Wall of Mouths

I think the last one I went to was Iron Maiden at the NIA in Birmingham.

Very good, but I’d love to have seen them somewhere less soulless.

Before that…I think it was Adam Ant at the O2 in Brum.. very, very good. Legend. Relied very heavily on his first album - which is a good thing, I should add. Stripped down, punky, rock n roll. Cack version of YMCA though - changed to A.N.T.S. :D Knobhead!

A very happy birthday to Mrs H. I shall be expecting a piece of cake.

Currently reading Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Eveyrthing. Fascinating stuff.

I did indeed. I thought it was really good. They’d changed a few things here and there from the books and it all seemed a bit rushed with each book compressed into two episodes, but despite that they did a good job of it. What did you think?

Congrats Divers!

And nice job, Squall! Which model’s that? And how does it sound with the Tele…?

Citizen Erased wrote:

Doh, bad luck!

Having upset my girlfriend by going off for the weekend with the cute girl at work and some other friends, I’m finally (semingly) forgiven by my girlfriend but the cute girl at work is barely talking to me - the minimum necessary to keep a working relationship going (thankfully, given that we work together), but aside from that is really acting in an unfriendly manner. Given that the trip away cost a few quid and a massive row, I’m inclined to think she’s being a cow. If there’s something more behind it, I buggered if I know what >:-(

Come on, you’re amongst friends now…there’s more to this story, isn’t there…?

Happy birthday Hoooooooooch!

Have a good ‘un ;)

Nope, he’s on a fairly long UK tour at the moment - must be the biggest tour he’s done for years and years

Adam Ant last night.

Set was loaded towards the earlier stuff, which is no bad thing, though it did mean I didn’t know quite a few of the songs. He’s on good form though and he’s still a great frontman, even if he is dangerously close to being a cross between Alan Carr and Benny Hill these days.

Happy 40th Matthias!

Manic Street Preachers at Wolves Civic last Thursday - excellent, band’s on top form

Rush at NEC last night - Also very, very good. But what’s the point of paying through the nose for a seat when every c*nt stands up?!

I know, it’s a right shithole innit?

*ducks*

yeah Happy etc etc Taunty Dan.
And all that.

If you must.

Good work, Hooch! Hopefully I haven’t made you waste 30p… I enjoyed it, anyway!

Oops just noticed the b/d greetings.

Many thanks everyone!

I had a lovely day looking round the Cotswolds nature centre…meeting my relatives, you might say.

hoochalobster wrote:

But without the footnotes it would pretty much just be the transcripts to three live shows, in which case you may as well watch the DVDs ;)

Am very happy to know that there’s another Jackson Brodie book - will have to snaffle it from my mum’s at the weekend (shh). Was the other one you read Behind the Scenes at the Museum? That was terrible (not that I read beyond the first 40 pages or so).

I think the book I didn’t like was Emotionally Weird. Which is such a crap name for a book it would have had to have been outstandingly brilliant to even get the balance back to zero, never mind get into plus figures.

As for Stewart Lee and the footnotes, this is quite true. Fortunately, I’ve not seen much of his stand-up stuff so a lot of this is new to me.
I DID see the routine in his last series where he went on about political correctness, which was sublime.
Interesting to read about his deliberately slow delivery and how he is as interested in the art of what he does as well as just the “jokes” themselves, for want of a better word.

Epitome wrote:

New series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on BBC2 tonight :-)

Any good? As you might spot in the “What’s everybody reading?” thread, I’m halfway through his book.

Wanted to watch this but way too late for how tired I was last night. Will try to iPlayer it, if it’s there.

Next spot of watching will be some old Doctor Whos I got on DVD for my buffdee - Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee eras we’re talking here.

Ah but Hooch, you need to read the latest one too - called something daft like Started Early, Took The Dog. Also features Jackson Brodie.

I do like the Kate Atkinson ones with him in, didn’t like the other KA one I read…I forget what it was called though… Was a bit too “girly”, for want of a much better description.

I am currently reading Stewart Lee (him of Fist of Fun/ Lee And Herring fame) - “How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian”.
Interesting and veyr clever, just not sure it’s easy to warm to him as a person. And his use of extensive footnotes on almost every single page is starting to get very annoying, although I am sure if I ever wrote a book I would find myself doing the same thing…

KT Tunstall
Kate Rusby
Iron Maiden
Rush
Manic Street Preachers

Currently working our way through series 2 of Ashes To Ashes on DVD, and watched Ocean’s 11 last night too - i.e. the remake with Pitt and Clooney and all that malarky.

Went to the flicks to see Never Let Me Go on Saturday. Very good, did a good job of capturing the mood of the book.

“Thin Lizzy”, you mean ;)

Black Label Society at the O2 Academy in Birmingham, Monday night.

Very good - very professional band, pretty good sound. Zakk looked a little like he was going through the motions at times, maybe he’s more subdued without the beer, I dunno.

Good gig all the same.

http://www.nme.com/news/p-diddy/54739

Possibly a few holes in the woman’s case…?

LOL yeah I don’t mind a bit of The Cult meself, to be honest. I just couldn’t stand there for a whole evening’s worth of I(ndi)an Astbury’s between-song banter. The music’s good but…well he’s just a tit, isn’t he?

deadsetgav wrote:

Going to see The Cult on Sunday in Manc

You poor thing :( Hope you feel better soon.

Given that most of a haggis is oats anyway, the veggie ones ARE almost identical in taste.

It was a veggie one I was after myself in aforemention haggis/ shop not having any/ Scottish woman on till scenario shocker.

hoochalobster wrote:

Back to the effing burglars of doom, some of you might have seen they went on to my mum’s and my brother’s Facebook pages and posted loads of random shite. Bit stupid, as now police are trying to track them down via the IP address. Anyway, mum was worried as she also had her WoM password saved so she’s asked me to tell you in case anyone’s had a random PM or summat. I’ve locked her account for now anyway.

Yes I heard about this. Baaaarstids.

Your mum text me an alternate email address to contact her on, but like a knob I deleted the text before I noted down the address. Would you mind PM’ing me it?

Ta

Cuchulain wrote:

Legends : Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation , on BBC4 last night.

Brilliant work and some great live footage.
Could have been some more Eric Bell in it.

Yes, enjoyed that a lot myself, great stuff.

I couldn’t find any haggis in my local supermarket, and I was going to moan at the checkout but I noticed the woman was actually Scottish* and I thought she might think I was taking the p*ss..!

(*bearing in mind I’m in Birmingham)