Modern Vespa

No because The Specials are not a real band.

i saw wham at wembley stadium the old wembley. i saw queen there too, and the alarm, and elton john. all in the same summer. i was building press enclosures and we got free tickets to anything we wanted (and a load of stuff we didn't want )

I once trod on an orange.

we've heard that before we want you to tread on some different fruit now. keep 'em guessing.

I once boxed a beetroot and strangled a strawberry.

But not in the same day.

Cumquat ? Always gets a laugh that one.

X

WHAAAAAAAAT!

You must be maaaaaaaaaad........

Sorry Pete I couldn't resist.

i missed you guys

More pics of the ASBO blue...

I left my envelope o'stickers at Doug's place. Douggie? (Gorgeous blue, mate, BTW.)

Dessa, I park as close to Charing Cross Road as I can - in front of the YMCA gym is my favourite, but usually full unless I get lucky and a courier is leaving as I arrive.

One of the best gigs I've ever been to was the Monkees a few years back. They put on a brilliant show. Yeah, I was surprised too.

That is hot brilliant blue, doug. Looks fantastic.

Best gig is a tricky one - either Daft Punk or the Flaming Lips.

Oh, I'd love to see Flaming Lips - I hear they put on a really good show especially if you're a furry.

Speaking of Furries (although I'll be honest and say I don't actually know what you mean Alice!), best gig I've ever seen in my time was Super Furry Animals supporting Oasis at Hampden. SFA were just incredible, except for all the bampots screaming for Oasis to come out.

Oasis were good incidentally, but not the best band of the day that day.

Yeah they were great.

It was in the Royal Albert Hall and we were standing at the front.

I emerged a couple of hours afterwards and none of us could speak about it. It was that good.

It was like a potent hallucination or a dream.

I would love to see the flaming lips too!
In the nineties I had the pleasure of attending a gig which had a great bunch of bands, including Super Furry Animals, Ash and Menswear at the Astoria. In the Audience that night was Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn and that was the night they had a big fight. Not that I saw it, as I was very drunk.
My favourite gig of all time was probably Nirvana at the Reading festival. 1992 , just because it seemed so important at the time (I think this was just my own teenage delusion)

Ah Britpop - that was fun. I was a Camdenite trendy with my velvet jacket, addidas samba and other hip rubbish. I liked both Oasis and Blur and went to see them both. But my favourite was Pulp.

The worst gig I ever went to was the Stone Roses in Reading, 1996. How bloody disappointing.

I went crowd surfing to Underworld instead and got backstage. Brilliant!

Kate and Marc - with those revelations about your 90s antics you have both just become legends in my little Britpop filled mind.

I bow before you.

best gig: Helmet at les Foufounes Electriques in Montreal in I think 1995. unbelievable.

most funnest gig: Cannibal Corpse (also at Foufounes) a few years prior to that. Death metal. i was on the periphery of the mosh pit and my feet didn't touch the ground the entire time they were on stage. i was borne aloft on a crowd of moshing metalhedz

wham were actually pretty good. not that i like their music much, but it was a very well produced gig, everything was spot on.

worst gig - well, not in terms of music but just in terms of the amount of time it went on: Billy Bragg. give a socialist a microphone and they'll bang on until you club 'em over the head. the gig lasted five hours. i was begging to leave by the end.

Doug... that blue is spec-neon-tacular!! i can't wait to see the whole scooter assembled. i also believe that you should just get rid of that dining room table and create a workshop.

No need to bow to me mate. I was never part of any scene. I was working on Oxford Street at 15 (92) and then worked aroudn the west end until I was about 21 ish. And to be honest i just went with the flow. I basically followed the girls and the booze. I spent nearly all of my teens working and drinking

No bowing.

I'm 30, which now means that all the music I loved from that time is being used to sell insurance and family hatchbacks to me.

I did enjoy all the fussing about what to wear, who to hate, who to rate, etc. It fizzled out and was finally exterminated by "OK Computer" which while very good, was very depressing. You couldn't dance to that and nobody wanted to sleep with them either.

