Ah yes, Mr Dury, how could I forget? In the late 70's, at an age when I was desperately bigging up my musical credibility with my peers by saying daft things like 'Of course, I never go to see a band more than once...' suffice to say I went to see ID&TBs a half-dozen times. An exceptional live band, and their star hasn't dimmed (in my head at least): after decades of searching I finally got hold of a reasonably-priced copy of Lord Upminster last year. In an HMV shop. In Tokyo...
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muzak ! wat you listening to ?
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Radio 2, Queen, George Michael, Take That.
If I have my mp3 player on, I usually just put it on random.
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ian dury, new boots, sweet gene vincent. reminds me of heady days ,and nights spent at the local borstal, no I am not joking. Now Polmont yoi , used to have a disco, friday evening for locals, in the prison officers club. Guy gets up with his new burd for the slow dance, sweet gene......we all laugh and jump about like loons, cause we knew, cause we wus serious music fans !Interesting album, can also remember my mum being quite red faced when i let her listen, she was trying to explain all of plaistow patricia to me ! Thunderbird wine, I do believe its still available ! As is concord ! But ive never seen Neat and Tidy on channel 4 ever since ! Ahhhh, Friday evenings !
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Plaistow Patricia...went to see ABFCAP at the Fringe a couple of years ago (ABFCAP? initials of the first line of Plaistow Patricia) and was transported back to the late 70's. Brilliant insight to the Dury character and story. Altogether now: From the Mile End Road to the Matchstick Beacontree....
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Should have gone here;
Made me think of the marvellous "First Big Weekend of Summer";
although that features Merrydown, not Thunderbird.
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I heart Roxy Music rather a lot, the playing for thier lives content was spot on. In every dream home a heartache is a personal favourite because it contains one of the most grubby unpleasant lyrics in history:
'Inflatable doll, lover ungreatful. I blew up your body... but you blew my mind.'
There's a memorable performance on Musik Laden (or it may actually be whistle test) here:
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On the way to work: Radio 4 unless Andrew marr's on in which case its downloaded episodes of Radio4 goodies like 'Down the Line', 'Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show','Ed Reardon's Week' & 'At home with the snails'. Get these and more from http://radioarchive.cc
Way home: can't beat some reggae.
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Anything from Artie Shaw through ACDC to Wagners Tristram & Isolde (and beyond!)
For spoken word it has to be Radio 4 (a habit I picked up when driving for a living, commercial pop radio is insufferable)At work I normally have the radio permanently set to Planet Rock so I can annoy all and sundry by identifying 90% of songs from the first chord :)
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