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I’d guess cocaine, but I’ve only used ethanol so far (yes, and THC once)

Yes, I’d say Nausea would best fit in the bag :) I believe the Record Collector article said it came with Nurse, but I’m not sure.

That’s really cool. You might want to take the video comments off my site (http://www.mondopaddy.com). I don’t know about live photos taken by fans, maybe you should put them on here? I plan to use my site for an extensive discography.

Title: Official Nausea Bag

Hi,

I got this ‘official nausea bag’ from the States off eBay. It has been mentioned in the Record Collector article, but that’s the only place I found it so far. It’s a brown paper bag from some medical supplies company (by the looks of it it might as well have been a grocery bag :-) with a b&w copy stuck on (extensive x-ray investigations have revealed that there must be some sickeningly uninteresting motive underneath) that says ‘official nausea bag’ and has the nurse cover picture. Inside mine was the Teethgrinder single (regular one, same as the other digipak ones I have) and a yellow copied discount coupon.

Does anyone have more information about this? Looking at the enclosed coupon makes me believe it was given away at record stores or something..

Well, but Fyfe’s dad might still be in (Northern-??)Ireland and his son might visit him once a while, right? I don’t know their personal details that well :)

I hope we will be able to hear the songs without spending too much money on them. I’m sure Therapy? won’t mind real fans listening to their old demos and I think they will mind people ripping off others for tapes that could be fakes. By the way, in the old Record Collector article, the tapes were set at much lower price than the Meat Abstract 7’, no idea why, maybe also because it’s easy to fake?

I think for a full-length cd it should be about NLG25/BEF500/EUR12/USD10/UKP8 (very rough currency conversions).
Right now it seems to become about twice that amount in the regular shops, although it’s usually not too hard to get a cd for under NLG40.
Singles should be about NLG10/BEF200/EUR4.5/USD4/UKP3
all formats the same, CD, vinyl and MD, and DVDs can be more.

I think Fyfe’s drumming had a lot to do with me getting into Therapy? so much, but still years after he left I still enjoy Therapy? a whole lot so there’s certainly something in what the other band members do :) I don’t think Graham is a brilliant drummer, but he’s good enough and more importantly he fits nicely as a person.

Oh, and Next to you is on a bootleg 7’ single together with Invisible Sun (the song they did for Peace Together). It’s supposed to be rare but I just picked up an absolutely great copy of it. The song itself apparantly is Therapy? plus Sting (of the Police) from a French tv show. I like it a lot.

I don’t like the idea of Therapy? as superheros. They’re normal people
who happened to find something nice to do that they could actually
use to get out and see places and meet nice people. The only special
thing about them is that they are so normal (that is, for rock stars they are not so weird at all ;-)

Hey, looks like there’s still Irish fans around then :) If you see Fyfe again, can you send him my regards (no, he doesn’t know me personally) and ask if he’s planning to put any of that great drumming on records?

Greetz, Marco.

I’m gonna get drunk, come ‘round and fuck you up!!

Well really, I’m just going to do whatever I’m doing now and whatever comes my way. No plan, really.

Just buy another PC and a copy Windows 2000 Professional with MS-SQL and use IIS.. erm.. or use an illegal copy like everyone else.

Ofcourse, you could also get Linux/PHP/Apache/MySQL legally for free…

Well, if you’re on a flat-rate connection you can just test online.

See:
http://www.suicidepact.com/songs/compilations/thesmithsisdead/index.html for the cover photo.
original on The Smiths - The Queen is dead

and from http://www.oz.net/~moz/pjlm/covers.htm#trib :

Small records, 486 745-2 (LI9602), France, 1996
In 1996, French magazine Les Inrockuptibles voted the Smiths’ album ‘The Queen Is Dead’ the best album of the eighties. To commerate the 10th anniversary of said album, they released this one where all tracks from it are covered by current UK acts. The covers were kept in the same order as the original version.
Songs followed by ** are also found on one of their own release. Refer to that title in the next section for more info.

‘The Queen Is Dead’ - The Boo Radleys
‘Frankly Mr. Shankly’ - The High Llamas
‘I Know It’s Over’ - The Trash Can Sinatras
‘Never Had No One Ever’ - Billy Bragg **
‘Cemetry Gates’ - The Frank & Walters
‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’ - Placebo **
‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’ - Bis
‘Vicar In A Tutu’ - Therapy?
‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ - The Divine Comedy
‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others’ - Supergrass **

A friend/housemate still has 2 extra copies of the Dutch version Stories single for trade. Prefers to trade against Therapy? or Asian Dub Foundation material. I also have an extra copy of the Shortsharpshock EP (digipak CD) and the Pitchshifter remix CD, for those interested. An updated discography will soon be found at http://mondopaddy.com (a new name for the first ever Therapy? web site ;-)

I believe it’s just that, Jeffrey Dahmer as a kid. Don’t know where I read/heard this though.

there’s good and bad stuff in almost every genre. and different styles are suited for different times. I tend to prefer alternative rock/grunge but have lots of other tastes.

