Fuck my hat! I didn't know that!

Given that Sting is probably vegetarian, I take this to mean that, statistically, it's odds on Brian Ferry packs tasty pork treats in his luggage.

It's also a fantastic tune. (Journey of the Sourcerer).

I was kinda freaked to discover I like an Eagles track.

SF: What did Andrew WK do when he played with you guys? I’ve heard various things, that he used to be in Wolf Eyes.

AD: He never really played with us. When Nate and I first started playing together—Nate did Wolf Eyes for a little while by himself, and then when I started playing with him is when Andrew moved here [to New York], and we talked on the phone a lot and bounced ideas off each others’ heads. He would record a bunch of stuff called Wolf Eyes and send it to us, so we have all these tapes that say “Wolf Eyes” and have all these song titles, but it’s all Andrew.

NY: He had another branch of Wolf Eyes going. He considered it a theory.

i only found this out a month ago, and bugger me sideways, i was surprised.

special guest on thin
lizzy's live and dangerous
is HUEY LEWIS

are they related to Alannah from thompsin Twins ?
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murray head, who sang the glorious "say it ain't so, joe", is the brother of tony head, who was giles in buffy/the PM in little britain/the nobber in the gold blend ad.
i only found this out a month ago, and bugger me sideways, i was surprised.

-- grimly fiendish (simonmai...), November 29th, 2004.

and did he sing "one night in bangkok" ?

and did he sing "one night in bangkok" ?

today's "FMH" moment in grimly world is that the cover art for aereogramme's "seclusion" was designed by aaron out of isis - but i appreciate this might have limited FMH value for the wider populace.

I was recently shocked to realize that I saw Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) as Frank-N-Furter in an early 90s London revival of the Rocky Horror Show. I believe that Adrian Edmondson played Brad in the same cast. Unfortunately I didn't know who either of them were at the time.

Sit: Rocky is unveiled for the 1st time
Audiencewomanperson: "He's got a tiny cock!"
ASH as Frankn: "Well, he'd certainly rattle in your gob!"

Marc Riley, aka Lard out of Mark and Lard, is Lisa Riley's brother.

no WAY!

Apparently she came up with the Creepers part of the band name "Marc Riley and the Creepers". Apparently, as she used to call him a creep a lot....

TS Mark Grout's Pork-My Hat Thread vs. His Legendary Trousers Thread

Coldplay are often asked about their name, and the tale is, is that their friend had a band with that name, they split and let Chris Martin use the name. That friend was Tim Rice-Oxley, who picked the name "Keane" instead. So just imagine, you could have centralised your loathing in one band!

That can't be true.

And here's me thinking that the name Tim Rice-Oxley was an ingenious attempt to act as aesthetic bridge between the seemingly incompatible worlds of West End musicals and pioneering improvisatory drumming (though FACT: Tony Oxley plays on the original Jesus Christ Superstar stage soundtrack!).

I should have added (and I swear I was going to but forgot) that I got that from W*k*pedia. but hey.

I just followed the reference link from Wiki and it leads to what looks like a (well done) fansite interview / article thing. Might well be true, but is kind of... pathetically mental, if it is.

Does Roy Keane ever listen to Keane, or does he just place the CD on a chair and try to outstare it?

http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2006/0602/3490107056TK0206KEANETEXT.html

If it's this one...

THE four members of Coldplay are sitting in Slattery's pub on Capel Street thinking of a new name for their band. They've a gig on in the Mean Fiddler (now The Village) in less than an hour and the promoter needs to have the new name. The singer mentions a kind old lady he used to know - her name was Cherry Keane. That will do. But no one at the gig hears the name properly and for one night in Dublin a four-piece band with an Irish guitarist who used to be called Coldplay are known as Cherokee.

"Our founding member and guitarist, Dominic Scott, is from Dublin, so we used to spend a lot of time there," says Tim Rice-Oxley, the sole songwriter in the band now known simply as Keane. "We spent years on the overnight Holyhead-Dún Laoghaire sailing and it was after one of those trips and precisely in Slattery's of Capel Street that we came up with our new name, Cherry Keane. She was this really nice old lady who used to look after Tom, the singer in the band. We though the Coldplay name was too depressing so I ended up giving it away to a guy I knew at college - Chris Martin. I believe he's still using it. After a while we dropped the Cherry part of the name - because of the whole Cherokee confusion - and Dominic left the band [ their song Everybody's Changing is about Scott leaving].

