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Post by zeppelin on Jun 16, 2010 13:58:21 GMT
Hey Lu, it's my birthday as well today. How come I don't get a mention? I forgot to say I went to see Andy Fairweather-Low and his band The Low Riders at The Bahnhof, Bad Salzuflen recently. Not as good as Mitch Ryder, but good all the same. He did a really varied set, including most of the Amen Corner stuff which the Jermins loved.
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Post by Lucia on Jun 16, 2010 20:55:11 GMT
Aaaah...happy birthday Zepp
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Post by zeppelin on Jun 17, 2010 12:12:28 GMT
Aaaah...happy birthday Zepp Thanks Lu. You just made an old man very happy!
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Post by booga1963 on Jun 24, 2010 12:41:56 GMT
one song EVERYONE seems to have missed is English rose by the Jam used in an English Tourist Board ad about a year or so ago!
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Post by Spence on Aug 10, 2010 7:09:51 GMT
Is it definitely not in the thread somewhere?
I see BBC1 is using one of my favourite Kinks songs Sittin' On My Sofa in the ads for the new One Show line-up with Jason Manford presenting.
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Post by zeppelin on Nov 8, 2010 15:15:38 GMT
I went to see The Yardbirds in Bielefeld on Saturday night. Not having seen the band live since '67 in Singapore, where they were appearing with The Walker Brothers, I was really looking forward to it. There are only two originals left; rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja and drummer Jim McCarty. The three younger members of the band are all excellent, and we had a great hour and a half of material right across the original band's lifespan, plus a few RnB classics thrown in for good measure. Go and see them if you get the chance. The German support band, The Fulltones (sh*t name, good band), despite only being together for just over a year, put on a really good show featuring covers of The Who, Pretty Things, Stones, Animals, Them, Johnny Kidd, Eddie Cochrane and more. All for €12.00!
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Post by zeppelin on Nov 29, 2010 15:42:09 GMT
I was watching Ireland v Argentina on Sunday from the new Lansdowne Road stadium and they play 'Geno' by Dexies' whenever Ireland score a penalty.
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Post by zeppelin on Feb 4, 2011 7:52:06 GMT
I was driving to work this morning, listening to BFBS Radio 1, when this record came on which immediately caught my attention. The drumming was outstanding, and I would compare it to Rick Buckler in his heyday. When the record finished, (I believe it is called 'Wake Up'), the DJ said it was The Targets. I know Spence has been bigging them up for a long time now, and that's the first time I have heard them. Spence, you're on the money again!
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Post by Lucia on Feb 11, 2011 19:27:46 GMT
Bless they've certainly worked hard to deserve great praise.
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Post by zeppelin on Feb 14, 2011 14:12:59 GMT
Hi Lu, I guess I must have been lucky, 'cos I haven't heard them on BFBS since, but that's typical BFBS. You can have all the hip hop and pretend RnB you want, but very little good music.
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Post by zeppelin on Mar 30, 2011 14:31:07 GMT
It's all gone quiet over there....... Last night on Eastenders; Our House by Madness - on the Queen Vic jukebox. Any suggestions for a new competition to bump start the site again?
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Post by Lucia on Apr 2, 2011 20:30:22 GMT
Will have to give Spence a kick up the bum - he hasn't been on here for ages
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Post by zeppelin on Apr 8, 2011 13:57:00 GMT
Will have to give Spence a kick up the bum - he hasn't been on here for ages Rather you than me!!
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Post by Lucia on Apr 25, 2011 10:55:26 GMT
Ooh, no thanks - we'll end up fighting again
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Post by zeppelin on Apr 26, 2011 13:18:42 GMT
Ooh, no thanks - we'll end up fighting again Again?
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Post by Lucia on Apr 28, 2011 19:51:30 GMT
It's in my job description: to make the knee jerk
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Post by zeppelin on May 2, 2011 13:00:33 GMT
It's in my job description: to make the knee jerk Jerk, or tremble?
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Post by Lucia on May 5, 2011 9:49:35 GMT
Chuckle x I'll leave that bit of the job for his new boss xxx
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Post by zeppelin on Aug 28, 2011 9:32:47 GMT
I was watching Match of The Day this morning and just before kick-off at Stamford Bridge they were playing 'Liquidator' by The Harry J Allstars.
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Post by Spence on Aug 31, 2011 14:26:40 GMT
They play Liquidator before every league game at Stamford Bridge.
Two properly new ones for you though.
The Who - My Generation, on the BBC trailer for The Regency programme
Secret Affair - Time For Action, on the BBC trailer for Inspector George Gently.
Perhaps you two can stop gossiping about me now.
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Post by Lucia on Nov 29, 2011 21:03:44 GMT
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Post by zeppelin on Nov 30, 2011 15:06:08 GMT
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Post by zeppelin on Nov 30, 2011 15:09:29 GMT
Pam and I went to see Chris Farlowe, backed by The Norman Beaker Band, again last week at the station. I had a brief chat with Chris after the gig, and he told me he has been to see The Small Fakers "many, many times".
