3 roles you fill here at The Afterword. Me?
New ears for old music.
80s chart music bore.
Occasional sports correspondent.
You?
The Afterword: What’s Your Role?
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
Sporadic contributor. Synth pop advocate. Youngster (still in my 40s).
Punk correspondent
Bad Jokes
sub-Moose-ish comments
eternal optimist
Gen X goth/pop oddball who throws himself into big music exploring projects
tedious Mike Giggler wordplay merchant
Easy: I am very dull.
Also in Rigid’s nob-joke/bad-pun tag-team. Currently missing our AWOL Player-Manager. Hurr.
and provider of Obligatory New Order mentions.
Mainly punk/post-punk/indie minion
Not one of the Cabinet but happy to be a backbencher
Typoos manly.
Occasional contributor, occasional reviewer.
Americana advocate, usually falling on deaf ears.
Keeping out of arguments.
Miserable old git.
Thread killer.
Punster.
Swiftie.
Part time synth nerd
Madness guru (the band not the condition)
Co. Kildare correspondent
-Scandinavian correspondent, from the more northern reaches of the Afterwordersphere.
-Gnomic utterances that are clear to me at least.
-Straddling girly electronic dance pop (for want of a better description) and more progressive recesses of the past where 15 minute tracks and soloing can be found. Post punk is probably what I think of as my era but do I enjoy listening to it? Not so much these days perhaps.
Straddling girlies?! 😳 Family site!
A tough job but I make the sacrifice on behalf of this site. You know I was told once by someone here that I couldn’t really like both this silly pop and this more serious prog/jazz rock stuff. There’s always some pompous individual trying to tell you your stance is mistaken. You should like this you shouldn’t like that. I deem it to be so. You are over 30 and like new pop? You are fooling yourself. You have little interest in some great of the past, a master wordsmith who is deemed impossible to deny unless you are mentally defective. How can this be? I don’t tell you what you shouldn’t like but you are only too willing to judge others as you know best. It’s really quite tiresome. Sorry I went off on one there. You can only really speak for yourself.
Amen
You meant ‘serious pop and silly prog/jazz stuff’, right?
Can also apply. Ridiculousness can be found in all areas. It’s welcome in my book. Girly prog or otherwise.
Wordsmith
Remoaner
Italianate ornament
Twink
Not-so-miserable old git.
Not-as-knowledgeable-as-he-thinks Jazz correspondent.
Americana & ’90s dodger.
Remaster agnostic.
Football, Fabs, Bowie & Broose thread swerver.
Not giving much of a f@*%.
Long-time lurker, occasional poster.
Advocate for German goth and darkwave bands that are huge in their homeland but mean less than nothing in the UK. But one day, ONE DAY, my efforts will be rewarded, I just know it. If you need to know about a Blutengel remaster or what makes Katha from Mono Inc a drumming monster, I’m your correspondent.
Also, spiller of tea on keyboards when laughing at wittier contributors. (It’s not the job I wanted, mind, but I didn’t have the Latin.)
Have you read John Robb’s Goth opus, Darling? Lots of interesting stuff about the German industrial, goth and darkwave scenes.
I did, thanks. Not bad, and he obviously knows the subject really well, but my edition was badly in need of more proofreading – the number of typos and other issues gave me the fear.
Yeah, I enjoyed it but found it hard going at times, with the proof issues and an occasional heavy-handedness with the purple prose.
I must admit that in the end I skipped a few chapters involving bands that I’m not so interested in because the various issues were driving me mad. As a copy-editor myself, I kept wanting to fix the text. Pity, because Robb could certainly describe the goth scene and sound very well.
I also bought Cathi Unsworth’s Season Of The Witch, but it’s in my burgeoning TBR pile. Goth books are like buses this year…
have seen her speaking about it at events alongside Dorothy Max Prior, very interesting it is also on my TBR pile, but i have read and loved 69 Exhibition Road the book by Prior
Hey Captain! I will be eternally grateful for your Wumpscut recommendation. Awesome.
No problem. Always happy to spread the word. Glad they have at least one other listener.
Dance music advocate in general – pointer out that the DJ mix is a viable entrant for best albums lists for pretty well any year after 1991.
Assistant ringmaster of the CDswap circus with @kid-dynamite
Birmingham correspondent, along with several others.
Not
Quite
Sure.
Self promoting folk enthusiast with a taste for cover versions.
Whimsy
Puns
Goon Show references.
‘Careful Moriarty, do you want us both out of this suit?’
