RIP 2022
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@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
He’s not really worth knowing to be fair. The only song I’ve heard of his is no 80s banger
Get yourself to YouTube and get edemucated
Your starter for 10
His best solo effort
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@Catogrande fucking lol
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@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
To be fair if the Sharkeys are the attractiveness spectrum then Shona was closer to the Feargal end than the Elizabeth end.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2022:
@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
He’s not really worth knowing to be fair. The only song I’ve heard of his is no 80s banger
Do you mean The Undertones - Teenage Kicks? 78 I think.
Absolutely awesome piece and he deserves to be famous for it for the rest of his life.
When John Peel (BBC) first played it he was so blown away that he put the needle back at the start and played it again. Only time he was ever known to do that.I haven’t heard of any of the song, the band or John Peel so I’m not sure how to respond to this.
Peasant.
The only DJ from the BBC I know is Jimmy Saville.
This probably isn’t a good thing.
Don’t tell me he turned you down when you were a kid? That’s gotta burn.
He certainly didn’t fix anything
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@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2022:
@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
He’s not really worth knowing to be fair. The only song I’ve heard of his is no 80s banger
Get yourself to YouTube and get edemucated
Your starter for 10
His best solo effort
Not my thing. Certainly no Dr Feelgood….
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In that vid of the Undertones, you have most of the band members doing the whole post punk hard/sulky look but it is completely spoiled by the drummer who is grinning like a wanking Jap through the whole song.
Great song though.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2022:
@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
He’s not really worth knowing to be fair. The only song I’ve heard of his is no 80s banger
Do you mean The Undertones - Teenage Kicks? 78 I think.
Absolutely awesome piece and he deserves to be famous for it for the rest of his life.
When John Peel (BBC) first played it he was so blown away that he put the needle back at the start and played it again. Only time he was ever known to do that.I haven’t heard of any of the song, the band or John Peel so I’m not sure how to respond to this.
Peasant.
The only DJ from the BBC I know is Jimmy Saville.
This probably isn’t a good thing.
Don’t tell me he turned you down when you were a kid? That’s gotta burn.
He certainly didn’t fix anything
I got to milk a goat blindfolded.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2022:
@Catogrande said in RIP 2022:
@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
He’s not really worth knowing to be fair. The only song I’ve heard of his is no 80s banger
Do you mean The Undertones - Teenage Kicks? 78 I think.
Absolutely awesome piece and he deserves to be famous for it for the rest of his life.
When John Peel (BBC) first played it he was so blown away that he put the needle back at the start and played it again. Only time he was ever known to do that.I haven’t heard of any of the song, the band or John Peel so I’m not sure how to respond to this.
Peasant.
The only DJ from the BBC I know is Jimmy Saville.
This probably isn’t a good thing.
Don’t tell me he turned you down when you were a kid? That’s gotta burn.
He certainly didn’t fix anything
I got to milk a goat blindfolded.
He was always so fun to be around. Lots of sex and drugs whether you asked for it or not. What a host
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2022:
grinning like a wanking Jap
Source please
Just an old expression. Probably as a result of that song by The Vapours back in the 70s. Very picaresque in any event.
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@Catogrande well that's disappointing
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@canefan Once got on the piss with Shona Laing. She was a good sort. She could drink too.
Once spent a party mostly chatting to Feargal & Elizabeth Sharkey, not recognising the name as I very rarely know band members names anyway. Great people, but I probably spent far too long staring at Elizabeth, bloody stunner irl. Felt pretty stupid when someone told me who he is after the party.
He’s not really worth knowing to be fair. The only song I’ve heard of his is no 80s banger
Do you mean The Undertones - Teenage Kicks? 78 I think.
Absolutely awesome piece and he deserves to be famous for it for the rest of his life.
When John Peel (BBC) first played it he was so blown away that he put the needle back at the start and played it again. Only time he was ever known to do that.I haven’t heard of any of the song, the band or John Peel so I’m not sure how to respond to this.
Peak Fern - no nothing of the subject but still happy to make sweeping statements
John Peel is the most influential UK (possibly global) DJ of all time. He had an eclectic taste over decades and championed many new bands on his long form evening shows. He was instrumental in the success of movements like psychedelia, punk, new wave, electronica. Pretty much every movement of the 60-90's. He helped champion scores of bands from Pink Floyd onwards.
He was sent a demo of Teenage Kicks and liked it so much he sent the Undertones 200 pound to record it. To the day he dies he said it was the best single he'd ever heard.
Feargal Sharkey had half a dozen Top 40 hits with The Undertones and a similar number as a solo artist. Around the period 78-79 the Undertones were considered up there with the Jam and Clash although their star dimmed quickly.
He has definitely been hit with the ugly stick - often and hard.
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