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Reply | How about a few “not a lot of people know thats”
at 22:54 24 Apr 2025
You’re right you know. Sorry about that.
I accidentally told a lie lie lie lie tell me why tell me why, why’d you have to lie?
I knew about the 2 Elvis Costello albums, I got the list of other albums recorded there from the Air studios website which erroneously lists the Pistols album there.
To make up for it here’s some more trivia about another studio not far from Wessex …
Elvis Costello recorded his debut album My Aim Is True at the tiny Pathway Studios which is on Grovesnor Avenue in Islington (near the Snooty Fox pub if you know that)
Damned Damned Damned & Madness’ The Prince were also recorded there.
It’s no longer a studio, these days it’s just a flat and the current resident is ex Only Ones frontman Peter Perrett. |
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Reply | Nice Players
at 17:39 24 Apr 2025
a random selection of QPR players I've chatted to who couldn't have been nicer.....
Richard Langley
John Hollins
Clarke Carlisle
Richard Pacquette
Andy Impey
Marcus Bean
Ray Wilkins
Tony Sealy
Paul Furlong
Simon Barker
Richard Edghill
Danny Shittu
Tommy Smith
Ian Holloway
Kevin Gallen
Marcus Bignot
Some others I've met that don't deserve a place on the list above.....
Bobby Zamora
Steve Slade
Neil Ruddock [Post edited 24 Apr 17:42]
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Reply | How about a few “not a lot of people know thats”
at 18:40 23 Apr 2025
When passing through Oxford Circus last week, I noticed the massive Nike shop on the corner is closed & seems to be getting converted into an Ikea.
Back in the days when it was a department store called Peter Robinson, it also housed a recording studio up on the 4th floor.
Here are just a few of the many albums recorded there, presumably while people were shopping unaware of what was going on above them:
Imperial Bedroom & Punch The Clock (Elvis Costello)
Never Mind the Bollocks (Sex Pistols)
Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
Pretenders 1st album
Meddle (Pink Floyd)
Sheer Heart Attack (Queen)
For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
Rio (Duran Duran)
Tug Of War (Paul McCartney)
0898 (The Beautiful South) |
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Reply | Film 2025
at 13:07 22 Apr 2025
The marketing campaign worked though because at my Mrs' suggestion we watched it last night. We both thought it was good which is a fairly rare thing as we have quite different taste in films. |
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Reply | Nice Bristols! The QPR v Bristol City Match Thread
at 17:24 12 Apr 2025
Some talk above about Kolli backing himself to score and that being over-confident as a striker and excusing him for not passing to Smyth. Not sure I agree but fair enough I accept the points.
But what about the actual shot!?!?!! As the chant says, what the fücking hell was that?
Absolute rubbish. |
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Reply | Have we ever had a better loan than Ronnie Edwards?
at 23:07 10 Apr 2025
Just dropping in to say I enjoyed that reference.
My memory may be faulty but I think there are some dodgy shouts on here.
Paul Furlong is one of my all time favourite QPR players but he was an awful loan signing. Got injured a lot & wasn't in good form. He came good (extremely good) when we signed him permanently. Ditto for Helguson.
Can't believe Mikkel Beck's been mentioned, I thought he was shit when he was with us.
Dreadful haircut too, the Karl Ready curtains but somehow even worse!! |
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Reply | Film 2025
at 08:17 29 Mar 2025
I really really liked the book (slightly different title, Mickey 7)
The film made a lot of changes from the book and I’ve got no problem with that. I thought the film was good too but it was quite strange. It felt like it couldn’t decided what kind of film it was supposed to be.
Having said that I saw it at the cinema with my 15 year old son who hasn’t read the book and he thought it was great. |
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Reply | Another New Signing?
at 17:21 14 Feb 2025
reminds me of my 2nd favourite classical music joke……
Why could Beethoven never find his music teacher?
