of the vans open rear doors, to experience what an Aboriginal hunter might feel while hunting dinner (albeit in a van!)... anyway it was a good chuck, and the boomerang returned near the stationary van (With traces of blood on it)... when the occupants left the vehicle, to find the source of the blood on the boomerang... they found a very dazed "roo" in a Stranglers t.shirt!

The "roo" survived the attack dazed but unharmed, and a few minutes later hopped off back into the bush... BUT not before photographic evidence was taken by the N.M.E
photo journalist! these pictures can be seen in N.M.E issue 237, April 1st 1979. (Front cover picture of Lord Lucan's Punk daughter)
Too good to be true :lol: :lol:
Well spotted MULLY and "unbroken69" (April 1st '79 issue)... i just couldn't resist adding to this great MIB myth...
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PS. You're right "unbroken69" i came up with the above tale after TWO bottles of "Adders Venom / Death Rattle"... half way through my third bottle i started a conversation with a fat green phosphorescent Squirrel... two bottles of the old "Rattus Psychedelicus" isn't enough... but three's too many!
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Burn e 77 wrote:
MULLY wrote:
Burn e 77 wrote:There's a great story the Australian rock band "Cold Chisel" once told at one of their London gigs back in the day... they said that once, while driving British N.M.E journalists
around the ozzie outback bush, they spotted a "roo" hopping around... and one of the British N.M.E journo's insisted on throwing a boomerang out of the vans open rear doors, to experience what an Aboriginal hunter might feel while hunting dinner (albeit in a van!)... anyway it was a good chuck, and the boomerang returned near the stationary van (With traces of blood on it)... when the occupants left the vehicle, to find the source of the blood on the boomerang... they found a very dazed "roo" in a Stranglers t.shirt!

The "roo" survived the attack dazed but unharmed, and a few minutes later hopped off back into the bush... BUT not before photographic evidence was taken by the N.M.E
photo journalist! these pictures can be seen in N.M.E issue 237, April 1st 1979. (Front cover picture of Lord Lucan's Punk daughter)
Too good to be true :lol: :lol:
Well spotted MULLY and "unbroken69" (April 1st '79 issue)... i just couldn't resist adding to this great MIB myth...
cheers
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PS. You're right "unbroken69" i came up with the above tale after TWO bottles of "Adders Venom / Death Rattle"... half way through my third bottle i started a conversation with a fat green phosphorescent Squirrel... two bottles of the old "Rattus Psychedelicus" isn't enough... but three's too many!
I want first dibs on your premier novel, on less of course you are already a published storyteller. :lol: Although you could always turn your hand to dangerous liquor.
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APOLLO79 wrote:
theraven1979 wrote:Image
Would you bang her?....
Suddenlee I seee... :smt006
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Wasn't Charlotte Hatherley in her band at one time? I could watch that with the sound off :grin:


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Saw KT Tunstall last night opening for Squeeze. She's still telling the same story!

Not sure how many folks in the Cape Cod crowd were familiar with the Stranglers though...
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nbm wrote: 28 Aug 2019, 20:29 Saw KT Tunstall last night opening for Squeeze. She's still telling the same story!
I wonder if her fans roll their eyes and go "not that story again", the same way that Stranglers fans do when JJ starts banging on about that fight?
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droopsnoot wrote: 02 Sep 2019, 09:47
nbm wrote: 28 Aug 2019, 20:29 Saw KT Tunstall last night opening for Squeeze. She's still telling the same story!
I wonder if her fans roll their eyes and go "not that story again", the same way that Stranglers fans do when JJ starts banging on about that fight?
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