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Post by sbwnik on Dec 1, 2011 12:08:33 GMT
Saw The Who-Ligans at the weekend, supporting The Ska-Toons.
Would it be to much to ask that if you're going to have more than one band on, you find one that performs it's own material and doesn't try and pretend to be something they're not? There's enough good bands out there singing their own thing but because they're not pretending to be Madness/The Who/The Jam/The Small Faces they don't get a look in.
It's good to see the scooter scene stifling talent.
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Post by Robjack on Dec 1, 2011 19:46:17 GMT
Couldn't agree more Nik.
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Post by sbwnik on Dec 8, 2011 13:05:29 GMT
Rob, I've seen so many good new bands, and come into possession of so many great new CDs over the last few years it's unbelievable. For every bad pun on 'Jam', 'Who', 'Ska' etc, I'll give you two bands that could tear a place up. Problem is, promoters are too scared of putting on an unknown band singing unknown songs in case they empty the place. I remember seeing Madness, The Specials, Secret Affair and many many more back in the 80s. I didn't know their material at the time, but they were good enough to convert me and to get me to listen.
Why can't we go back to that?
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Post by zeppelin on Dec 8, 2011 14:20:40 GMT
Hmmm, very interesting. Perhaps that's why good bands like 'The Universal' and 'The Targets' seem to be struggling to make the big time. Promoters don't seem to live up to their title any more. Gone are the days when they would actually 'promote' bands. They just seem to play safe with tribute bands.
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Post by sbwnik on Dec 8, 2011 16:12:18 GMT
I've never seen The Universal, but if The Targets are the band I think they are, then you're supporting covers bands there? Last time I saw them it was the predictable set of three of four Jam covers, 'My Generation', and maybe 'Time For Action' etc etc? I also remember that the dancefloor largely emptied as they came on, bar a few enthusiastic mods, and then refilled once they'd finished. I'm desperately trying to remember where it was, Lancashire Alliance maybe?
No one has broke through to the mainstream by playing scooter events for many, many years Zeppelin, but in the job I'm in I see all sides of this one - from the "FFS won't someone give us a chance" of new bands to"we can't take the risk" from rally organisers, but if you go around almost any of the major scooter forums, there is a very strong feeling of people can't be arsed going to see yet another covers band failing to be someone else.
Funnily, one bands name comes up regularly as being 'the best band I've seen this year', and that is Welsh band 'Dirty Revolution', a group I've been shouting about for the last three years or more. They played Bulith Wells with a set entirely composed of their own materia which was largely been unknown to the crowd, filled the dance floor, and at the end had people shouting for more, which is something I've almost never seen when someone like The Jamm or Complete Madness play a major. Yes, people dance, but it's 'safe', and that's the problem. Punters seem to want something new now. Look at the success DC Fontana have had - they're now a band playing 90% of their own material with reinterpetations of the material with the covers they do play, instead of being note for note copyists. A huge following across the scootering spectrum, and filling out venues further afield too (OK, so maybe it IS possible to have mainstream success on the back of the scooter scene LOL)
There will always be a place for a covers band or a tribute act, but lets have them supporting some new talent that's playing something a bit more fresh?
Just as a point of interest, I made this same point on Facebook a couple of weeks back. I had something like two dozen people agreeing with me, with only one (Hi Kaz...) disagreeing.
I don't care what the band play - ska, punk, mod, psychobilly, indie, whatever - but out of choice I'd not go and see another covers band til the end of time, unless they were going to play a set I'd never heard before.
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Post by Robjack on Dec 9, 2011 21:26:43 GMT
Some interesting points Nik. Part of me wants to believe that a sizeable majority of scooterists want to see fresh new talent on stage at scooter events. But when it comes down to Saturday night scooterists with a belly full of ale, rather than sat in front of a screen, I can't help feeling that there's more of a "I know what I like and I like what I bloody well know" attitude that prevails. I saw Dirty Revolution at Builth and yes, they were decent and well received, but from what I could see, the majority just wanted to see The Small Fakers. (Different nights IIRC, but you know what I mean) Just my observation, I hope I'm wrong.
The scooter scene has evolved into what it has because, rightly or wrongly, that's what the people want (well I know what I mean). It's a shame, but if I was a thrusting young geetar sex god - I'm not young anymore - the scooter scene would be the last place I would be looking at to promote my band. It's also the last place I look when I want to hear good new music. I would like to, but it isn't there.
I only hope that promoters are brave enough to change it, and scooterists are open enough to encourage it.
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Post by sbwnik on Dec 10, 2011 0:44:34 GMT
No argument here.
When I was up at Tynesiders, after the gig one of the other DJs made a comment - "I don't now why Scootering bother with recommended listening, they should just review The Specials first album ever month, it's what people are interested in"
Sad but true.
I've spoken to a few up and coming bands (Including Dirty Rev before they played Bulith) and they all seem to want to play a rally as they know that there is a potential audience there. Getting them on is the challenge though.
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