More probably their potential audiences saw the name Cherry Keane and were expecting hott butt acttion but when three lardy blokes came on instead then they realised that they had to act for their own safety.

- Muscles says on P4k that his whole project was inspired by Mclusky's "To Hell with Good Intentions," a few dozen people who love both go OMG THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE

though FACT: Tony Oxley plays on the original Jesus Christ Superstar stage soundtrack!

Milford Graves plays on the original Broadway cast recording of Hair.

OK, I made that up.

the fact that Phil Hartman (RIP) designed the cover to Aja by Steely Dan really blew my mind when i read that

Fuck my washing a hat!

Wendy Smith (Prefab Sprout) designed the album cover for the first Magnetic Fields LP...

Pursuant to the Costello 1st album comment, this factoid.

I used to have a young man working in my shipping department, goes by the name of Steve Goulding, you may have heard of him; Stiff house-drummer, original drummer for Graham Parker and the Rumour, but best known in the US for playing with The Mekons...

ANYWAY... he was working, someone put on an Costello comp, "Watching the Detectives" was playing and he muttered something. When asked to repeat he said, "I got 60 quid for that", it was a demo session.

We looked, he has a writing credit for it.

Drums on that are FANTASTIC IMHO.

@ M@tt - sorry to unblow yr mind, but according to Wikipedia ("the most accuate source of Harmann info on the Internet" (tm)) - he did not! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hartman

Giorgio Moroder originally wrote and recorded Son of My Father!

When Syd freaked out, the Floyd asked Caleb Quaye (brother of Finlay) to replace him. Unfortuantely Caleb, brother of Finlay, was already signed up to play guitar with Elton John's touring band.

Long John Baldry was the voice of Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog program during the early '90s.

damnit, the Aja wiki says he did. i really hope it is true.

Donovan provided the weird, high-pitched chorus in Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies".

It was a full duet actually -- they alternate lines.

Photographer Hideki Fujii did Aja, accoding to this: http://www.broberg.pp.se/sd_aja.htm

Steely Dan's song Deacon Blues was written about outsider blues/jazz freak Little Howlin' Wolf - this is, at least, according to Mr. Wolf himself.

Bobby Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe" was written by the late Jim "Harlan County" Ford, at least according to Jim Ford. Ford also provided uncredited guitar on There's A Riot Goin' On.

oh, and this is common knowledge but it still blows my mind that Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band was married to the actress Faye Dunaway in the late-70's (the peak of her career basically, when she won Best Actress for Network)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Slackerposter.jpg

That's Theresa from the Butthole Surfers playing the Madonna-pap-smear hawker in Richard Linklater's Slacker!

I didn't know Godley And Creme were in 10cc!

David Lloyd, the Sky cricket commentator and former England coach, is apparently a massive fan of the Fall.

Sara Robinson at Orcinus is ILX's Sara R-C?! Cool!!

I just happen to be lurking this morning - I do know HI DERE and John Justen (went to high school with them), but Laurel has me confused with some other SRC with the rest of that. Or her confused with me. (Futurism sounds cool, though).

Anyway, carry on then.

― Sara R-C, Monday, October 27, 2008 9:57 AM (25 seconds ago)

Never mind! (/emily litella)

This morning I realised that Xavier Russel (who Britisher readers of a certain age/taste might remember as an early 90s Kerrang journalist who write incredibly sexist reviews which used a K in place of every single hard C) is Ken Russell's son. Amused me, anyway

Charlie Chuck
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Charlie Chuck

Charlie Chuck in 2002; photo by John Fleming
Medium stand-up
Nationality English
Notable works and roles 'Uncle Peter' in 'The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer'

Charlie Chuck is the stage name of British comedian David Kear,

He started his career as a drummer with various bands in the 1970s and 1980s, including a stint with the Small Faces and the Amazing Bavarian Stompers with whom he performed on an edition of the children's TV series Tiswas in 1981.

Whoa, really?

(tbf, this is also on his own webspace, so...)