Yes, I do have Hunks of burnin’ love but as it’s on a 10’ I have to sample it through my stereo set and right now it’s not hooked up. Should be fairly easy to do though, so hang on :) I also think I have Bad Mother so I could get it as well. I don’t have the tapes, though :)

I don’t smoke (never did, and I’m 25) and I’m glad I don’t. Many people around me do smoke (sometimes with some unidentified green or brown stuff in it ;-) but I hate it when people smoke in my face or when I’m eating. I’m also totally disgusted by ash trays. I did have a girlfriend who smoked (joints - tobacco and weed rolled into a large cigarette paper) and I was suprised she didn’t taste too bad when kissing :)

I also don’t drink a lot, but I am overweight so I guess everybody’s gotta have something bad ;-)

I used to play Slayer too slow, until a friend told me it was the wrong speed. I prefered the slow version though ;-)

First, I forgot to thank the girl who made the sweet muffins. They were really really good :)

So, my report of Rock Zottegem -

I took the train to Zottegem. I think I arrived around 14:00 and nothing indicated that there was a festival in this small and quiet place. I asked someone about the KSV Zottegem football fields and she pointed at the church across the train station and said it’s somewhere in that direction :) Luckily I found it quite quickly. Already some people had their tents set up, and most were by car and had put their tent next to it. The grass field we were on even had its own portable toilet. There was plenty of space for us.

Iris arrived and handed out personal cards to hang around your neck, with the visitor’s name on it. We also signed a photo frame for the organiser of the festival. Some people didn’t show up so their BBQ-package and ticket had to be sold to some others. Luckily everything eventually worked out.

The barbecue took some time to heat up but when it was good we all stood around it and put the meat on it. Except for some black sausages everbody enjoyed their meal. There was also plenty of potato salad, cold pasta and bread.

We got our tickets from Iris and most fans went to the festival tent to see some bands. I saw a bit of Janez Detd but wasn’t really impressed. In the break after Janez Detd, the crew was setting up the instruments of Fischer-Z but also already some of Therapy’s guitars and guitar amps. The guy who checked out the light got some nice response from the crowd :) I really enjoyed Fischer-Z. It reminded me of (old :) new wave.

At Fischer-Z I was already on first row so I stayed there during the break. It got more crowded then. Therapy? started a bit late I think but seemed to really enjoy the show. Graham threw away/broke a few sticks and some microphone stands were troublesome, but nothing serious. The crowd was wild, many crowdsurfers and pushing around. Not many injuries I think though. Throwing towels into a wild audience is not a good idea as some people were fighting over them.
Therapy? did play Gimme gimme (back my brain), most of the old hits including Potato Junkie, but not Teethgrinder. Andy mentioned the barbecue and promised they’d drop by after the show! There were some funny intermezzos as well, Andy starting a riff taken from Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and the crowd yelling ‘hoeren’ (a popular thing to shout at Belgian festivals at night) after which the band started playing along a bit :) Diane was also played in the earlier cover version (slow).

After the show most of us escaped the overcrowded festival area and went back to the camping site to cool down and wait and see if the band would really come. Quite soon after I got back, already someone said the band was coming. Andy, Michael and Martin arrived and later also Graham joined. Each member signed things, had pictures taken and talked a bit to the fans. Then they also brought the new cd to listen to, and it was played from a car for everybody to listen to. Iris also gave the band members their own personalised fan meeting pass. The band and fans were having a good time and it took quite some time for the tour manager to show up and say they had to go. Even then, they took their time to shake hands and say goodbye. We all had a great time, stayed around the barbecue/campfire for a while before going to sleep. The next day some t-shirts were given away to some lucky winners, people cleaned up and packed their tents.

I took the train back to Brussels and spent a few hours there. I also saw Flemish singer Raymond van het Groenewoud doing soundchecks on some kind of catwalk with dancing pairs around. No idea what this was all about, but I like the song he did (Je veux l’amour).

Almost falling asleep on the train back home, but looking back on a great weekend I finally got home and didn’t need much to have a good night’s rest :)

Greetings, Whaley.

