Have you heard of this band?

Oddly enough

Wow. If there was a festival in HELL!  Only Howard Jones is missing 😂

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Try working with people under 25 and having greatest hits radio on at work. 95% of the music was a hit before they were born which they describe as “grandad music”

Forget golden oldies radio like greatest hits.

Mr Brightside is now older than people graduating university.

It’s retro to them like Livin’ on a Prayer was to me!

Who the hell is Jerry Fish?

Indeed. Not heard of “Something Happens” either.

We saw The Christians a few year ago supporting Midge Ure. Altered Images were first on the bill and they were fantastic, they left the stage then half the band came back on in different gear as The Christians backing band 😀

slightly off-topic… I went to a gig (The Menzingers) at Northumbria University student union earlier this year, I did feel old (59) amongst the youth 🙂 anyway the pre gig music wasn’t much different from my last time in a union which was 36 years ago, I don’t just mean genre but the actual bands.. I was surprised and a bit disappointed.

The Menzingers played a blinder 🙂

‘I went with my daughter (early 20s) to see Extreme and Scorpions on Saturday at Wembuuurleee.

I consider the proper  education of  the next generation to be important.

AC/DC next.’

How awful for them – if your parents had done the same music would never have moved on beyond skiffle..

It’s astonishing how middle aged people love telling young people what to like.  I have a workmate who’s proud to have taught his 8 year old to like Alice Cooper and some other stuff that is to be blunt, pretty stodgy

I went with my daughter (early 20s) to see Extreme and Scorpions on Saturday at Wembuuurleee.

I consider the proper  education of  the next generation to be important.

Extreme, really? They were terrible when they were originally around. God knows how shite they have become since. Are you educating your daughter in where rock went wrong?

Music quality aside, Extreme and AC/DC are both in the “shitty attitude” bucket for me.

What an odd thread. So Squeeze, I’m no fan, but they were a really good singles band mining the same vein of englishness as the kinks say or more aptly madness, and pretty successfully for a good few years including in the US (“guilty” was a big hit there) in a similar way to Elvis Costello. So I don’t think we need worry about their bank balances, and likewise they’ve a pretty secure fan base and place in er the rich fabric of pop, and Tllbrook/Difford, are a well regarded songwriting duo. Though the last thing that hit my radar was their theme choon for “cradle to the grave”, TV show based on the life story of the guy who was cancelled off the BBC for tweeting a pic implying megs markle’s kid was a chimp. What’s his name Danny something?

Anyway, the annoying and tedious Jules Holland was just the gobby keyboard player who left.

I dunno, culture eh? Few of you would I want on my pub quiz team.

I’ve heard of Squeeze. But I had no idea how many records Drake has sold. And I might be able to name a few Taylor Swift songs. I’ve forgotten the point I was making. Nevermind, Horlicks and bed for me.

But I had no idea how many records Drake has sold.

Nick Drake? definitely in the never heard of for most people I would imagine but very talented nonetheless.

(Yes, I know you didn’t mean that Drake)

I was chatting to a 20yo girl working behind a bar a couple of weeks ago, we got talking about festivals.

She’d never heard of Glastonbury 😂

Nevermind, Horlicks and bed for me.

I’d put something more mellow on if you want to unwind.

Cool for Cats

What, the song off the milk ad?

Currently playing on The Music Machine (the recently-renamed NME1) – Cool for Cats.

I have hated squeeze for years. I used to run a record shop and the owner used to wear white trainers, faded blue jeans, white t shirt and a pristine leather motorcycle jacket. And he had neatly washed medium short length hair. Utter clown.

He was a huge squeeze fan.

I used to run a record shop and the owner used to wear white trainers, faded blue jeans, white t shirt and a pristine leather motorcycle jacket. And he had neatly washed medium short length hair. Utter clown.

He was a huge squeeze fan.

Solid argument, So be it: Squeeze are shite.

She’d never heard of Glastonbury 😂

Wait, what?

What, the song off the milk ad?

When Rik Mayall died, I was talking about it at work and my apprentices had no clue who I was on about. I went through various roles, The Young Ones, Bottom… nothing. I resorted to an image search and the penny dropped with one of them, “oh, that’s the bloke in the Bombardier advert!”

I used to run a record shop and the owner used to wear white trainers, faded blue jeans, white t shirt and a pristine leather motorcycle jacket. And he had neatly washed medium short length hair. Utter clown.

You worked with James Dean?

Anyway, the annoying and tedious Jules Holland was just the gobby keyboard player who left.

Does anyone elsel remember a very short lived TV series called Groovy Fellers, where Jools Holland went around the country with Rowland Rivron (remember him? Thought not! 😀 ) in a  Rolls Royce that had the roof lowered. All I remember was people’s bemusement at being involved in it, not how ‘celeb’ Jools H was.

You worked with James Dean?

Thats what he thought he looked like. But in reality he looked like someones squeaky clean dad dressed like he was going to a school pay of Grease The Musical. Or he was in Bucks Fizz.

I used to run a record shop and the owner used to wear white trainers, faded blue jeans, white t shirt and a pristine leather motorcycle jacket. And he had neatly washed medium short length hair. Utter clown.
You worked with James Dean?

I was picturing:

Rowland Rivron (remember him?

Of course I do, Raw Sex were always on French & Saunders

I’d put something more mellow on if you want to unwind.

I listened to the whole of Nevermind recently. It must have been around 30 years since I played the whole album. It was all prompted by a long thread about Kurt’s guitars and his missing prototype Jagstang. I very rarely listen to an entire album these days, as it’s too easy to pick out the tunes you like.

Related to the OP. As a teenager, I was mercilessly ribbed by some old folks because I confused Lindsey Buckingham with Christine McVie.

Nick Drake? definitely on the never-heard list for most people, I would imagine, but very talented nonetheless.

Yeah, very talented. It is not my cup of tea (or Horlicks), but an undeniable songwriting talent.

Saw Squeeze a cpl of years ago and off to see them again later this year. I am 52 so probably still a little young for hitting them in their prime. I know most of their stuff as I used to hang out with a covers band who were a decade older than me and did a few of their songs. Pulling muscles is one top song, love it, so many memories associated with that and Up the Junction. Thank you for posting this, it has taken me on a nostalgic trip through my late teens and good times.

Does anyone elsel remember a very short lived TV series called Groovy Fellers, where Jools Holland went around the country with Rowland Rivron (remember him? Thought not! 😀 ) in a  Rolls Royce that had the roof lowered.

Yep, remember watching it but couldn’t have told you what it was called and even now Groovy Fellers doesn’t ring any bells but just looked it up and that is the show I remember – oh to be 21 again

 Groovy Fellers doesn’t ring any bells

Title was a play on Jools’s slip up on a ad for The Tube once, where he said “All you groovy fuc.. ers” (sorry for swear avoidance, but it is a quote and hard to explain if it’s just a bunch of asterisks!)