Great News for Rock Music Fans
Finally some good news!
Justin Hawkins, Lead singer of the hugely overrated band The Darkness, has quit the band.
Fantastic no more p**s poor rip off songs and screeching singing
If you want to listen to something worthwhile do yourself a favour and get Whitesnake’s greatest hits - listen to some proper rock music.
I was asked today whether I had ever heard of the following:
Keene
James Blunt
The Feeling
and some others I forget.
I suspect I may have fallen slightly behind the times.
Or am I just waiting for them to come back round again?
Who is listenting to what out there I wonder?
The Coxeman said,
October 12, 2006 @ 2:57 pm
I thought you’d listen to Elton John, Village People and other such ‘acts’
I like a little Barry White on in the background - the ladies love it !
Keep it Up!
The Coxeman
Peter Stringvest said,
October 12, 2006 @ 3:54 pm
Don’t be so quick to delight in Mr.Hawkins departure, he’s bound to return with a god awful solo album, as for James Blunt I’d rather poke a fork in my eye.
What this site needs is a blast of TANK-you did promise after all.
If anyone is in Lincoln on saturday night then go and see a brilliiant guitarist called Jon Gomm at the Jolly Brewer-remember you saw his name here first!
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 12, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
We are Van Morrison, Fleetwood Mac, Gipsy Kings and everything inbetween … mustn’t forget Ray Charles and Nina Simone etc. We are not Rock Chicks ….. more Kate Bush than Kate Moss, in so many ways. We also admit to some Japanese twangy sort of music and inevitably perhaps, the Disney production of It’s Halloween …. annoyingly catchy, bit like flu. WoE
Rod said,
October 12, 2006 @ 5:17 pm
Tank - That’s What Dreams are Made of \m/
I may look at embedding some music somehow, when you go to that spammy myspace site that has my pornstar friends on, Crazy Train by Ozzy starts playing immediately !
WoE - Nina Simone - very steady - good choice
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 12, 2006 @ 7:57 pm
Rod, we can’t find anything about Tank ….. are they the Motown boys from Wybers Wood? WoE
Little Brother said,
October 12, 2006 @ 10:58 pm
Witches,
TANK were the original grunge rock band who supported Motorhead in the early eighties, perhaps more importantly they influenced a ‘garage’ (literally) rock band from Grimsby, an awesome trio who ‘played’ Motorhead and Sex Pistols songs circa 1982/3…messers Collins/Fox and Bean as I recall.
They had one groupie, me and I made the tea!
Truly halcyon days
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 13, 2006 @ 8:58 am
Little Brother,
Have you kept any home movies? We always thought there was a hint of Sex Pistol about Rod under his linen jacket and crisply ironed designer shirt. WoE
Rod said,
October 13, 2006 @ 9:18 am
>>Have you kept any home movies?
They’d be in B&W cine if there were!
It was just after the war, we played a lot of Glenn Miller as I recall
Little Brother said,
October 13, 2006 @ 9:34 am
Glenn Miller!! Love him or hate him at least they all played at the same time!
Did the ‘band(!?!) ever get past the opening bars of ‘motorhead motorhead’?
The noise from that garage was unbelievable-You’d never get away with it now.
Rod said,
October 13, 2006 @ 10:01 am
>>You’d never get away with it now.
Never got a way with it then either.
Must be over 25 years ago now !
Little Brother said,
October 13, 2006 @ 11:36 am
>>25 years ago….impossible-how could a two year old make tea!
Rod said,
October 13, 2006 @ 3:23 pm
You were very advanced. I remember you catering for a lavish 400 guest 10 course sit down wedding meal when you were only 7
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 13, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
Rod, you have never mentioned any other form of music except Motorhead et al, are you partial to anything else? Is it true you had to choose between a career as a professional guitarist or flamenco dancer? The Henry Lloyd flamenco tap shoes, along with the rose between the teeth, were a bit of a giveaway initially. It might interest the readers to know that on a Tuesday we can hear Rod approaching long before he makes his entrance. The little bull fighters jacket is particularly fetching ….. can we expect a new routine for Christmas? WoE
Rod said,
October 13, 2006 @ 6:39 pm
WoE
to take your valid points:
Bit of classical but mainly loud and hot rockin’ \m/
This is absolutely true, though I am not sure how you know. The final nail in the flamenco coffin was the trousers I am afraid
That’s normally the shouts of ‘Stop Thief’ from other shopkeepers !
I am currently working on polishing up an old routine, though it is, possibly, not suitable for public display
Our Man in the KItchen said,
October 13, 2006 @ 10:58 pm
Just finished an eight course dinner for seventy five people, one guest was somebody I knew from my days in Fish Town, we exchanged greetings, he in his dinner suit, myself in chef’s attire. He said ’so what are you doing here?’
I looked at him and then my uniform and told him I was a plumber and there was a problem with the boiler. He looked confused, I looked tired and exasperated.
Rod said,
October 14, 2006 @ 10:03 am
That is a quality line. Some of the things on this site are worthy of publication on literary merit alone.
