“But as Billy Bragg said, not everything that counts can be counted,” Albanese continued, referencing the musician’s song from his 2017 EP, Bridges Not Walls. “And we shouldn’t judge the economy as if it’s seperate from the people that the economy is meant to serve.”
For my wedding #2 I quoted the Dead.
Got a contribution?
My wedding speech began:
“As you’re all here, I’ve got one thing to say to you all that I’ve always wanted to say.
CRACKERJACK!!”
PS. I look forward to further BB quotations from the Australian PM.
“Pauline Hanson is a dedicated swallower of fascism”
“To those suffering in the current crisis, I say that when the world falls apart some things stay in place”
“The leader of the opposition is trapped in a haircut he no longer believes in”
Re haircuts.
Our current Opposition Leader. A former Queensland drug squad cop.
There’ll come a day when he’ll stop believing, and wish he could let rip with a full-on sunbleached mullet. The baldness will pall.
He looks like the villain in a straight-to-video 80s Sci Fi flick
Funny you should mention Sci Fi, as my first thought was that the top 15% of that image is reminiscent of the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A Labor politician got a bollocking for calling him Voldemort.
Preposterous Nu Lab politician and “There’s no money” hitmaker Liam Byrne used to be referred to as Baldemort.
Meanwhile, ours quotes Bob The Builder.
“I want to change the world, I’m looking for a new Little England…and I’m always on the lookout for another girl”
My Wedding Speech started
“Thanks for coming. Now sod off”
or it would’ve had it not been edited out by Mrs D.
If I married The Light and took her surname i would be called Ken Dodd. The possibilities are endless.
“The Martians have landed!” etc
You could have informed the assembled throng of how tickled you were.
An opportunity missed.
Or Mrs G could have remarked on having her snared her very own “diddy man”
Or Mrs G could have remarked on having her snared her very own “diddy man”
I was going to make a joke about being able to perform for four hours without an intermission, but you seem to have lowered the tone without me.
Some tones are more easily lowered than others.
For her official farewell as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel requested that the military brass band at the ceremony play an instrumental arrangement of a Nina Hagen song.
99 Luftballons ?
Why would Miss Nina Hagen sing »99 Luftballons« – a song by a West-German teen star? And why would a German chancellor (born in East Germany, like Nina Hagen) request it??
😉
yeah well apart from that – look its a long long way away up there!
Well, as Albanese remarked this morning, it’s a mighty long way down rock’n’roll – from Top of the Pops to drawing the dole. Just ask Nena!
I know German entertainment doesn’t count here, but still: it was Nena’s guitarist (and co-composer of most of her hits) who ended on the dole (he had foolishly sold all his publishing rights to his manager). Nena is still one of Germany’s top entertainers, with big tours and her own TV show(s).
Now, back to rock’n’roll, and the Bundeswehr Brass Band – former (short-term) President Of Germany Mr. Wulff sometimes had the brass band play snippets of »Highway To Hell« when he welcomed official visitors from other countries in Berlin.
Now that is cool.
Duly chastened.
It’s probably like when Americans say, “What happened to those one-hit wonders, Madness? Guess they’re all homeless now!”
….er…..
@fatima-Xberg
Should the business called show ever spit Nena out like a used Smartie, she’ll be able to make a good living recording sirens for police cars
Oh come on, don’t be ridiculous. Police cars haven’t made that noise since the 1980s.
These fellows might be able to manage it though:
https://www.woohooband.co.uk/
Agree. That combination of adenoidal timbre and robust German vowels has not aged well.
Thanks Junior and Fatima, Between you, you made me day.
I look forward to many more Braggisms.
“But all politics is strange
And you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I suppose.”
And many more imaginative band leaders. Hats off to this French army band. Macron quite rightly was loving it. But as for his guest…..
Pearls before swine. Does DT even like music?
I love it that at about 54 secs in, Mac sneaks a sideways glance at the Orange Buffoon and you can literally see his thoughts in that instant:
“Alors, ‘e duz not nerr what ‘e ees ‘earing, ‘e has nur clur at all, parceque il est un sac de merde ignorant, ha ha ha!”
And then he smirks for the rest of the number, barely able to stop himself from corpsing at the thought of the Orange Buffoons’ incomprehension.
I’ve always been a tad wary of Mr. Macron, but in zis moment I am lurving heem!
Oh, and top baton skills from the band bloke there.
I had that Billy Bragg in the back of my train once. No really, I did. Proper troubadour stuff, guitar slung over his shoulder.
Not much of a coincidence by the look of things. Dude’s a railroad tragic.
https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/billy-bragg-trains/
Hmmm, ‘the romance of rail travel’. Stalybridge anyone?
We used to travel to Stalybridge in the early eighties just to visit the bar on the station.
PM Albanese had done a bit of Indy DJing late in his long political career. I understand he is pretty crap at it, but this aint a bad list.
I’ve been waiting for Mr Speaker to come and take me by the hand….
And Billy’s returned the compliment.
He read it here first, you know. Clue: he’s not Deram.
No! You don’t mean….It can’t be…. Yet suddenly I see all the pieces falling into place.
Tiggerlion IS Billy Bragg. I’d never have guessed it.