Conference marvin::uk_music

    Err... I stood near Fruitbat at a gig once... sometimes I see hairy
    people at airports who could be in the pop business. Does that count?
    
    On the whole I'm disinclined to speak to pop people because what would
    I say other than, "I like your records" (or not as the case may be), 
    and, "I want to have your babies, let's start right now". Both these
    statements underline how famous, successful and desirable they are and
    you aren't, so, I keep my distance.                           
    
    
    Rod

Wurzel from Motorhead turned up at my mate's wedding a couple of years
ago, and I managed to get some beers out of him (no, not by sticking
my fingers down his throat)

Chris.

    I lived next door to Fra the BMX Bandits and ex-Teenage Fanclub
    Drummer.   I was also at the same school as him and the bloke from the
    Bluebells.
    
    Autographs later..Mark

An acquaintance of mine from school played bass for Alien Sex Fiend for
a while.

Also big John from Goodbye Mr McKenzie, Blood Uncles and some punk band
(UK Subs?) once stuck his fingers in my beer at a Janes Addiction gig.

No, no photos please, speak to my publicist later.

/guy

    
    	Mike Scott - waterboys - was a couple of years above me at school -
    	

Would the system manager of the host node please ensure that there is
sufficient diskspace to accommodate Piers "Friend of the Stars" Letcher's
return from holiday.

I thenk yew,

Stuart

    Not to mention all the stars I hobnobbed with (but didn't snog) during
    my brief brush with fame as a member of Johnny Curious and the
    Strangers.
    
    Later,
    
    Bob

      <<< Note 1233.7 by WELCLU::GREENB "You sure spat a bootful, bub" >>>

>    Not to mention all the stars I hobnobbed with (but didn't snog) during
>    my brief brush with fame as a member of Johnny Curious and the
>    Strangers.
    
     Bib,

     You have just stolen one of my claims to fame. I saw Johnny Curious
     and the Strangers ( featuring Bob "Chubbles" Green ) at the Electric
     Ballroom ( or was it the Camden Palace ) in 1978 (?).

     Stuart   

    As a barman in the cocktail bar at Birmingham Airport when I was a 
    teenager, I regularly served drinks to the rich and famous, some of whom 
    were in the music business. Not once did I ever get to even SEE anybody 
    who I was remotely interested in talking to. Of course my heroes were
    there in droves when I had days off.
    
    Phil Gill.

    
    	Have talked to Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton quite a few times -
    	Rick Buckler wasn't interested in talking to plebs though - 
    
    	Also the Chords and slagged off dave stewart when he was with the
    tourists for wearing victorian gear - the frilly shirt n' all that
    
    
    Also was talking to Big Country when extremley drunk - I was holding
    the rice while my mate was pouring the hot sweet n' sour sauce - over
    my leg - they got a good laugh at me dancing about in agony.
    
    Had to make a sharp exit after slagging off the members of Crass - told
    them they were nothing but a con and they couldn't call themselves
    musicians as they played thier guitars with wooly gloves on - they
    weren't too pleased.
    
    	

    Errrr, stood next to Nick Heyward in a pub once in Surrey.
    
    

    
    Umm .. loaned my AC30B to the bassist of the Swingin' Blue Jeans for a
    gig at the RNAS Yeovilton Social Club in Nineteen Sixty Something ..
    does that count?
    
    (He'd had an accident with his rig and bust a valve .. you know,
    'valve' .. those things wot make yer beer warm when you leave it on top
    yer amp ..)
    
    Mike.
    
    :-)

>    (He'd had an accident with his rig and bust a valve .. you know,
>    'valve' .. those things wot make yer beer warm when you leave it on top
>    yer amp ..)
    
you mean those things that Vaxes use?  :)

Chris.

    
    a friend used to have a Radio show on radio Stoke and I used to sit in on
    the interview sessions, asking a few questions, picking tracks etc... A
    few I can remember are :-
     
    Terraplane - who I then drove to their gig after the interview, the
    seemed okay but I was never quite sure why they needed hankies tied
    around their legs...
       
