Pockets on fire?

Result of Blazing Saddles?

Must admit to never having heard of the Donnas, but will take note if I see anything, other of course than the Mad Donnas that are so popular but I personally cannot stand.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band! My gard that takes me back ... they were utterly insane, great big hard Glasgow headcases with a penchant for dressing up like complete wooferoonies. I still recall with wonder their amazing rendition of Delilah on the Old Grey Whistle Test many, many years ago. They don't make em like Alex and Zal any more ...



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Pockets on Fire is about a bloke who keeps his entire life in his pockets (and don't we all?) and Ms Ryder's desire to set them on fire...

Bizarrely, I used to date somebody called Anna Ryder, who also expressed disgust at the amount of stuff in my pockets. There the connection ends.

Oh, they both have the same coloured hair. And the doodle on the t-shirt is the dead spit.

But they aren't the same person. Honest.



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Wonder what Shaun Ryder keeps in his pockets?



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I'm not going to try and find out, let's put it like that.

Dubya can't fit anything in his - Tony's taking up all the room already...



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Uncut Magazine has a free cd on it this month with Bruce Springsteen covers, including a bluegrass cover of Streets of Philedelphia by Marah. I fell off my chair laughing, and then went back to the beginning six times. It's brilliant, as is The Band's Atlantic City, sod it - they're all great!



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Jon, you may be older than I thought if you remember SAHB from their first appearance on OGWT. I discovered them via that performance of 'Delilah' repeated on 'Sounds of the 70's' in mid 90's.
Alex was a genuine hard-case from the Gorbals but preached pacifism in later times. He would stand on stage and lecture his audiences:
'Don't buy guns, don't buy bullets, because if you do, people will die, and the men who make the guns and the bullets will get richer.'

His other famous piece of advice, on ecology and life generally:

"Don't pish in the watter supply".

I was only 12 when I saw SAHB on whisperin' Bob's show .... made a great impression on me. I caught the repeat you saw, too, and it was just as wonderful as I remembered it.

Sound advice, too.



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Couldn't they have done a different cover (the SAHB, that is) - I mean, why, why, why 'Delilah'?



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I created myself a Star Wars RPG character somewhat inspired by Alex Harvey. He was called Harvey san Valentine and was a roguish, small-time crook with an alcohol problem, who had murdered his girlfriend when she was unfaithful. (Not the sort of Star Wars hero George Lucas would have created, one suspects).

A while later, filling in *yet another* benefits application form after some dozo made a mess of my claim and another made a mess of reinstating it, I got bored of writing the same things over again.

I filled in my name as Gillian Francess san Valentine Taylor. That went onto the system and has stayed there ever since, in spite of signing off and on again. I've had terribly nice jobcentre people remarking on how unusual 'san Valentine' is. One asked if it was pronounced 'Valentine' or 'Valenteen'. Another lady sincerely wanted to know if it was an old family name.
Didn't have the heart to tell her I'd invented it for an alcoholic, paranoid thief.

S'okay. Alcoholic paranoid thieves are ten a penny in benefit offices. I know, cos I used to work in one, and would rather eat raw haggis than do it again.



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No no...THE version you have to hear is Dolly Parton's. Ah yes my Dolly.

aparently Dolly isn't appearing at Glastonbury this year, as previously thought.

shame.

Speaking of Dolls (of a sort) did anyone see 'real sex' on channel 5 last night? Most odd.

So you were watching 'real sex' on channel 5 last night. don't get out much then?

I never said I watched it. I asked if anyone else had.

And I have an almost-2 year old little boy. I don't get out at all...

How do you know that 'real sex' was most odd, if you weren't watching it !

damn. If it wasn't for those pesky kids...

Guilty as charged m'lud. You are far too clever.

Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha !

You were charged for 'real sex'?

No further questions, yer 'onour.



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So, is that better or worse than being charged for 'fake sex' ? :-)

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