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Happy 44th Anniversary
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Don’t use the box!
It’s too late @fentonsteve!
You tried to warn him but to no avail.
Great to have another interesting post from you @Gardener.
But please remember, if anyone posts in the Box, the whole Afterworld will be blown to smithereens.
In that case, our only hope is if Titanic @Tiggerlion and Superpowered @Pencilsqueezer decide to join forces and intervene to save our universe.
Two of the mighty superheroes who are the Guardians of our Galaxy
I’m sure they’re lovely people KFD, but really?
HOW BIG AND RED DO WE HAVE TO MAKE IT TO STOP EMBEDDED VIDEOS
…and yes, we’re shouting
I WILL remember next time, sorry folks
There used to be a venue in Harpole called the Paddock? You learn something new every day. Having just had a quick search online it got a few names on their way up (as it were). Here’s Graham Bentley (Bauhaus’ first manager) talking about setting up the first gig there in the late 70’s-
“Their [The Paddocks] PA system had been sold and someone had stitched them up, so we went and fixed it (because we were electrician type people) and so they said, if you want to use the stuff we will just charge you £5.
“So I thought we’d have two bands from Northampton and two bands from Coventry and Birmingham and as it got closer to the gig I thought, ‘Are we going to be able to get people out at Harpole from Northampton?’, so we need something else and I thought “Oh John Peel”. I’d been a fan of his for ages. I phoned him up and he said ‘Oh yeah, I’d do that’.
“His actual fee was something like £200 and he said at the end of it ‘I have had a really good time, just give me £50 and split it with the rest of the band’. So all of the bands got paid more than they had ever been paid in their lives.”