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    New Album Title Game

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Biafran Field Recordings 1962-65 Volume III

     

    The Glitterball Cracked

     

    The Chord That Roared

     

    And More Spam

     

    Hudson Aeroplane

     

    Live From Caesars Palace

     

    Locked In The Loft

     

    Plays The Best OF Barry White

    Going to Barcelona, Rome, Venice, Milan

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Barcelona

    Never been. Would check out that bar where Manu Chau hangs out.

     

    Rome

    Climb to the very top of St Peters. See the Sistine Chapel - if only for the fun of observing the whispers rise to a buzz rise to chatter before the periodic "Please be quiet" messages come over the PA.

    A trip down into the catacombs is interesting.

    Ice cream at the Trevi Fountain at night - throwing your coin in over your shoulder.

     

    Venice

    Must stay overnight - entirely nicer atmosphere once the crowds have dispersed.

     

    Milan

    Comparatively not too much apart from the Cathedral - get up on the roof amongst the gargoyles. The Last Supper needs booking well in advance. I hate shopping.

     

    I'd go to Florence instead of Milan if you haven't been there, then you can go by train from Rome to Florence and on to Venice too. Italian trains are reliable. Arriving at Venice by train is fantastic - right on the Grand Canal. About the only good thing Mussolini did was ensure that Italian railway stations are right in the centre of town. Also from Florence day trips to Sienna and Pisa are in reach (also by train). Pisa only has the Campo so can't justify more than a day. You can get to the top of the tower again now. It's another one of those places where at first the crowds might get frustrating, but they themselves get interesting in a way when you stop to observe. All doing the holding the tower up photo opportunity etc.

    Beatles Purple Chick Collections

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    The Lost Beatles Interview

     

    Tuesday 1 July 2008 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

    Repeated: Saturday 5 July 2008 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

     

    Sixties star Helen Shapiro presents the story of a lost TV interview with the Beatles that was recorded in April 1964 and recently found languishing in a rusty film can in a garage in South London. Experts say it's the earliest surviving interview where Lennon and McCartney talk about how they met and discuss the song writing process. With contributions from the original TV interviewer Paul Young - who had never seen the footage, which was part of a regional television programme broadcast only in Scotland - Beatles expert and writer Mark Lewisohn and Dick Fiddy of the BFI.

     

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/ra3gg/

    The Loft Whereabouts

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    i do believe the loft's general location was mentioned in an article written by greg kot, or maybe in his book. or at least, he mentioned the nearest, decently-busy intersection. which, hint-hint, i pass everyday on the way to and from work.

    After one of those other threads a while ago, and just after watching certain official DVD footage, as a 5 minute exercise I tried to locate the place. A first page search hit on Google and Google Earth had me zoomed in to the exact location, easily identifiable from the satellite pictures. Too late for them to do something about that even if they were bothered.

    N.B. I have no interest in going there.

    Putting together a Beatles compilation

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Baby It's You (Despite everything that followed, Johnnie at his best for me)

    Lovely Rita

    I'm So Tired

    Eight Days A Week

    Paperback Writer

    And Your Bird Can Sing

    Back In The U.S.S.R.

    Good Morning, Good Morning

    I'm Looking Through You

    Hey Bulldog

    Hello Goodbye

    Don't Let Me Down

    You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

    You've Really Got A Hold On Me

    For no one

    I've Just Seen A Face

    Two Of Us

    Birthday

    In My Life

    Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/End

    Video Ipods

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Anyone got any tips or tricks to offer on transferring DVD's to my Ipod?

    AnyDVD (decrypts to enable following program to read DVD content - free 3 week trial version available)

    Handbrake (open source multi-platform DVD to MPEG-4 converter - free)

    Work for my iTouch.

    New UK dates

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    They seem to like Spain ...

     

    Bounder: Anyway, about the holiday...

    Smoketoomuch: Well, yes, I've been on package tours many times, so your advert really bought my eye.

    Bounder: Ah good.

    Smoketoomuch: Yes, you're quite right, I'm fed up with being treated like a sheep, I mean what's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted round in buses, surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry...

    Bounder: Absolutel..

    Smoketoomuch: ...in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their 'Sunday Mirrors', complaining about the tea, 'Oh they don't make it properly here do they not like at home' stopping at Majorcan bodegas, selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg...

    Bounder: Yes.

    Smoketoomuch: ...and sitting in their cotton sun frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh...

    Bounder: Yes.

    Smoketoomuch: ...cos they 'overdid it on the first day'! And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellevueses and Bontinentals...

    Bounder: Yes, yes...

    Smoketoomuch: ...with their modern international luxury roomettes and draft Red Barrel and swimmingpools...

    Bounder: Yes.

    Smoketoomuch: ...full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats, forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss the bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup,...

    Bounder: Shut up.

    Smoketoomuch: ...the first item on the menu of International Cuisine,...

    Bounder: Shut up, please!

    Smoketoomuch: ...and every Thursday night the hotel is a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring a tiny emaciated dago...

    Bounder: Please, will you shut up.

    Smoketoomuch: ...with nine-inch hips and some bloated fat tart with her hair Brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.

    Bounder: Shut up!

    Smoketoomuch: And adenoidal typists from Birmingham with flabby white legs and diarrhoea trying to pick up hairy...

    Bounder: Please..

    Smoketoomuch: ...bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel,...

    Bounder: ..shut up!

    Smoketoomuch: ...and once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman ruins to buy cherryade and melted ice cream...

    Bounder: I can't bear it!

    Smoketoomuch: ...and bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel, and one evening you visit the so-called typical restaurant with local colour...

    Bounder: Shaddap!

    Smoketoomuch: ...and atmosphere and you sit next to a party of people from Rhyl who keeps singing 'Torremolinos, Torremolinos', and complaining about the food, 'It's so greasy here isn't it!' and you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic and Dr Scholl sandals and Tuesday's 'Daily Express' and he drones on and on and on about how Mr Smith should be running this country and how many...

    Bounder: Stop it, please.

    Smoketoomuch: ...languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libres.

    Bounder: Will you be quiet please.

    Smoketoomuch: And sending tinted postcards of places they don't realise they haven't even visited, 'to all...

    Bounder: Shut up

    Smoketoomuch: ...at number 22, weather wonderful...

    Bounder: PLEASE, SHUT UP!

    Smoketoomuch: ...our room is marked with an "X". Food very greasy but we found a charming...

    Bounder: Take it off! TAKE IT OFF!

    Smoketoomuch: ...little place hidden away in the back streets, where they serve Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion...

    Bounder: For God's sake, take it off. TAKE IT OFF!!!

    Smoketoomuch: ...crisps and the accordionist plays "Maybe its because I'm a Londoner"'...

    Now Watching On Youtube

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    My favorite set ever from Glastonbury - its such a tonic. This is just a segment - not the best of his songs shown here of course - but just feel the love for Brian. And all that backing band deserve to be so much credit for doing the songs justice in the last few years to support Brian.

     

    Here's another one (love the girl crowd surfing on top of a surf board):-

    I was smiling for at least a week after seeing the whole performance.

    VC 'interview' with Tweedy?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Also, at what point during the recording process does the band get to hear the kind of explanation of songs as given during the SBS DVD interview segments - if at all? Bits of information given out as they ask, a sit down and 'let me tell you about this one' minute or two. Left up to their interpretations? How does it happen.

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