Alright, I'll stay upright, but my tastes have only changed pretty subtly over the last 15 years so I had to go through a lengthy period of being almost totally uncatered-for. The worst for me was the early 2000s, when "nu-metal" was at it's peak. Unfortunately that coincided with my most socially active period.

This experience has led to me being terrifically over-excited whenever anyone says anything positive about Britpop. Which still isn't that often!

Thankfully other things entertain me too.

OK Computer was enough for me to give up on Radiohead.

That was the moment when the drove up thier own creative arseholes.

In fact this gives me an idea for a thread.

Bill XX

nunc et semper, caput tuum in ano est.

http://www.tinyurl.com/58wun

Doug that colour is the most amazing Blue I've ever seen.

It's just amazing. Amazing I tell you.

Best gig The Barenaked Ladies in a small club on Brighton seafront with about 300 people in it. It changed my life.

Worst gig The Damned in Kentish Town. It was truly awful.

I sulked all the way home.

Bill XX

Yes to the small gigs. Went to see Booker T in Shepherds Bush recently. Maybe 150 people attended, but it was awesome in the proper sense of the word.

When he started "Soul Limbo" the roof almost came off.

My God just look at the chunks of metalflake in that paint !

It looks like gone off milk poured into a cup of tea.

Can't wait to see it rebuilt Doug.

Really liking that colour.

Bill X

Flaming Lips - truly amazing singing next to a pink castle (outdoors at Camp Bestival). Kids and adults entertained alike - new album supposed to be a bit too experimental - shame.

U2 - still take some beating live either with or without the gimmicks and political bollux.

Queen - true live talent.

Beardyman - beatboxer

Howard Jones (dont all laugh at once) - my first gig ever at the Marquee with the bald midget dancer.

Worst? Cant think of one right now.

Charles.

Bugger Me Charles has re-surfaced. Are you coming to the Pilot on Sunday Charles ?

Bill XX

For the musically inclined, a few of those Beatles remasters are worth a listen.

Abbey Road and Rubber Soul both benefit a lot from the remastering. You hear whole new things which used to be muffled on the originals.

I am so glad you like it, I was a bit shocked at first! It's growing rapidly on me, I think I am going to love it too. The metal flake is shocking. Wonder was right about calling it ASBO blue! 8)

You need to follow the rebuild over on the projects side. The engine is now in, along with the tank, the loom, the mudguard and the fork.

Silver ET4 Repaint Project. New pics page 2.

watching the Jam live early 80 .. made the road i travelled down ...

I am just listening through them at the moment and enjoying it a lot.

I was born in 1965 and used to listen to all my Dad's original Beatles albums from the age of about 4. Listening to them now - they sound so much like they did then (as they are supposed to) in an "old fashioned" sort of way.

Bill, I will decline your first offer consider the second. If only I could find the bloody details of it. As usual, they are buried in 31 pages of gibberish.

I am always around as most will know and read rather than post. If you talk about bloody scooters all the time I get bored, but music mentions got me going.

Anyway, hello all, glad you are all well.

Charles.

i saw the barenaked's in guelph, ontario, when they were all still slim young men wearing long pants.

hello charles

so you saw queen too .... not at wembley in 1985 by any chance?

If you look on the cover of Gordon Stephen and Ed were quite portly then as the years came off they got slimmer and slimmer.

Still my favourite band though.

Charles, details for Donkfest Donkfest 2009

I too would listened to my dads Beatles records and I loved the Beatles all through school, I was teased about it for years until the whole Britpop thing (as mentioned above), when I become instantly popular because of my Beatles records and videos.

I am watching the pride of Britain awards (it is a secret pleasure) but I have to turn it over at the tear jerker parts


Fortunately on Sky Arts1 we have 'The Stones in the Park' from 1969.

That's it. French polished Beatles.

Snap. I too have my parents Red and Blue, in addition to my own vinyl collection. Instant cool descended on me in 1994 thanks to Oasis ripping them off.

If you like the Beatles and a musical geek (you know, duffel coat, copy of Record Collector and an army surplus bag with band patches on it) then you would enjoy the book "Revolution in the Head" by the late Ian McDonald.