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An apologies thread

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Post what you feel you need to apologise about.

Crap bands or albums you recommended with hindsight are not that good…or other things.

Mine is obvious!

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  16. I apologise for being sarcastic to the poster on here who answered ‘Pulp’ when asked who they preferred out of Blur or Oasis as if they were the first person to ever to say that. Mind you, this minty exchange happened over ten years ago on The Word message board though. He also banged on about how much he didn’t listen to Britpop in the nineties because he was into more serious ‘urban’ sounds and named Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky as his favourites. I facetiously posted, “Ooo, all the left field cutting edge urban artists then? How middlebrow of you.” It was uncalled for and I made him very cross.

    To be honest, I was drunk and cross myself that night. So I’m sorry OKAY!? Well, what did you expect, you pompous tit? Ooo, look at me I like trip hop, smoke a bit of weed and own Boards Of Canada’s first album.

    Ah, that apology didn’t go so well.

    • There is a story in the Gonna See All My Friends Fairport book in which someone says derogatory things about Ric Sanders and followed it up with a very unpleasant remark. Some people took umbrage at what he* said and walked out of the pub. When he realised what he* had said it was too late for him to apologise.

      This happened over thirty years ago I know that the person* wrote to the book’s editor to apologise for his intemperate remarks and to pass his apologies on to the lady concerned. These were accepted.

      * definitely not me**

      **well maybe.

      • Arf! What did you say? (He was our occasional Morris fiddler for a while, as well as a being a regular at the Rannygazoo collides (ceilidhs) in Knowle, and is, in real life, a lot less, um, irritating than many find his on stage persona and cosmic banter with the band. Nice fella.)

  17. In the spirit of Hubes post above, I would like to apologise to Damien O’Kane for suggesting his wife could occasionally err on the twee. I don’t suppose he’ll be reading this, so let me add, to the irascible banjo man, that she can be, but I still think she’s great.
    Which Rusby talk has me missing the long absent poster from their neck of the woods. Tip of my tongue, ex A/E nurse, metal plate in neck/back of head, errant wife and prodigal dter. A good ‘un and it would be good to get an update. Name, anyone?

  18. I would like to apologise again. This time for inadvertently putting Steve Holley’s partner on the spot and clearly making her feel uncomfortable. In my defence I had a) been drinking and b) chatting to Mr Holley who then left her with me while he “attended to some business”. This prevented me from chatting to Glen Matlock who was standing about three feet away.
    Did I mention that my very occasionally posts are top notch?

  19. Years ago, I once moaned about a semi-famous singer songwriter on a specific band message board saying he was a bit monosyllabic and miserable when I said hello to him before a gig. I was (and still) a huge fan so I was a tad disappointed by this meeting.

    I suspect this chap had his name on Google Alerts or checking the forum to see if he got a mention about the convention he performed at, but it lead him to read my mildly critical post. Now, here’s a thing, there was no PM function on this forum but he obviously contacted the moderator for my email address because he didn’t want to join the group. So, I then receive a personal email from said musician explaining to me why he was a bit miserable that night and apologised saying he was always nervous and shy before performing on stage and was ‘in the zone’ . Fair enough, but it was all a bit weird.

    That’ why I’m not mentioning his name now because I don’t want to upset him all over again.

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