― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)
(that having been said, I strongly suspect that Foxton and Buckler were true blue anyway, and have my doubts about Weller's voting habits now. The giveaway line in interviews is always "all politicians are the same, it's all rubbish" - shorthand for "I vote Tory but I'm afraid to say so 'cos I'll lose all my fans"; see also Sophie Ellix-Bextor)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 October 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)
I've never really thought of Busted as remotely punk.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't know about that but he was certainly an active / founder member of "Red Wedge" (along with Billy Bragg and Jimmy Somerville / The Communards) who toured in 1986 to raise money and support for the Labour party.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I can understand that - I sometimes like to think of our cat as being a proud, magnificent predatory creature; cousin of the lion, the tiger, the leopard and the cheetah....
Then he rolls on his back and asks me to tickle his tummy before I open another tin of Kit-E-Kat for him.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)
"I've never really thought of Busted as remotely punk."
-- Stewart Osborne, October 7th, 2004 10:01 AM. (later)
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"I have, just for fun."
-- Alba (albab...), October 7th, 2004 10:02 AM. (later)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Laura interviewed him for her fanzine in '81 and that's what he told her.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Wait a minute, how old is he?
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)
Stew, did you get the message about the singles at the shop in reading and the Depressions singles?
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― stelfox, Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)
I've always uderstood that lyric was about The Jam. Why might Strummer have felt that incensed by / about the Pleasers?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)
"We want our first single to go to number 17 in the charts 'cos that's the position "Love Me Do" got to."
They would have cleaned up in '95/6.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Robert Moore (treble), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― stelfox, Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Robert Moore (treble), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)
I've never thought of any musical genre at all as neither right-wing nor left-wing. Music itself doesn't take any political side. Lyrics may, but the music doesn't.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― stelfox, Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)
It's worth pointing out that the support of Victoria Adams and Geri Halliwell did the Tories no good whatsoever in 1997.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)
As for the Weller=Tory thing, wasn't this as a result of a throwaway "thinking out loud" remark in a 1977 NME Jam interview? Something along the lines of: this Labour govt are so awful that it's enough to make me want to vote Tory. (I could look it up, but can't be arsed to Google. There should be an acronym for it: CBATG.) I can see why an embarrassed 1981 Weller might want to blame it all on Strummer, though...
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)
John Mayor?
No, what helped John MAJOR win in 1992 was Kinnock making a tit of himself at the Sheffield pre-election rally: "AL-RIIIIGHT!" etc.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)
It was truly embarrassing. No wonder the floating voters floated Right off in the other direction.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)
A week could be an awfully long time in inter-punk-band oneupmanshipist politics.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)
paul daniels, however...
― stelfox, Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)
It was certainly more than that. They reprinted the interview in the early 90s. It was more like "I support the Tories - they stand for what makes Britain great, and I love the Queen mum and all", I seem to recall.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)
1) Busted have very strong views on economic policy.2) Busted's management said "Here's a novel way to get lots of coverage in the papers, and it's a lot less humiliating than admitting you got off with Jentina..."
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)
What's a Touque? Alice likes the black haired one best apparently.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Ooh, the blackhaired one is the badass one. Alice is little rebel! ;-)
Scary as it is, Dom, I suspect you may be right. Even though they may be over the age of 13, I doubt that any of them actually knows what a Tory is. It's an easy way to be controversial.
See also my rants about Artrocker, et al. Those who are aesthetically retrofetishistic in being politically reactionary shockah, etc.
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Don't they look happy?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)
In that case he's probably some sort of socialist.
Send him back to Russia with his.... greasy hair and....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)
So you're saying he's a champagne socialist?
Worst kind.
Send 'em all back.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)
(You could be right. Alice will kick their buts when she gets the hang of an electric guitar....)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Useful sitesBusted official siteConservative party site
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)
Which is a shame, because cartoons are ACE.
Come to think of it, in the Crash The Wedding, the one dressed up as a chick DID look rather like Maggie...
Argh! I have now worried myself thinking of this as the pivotal sea-change moment when it becomes acceptable to think of the Tories as an alternative again, argh!
― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)
But does the Busted official site have a link to the Conservative party site or indeed vice versa?
[has vision of Conservative Party site containing pictures and bios of leading Party members with "interesting" biographical details e.g. favourite colour, most hated subject at school, favourite pop bands....]
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, but the article was much more "I've always been a conservative" and/or also "now I have some money, I'm going to keep it and vote for low taxation now" which is a bit more specific than "the government do nothing for the youth" of yore...
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)
I suspect Charlie's conservatism has less to do with posture and more to do with the fact that his parents vote Tory like all young conservatives.
Also why are we assuming that Charlie doesn't understand, or is too young to comprehend, what the Tories actually did? Maybe he knows full well and approves?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)
Their fans, however....
(xpost: no. )
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Why do Tories have the worst hair and the worst stylists? Is that what's gone wrong with Charlie, then?
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)
ON THIS THREAD I MEAN
ha ha ha ha ha ha
(xpost, oops, not you N)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)
-- suzy (theartskooldisk...) (webmail), October 8th, 2004. (link)
She looks more like Dean Friedman's.http://ubl.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg000/g010/g01060hpqhn.jpg
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Wow - that clears up something I meant to ask about. Ally C and RJG are big Dean fans, and apparently on one of his recent albums, he lists the L0ll1es in the acknowledgements.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)
I wanted to replace the lollies w/ dean friedman because he mentions them on his website: 'The Lollies. Fun, appealing and talented 4 piece girl-band out of the UK with stylish website and cool tunes like 'I Found Myself at the Supermarket' and '(Be My) Bad Boyfriend'. Check out their MP3's and try to catch one of their UK gigs.' which is fucking funny.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)
Dudes, these shitboxes don't vote. They're idiots.
― Jack The Bodiless, Friday, 8 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Two original members of Busted have lost their £10m royalties battle.
In a statement after winning the case, ex-Busted members James Bourne and Matt Willis said: "This was an opportunistic attempt by Doyle and McPhail to cash in on our success.
"Our position has been completely vindicated and our achievements with Busted remain untarnished."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7439000/7439725.stm
― James Mitchell, Friday, 6 June 2008 12:48 (seventeen years ago)