Posts by Simon Grigg
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Wrong on both counts I'm afraid Brent. The Members played Mainstreet late in 1979, supported as i recall by Toy Love. They also toured Australia supported by Th'Dudes. I even interviewed them. It was the first visit by a post-punk band and was a big deal. They returned here a year or so later as I recall too.
XTC played at The Logan Campbell Centre. I was also at that one.
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Yeah, but we baked a tape (unreleased Meemees song from the Stars In My Eyes sessions) and it just flaked to pieces anyway...lost forever.
There was a whole stream of quite interesting bands through AK at the time. Banshees, Cure (playing to about 100 at Mainstreet the first time), Ramones, Clash, XTC, Magazine, Bunnymen, Members, Birthday Party and many more, and lots ended up hanging out with the local bands both in and out of the studio.
As I recall the Blams invited Cope into the studio.
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I think was The Narcs or someone MOR like that. The 24 track masters of the Blams might have something on them, and Don McGlashan has those as i gave them to him about 3 years back. But being Ampex tapes from that era no-one seems keen to risk playing them.
At the time we thought that The Cars and Devo were a little too mainstream rawk for our tastes which leaned more to UK indie / US No-wave.
Along those lines Julian Cope visited a Blams session too as i recall, and Tim Mahon chucked him out for being a tosser.
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He was bought out by Harlequin Studios as part of a training scheme. They used two bands as quinea pigs, I can't remember who the other was.
He recorded a bunch of tracks and we were allowed to use them but with no name attached, but they were horrendous..he made the Blams sound like Foreigner. We simply scrapped them and started again. As I recall parts of the Time Enough track on Luxury Length retain a bit of his work.
I don't think we ever told him.
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Craig, yes but to be fair, having travelled on the night buses many times over the years, they were as often as not, a fairly positively spirited party and quite a London institution.
But for all that, there was nothing less pleasant than a bunch of cider swilling skinheads on the tube after an away game.
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About 1986 I found myself at some show at Phil Warren's Ace of Clubs above Cook Street. I'd been out on the town with Peter Urlich & Mark Phillips and was a little, um, under the weather.
At the back of the room was Shane and I wandered over. We'd never met and I sat down and, fumbling my words, told him how much he'd meant to me in the late sixties. As a kid I was a huge fan and told him so. He thanked me and we talked for a while, but whether it was the wine or him, I was at a bit of a loss for words and excused myself.
Over the years I've met dozens of so called popstars, some pretty big ones, but that's the only time I felt a little overawed.
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it may have stood on its own against the new wave chart riders at the time like "flock of seagulls"
Lordy....FOS were as close to satanic as it got in 1981 as I recall...
Dragon were recorded for CBS in Australia by the legendary Peter Dawkins.
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In 2002 the NYT printed a number of articles about Saddam's WMDs. Does that make the NYT a card carrying member of the vast right wing conspiracy?
Two words...Judith Miller.
By global standards I'd argue fairly strongly that the NYT is not regarded as any great liberal beacon. Whether you see it as such really depends on how far to the right you sit I guess.
So I guess now they question for all the virulent war opponents is does your sense of humanity outweigh your ideology and hatred of the US and Bush?
Them's strong words James, it's just a shame they are hollow..about as hollow as the way you seem to disappear whenever anyone challenges your talking points here.
It was a sense of humanity that caused so many worldwide to react so strongly to the invasion that you championed so strongly. It was a sense of humanity that led so many to object to a dishonest rush to a war that has, as so many correctly predicted, led to a human disaster.
It's worth noting that your sense of humanity didn't extend to those in Abu Ghraib, and as noted before seems not to extend to the 51,000 odd in US custody held without charge for up to five years.
Oh, but I forget, this is all about a hatred of the US and Bush, eh? I'm guessing that, looking at polling in recent years in the USA, it's you that may be be out of step with the US and much of what many Americans think it stands for.
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And James, perhaps a little does of reality to temper your unpleasant gloat fest.
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James, firstly your definition of the WaPo as the 'liberal media' when one considers how hard they banged the drum for the Iraq war is just plain odd.
Secondly, I find the your gloating over progress there (Iraqis were dying at 20 a day last month still..good news indeed, eh?) more vile than odd.
I'm pleased that violence is down...after half a decade it should be, but no drop in violence is gonna turn what is and was a disaster in a thousand different ways into anything else or return whatever number of Iraq corpses to the land of the living. It's not that easy.