BBQ and concert/festival was great, I hope you had a good time at Dour as well. Thanks again Iris, Therapy?, the organisation of Rock Zottegem and everybody who was there.

I paid 40 UKP for the Meat Abstract 7’ at a record fair in Utrecht, a few years back. And I don’t regret it :) I’ve never seen the demo cassettes, those white labels or the original have a merry fuckin’ christmas single (I do have the bootleg). Other than that I have quite a lot, but there’s always people who have more ofcourse :)

I’ll gladly take that offer to go instead of infernalover’s friend, do I need to mention this person’s name?

I saw Pearl Jam at their shows in Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Pinkpop. I was supposed to see them at Werchter and Rotterdam as well but the tragic accident at Roskilde which killed 9 people made them cancel those concerts. The UK/Ireland tour was really great, I went through Ireland, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales all in one week, met really nice people, saw a great band and even shook hands with Eddie Vedder. I also gave him a copy of the cd Nothing Less by Krezip, I wonder if he ever listened to it ;-) By the way, when I was in Belfast (a one-day/night stop between Dublin and Glasgow) I noticed nothing whatsoever about the troubles. In fact the shopping center looked more modern and wealthy than Dublin. I didn’t go to the areas with the murals, but I felt absolutely safe in the center even at night. I think there’s not much to see in Belfast, but it’s not scary to be there either. The morning before the Pearl Jam concert in Cardiff I went to Newport (South Wales) where the somewhat legendary TJ’s is located. It was closed, but still nice to have seen the place.

That would be -fanfuckintastic-! every time I get the chance to see Therapy? play I get this rush.. it’s the first band that really hit me live and still came back about every year (I saw Pearl Jam for the first time last year but they’re a bit further away than Therapy? are)
and I’d love to see what the fans have been up to.

Hi,

No I can’t have been drunk because I rarely drink (then again, if I do drink, you never know what happens). I do remember someone telling me about the site, but I’m not sure if I’ve seen it before. I’ve been so busy with the band I know personally called Krezip (Dutch people will know them) and going to Pearl Jam in the UK/Ireland that I let my love for Therapy? slip for a while, even though I did buy the 10-year plan cd when it came out. I did take pictures in Rotterdam, some are even pretty cool. I’ll look them up! I guess seeing Michael at Werchter then hearing about the Zottegem show and seeing this site woke something up in me :)

Hi,

I’m too late to join the camping/bbq arrangements, but does anyone know if it’s possible to go to a camping nearby or a hotel or anything? or just stay awake somewhere and leave with the first train? I’m not going to Dour but I’d love to get to this Zottegem festival since apparently they’re not coming to the Netherlands any time soon. I really need some Therapy? ;-)

I saw a short documentary (or is that rockumentary?) on MTV, later I saw the clip for Screamager and was hooked. I think Pinkpop was the first time I saw them live.

I met Therapy? once backstage at their concert with Skunk Anansie in Deinze, Belgium. (thanks to Wouter for that :) Unfortunately the show was cancelled due to power problems at the venue, but in stead we got a really cool short acoustic set for the fans that had stayed there (only about 30 people I guess). It also was the first time I drank Guinness :-) I must say I think Andy at the time was into drugs (no really bad behaviour but something was wrong I thought), but Michael was very nice and we talked about their South American shows with Ozzy. I ended up hanging around more with Skunk Anansie and the crew than with the guys from Therapy?, but I really didn’t mind. Fyfe was nowhere to be seen which I still think is a pity because I do believe he has a great style. I did see the guys a few times for short moments (I got their autographs at a Werchter show a few years ago) and ofcourse been front row numerous times.

Only last Friday I was at the VIP/Press area at the Rock Werchter festival in Belgium sitting with some friends at a table, when Michael walked by. He recognised me (as a fan from concerts?) and said how are you doing, I said fine what are you doing here and he said he was with some friends. I didn’t know what else to say or ask as het sat down at the table next to us with a girl I don’t know.

Another funny story: last time Therapy? played at the Melkweg in Amsterdam me and a friend were rather early as some other fans arrived as well. They were talking to eachother and wondering if the band were coming out front. At that time Graham came walking by with a mobile phone but the fans didn’t recognise him :) After he hung up I walked to him asking if we could see the sound check or get backstage afterwards and he said he’d try but we never saw him back :( The show itself was amazing, though!

I have at least Hunks of burnin’ love and that Kiddie version original, so I can make MP3’s out of them.

By the way, why didn’t I know this page before? Damn I must have been sleeping. I hereby promise I will update my pages as well :-)

Regards, Whaley.