Wouldn’t expect you to H.
My post was a very tenuous Funboy Three link to your previous post!
Wouldn’t have thought the late, great Mr Hall would have got up to those type of shenanigans.
HWT would have probably seen all of them! 😂
I think NO also played a warm up gig somewhere in Brighton (the Basement?) prior to their 1981 tour when only 40 or so were present. I’m sure Hooky mentions it in one of his books but I might be having a ‘senior moment’ and imagining it!
As virtually all of his teammates welcomed the breather that the end of the season brought, I’d imagine Denis was the exception as he was getting better and better.
Yep, NO played one of their first gigs in Jenkinsons in 1981. I love JD/NO to bits but they were dreadful. It seemed that Bernard had just lost their game of spoof to see which of the remaining 3 would be the singer and it showed!
They didn’t do too badly afterwards tho!
Sandton was fine to stay and work in. As dazzer says, downtown was a no go after dark. Got driven through there a couple of times and it looked moody!
Don’t ever have your windows down at traffic lights!
DO go to Soweto if you can - probably the most humbling experience of my life with the...
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Pure - Lightening Seeds
The Last Time - a song I’ve just finished recording which is about my Mum passing away last year and having to sell the family home earlier this year.
As for the book I’m currently reading, it’s Perfect Circle - The Story Of R.E.M. by Tony Fletcher.
Very insightful, particularly their early years and a band I knew very little about except for some classics in the late 80’s/early 90’s.
Fletcher also wrote a similar weighty tome about The...
And yet his England teams played some of the most exciting football I can recall from our national side. Mind you, some of the great players available to him helped a tad!