After the previous part of Grandpa’s Whistling here is the third one. Clever people have noticed that GW Twist is part four of a set. Late eighties I received a few homemade compilation tapes from the bass player of Buy Off The Bar (I will make a compilation of that band later, probably combined with Golden String, another great band from the lowlands) This third part consists of leftovers from the first two (you will get those at a later date) tapes and a tape with Buy Off The Bar’s 3rd Peel Session. This one, again, filled to the brim with classic pleasure punk,and other great youthful and mostly guitear driven energy. Some of these bands are quite famous like The Fall, while others have had minor success and semi cult status.999, The Wonder Stuff, The Outcasts or The Wedding Present might need no introduction.35-40 years after most of these bands have seen a rerelease of some sort, where they previously released only one (or two) items in their active years.The Big Gun (one 7” and a split flexi)The Meanies (Not to be confused with an Australian band from the 90s) one EPTours (2 singles)This Poison (3 singles/ep’s) with the utterly beautiful Poised over the Pause buttonStitched-Back Foot Airman (a handful of singles)Baby Lemonade (one album, one single, one split-flexi)Some of these bands have brought to life artists we all might knowKilljoys (Gil Weston from Girlschool)The Prefects (Robert Lloyd from Nightingales)The Creepers (Marc Riley former The Fall)Others have made quite a few albums, just check outCud, Bogshed, Blurt, I Ludicrous, Newton Neurotics or The RezillosMy favorite track on this one is Dilyn Dylan by the Welsh band FflapsI, ludicous – Preposterous Tales (in the life of Ken MacKenzie) deserves a special mention.I cannot check everybody’s grant tale how they saw the first Prince concert, or how they shook hands with an old man who definitely shook hands with Robert Johnson, but this song takes the biscuit.The first time Prince was in The Netherlands, only a few hundred people were there.Same with the first time Joy Division came here.When Radiohead first toured Europe they were rejected at our local venue…Talking about Joy Division, there was a secret tape with them performing Madison Square Garden (they say they never went there, but what about this tape I have)….., to be continued!
Monday, December 8, 2025
Grandpa’s Whistling Tunes
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ReplyDeleteRichard's Preposterous Question : Which tall tale have you ever told people which were either totally not (or partly) true?!
Starting things off. I have had a small deejaying career late 80s early 90s. That all happened on the mixtape I supposedly had made for a party in a house rented by students.They had a big weekend party at the end of the season and every room in the house was themed. From a podium, to a dancing area, an industrial loft, and so on.The bathroom was psychedelic, and with mirrors. In Dutch that is funny "spiegeldelisch". There was also a chill-room, which, at the time, was called stagnation room. There was a mixtape on loop. And I still have that. Not a mix like the modern deejay seemlessly mixes all in one. It was a cutup tape. After that weekend I took the tape (or copyed it) and impressed various club-owners with my mixtapes based on that one. Untill the great wave of DJ's like Thijs Verwest took dj-ing to another level I had great fun being a fake deejay with mixes that weren't mine.
ReplyDeleteThese may be true: way back in 1987, I saw Bogshed opening for That Petrol Emotion, they weren't very good. Roundabout the same time, I heard I, Ludicrous' Preposterous Tales in the life of Ted McKenzie (nah then nah then) on John Peel, appreciated it and since then I am the proud owner of their 10 inch record just called that on Rodney, Rodney! records. I even remember they had another song making fun of Bob Geldof's family. I also saw the Fall (circa Mr Pharmacist and Frenz Experiment) play live that same year and if memory serves Green on Red with Doctor's Children opening not to mention Celibate Rifles ending up playing request in front of at best 20 people. Great memories. Besides, the Rezillos (and Revillos) rule.
ReplyDeleteJ from Europe.
Those sound like some wonderful gigs. I wish I had seen the Rezillos when they came to the US on a reunion tour. Fay Fife is ace.
DeleteMy own tall tale: my father has traced our ancestry back to a Scottish clan. Tartan, crest, the whole thing. He got us membership cards. Sometimes I tell people that I'm a card-carrying clan member. It "hits different" (as the kids say) here in the American south.
Thank you
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