Posts by JacksonP
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The promise of weather. Thunder, but so far not much else where I've been.
Thanks Jackie, but you and Ian are the troopers I think.
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to nothingelseon,
Flickr set (13 photos & I think the Craccum review)
Some good shots there, and number 12 in particular. It seems strangely familiar. Barney looking so intently at the fret board is a classic stance of his too.
Which I definitely didn't have after seeing them in 1987 at the Galaxy - they played for 45 minutes and didn't speak to the crowd once.
I remember we did feel a little short changed, but after it was more like, 'what did we expect?' Setlist here. Bizarre Love Triangle was still pretty fresh then, and it was good to hear it live.
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Reading your pieces is always an uplifting experience, if you'll excuse the pun.
I am at once delighted to read this, and saddened to discover I don't even have the building prowess of a four year old boy.
Yes, that too.
Ian clearly takes the saintliness thing seriously by being both indefatigable and invisible. ;-)
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to Russell Brown,
His recording of 'Ceremony' at the same BDO show as 'Atmosphere'
Right, so you caught up with that even faster than I could post it.
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to Stephen Glaister,
Your Silent Face, ended with Sumner venemously yelling ‘Why don’t you piss off’ at particular audience members who’d irritated him (as opposed to underplaying/near speaking the line as per later record, etc.).
He did that 20 years later too. You can even see the blip at about 4.12 here.
Also posted Ceremony, although they were a bit messy, and the sound sort of fades out towards the end for a bit. Also, that guy shouting over the start? That's not me.
As to what they sound like now, I thought this performance of Ceremony at the Bataclan was creditable.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
British bands Joy Division and New Order, all of which have been sent to the Treasury.
I heard about that too. Always thought they were ahead of their time.
Stephen Morris mentioned the difficulty they had in finding some of their masters when they did their latest 'Best Of' releases. (95bFM interview available here).
Nek minnit...
What's the Treasury going to do with them? Melt them down to see if they're gold?
Just another Oliver diver story.
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to Sacha,
Yup, Marlee Matlin definitely deserves a mention.
I've always found her characters in general, and there have been many, to be all the things you might hope for, in any sense I can reasonably think of.
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to john Drinnan,
I prefer to keep the Woolf from the dour.
To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.
VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Common Reader
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Jos,
As seen on the desert road, extreme mowing...
My, how your garden has grown. That hill might take a bit of work though.