The female perspective (well; one female’s perspective)
Swedish music that nobody cares about
Books
Occasional visitor. Here since early days. Pop music stopped for all of us really after we hit thirty. Some find it easier to admit than others.
Speak for yourself, Eddie. Nothing worse than a ‘back in my day’ attitude.
War. Pestilence. Poverty.
All worse.
Also pedophilia, racism, terrorism and corned beef.
Possibly beetroot?
Yes, beetroot too.
Forgot beetroot
Damn.
Mind you, the beetroot in the old days was much better.
Beetroot to your school
To the endive your days.
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Buckle up grandad.
Are BTO on?
Almost certainly somewhere in the world.
Sadly for all the ‘gearheads’ out there, they called it a day in 2018 due in no small measure to what can only be termed ‘extreme differences in mortal conditions.’
Still on the radio somewhere minus the Smashy and Nicey intro.
Preach, BT
Ocasional poster and commentator
Last standing bastion for the NWOBHM/UFO early 1980s hard rock threads
1. Advocate for progressive music in all its forms, with particular reference to the Canterbury Scene and Van der Graaf Generator.
2. …er…
3. That’s it.
Actually, no: I gave a knee-jerk answer consisting solely of music that I enjoy and get defensive about. On reflection, I don’t have a role here. I turn up and chunter on, soak up all the music recommendations from my fellow travellers and go away again.
Think you’re being a bit harsh on yourself Mr Fitter Sir.
Thanks, Freddy: touch of the black dog over the previous few days.
Sorry to hear that, Fitter. Hope you’re feeling fitter. The unpredictability of your oft-changing avatar is, I believe, the reason most of us come here.
Oddly gratifying, Gary!
The last to post on nearly every thread – I consistently turn up to the party when the buffet has been binned.
Incredibly sensual ankles.
Pound shop existentialist.
Spotify playlists
Pink Floyd bore
More Spotify playlists
Robot, according to Immunify 🙄
Maker of jokes that nobody gets.
Pedant.
Mr. Thep is available
I am the True Spirit of the Afterword:
Sometimes Right
Sometimes Wrong
Always Certain
The word “sometimes” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, Lodey.
Even a stopped clock is right “sometimes”..
Sometime agitator who doesn’t do PC and who abhors censorship. A Birmingham City fan and proud of it – also a Costello fan but never like to be pigeonholed in one camp or another. Music is a broad church.
…and a right knob `ed 🥸
“Use the box” referee
Welsh Canadian correspondent
Wilco cheerleader
I keep the Afterword embers aglow overnight
Antipodean correspondent
Africaphile
Blue-sky thinker, ideas ninja, AW Brand Ambassador for Aoteroa New Zealand. Crinkly linen shirt, distressed jeans, tousled hair, espadrilles. Nice. High Fahhhve!
Look out, you politicians! A sideways glance and a small smile playing on my lips at all times. Accident-prone.
Depeche Mode.
Oh dear. And you were doing so well.
Boyishly charming enthusiasm for new pop!
Moral guidance, issues mentorship.
intimacy coordinator
Killer of threads…
Hey, I was here first!
Er…🤔
Argumentative
Humane
Humble
Less active antipodean correspondent.
Probably in the top 4 of knowledgeability about The Church.
U2 defence.
Mahavishnu correspondent
Scourge of Northern Ireland politicians (of whom most neither know not care about)
Pointless troubadour
You missed out Van pasticheur par excellence!
Ah yes… PARIS BUNS FUSCOS ICE CREAM BO DIDDLEY ELTON WELLESBY SPANGLES SPANGLES WERTHERS ORIGINALS TS ELIOT GENGHIS KHAN CHARLIE DRAKE OSWALD MOSELY DAN LENO KEITH CHEGWIN MAHALIA JACKSON DOWN BY AVALON DOWN BY AVALON (ad infinitum)
*cough*
She walked in Krystal’s…
@Colin-H Elton Wellesby (real name Jimmy) played for the dominoes team in a pub I used to frequent, The Huntsman in Haydock.
What about renderer of Geordie patois?
Geardie patties man, what the hell youse taaakin aboot, like?
Hoooowaaaaaaay canny lad, ah divvn,t gnaw whit yiz are takkin’ about yabooga!
Nightwatchman. Occasional flourishes, but main role is to keep the site ticking over for the ‘big boys’
Lazy
Come on, finish the sentence …
I think he was released on appeal
ker-tish!!
