WHERE IS THE FARM THESE DAYS???

On the groovy train, surely.

I saw Peter Hooton and Roy Boulter on a tv programme the other day talking about Steve McManaman iirc. They didn't look as starved and penniless as their back catalogue would suggest they should be.

that's probably cause you can live quite comfortably in england on the dole if you know how...

One of them is a tv scriptwriter. And they sold a fuck of a lot of records for a year or two, probably more than the Mondays (I know, tragic isn't it) so they almost certainly don't even need to sign on. Though the cost of sending a personal written apology to everyone who bought one of their records may have broken them by now.

Isn't one of them in Rock Management now? I seem to recall one of them had a hand in that Powder book as well. Probably the same one.

The 'Powder' guy was their manager. Apparently some of his book was based on the Farm's antics. He's also written a football hooliganism novel. His books sound a bit tawdry to me. Boulter is the TV writer, I think for Brookside on Channel 4, in which Sammy Rodgers used to wear a Farm t-shirt. If anyone remembers the South Bank Show special on the Smiths, the male fan they interviewed extensively ("Morrissey's always there to come out yer speakers and sing to yer...") also became a Brookside writer at one point. Crazy guys, crazy world!

I just heard "All Together Now" for the first time in 10 years, its making me sad....

First they got bought out by Con Agra, then sold off to Archer Daniels Midland. Now the band members toil 16 hours a day for migrant worker wages tending a 180 acre field of sugar beets outside of Spreckles, California.