Factory Floor - Wooden Box Tape - BBC6 Music Session
yes.
The Racists
I just found this great new band ‘The Racists’ on myspace. I think they have something to do with Bo-Ningen so obviously it’s gonna be of a high calibre. They played there first gig at the weekend, I wish I had known I would have loved to have been there.
They remind me of the first D.A.F album, great haevy bass with rockin drums and spikey guitar layered over the top. They also have great shrieking vocals which adds another level to this sound. Check it out, it’s big.
Peter Sellers
Last week I got my hands on a few Pink Panther movies, I forgot how much I loved these movies as a kid and it has sparked my love for Peter Sellers again. I went through a stage last year when I became obsessed with him after watching on of his early movies ‘Wrong Arm of the Law’ this is a great British crime spoof which paved the way for Sellers use of multiple roles in one movie. In the movie he playes an east end gangster and jewellery thief who by day also runs a clothes shop on Saville Row. It’s an amazing movie and a prime piece of British cinema.
It is such a shame Sellers career started to nose dive towards the end, he deserved an untarnished career. Obviously all the Pink Panther’s he was involved with are genius. My personal favourite is ‘Pink Panther Strikes Again’. Great slapstick scenes such as when he is on the parrallel bars are genius. These scenes prove he was a master of pysical comedy.
Another Sellers classic is ‘Dr. Strangelove’. Stanley Kubricks attempt at comedy. And what an attempt. One of the most poignant pieces of satire of its generation. And as I said earlier shows Sellers capability to act so many roles in one movie. My favourite scene is when Sellers plays the U.S President and calls the Russian P.M, I shall attach a link below.
I have also realised that bar these and a few others there is so many great Sellers movies I havent seen. I’ve decided im going to start a collection. I shall keep you posted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uBeiNXAo
Dr. Strangelove
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Ska’d For Life - Horace Panter
I recently bought this book from the bargain bucket bin at HMV. its a biography of the specials by their fantastic bass player - Horace Panter. I wasn’t expecting much due to the fact that it cost 3 pounds and the only quotes on the back were from the Daily Sport and Mojo. Not only this but the foreword was by none other than Phil Jupitus. surely they could have got Jerry Dammers or Rick Rogers or someone who actually had something to do with The Specials rather than just some tv comedian.
This book was amazing from the start to the finish, it was interesting and informative and thankfully layed off the rock and roll reel-off stories about doing coke of Toya Wilcox’s left tit that most of these sort of books tend to have. The book taught me about how the band actually developed. I was quite shocked by the fact that they had been going for nearly 3 years before they got a single out. iIthink this was more a sign of the times because these days very few bands even manage to last 3 years, let alone last without a release.
My one critisiscm with the book is Horaces’ self-depreciation throughout the book. I tend to hate people who constantly portray themselves as the uncool one or the one that no-one likes. Generally because these people actually think quite highly of themselves and use this as a way of making themselves seem humble, rather than vain. He constantly refers to himself as the worst-dressed or the conservative one that people dont wanna party with. But seeing their press shots he looks great, so I dont get his point.
The book also told me some great factoids about the band such as Terry Halls first band before The Specials. Coventry punk band SQUAD. From reading this I hunted them out, unfortunatly there is no recording with Terry Hall on them, but every review or piece of information I have found about them says Hall was fantastic in them, this is a shame no such recordings exist. Also that Suggs from Madness used to be a Sham 69 skinhead, this I wasn’t surprised about but, put me off Suggs a bit due to the reputation of the Sham Skins.
I reccomend this book to everone, its sharp and at no point was I bored and Panter has found a good medium between giving you the facts and not making it a bore-fest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHTK2MVY4CQ The Specials - Do the Dog (Live Japan 80)
Top 5
I’ve decided I am going to start doing a weekly top 5 for a quick run down of the best tracks im currently listening to.
This week we have:
1. The Monochrome set - The Lighter Side of Dating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPiB_4dQew
2. Madness - The Prince http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_srIE-YAb8
3. Minny Pops - Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liUEvJV9iEw
4. The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9yspuNnW0E
5. SCREAMERS! - I am a Mensch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGqELf6MFY4
Chris from Leeds - Can’t find his way out of an open space.
Big Daddy Linger getting ready for a night out down The Joiners.
Cutting Rugs on a Daily Basis.
Chris from Leeds at Halloween. He went as the guy from My Chemical Romance.
Unfortunate Incident at the Dentist
Forgive me if I’m letting you know too much about my private life here but I’m so embaressed with myself I feel I should share the cringe with the public.
I had a dentist appointment this morning for some long awaited work that needs doing and it was scheduled for 10.30. I have trouble getting up so I didn’t actually rise until 9.45. This meant I had to shower etc. in 10 minutes and do the half hour walk to my dentist’s.
By the time I got there I was still shattered and nearly dosing off in the waiting room. When I finnally got into the dentist chair I pretty much passed out straight away. I felt this was fine, to be honest I’d rather be asleep while they stuck small drills in my mouth. But I must have been having quite an interesting dream cos as I woke up half way through my session I realised I had quite a storming hard-on. To be honest I really wish I could have seen the fear and shame in my eyes as I finally clocked the godless happening that had just occured in my trousers.
Here is a visual aid. It’s not mine but none the less impressive.
I then had to spend the next 15 minutes trying to visualise all sort of bizarre and disguting sights to try and surpress the rising. Nothing seemed to work. I tried to think of gruesome shit, but then I had a horrendous feeling that if I tried this method to often I would start to get turned on by sights of wounds and dead bodies. This is a road I don’t wish to venture down. So instead I tried to think of a song in my head to take my mind of it but all I could think of was that Plug song ‘Life of an Animal’, and unfortunatly for me that girl Sian is quite hot. The situation was becoming intense.
The dentist finally finished my work with my rock still in full swing I muttered cheers under my breath and said my good byes avoiding all eye contact. I thought thank fuck I’m out of there but then I clocked that I now have to go downstairs to book another appointment and also wait for my Mum to turn up to give me a lift home. I think the thought of my Mum turning up put the fear of god into my little mate and he tucked himself away.
All in all quite an eventful trip to the dentists.
Chris from Leeds is back….. Nice shirt.
I feel its time i take the heat off Chris from Leeds and throw a bit towards Big Daddy Linger.
