chrisp65

countryside big green boring waste of space

they might work it out for themselves (if you're CV is accurate)

take a long slow walk along Walthamstow High Street you will see a female representative of every possible race, colour, creed, size, shape and attitude my in depth study in yesterday's sunshine came to the following scientific conclusion: I don't prefer any one 'type'.

Well, if Bi Plane Angel Beam ain't already taken then I'm going for that one for my new band. They'll be a mish mash band of posers all generally up themselves. I'll probably use a little face paint to make myself look edgy. We'll have stupid instruments that add nothing but make us look bohemian. Hopefully, we'll make enough of a splash amongst students for our one half hummable song that we'll be able to dine out on it for years doing various tented stages at Glasto and coining it in from our tune being used in an advert for low fat spread or mobile phone top ups. People will buy numerous albums before realising we're not hip, we're shit. A bit like Arcade Fire really.

I'm Aston Villa, I'll shit where I want.

That'll teach me to do proper research on my sources and references!

Rugeley, well it's all down to personal taste, and it's only had one listen. I'd also guess from previous posts our tastes are a bit different - I'm not really liking the heavy metal excess side of music, this was 'excessive'. But a lot of the reasons I liked the previous two albums I'd picked up (Brothers & El Camino) appear to have gone. Certainly the album Brothers was pared back, sparse and distinctive. This was more a middling rock album. I don't really like middling rock, life's too short. Bryan Adams sprung to mind, or INXS (not that I've ever listened to a Brian Adams album). Somebody (Dave I think), referenced the Black Keys and the impression they were coke influenced in their Glastonbury interview. This whole album sounded to me like the last two albums had bought them too much coke and too much studio time and not enough honest advice from friends. But all that off a single listen sat in London traffic! So I'll play it again one day. Today, sat in the office, looking out over sunny, dappled green Sofia Gardens Park, it's currently all about Sharon Jones on loop.

Bi Plane Angel Beam's first album, 8 Man Madras Fart?

Black Keys CD was disappointing, as in, had that been the first Black Keys CD I'd bought, it would likely also have been the last. Sharon Jones, on the other hand, is rather grand once you tune in to an album of mid paced tunes.

It's not that good even when you are there if you have your back to the stage having to concentrate on watching dickheads crowd surfing towards you as they vomit over a dozen people in the front row before they pass out and/or try to fight you either. Although, on that note I think 95% of the guards I've met doing festival/gig security were some of the worst idiots I've ever met (I'm in the other 5% before you start thank you very much, oooo he has a high opinion of himself doesn't he?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5N68RIZM8c long rambling story alert: SFA have a song where the crowd goes nuts just about 1 minute / 1 min 10 into it - bit of a tradition. Anyway, back in the day they were due a small gig, we didn't have enough tickets between us and couldn't get hold of any more on the night. I got the guys to get around the back of the venue (Pier, Cardiff). I went in, straight around the back beyond the toilets. Some idiot then kicked open the fire door. To my surprise not only did my couple of mates get in, but dozens of others. Anyway, because of that security were really arsey and actually got a couple of police in the venue too - I think on some attempt to look for hand stamps and eject people that didn't have them. Wisely the police decided that could be more trouble than it was worth. But when 'The Man' started, the police were in the middle of the floor. I leaned over and warned them they had 30 seconds before it went nuts. They literally did a thumbs up and physically reversed out of the crowd. With about 3 seconds to spare. So a bad deed, and a good deed.

clicky on the main villatalk button so you go back to home page scroll way down to the bottom: todays top posters also shows most liked etc there are three posters in today's top 20 have done well in excess of 100,000 posts between them Cheers I'd never noticed them! So the most liked post of all time with 75 likes is Hairy Hands saying "hh". Wonder what it said originally? for all the deep philosophical insight and political clarity I've brought to this place, my most liked post was the one where I said I stuck a stickle brick up my bum know your audience

yeah listening to live music when you're not actually there often ain't that great an experience

Parallel Lines is a work of pop genius imo. I had the album Plastic Letters before anyone else I knew (it was dutch or german or something from memory and hadn't had a UK release). It got me my joint highest ever cool rating, hitting 8.1 (struggle to keep it close to 4 now).

clicky on the main villatalk button so you go back to home page scroll way down to the bottom: todays top posters also shows most liked etc there are three posters in today's top 20 have done well in excess of 100,000 posts between them

ooh look, it's got the same badge as my little car but mine has a better stereo, and a chiller box and half a packet of cashews nuts in the centre console

hey good tip there, went to the website..... Bristol Colston Hall in October - I'll have a piece of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2M_hpoPwk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZ_Lg21b14

got these on my list for my next purchase............very possibly tomorrow

Apartment complex! in my day we lived in flats (and smoked indoors, sat in a tin bath)

Well, I've been away all week in glorious sunshine, I've worked from home today which was lovely. I've organised for some new double glazing units which arrived and got fitted by a very nice man that arrived with the message 'tell Chris we can sort out the bill another time'. I've kept the old units and successfully split them down for greenhouse glass - the 600mm module working perfectly. I've then topped up all the levels on the car, washed it, polished it and garaged it. Everyone's home, I'm about to make lasagne. Now, now it decides to monsoon rain. Boom, all the scientific proof you want, right there.

10 / 15 minutes of warm up comedy from PussEKatt curry by Rob interlude music from Mooney Tarj can do the photos if we're lucky I'll get Xann to do a power point presentation on the evolution of the electric kazoo in Ethiopian hotel jazz ensembles, 1974 - 1982

I've had an idea.... 'An Evening With...' We hire the Holte Pub, stick RV on a raised bit of stage with a mic and just ask questions or fire prompts at him for the evening. £25 a head, you get a curry and a guarantee of one question. Pay bar. Raffle, winner gets a day in the van with RV.

That's very humourous Chris, don't make me bring weight into this argument of averages... yep, I'm out!

More words are superfluous. What's wrong with 5'7"? nothing according to Wikipedia 5'7" is bang on average for the Netherlands oops hang on, for a female it's 5'7" males are over 6'