Comments on: The Friday Five – Five Style Over Substance Acts

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:48:30 +0000

Madchester was great, you just hate music you can dance to whippet!

By: howlinwhippet

howlinwhippet — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:33:42 +0000

wasn’t it them that had the song “Lady, love your cunt”?
And some female NWONW band did a response I think. Fuck, it makes madchester sound quite good in retrospect.

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:38:49 +0000

I am very much a Gerry man, all my favourites seem to be written by him.

S*M*A*S*H, they were the worst of the bunch. They had a song called Bring Me The Head Of Michael Portillo which, even as a 16 year old, struck me as just trying too hard.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:13:22 +0000

These Animal Men had one good song. The Sound of Youth. If I heard it back now I’d probably regret saying that.

When I was 15 I wanted to BE Gerry Love, circa the release of Radio by TFC

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:31:40 +0000

I recall ‘Nwonw’ as it was clumsily called. The NME trying desperately to create the scene and no-one outwith the actual bands giving a donald duck. Then they got lucky and stumbled into Britpop. Bastards!

By: howlinwhippet

howlinwhippet — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:09:32 +0000

It bwas actually the new wave of new wave fer fuck sake and I think they were called These Animal Men. Or maybe Spitfire.

By: howlinwhippet

howlinwhippet — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:06:06 +0000

There was another NME writer band, cant remember their name right now (it’s an age thing) who were part of the very short-lived New Wave Of British Punk or somesuch nonsense, bands like S*M*A*S*H and all that.
They were swiftly dispatched by their fellow writers, thankfully.
Off to google and see if I can get their name.

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:46:26 +0000

I’d forgot about Gay Dad. Ex-NME writer calling in favours. Rubbish.

I’ve had a bevvy with Gerry Love from Teenage Fanclub. He’s a lovely man.

By: God god, man!

God god, man! — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:43:38 +0000

Now that’s the kind of shit name dropping that can only be encouraged.

Mine? I worked on the icecream van that stopped on Marti Pellow’s gran’s street when I was a teenager. He was a twat. And he was in a shit band.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:40:54 +0000

Two words:

Gay Dad.

And in other news – I’ve been drunk with Simon of Menswear on a couple of occasions. He’s a very nice bloke. The band were shit, mind.