2 i.c. NWOBHM with special responsibility for our Swiss friends Krokus.
The Church Bore.
Occasional Blue Aeroplanes correspondent.
XTC-ist.
Aviation and binomial nomenclature pedant.
Breton dance advocate and general folk correspondent.
@kaisfatdad thread returner of serve.
Grand Arbiter of Prog.
Roddy Frame / Jonathan Richman, golden age of stand-up and West Ham correspondent.
Provider of Irish perspective on the UK political and cultural circus – “a hurler on the ditch”, as Patrick Kavanagh once said.
Regular CD swapper.
My history suggests I’m a launcher of threads about National Poetry Day.
Old ears for new music
Straight man for all the comedians on the site
Blithe user of predictive text
Also, The Joy Of Six.
Arf!
Absolute undisputed king of the reviewers yet somehow wrong (a bit).
Despite claims above, I am definitely the prime thread killer here – the number of times I comment and then….silence. It’s a gift obviously.
Occasional reviewer, trenchant Fabs commenter and on 60s stuff in general cos I’m old and was there.
Well it’s not worked this time.
I’m still big! It’s just the threads that got small.
Thread killer is an oft-claimed trophy for bullfighting AWers. The true champions are those of us who post long, ponderous responses to OPs which other AWers scurry past to get to more fertile, concise and frankly interesting responses to turn into sub threads. What keeps us going? Vainglorious ego, mainly. That and the chip paper factor, of course.
Proudly unhip
Zappa correspondent (puerile knob joke era)
Contributor to the Progressive Rock desk
Sensitivity reader for Moose
Another thread killer
We could form a band.
…Are we human, or are we dancer?
Have you SEEN me dance? And I can’t play a musical instrument. So I’ll need to be on lights and lyrics, like Pete Sinfield, as I’m not up to being a Bez (or even the Howard Jones mime).
Let’s hope not like Pete Sinfield, eh? Aim higher, like Bernie Taupin.
Another Anglo-Swede
Deadhead
Chamber jazz enthusiast
Music omnivore
Frequent contributor but infrequent thread-starter
Van the Man meister
List lover
Liverpool correspondent
Rarely here.
When I am: Bingo/Chiz agreer.
Otherwise: fart in elevator.
More of a lurker than a contributor. Usually arrive late to a thread.
Very occasional contributor
Playlist provider
Audio technology fan
Former resident
Drive-by shouting
Gag reflex
“Drive-by shouting” is the best thing I’ve read on the Afterword since my epochal Dog Show thread from 1949.
Once upon a time in Chatteris.
For What Is…
If The Afterword was Doctor Who, I would be a Sontaran. Randomly turn up to cause mischief and then piss off again for ages.
Infrequent contributor – normally appearing looking rather puzzled with a young girl on each arm whilst uttering young Mr Grace ‘you’re all doing awfully well’ gee ups before vanishing into the ether again.
Occasional contributor, but usually when threads have been up for a while (not on purpose, it just seems to work out that way).
Hello @sarah
How are you doing with your Church crusade?
Unfortunately, there’s not much progress at the moment. Any spare cash is going on our new house. I still frequent the odd record fair, so the search continues. Early Church and an original Phillips Scott 4 are top of my list.
If you want to just listen to any of the rare early stuff, pm me. I have everything on mp3.
Cheers HP. Will do.
There was a great Abbey Road Half Speed Master of Scott 4 a few years ago, which might be cheaper than an orginal. I paid about £15 for mine.
https://www.discogs.com/release/14143711-Scott-Walker-Scott-4
I saw that and was tempted, but I already have Scotts 1-3 (which I love) and the completist in me wants the set.
Carly Rae Jepsen* champion
Thread killer (may be linked to the above)
Manchester/Stockport correspondent
*and all other other things Pop
Was that you waving the “Stockport isn’t shit” flag in front of the Pretenders set at Glasto?
Haha, no that was not me. We have only lived in the area for a few years so the jury is still out…. 🙂
I assume this was someone from a new venue in Stockport called Bask who have this statement up on their wall
Crap puns, badly written posts and turning up late.
Frank Zappa champion
ELP defender
Antipodean rep
Old but not really grumpy
Occasional hamper winner
Prompter for Blogger Takeover
Omnivore
Mingler
Enthusiast (about many, many things, including Spiritual Jazz, Link Wray, The Fleshtones, Alice Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, The Stooges, Suicide, Dick Dale…)
A well-balanced musical diet. Plenty of fibre. Low fat.