    Twisted Sister - Dee Snider (Sp?) was awesome, he's about 6'6" tall
    without the high-heels. the rest of the band were big too and were
    surprisingly 'nice' people. They turned up with there very own American
    body guard who was still wearing a shoulder holster but of course
    hadn't got a gun ! The band didn't seem to want him around, he was shut
    outside the studio and didn't seem very happy at all...
    
    Magnum - I knew these guys quite well for a while, my girlfriend at the
    time thought they were great, so she got to interview them a couple of
    times and we'd usually have a few beers afterwards. 
    
    Demon - still mates with John Waterhouse their ace guitarist and Dave Hill
    the writer/vocalist the only two left, a couple of other friends did
    Drums/backing vocals and some Bass on the last album.
    
    and finally for now The Church, the best thing since sliced bread as
    they say ! not exactly mates but we always have a good chat after their
    - far too few - gigs.
    
    more later perhaps.....
    
    Graham

    Graham,
    As you already know, I'm the Wets personal promoter here inside
    Digital. ;-) Can't give too much away, ya' know....
    Phil.

    I used to knock about with the now (not then) drummer of New Model Army
    and even have a valentine card from him!!
    
    I briefly courted the guitarist out of Tobruk (sp?) but he jilted me
    because he couldn't beat me at pool.
    
    And finally, my friend used to play in Test Department and 
    Band of Holy Joy and even better - Mr Winkle (That Petrol Emotion's dog) 
    stayed with us for the weekend!
    
    Ros
    
    
     

    About 1986 I was looking to buy something by the House of Love, having
    seen them live and thinking they were great, but (big mistake) not
    really having a handle on their name. So I bought a 12" by the Band of
    Holy Joy instead, thinking it was them, and was so appalled by it on
    the first listen that I don't think I've ever listened to it since.
    
    
    Rod

Aren't the Band of Holy Joy that lot who used to play almost exclusively
in mental homes?  I heard some of their stuff ages ago.  Weird, man.

Chris.

Well I've had many a chat with Mike Peters (ex-Alarm).  He's a remarkably 
friendly fellow, and even sent me a Christmas card last year.

Didn't snog 'im though, I'm glad to say!

    I've had a few chats with Mike Peters over the years - good bloke.  And
    I did get to kiss him :-)

    Most interesting bloke I ever met was Stuart Panes, who once
    interviewed JimBob from Carter for a footie fanzine...
    
    Piers

Well EMARTIN, I didn't kiss him, cuz I'm a bloke!

D'you happen to know when the new album is likely to surface?

I've rung the MPO number, but the recorded message just says that it's out in 
Autumn/Fall.

?,
Matt.

    My claim to fame involves Robbie out of Take That. I was once a from
    prefect of his cousin's class. My cousins also go to Robbie's old
    school. I do not share the same taste in football with Robbie as he
    supports Port Fail while I support the Potteries finest, STOKE CITY.
    
    Michael.

Oh yes, forgot to mention that I once met that Bob Green out of
rising stars Pretty Blue Gun.

Rod

nearly forgot,

I think I work in the same building as the bass player from Pretty Blue
Gun.

Chris.

    Continuing on the tack front, as we seem to have been doing for a few
    days, I once met Mickey Most and Errol Brown.
    
    Bob the bass.

    I once saw the bass player from Pretty Blue Gun hob-nobbing and snogging
    with a bettong at London Zoo.

Well Next weekend I'm going to Wales for my Father-in-laws birthday.
Amongst the guests will be Hugh McDowell, ex-cellist with E.L.O.
I've been to a number of parties in the past in his converted chapel.

My first claim to fame was on borad a TWA 747 en-route to LA (20 years ago).
Sitting in front of me was this guy with lots & lots of multi-coloured hair.
Yes it was Roy Wood from Wizard.

Al

    Hmmmm, what a jet-set and exotic person you are.

    I could go on about the gigs I did in one band I was in, who we
    supported at various venues etc. I could tell you what a git Billy Idol
    really is (not to mention Tony James), what nice people the Stranglers
    are really, same for Ultravox etc. Oh yeah, and what a git Adam Ant is,
    likewise Gary Numan...
    
