ME AND ALAN MCGEE

Anyway...

Alan says that we will recognise him immediately. So here I am thinking that he's this ogre or something.

He's actually incredibly normal looking. I thought he was going to have two heads or something! He was very tall, though.

I made him dance even though he didn't want to. I think I really freaked him out, because he thought I was going to punch him, and was quiet surprised that I was so amused (read: DRUNK) by it all.

And then Suzy harranged Alan until he played Bauhaus. Mwah hah hah hah, and we floated around doing the bat dance. Hooray!

My god, am I hungover. Me, Suzy and Daren managed to put away two pints of vodka between us.

is death disco any good? deathdiscodublin keeps taking place, and I keep considering going, but wondering if it will be all a bit trend.

does BP Fallon hang out at the one in London?

... I wonder what 'hang 10' might mean in this context?

i cant decide whether to go to bodyrockers or richie hawtin at the end or this weird party in stoke newington with (apparently) judge jules(!!!!!!)

the same dilemma next week with rephlex disco assault system vs the wizard jeff mills ----- except i have tix, and d'arcangelo are playing. woooo! why is Ed being reticent about such a thing. and mr kilroy for that matter?

Cause it's like five freaking quid to get in. That's an outrage. Then again, Suzy did score drink tickets, so I guess we broke even.

and no - your blurred recollection is not exactly what happened - at all. but your story is more interesing so let's go with that one. ta.

I have lost a lot of weight. Thanks! Though if I don't stop with the vodka, it's all going back on. Poo.

My memory of the night is indeed pretty patchy. I know that Suzy found you first, and then she dragged me over and made me say hello when all I wanted to do was dance. Usually, when Suzy drags me over to introduce me to someone, it's a member of Suede, so I tend to try and avoid it.

We did know who you were from the getgo. Suzy was playacting not knowing who you were, cause... never mind. I really wanted to give you a chance to see what you'd be like IRL, cause people can be very different on the internet. Like I said, I had a good time. But you can't be surprised that we think it's NEWS that we met you and you were perfectly normal considering the way that you act here.

In Alan's defense, he did not say that he didn't like you or appreciate you or anything, he just said that he really doesn't need defending, and wishes that you weren't quite so ... I can't remember the exact words he used, but ... *extreme* in your defense of him.

Anyway, I'm not trying to cause trouble or make anyone angry at me, even though I've probably made you angry, and him angry for repeating his words. I was under the impression that he had said this to you in the past, apologies if he hasn't.

BTW, oh yes Bauhaus was played. Bela Lugosi's Dead. There were witnesses.

My housemate is home, so I gotta give him his computer back.

As for the gameplaying - fuck it. Why do think I'm no longer playing it? It's boring and it's for liars. Everyone wants to be liked. It's all a bit high school for me. I'll stick to writing and go back to the happy place I was before I came over here and started meeting up with the music industry people. I'm a talented writer. I'm not a talented bullshitter. I was a fool. I am no longer a fool. There is no need to illuminate me, Kate. It's happened long time ago.

And no it was not news. It was just some drunken people in a club. Sorry.

*shrugs shoulders*

See you. Thanks for the dance.

that's all, anthony!

Sorry, I am not actually that obsessed with celebrities in the flesh. I am obsessed with the concept of celebrity, I am obsessed with the idea of celebrities themselves, but when they're actually there, in the way, at the bar or knocking me over on the dance floor when all I want to do is dance, well... celebrities can just bloody well go away then.

Next time I'll bring more money.

I think we were the only people in the place with *that* kind of Special Coke.

Roland Bolan = funny. I talked to him a bit, not knowing who he was, and couldn't figure out why he kept going on about his father, like, wondering if he had some sort of Freudian problem or something. Felt like a bit of a fool when Suzy rescued me.

Ugh. The entire left side of my body is black and blue from when some dirty dronerock boy collided with me. Ouch.

Whoah! Suzy must have SUPERPOWAHS! Can you imagine the strength it must take to shift Kevin Shields?

They did a perfectly fine job of continuing the downward trajectory that the JMC could have taken. I quite liked the first BRMC album, didn't hear any of the second, and wasn't fussed about the "Howl" record apart from quite liking what I heard.

That reads like a major backtrack, I know, but that is what I meant and I can see it didn't read like that.

I love that album.

(I did get Munki some time later, can't remember anything about it hardly. Should I re-persevere?)

(xpost now you're thinking like I do)

I have a great big soft spot for Munki, but I know I'm one of the few. If you love S&D, then Munki is like the uppity sister to that album. (JAMC always put out "up record" then "down record" in shifts.) They get the whole family singing on some of the songs, which is really cute - lots of Hope and Sister Vanilla.

I'd like them to reform, as long as they only play the hits - nothing post 1992, please. I don't care if that sounds rockist or negative or anything - you just KNOW that any new stuff would at best be a weak rehash of their good stuff. I want 25 mins of In A Hole and Upside Down, full stop.

He wasn't quite this much of a tosser in that Magpie Eyes book was he?

I got the Paolo Hewitt book as well. Umm, don't bother with it.

so is there any truth to this rumour ive just imagined up about mcgee paying an ill-advised visit to The Walton Hop in the mid70s?

I like Paid in Full as much as the next guy, but I'd say what strikes people first about it these days is how spare, simple, and limited in scope rap production used to be.

Over the course of his entire career, among the hundreds (thousands? add up all the people in bands on Creation/Elevation/Poptones etc) of people he has worked with, how many black musicians has he given support (money, time, publicity, whatever) to?

The drummer in the Libertines? the guy from the Boo Radleys? Help me out here, my knowledge isn't great.

So like I guess if I imagine a teenaged rap fan listening to something like that for the first time, I don't imagine the first thought just being "frenetic energy! aggressive percussion!" -- it couldn't help but include "hey, rap used to sound pretty different." That's true of listening to most any genre across that span of time, leave alone one that was really young and developing.

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-- chaki (chaki), Friday, September 13, 2002 10:56 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^knows the score

Hardcore/You know the score/Rhymes so good they deserve an encore

I would love to read a warts and all article about greatest label ever POPTONES. A Magpie Eyes pt. 2. Just reading and boggling at their discography would probably amuse me enough.

yes. only *even longer* than 'magpie'.

i think it goes something like.. joe foster finds a whole lot of cool bands to release and alan mcgee fucks up the whole deal. JF leaves the label and everything subsequently released makes baby amphetamine look like genius

^commission this dude asap

actually that's unfair, baby amphetamine were genius in a way

as for suzy - yeah, we've met - but could you not talk to me again? you are interesting, lively, etc.....but i'm just not into people, interacting, i'm more into observation. and i felt bad 'cause several times i wanted to escape your constant chatter.
-- doomi, Friday, 13 September 2002 21:09 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

ice col'

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^^^doomie

How did I know this would be another pointless/creepy/in-jokey Dom revival?

Maybe you're PSYCHIC

You had a 50/50 on it being gershy. Doomie was a much better class of troll that Dom, some real fire and inspiration there (Nice guy too, in person).

revival time. Some threads just never got the due consideration they deserved.
-- Ed (dali), Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:43 PM (4 years ago)

he was a complete choad online but whatever.

xpost

I like the idea that Dom thinks that I am so wise and munificent that one post I made 4 years ago is like a constitutional amendment justifying his tedious daily grind of hard working thread revives.

You have dreadlocks

OK enough of this shit.

"you have dreadlocks". Dom, that's just embarrassing. Raise your game for fuck's sake.