Because he was Haydn
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Reply | Portsmouth tickets
at 19:44 13 Feb 2025
edit: sorry, duplicate post [Post edited 13 Feb 19:44]
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Reply | Another New Signing?
at 18:26 13 Feb 2025
Beethoven didn't write his first symphony aged 4. In fact he was well into adulthood when he first ventured into the symphonic form.
You might be confusing him with Mozart who was the child prodigy of that era but even he didn't write a symphony until he was 8.
Mozart & Haydn (who taught both Mozart & Beethoven at different times) were the 2 who really popularised the symphony in Vienna and beyond. Both were prolific, Haydn wrote more than 100. Mozart wrote 42 (I believe that's why Douglas Adams chose that particular number to be the answer to life, the universe and everything). Especially impressive when you think that Moz died in his 30s.
Good old Ludwig Van lived into his 50s and only turned out a mere 9 symphonies. But man, what symphonies they are. Completely revolutionised music and the whole idea of the composer as tortured artist. And that's why he's the GOAT.
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Reply | Film 2025
at 21:53 9 Feb 2025
Yes I’ve seen Beyond The Infinite 2 Minutes & I really liked that too.
Didn’t realise until after that River was made by the same writer and director.
Talking of really enjoyable Japanese films, I really liked Fish Story.
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Reply | Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it.
at 09:59 9 Feb 2025
Sleep cannot hide thoughts splitting through my mind
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else
(Faster, Manic Street Preachers) |
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Reply | Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it.
at 09:57 9 Feb 2025
Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon
And a wolf begins to howl in tune
I announced for all mankind
A boon
Stand aside you big baboon
Now I'm the a prize invention, girl
You're the image of yourself
Forget your cares
Your disapproving stares
I'm not here to try to jump your borders
Just ask your nieces and daughters
I'm flat as sole, I'm happy as a clam
But they don't know the kind of man I am
Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal
Now my net is overflowing
And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing
I've got something right there
You might want to hear
I have no fear
Lend a hand
Lend an ear
If your rent-money is in arrears
We'll be striking up a symphony bandstand
Long of hair and loose of tooth
There'll be pirouettes and startling handstands
And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth
When all is said that then redundant
They gallivant in peg-leg pants
I'll be your servant
You'll be my pal
And I'll be faithful you know I shall
There's no fool like an old fool
Who blames it all upon his youth
When times are tough and you find you're down
Without a star to wish upon
Listen for a voice in the dark
(A Voice In The Dark, Elvis Costello) |
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Reply | Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it.
at 09:55 9 Feb 2025
Aliens have landed
I don’t know what they’ve demanded
but the Earth will never be the same again
They said: “Take us to your leader,”
you know, the usual procedure
They demolished all our barricades
and then I woke up and the world was just the same as it was yesterday
We broke up but I still call your name, like I do every day
And, in the not-so-distant future,
the world’s run by a computer
that takes care of every single thing we need
but, if you’ve seen any movie,
you’ll know things never go smoothly
and we’ll face a huge disaster, guaranteed
And then I woke up and the world was just the same as it was yesterday
We broke up but I still call your name, like I do every day
And I’d do anything, anything, anything, anything to stop myself from thinking about you
And I really need to shake off this addiction
but, instead, I’m sat here watching science fiction
I took this retro spaceship
for an interstellar day trip
and I went as fast as Einstein would allow
It belongs to some mad scientist;
I don’t know how he acquired it
but a time machine would suit me better now
So I could wake up and have the world be just the same as it was yesterday
We didn’t break up and you still call my name, you never went away
And I’d do anything, anything, anything, anything to stop myself from thinking about you
(Science Fiction by The Wedding Present) |
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Reply | West London La La La...
at 22:58 6 Feb 2025
is this Narrow Boat the same pub that was called the Western Arms when I used to go there? (90s/early 2000s) |
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Reply | West London La La La...
at 17:24 6 Feb 2025
West London LaLaLa was my user name on the old Rivals forum.
Should’ve stuck with that name because now people on here occasionally think I am actually Peter Hucker. (I’m not) |
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