    But I won't, because I'll come across like some sad old ex-punk, and
    what I really want to do is appear Now! and Happening! and Stuff!,
    because Stiff Records (more sad old ex-punks, maybe?) are coming to see
    my current band play on Monday, and they are very interested in signing
    us.
    
    The upshot of all this is that if/when I leave, you can all put notes
    in here about hobnobbing, but not necessarily snogging, with me.
    
    Eye thenk yew.
    
    Bob

    Say, if you wanted to appear really cool you could always send a tape
    off to Steve Wright for their 'unsigned band' bit in the morning.
    
    Now that's Happening! man.
    
    julia 

    Thanks, Julia, but I wouldn't lower myself. The man's a git. Anyway,
    the band is already signed, and is currently negotiating a transfer
    deal.
    
    Bob

    Okay....so guess who I hob-nobbed with on Friday then..Bet you can't -
    arf!
    
    
    Go on...I know it's a tough one....snarf..
    
    
    Well, as you probably guessed, it was the Wedding Present.  Myself and
    my mate were amazed at how no-one in the bar recognised them.  They
    were just sitting having a pint (whole band minus Dave Gedge who was
    out the front signing things).  We went and chatted with them - seemed
    nice enough chaps - and went and sat down to start getting rat-ar$ed.
    
    
    
    Good night was had, and I got loads of stuff signed etc..

    
    re .34
    
    Umm .. Wedding Present??
    
    (It's tough being a 'Wrinkly' sometimes ..)
    
    8-}
    

If you genuinely don't know what I'm talking about, then a brief explanation 
follows....

*I like the Wedding Present (Northern guitar based indie band) quite a lot.
*I tend to enthuse about them with my inherent joviality and youthful 
 exhuberance, but most people don't like it.
*I am famed for receiving a lot of abuse from members who are now gone or 
 hiding, for cluttering this conference with pointless remarks, usually  
 referring to the Wedding Present.
*I don't care
*cos I'm such a rebel
*The Wedding Present are, in fact, quite popular, and I'm chuffed because I met 
 them.

End of story, I suppose.  Hope this helped your understanding of one of my many 
pointless contributions to this Conf.

    I think the spirit of Bruce Sturrock is here!
    
    Mikef

er...who?


[It's tough being a whippersnapper sometimes 8-}]

    >I think the spirit of Bruce Sturrock is here!
    
    You know Mikef, I was thinking the same thing when I was reading his
    notes a few weeks ago.  Also thought of mattyb - was that his name?
    
    -Vicki

    Yup - whatever happened to Mattyb?
    
    Bruce was another young and passionate dude, us oldies had trouble
    keeping up with him.
    
    Mikef

I'm not that bad am I?

<sob>

Bruce Sturrock and MattyB. Wow, a blast from the past. For a minute
I thought we had timewarped back to the beginning of the '90s :^)

Spooky
Balders

    I'm gonna add this anyway...................
    
    
    
    
    The Hollies (famous 60's band) asked my Papa for directions, my mum
    went mental when he didn't get their autographs !!!
    
    I've shared spliffs with Carl Cox.
    
    The girly that sang with Deacon Blue used to stay round the corner from
    my Gran and Papa.
    
    My aunties next door neighbour was some bloke from the Baycity Rollers.
    
    Got shiters with the Utah saints, and kangaroo courted their DJ,
    camcorder came out and recorded us giving him a kicking (only playing),
    and stuck him in an ice machine for 15 minutes.
    
    Bernard Manning asked me and my mates where the good pubs were.
    
    
    Aaaaaaaaand I met Darth Vader at a toy shop when I was an ankle-biter.
    
    					
    
    						
    So there !!!!!   ;-)

    I saw Graham Stone last night, if that counts?
    
    
    mikef 

    
    I got all the others, but what and was puzzled by this....
    
    >> I've shared spliffs with Carl Cox.
    
    Graham
    
    Oh, and I sank a few beers with mike fiddler of UK_MUSIC fame last
    night...
    

    You lucky beggar !!!!