Crazy Old Bob Gillespie sez: "Keep it down, you young'uns!"

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"I found the repetitiveness disturbing and I was unable to sleep because of it."

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21076102-5005961,00.html

Jesus wept.

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't they know who Kevin Shields is?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

haha the alma, how did i know it was going to be that pub?

actually, im not sure how i did know it was going to be that pub

― Storefront Church (688), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Advice to rock n roll types - if your sleep is important to you - DO NOT LIVE NEAR A PUB. I would have thought this was common sense.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

This is quite hilarious, but fair enough if he's got kids.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Nah it's not fair enough, Kate OTM.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Although the tone of the letter is more "Not in my back yard" than "Won't someone please think of the children".

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck the children, Bobby

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I love my sleep and my quiet as much as any ex Dirty Dronerock Girl, but honestly. Things to consider when you move to a new flat - 1) how long has the pub been there? 2) how long have you been there?

You want peace and quiet, move to a freaking country house.

I just about have sympathy for Kevin Sheilds, because the pub was rezoned or something like that - but not for Gillespie. Fuck off.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby Gillespie has kids? Do they have mobiles with swastikas and Stukas hanging over their beds or something?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby needs to live somewhere convenient for local ~~dealers~~ amenities tho.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, but one of them is called Wolf - after Adolf Hitler

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Still now I know where he lives, I know where to leave all those burnt out motorbikes in future

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

"There was a live percussionist playing along with the records, the sound was of a very high frequency which reverberated into my bedroom and my children's bedroom," said Gillespie

Gillespie: "When ah wiz hingin' aboot wi' Can in 1968, we made sure we didnae make too much noise, zat no' right Holger?"

Czukay: "Ja ja, Herr Bobby, ve alvays had ze thoughts of ze sleeping kinder at ze fronts of our brains during our legendary jam zessions"

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know he lived near Newington Green.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Not only do I fucking loathe idiots that move into a neighbourhood with an established pub and then complain about the noise it makes, I also fucking loathe Crazy Bob. Therefore, I have no sympathy for all this.

I do feel sympathy for the kids having Crazy Bob as their dad, through.

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

This will be the same Bobby Gillespie who got arrested in the late '90s when the police came round after complaints from his neighbours and he refused to turn his music down, then.

Bobby Gillespie, 42

He was, once.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Twice more like... at least

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well done, Bobby! "our beautiful street" - tourist magnet alert!

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's not a new problem, either. I remember when Mrs Mack gave him a good skelping in front of everyone in the close after he insisted on playing his just-out-of-the-box unplayed copy of The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Volume 4 at full volume on his Chad Valley record player.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Kids these days, why don't they play something tuneful like...Country Girl, y'know?"

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

"He who fucks nuns, will one day join the church..."

Primal Scream (on the Rollercoaster tour, I think?) once ordered their heavies to burst Blur's beach balls when Damon was having too much "fun" and ruining their voibe.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like Bob's missus has been busting his balls, knowhorrimean?

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Gillespie is famously resentful of Damon Albarn's side-projects, especially his reissue programme of post-war Trinidadian calypso music, since BG obtained the original Lord Kitchener acetates in 1966. He said it was a fair swap for his copy of the Noddy Goes Shopping For Ricicles flexidisc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and Bobby had that Tony Allen playing snare in his BB troop even before he hooked up with Fela

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

He had a Jinky Johnstone cigarette card, whereas Milford Graves could only muster a Tommy Gemmell.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Still, at least he managed to get Milford to play the bass drum in that Orange Walk back in 1968

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I remember that well. Jaki Liebezeit was on lead snare. He got right blootered that night...they had to drag him and Johnny Beattie out of the Bay Horse Inn by their ankles!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah and Sly Stone got lifted for shouting "Fuck the Pope" didn't he? It's a shame the Lodge wouldn't let Roland Kirk on the Walk, Bobby pleaded with them but they said there was no way they could allow him to play "No Surrender" on a nose flute.

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Aye, the polis moved poor old Roland on. "Hey, Jethro Tull! Away an' bile yer tatties!" they quipped. Never mind that Bobby tootled the first car horn you hear on the title track of The Inflated Tear ("Stop playin' wi' thae balloons, Bobby!").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Aye, and that smashing glass sound you hear on the title track of "Rip Rig and Panic" was Roland tripping over Bobby's Irn Bru stash in the studio. If you listen carefully you hear Bobby say, "Holl' watch it big man! You're fuckin' blind as a bat, so ye ur!"

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Just before Mingus burst into the room:

Bobby: "Heh, big man!"
Mingus: "Listen Gillespie, if ah see you in ma studio again ah'm gaunnae get Laughin' Spam Dolphy to cut yir testicles oaf and make ye eat them fir yir dinner, so ah wull!"
Bobby: "Och that's terrible that, after ah gie'd you the title fir Black Saint An' The Sinner Lady frae that missin' episode o' the White Heather Club an' all!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby: "Aye, an' I remember you when ye were jist plain Charlie Menzies fae Carntyne, so don't gie us a' that Underdug shite, Chick!"

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

And he made sure his brother John kept copies of all his records in his newsagent's shop!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

This thing kinda makes me want to go to England, find Bobby's house and blast 'Accelerator' at him. He won't be able to complain, because it's his own music!

― GLC (ZakAce), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

ROBERT Gillespie? He singed his letter as "Robert Gillespie"?

Bloody 'ell, it's serious.

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Noddy Goes Shopping For Ricicles flexidisc.

You know, don't you......

"Oh noddy, ring your belll..."

Ahem.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine Bobby had to write the letter otherwise he would get kicked out of the residents' association. And you have to say beautiful street to suck up to the council.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

i know bob's next-door neighbour; he's an old gent (90), and so i'd rather they kept it down too.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Having been repeatedly kept awake 'till the early hours by selfish cunts in the past, I should have some sympathy, but it's bby glssp, so he can eat a bag of dicks.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Pashmina OTM. Let the punnishment fit the crime. I hope tonight they play Give Out But Don't Give Up on repeat.

― Shoes and Shoegazeability (kate), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure this isn't Robert Gillespie, star of Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

you mean robert llewellyn?

― Storefront Church (688), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Couldn't someone just knit wee Bobby some ear muffs for his stormtrooper helmet?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Whit aboot the bairn tho?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

He doesn't need to see his dad wearing them.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, Robert Llewellyn, what was I thinking of?

Of course Bobby Gillespie invented the stormtrooper helmet. In 1935 he told Goebbels "Ye need to get some of that MC5 divilry in yir rock an roll. It's dead sexy, ye ken?"

He became a PoW after they fell out during the war; you may recall Gordon Jackson's portrayal of Bobby Gillespie in The Great Escape.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

So...Bobby used to be a jockey? Fucking hell.

― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

He became a PoW after they fell out during the war; you may recall Gordon Jackson's portrayal of Bobby Gillespie in The Great Escape.

Indeed, who could ever forget the exchange at the train station

TRAIN GUARD: "Heff a good day"
BOBBY: "Whit? Aye, right ye ur pal... Fuck! Let's shoot the fuckin' craw!"

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

If his kids are having trouble sleeping, why not just play 'em some Primal Scream albums?

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello's impression of Bobby = best thing ever

(and I actually love Primal Scream's rekkids, well except for the last two I didn't bother with)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 January 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

seriously you n Tom D should make a cartoon

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 January 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

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