I see the Lurkers have a 5CD box set coming out:
Is it time for a reappraisal? Do we have any among us who supported the boys back in the day? Here they are live and rocking last year:
The Lurkers: Time for a reappraisal?
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Bargie, where are you? And back in day I was mighty fond of The Lurkers…
Fulham Fallout is my favourite crap/brilliant album ever. I can give or take the rest, apart from a few early b-sides, like Mass Media Believer.
Are you saying you’re tempted by this seemingly exhaustive box set, then?
No.
I’m well aware that the standard Afterword answer is “…. I sort of quite like this band, therefore I will shell out a three-figure sum for this new box-set, which I will play once and then put on the shelf with all the others… in fact, is there a deluxe vinyl edition that I won’t even play once?”
Bugger, that’s what my exhaustive in-depth review would have said
…only in italics
So, to try and tie all these threads together, are we saying it’s *not* time for a Lurkers reappraisal?
That’s perhaps or perhaps not what we are implying, possibly
I wouldn’t worry. By definition any AWers who are fans won’t contribute anyway.
Mini asked me to ask whoever is captain of this ship “Can I review Rainbow, The Golden Years”? Zippy, George and Bungle apparently have all at one time played bass in The Lurkers.
Were Rod Jane and Freddy all in The Fall?
Follow me-ah
I’m the fookin’ leader of the gang-ah
Hartley Hare was briefly a member of Simple Minds
Do you mean Harold Hare?
Or do you mean a long-eared children’s television character who was mysteriously obsessed with fly-fishing?
Guys, guys. None of these people/puppets appear on the Rainbow album. It’s a bunch of failed folk musicians (five chaps and one lady) making weirdly wonderful music about things like autumn, walking in the countryside, the wind, Christmas, pantomime horses and all sorts of mildly psychedelic stuff like bookworms and skyriding and that.
It’s marvellous.
And wonderfully, the lady’s name is Fluff Joinson. She’s listed on LinkedIn as a Performing Arts Professional.
That’s a euphemism if ever I heard one.
hurrrr
I’m a Performing Arts (Regional) Professional. Or P.A.R.P.
On account of all the tromboning?
More the terrible trumpeting.
Cor blimey missus. No wonder you have to live near the coast.
“It’s a bunch of failed folk musicians (five chaps and one lady) making weirdly wonderful music about things like autumn, walking in the countryside, the wind, Christmas, pantomime horses and all sorts of mildly psychedelic stuff like bookworms and skyriding and that.”
Hang on, Mini, you’ve just described Blackmore’s Knight. Is there a sour looking man with a pencil moustache, a terrible wig and a pointy hat on the back cover?
Also… Failed?
I don’t call “having your music blasted out on ITV 20 weeks a year for 15 years” failure. Think of Ralph “Tickle On the Tum Hitmaker” McTell!
Only failed in the same sense as much of the Playschool and Playaway gang, i.e. no success in the music biz, but still selling records, albeit on BBC Records or the MfP kids imprint.
Haha, no there isn’t Colin, but here’s a bit about them (Telltale) on wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telltale_(Rainbow)
So that picture of the LP cover showing Zippy and his pals is a big fat lie? That pile of disappoint over there is me. Next you will be telling me Bungle never played bass for The Lurkers.
Calling Bargie, calling….
Here you go:
Is Round and Round a cover of Chuck Berry or Public Image Limited?
The Lurkers were great fun back in the day. I think I saw them a couple of times at least. I enjoyed Fulham Fallout too. They were big favorites of John Peel. I find it very difficult to believe that they recorded 5 CDs worth of material.
And here’s me thinking this was about, you know, lurkers. Not some band.
Regular Posters: Time For A Reappraisal?
Tiggerlion… his Nights In are passionless and poorly written
Bricameron… a voice of sanity in a mixed up world
Deramdaze – so full of surprises!
HP… no, we were right first time about him
The Lurkers do indeed have a place in popular music history, it’s a line in a TV Personalities song:
Then they go to Rough Trade
To buy Siouxsie And The Banshees.
They heard John Peel play it
Just the other night.
They’d like to buy the ‘O’ Level single
Or “Read about Seymour”,
But they’re not pressed in red
So they buy The Lurkers instead