My old man once asked me "What do you want to be when you grow-up?", to which I honestly replied: "The opposite of you." I got a 'clip round the ear', but it was worth it.
He had the mentality of "I left school at 14 and got a proper job [labourer at the old power station in Southwick], and if...
Wow, only heard a few of those, I'm embarrassed to confess. Theatre of Hate/Spear of Destiny I liked, although they attracted a lot of rather aggressive 'rockabilly' types I recall, who did this elbow-flapping 'chicken dance', which was also an excuse to barge into people and perhaps start a...
Yeah, I remember seeing the NYDs do Jet Boy on OGWT at the time - Bob Harris was clearly not impressed.
Mind you, neither was my old man, who ruined most of the song by muttering "Look at the fakkin state of them. We need another war to make real men out of these fakkin poofs. We've gone soft...
I used to go to gigs at the Basement in the early '80s - and actually DJ'd at a gig there once (a friend at the Art College had arranged a gig, and knowing my taste in music and the likely clientele for the gig, asked me to play the music before and after the main band). Can't remember who the...
Seriously, if we can't beat West Brom or Burnley, who are we going to get 3 points against?
I'm sick of our attacks fizzling out because our forwards spend too long on the ball on the edge of the opponent's penalty area, playing one touch or pass too many, instead of shooting. Every damn game...
Their previous album, Hippopotamus, is one of my all time favourite albums - easily as good as Kimono My House and Propaganda - literally not a duff track on it: 'Missionary Position' in particular is superb, musically and lyrically.
Oh, I Ioved New Order (Power Corruption and Lies, Low Life, and Technique especially) and Pete Hook has always been my fave bass player along with Jean-Jacques Burnel. Hookie was great live - bass down by his knees, legs astride and his body bent forward almost 90 degrees to play the high notes...
As a schoolboy, I used to work in Key Markets in the Guildbourne Centre, Worthing, stacking shelves, on Thursday evenings, but threw a sickie when I knew that the Pistols were going to be on TOTP playing 'Pretty Vacant' for the first time :)
Saw The Stranglers there on the No More Heroes tour - pretty scary when a bunch of bikers sat on the front of the stage just before the band came on, but it turned out they were mates of the band, and had been invited. There was no trouble!
My genre of music. Much as I like punk (The Clash, The Stranglers and Crass especially), it was really what came afterwards, in its wake, that I really loved - and still do.
Bands & singers like: Killing Joke, Psychedelic Furs, Wire, Gang of Four, Klaus Nomi, PIL, Bauhaus, The Slits, The...
Rather than at the opponent's goal! As with last season, we're dominating much of the possession and territory, but our attacks fizzle out on the edge of the penalty area, as our players pass or touch the ball just once too often (rather than having a shot), by which time, their defenders have...
Another 1-1 draw against another struggling team - so another 2 points dropped.
And passionless Potter will give another post-match interview in which he promises that "we'll learn from this" and "take the positives."
See from the post-match interview that passionless Potter says he'll "take the positives" from last night's game :yawn:
Getting as predictable and tiresome as Hughton's "We played well for a team at our levels."