WoE could have her own book.
From myself I am reminded of
Raymond Chandler comes to Cleethorpes !
Our Man in the KItchen said,
October 14, 2006 @ 3:15 pm
When contemplating my batchelor status friends tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea but when I get a night off the tide is always out!
Rod said,
October 14, 2006 @ 4:11 pm
OMITK
have you also seen some of the fish in the sea - very unpleasant.
Beware of the sleek ones - they are usually predators!
Our Man in the KItchen said,
October 14, 2006 @ 4:28 pm
Rod,
Latest industry guidelines state that less attractive specimens should be looked at as all the good ones have been overfished-grin and bear it brother, grin and bear it.
Rod said,
October 14, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
OMITK
I’ve a better idea, reel your lines in and don’t bother.
It’s not worth the effort and fish is not what it’s cracked up to be anyway !
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 14, 2006 @ 6:13 pm
Boys, leading on from the fish thing …. skate, speed skating, speed dating, ever tried it? I don’t know anyone who has but could be worth a try, although I’m not sure about Rod and his interview technique. We might have to have some trial sessions with a stopwatch before we let you both loose as it were. What you both need is a trusty matchmaker, but let’s just stop and see what these women have got to put up with …..
wrestling
smoking
rock music
unsocial hours (the right woman won’t mind)
no house visitors after 6 (that’s going to be tough)
NO GOLD DIGGERS
possible age restrictions
must be hot chicks
must dress in hot chick outfits
no kids
heiress preferable ……
So what we’re looking for is a young, single, mud-wrestling childless rockchick/ heiress who is only available at odd times, well read and wearing Manolo shoes. Whereas my friends, what we have available so far in Lincolnshire are 150 Portuguese non English speaking farm labourers, some of which are women. I’ll keep looking …
Naturally Little Brother this list doesn’t really apply to you so I’m sure you won’t be single for long (I must consult my little black book) but as for Rod …. have we missed anything out?. WoE
Rod said,
October 14, 2006 @ 7:03 pm
WoE,
I have never, or indeed will ever, try any of the above. I am far too old for such nonsense.
I feel I need a matchmaker like a hole in the head WoE, besides as you rightly point out the task faced by any matchmaker would be of Herculean proportions!
Your list of requirements is both comprehensive and accurate, nothing is there that I would remove though I could add considerably to it. Underlining once more, were it needed, the overwhelming task facing anyone on the matchmaking front.
LB is a differtent case and is possibly salvageable, were as I am not.
All this talk of romance has given me an uncommon thirst - it looks as though it may be another good night for the wine producers of France
Take Care WoE
Rod
Our Man in the Kitchen said,
October 14, 2006 @ 10:52 pm
WoE,
Pretty good list apart from the smoking, I just smoke fish with tea leaves and wild herbs (difficult getting into a rizzla at first but achievable with practice) I must agree with Rod about a matchmaker, frankly I would rather go blind with syphallis then get ‘fixed up’ or should I say ’stiched up’. Saying that, if you can find a lady who is avaliable between 2.30 and 5.00 every afternoon and doesn’t ask for cash upfront then I might be interested!
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 15, 2006 @ 12:40 am
OMITK
We’d never heard of a Rizzla or for that matter, Irwin R Shyster. We’re now wondering which of these two kitchen gadgets is more useful. What an education this site is. WoE
Piranha Pumpy Knickers said,
October 18, 2006 @ 4:55 pm
“So what we’re looking for is a young, single, mud-wrestling childless rockchick/ heiress”
WoE - can you speak to Rod and explain that his type of woman is in big demand and that his only chance is to bag up that butt-ugly-fizzogg of his and claim to be the son of Mick McManus and Patty Hearst.
Size 20 Leggings Wearer of Lincoln
Rod said,
October 18, 2006 @ 6:09 pm
Welcome to the site PPK !
>>Mick McManus and Patty Hearst
You’re showing your age
>>bag up that butt-ugly-fizzogg of his
I was considering buying a Brad Pitt mask to help with my predicament.
I am not new to this mask business, I have a pamela Anderson mask but girls, thus far, seem reluctant to wear it for me, I cannot understand why!
A little selfish I think
Regards
Rod
Witches of Eastwick said,
October 18, 2006 @ 6:25 pm
PPK, I have to tell you that Rod has been in therapy for some time now and has made very little progress, the mind altering tisanes have proved useless to an old sage like him.
In our final book of the series …. Fishing in the Shallows, we explore the singular dimension of the average male…… after the initial page we have resorted to cosmetic ads to bulk it out. Copies are available at all good book shops, libraries, WI meeting rooms and on the back of baked bean tins.
We must however, take issue with you over your comment about the noble Collins profile. Like Russian Ivy, it sort of grows on you with time. Only a person with a predilection for the ’shabby chic’ (and mind altering tisanes)could possibly understand.
Must dash, we are making a new wax effigy, well actually it’s an old ‘Ken’ remodelled as George Clooney! WoE