Anyone into the following:

New Order, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Cocteau Twins….

Yup , except The Smashing Pumpkins – I don’t like Billy Corgan for some reason – just can’t get into them .

Anybody ever listen to John Peel’s Festive 50 ?? , on a 1992 tape I have a song called “Commercial Rain ” , I think it’s an Inspiral Carpets track ?? , but can’t find it on any of their albums , anybody any ideas ???

Originally posted by Tempest
Great to see you’re a Sisters fan Alastair.

I ran into Wayne Hussey once, he asked what my favourite Mission song was, I said I preferred First Last and Always. He just stopped speaking to me there and then.

I never liked the Mission much , ok but not great . I met Andrew Eldridge from SOM once , down the Grassmarket in Edinburgh , they were playing that night in the Playhouse and he was well melted – I expected a disaster but they were excellent. Funnily enough I met Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick in the same boozer ( The White Hart ) the same day they were playing too – Rick Nielsen had a bizarre necklace on consisting of small plastic aeroplanes and plastic cutlery.

Thanks for sharing this with us Paul , many condolences.

Best Regards

Ren ,
I owe you a beer , got both CD’s in this morning Surfer Rosa/C’Mon Pilgrim and Doolittle for £15.07 – and that was including the VAT , bargain !!!!!

Ali

Originally posted by Snapper
Don’t blame us. The inbred abacus stroker is in hiding.

Ahhhh the Prawn King is alive !!!!!

If it tastes like a Prawn and smells like a Prawn then she’s definately from Lowestoft .

Originally posted by Geforce
Therapy is still popular.

Yup I’m still getting Therapy and the band ain’t bad too 😀

Wanna spend my whole life drunk
Never wanna give a fcuk
Wanna walk thru the gates of Hell with a backstage pass in hand
St Peter parked my car
Angels on my mind

Postcards to Hell

Originally posted by Ren Frew
This one was amazing.. !

One gig I would have loved to have seen would have to be Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground , or maybe Iggy Pop with the Stooges ( is it just me but does every Student Union Jukebox have Iggy Pop- Passenger on it ???)

Originally posted by Geforce
1) The pixies
2) The stranglers “golden brown” — great songh

My god alistair, we do have a lot in common

3) is rammstein split up?
4) Fleetwood Mac
5) The beatles

No Rammstein haven’t split up – I just meant to make the point that you could basically choose any band which has ever existed , The Stranglers are still doing the rounds too , without Hugh Cornwell – but the new stuff is 5hit ,Sugar Bullets etc . The Raven is an all time favourite album of mine , along with Rattus Norvegicus .

Other bands I would have as support would be The Dead Kennedys and Therapy