Wall of Mouths

Although I reckon Kiss have the best range! And ACDC have their own wine. Any thoughts for a Therapy? themed beverage? Or other merch? Obviously we can have knives, crooked timber and cuddly polar bears. What else?

Re: daft merch. My boyfriend got me an Alice Cooper bear once and I’ve noticed Motörhead do thongs. Nice.

buffalo-boy wrote:

I bought a Muse T from a tout for a fiver 10 years ago and it has outlasted all my other band tops, still fits and still has all its colour and its been worn A LOT! I’d rather my money went to the artist and not some dole chav but if they do better quality…

I still have my FNM ‘Album of the Year’ tour shirt I think from around 97/98 bought from outside for a fiver and still going strong! Not that I’d do that now!

Definitely Moment of Clarity as the all time best. Just one of those songs that makes you tingle.

Any bloke who recommends I buy the ‘medium’ rather than the ‘large’ t-shirt clearly is one hell of a nice bloke!

Here’s a riddle from George Bernard Shaw. Because we all need a little GBS when in hospital.

Q: What does this say?

ghoti

ooooh…and it’s NOT goatee btw. Scroll down for the answer…………………… ……………………READY?……

It says… .
FISH

Gold star for anyone who can tell me why.

So basically the Andy Cairns Diet Plan is this:

1) Cycle everywhere
2) No pies
3) Marlboro Lights

Rosemary Conley must be shaking in her boots!

Would vote if I could. Alas, despite the mountan of Irish bunting that is adorning Manchester for St. Paddy’s Day, I don’t think my postcode would register! But happy St. Paddy’s Day to one and all…

MisterHoppy wrote:

You’re confusing Dub and Dubstep mate, and despite the name Dubstep didn’t evolve from dub, it’s (well was back in 98 when the term first came about) a sort of combination of the darker elements of drum and bass and 2-step (a form of garage (not garage rock though) which is even shitter than most garage) before it evolved into what you hear today, DUB on the other hand is the forerunner to remixes (in fact a lot of the early dub pioneers were soundsystem engineers, King Tubby was an electrician and soundsystem operator), it’s a subset of reggae and often involves just the rhythm section of a track (sometimes cut up and re-dubbed) with loops of other instruments and sometimes snippets of vocals dropped in and out with a heavy use of reverb , echo and delay. It quickly became very popular within reggae so you got bands and producers making dub albums without using a vocal track as the starting point (the fact Jamaica didn’t have any copyright laws at the time helped a lot initially).
Basically Reggae has always had very very deep and heavy bass, dub took this a bit further and that’s why dubstep with it’s heavy heavy basslines got dub in its name.

If I’m ever stuck in a music round in a pub quiz I’m getting hold of you!

I got the vinyl delivered on Saturday…love The Buzzing and Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder. Yes, there are lots of different influences in there. Yes, play it on a decent sound system or you lose the bass. I wouldn’t suggest to play it in the car!
One of the things I love about T? is that they don’t just rehash the same formula time and time again.
Can’t wait hear some of the new stuff played live in April…roll on Leeds!

Oh, and I meant ‘hand’ btw…long day…

Sorry, he’s just told me it’s actually ‘World’s Craziest Fools’. Silly me. I should have known.

…just delivered today on purple vinyl but I had to wait until I got to a decent record player (mine is ancient and tinny) tonight before I wanted to do it any justice…
Just listened to it for the first time…love The Buzzing and Get Your Dead Head off My Shoulder…
…definitely some dark dub influence amongst others in there…

I really want to listen to it again but my boyfriend is engrossed with Mr T’s ‘World’s Dangeous Fools’. Help.

Chris…how fucking jealous am I of you right now…
…if there’s two things that keep me sane in life they’re Red Dwarf and Therapy?

Give Chris Barrie a big snog from me.

@ Gav
LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iYJQAn5M8&feature=related

Some nice person has put this here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqRogJC9oLQ

Ah…I wish I could remember them all but a time does stand out in the mid-late 90s (maybe ‘96? Can anyone help?!) when some of the crowd shouted ‘you fat bastard’ at him and he went backstage only to return with a multi-pack of crisps (I think cheese Doritos…), threw them into the pit and said ‘I may be fat but I’m as happy as fuck’.
There was also a time in Manchester around the same era (maybe even the same gig, who knows…) when the barrier collapsed and Andy asked us all to take a step back whilst they played ‘a little lift music’ as the security guys tried to fix it. I seem to remember it collapsed again and everyone got up on the stage.
And then there’s the customary ‘fuck George Bush’ before ‘Rock you Monkeys’. Saw/heard that one a few times. Loved it.
I wish I could remember more!!!!

I was in the Manchester St. Patrick’s Festival beer tent yesterday. The band in there played Status Quo (English) and Katie Perry (American). You could buy green hats outside and posters with shamrocks on them.
No T? though.

Nurse, taped off a friend. I bought Infernal Love when that came out and the rest just followed as and when…(I did buy a copy of Nurse eventually, though!)
Did not own a copy of Troublegum until about 2 years ago. When it came out in the 90s I was at school and everyone had a copy of it on their walkmans so I never needed to get it! I had a crappy taped copy of it from someone until I bought it on CD. Consequently, it’s one of the very few albums I don’t have signed!

No way! I’ve spent tons on buying singles so I can get the B-sides…lol ;)
Seriously, it’s a good idea…perhaps with some demos etc on there, too?

Bananarama - Love in the First Degree
infused with
Wham! - Edge of Heaven
with some heavy beats and synthesised vocals.
And a brass section.

Is wearing a big smile…
…personally I like the dirty heavy stuff (oo er missus). There’s a lot of post-post-punk poppy bouncy stuff around as it is.

there was some sonisphere T? footage on Youtube not so long ago

@Soul Doubt. Me, too. I’ve been buying vegtarian cookery magazines of late. Goodbye youth, hello middle-age…
Off to Sainsbury’s to get metalled up for Christmas, methinks!

Yay, Fiona! You’re a star!!! (PS Thanks for including my bit.)
We need to collect stories over the next 10 years for the 30th anniversary although books will all be obsolete and it’ll be on a Kindle thing instead.
;p

Andy spreekt Nederlands? Geweldig!
Geef hem een spliff…

Shall I order it now or wait until pay day?
(I’ve been dithering with this for ages and I know one of you guys will make me see sense)

I want payday nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Need to order this!

it’s quite sad but everything I know now comes from fb…
I too have been on the unofficial T? site but don’t bother any more.
Lots of bands use fb to update everyone on gigs etc.

That’s amazing. I’ve done the same thing with my…

Atmosphere is never the same at festivals as it is at smaller gigs. I still wish I was there, though. Looking forward to future gigs. Fingers crossed for a T? reappearance at Sonisphere next year (when I can actually go!)