Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Bloody hell, took a new Jones for a test ride before I handed it over to the customer. And 80s rock legend Sigue Sigue sputnik was in the beer garden…

legend

I think you mean wannabe.

LEGEND?!?!?!?!?!?!

They are playing at the Legion in Swanage 😯

Is that Degville?? Didn’t recognise him without the fishnet across his face.

Saw them in a little club back in the day… he walked past us and said ” Ooh you smell nice” to my mate! Happy days 🙂

*scratches head*

One hit wonder ?

Nice bike.

“Legend in their own lunch hour” is about it…..
😀

Who?

Did you recognise him or did he have to tell you who he was?

he’s still dreaming of being in the army then….

aaaah come on guys.

I know sigue sigue might not be your cup to tea (not really mine either), but he is still out there having a much better music career than “the lesbian stoners on Konas” (one of my many failed bands).

Yeah… legend. They had adverts between the tracks on their album. They were signed for between 1.5 and 4 million gbp… what a great rock sham and/or scam. They worked with Johnny Thunders and Mick Jones.

Meanwhile we work in an (insert mundane job here)
I have never met Mick Jones
We’ve never been on the Tube tv show

Nice bike

I know the local gig promotor, and knew they were in town… gig tomorrow night. So kinda figured it out.

He didnt say… “Hey boy… Im that bloke off top of the pops and I simply demand your curly bicycle cos it looks just divine with me combat pants”.

For the record, I liked them but couldn’t have ever recognised any of them!

you win 100 points for this. Hated the band at the time, fair play to him still going after all this time. My band didn’t get anywhere 🙂

I’ve met Mick Jones,does that make me a legend,err No ! 😉
They were sh1te,but with very clever marketing by Tony James of Gen X fame

I liked his attitude and he looks like he’s still on a good one. Fairplay.

Excellent collection of tyre levers round his neck. 🙂

Yeah… legend. They had adverts between the tracks on their album. They were signed for between 1.5 and 4 million gbp… what a great rock sham and/or scam. They worked with Johnny Thunders and Mick Jones.

And contrary to what readers of the Sun may have believed, they were a fantastic rock n roll band live.

my brother saw them at Stourbridge Town Hall back in the day…

that’s all i know, if i mention them he bursts into F1 ELEVEN

No Charlie don’t get us wrong, some of us remember them first time round like, bit of a “splash n dash” in he charts as far as I can remember but hey, it’s made me YTube them, for (cough) prosperity n all. The silver jumpsuits and “flock of seagulls” hair made me laugh.

Still, nice bike as I said.

Enjoy your concert/gig, rock out, beer’idge, dance, make shapes, sleep it off. Sounds most excellent. 😀

Everyone of the locals in Swanage at that pub was nuts, could be any of the randoms I chatted to at SSUK,…

When I saw the thread title I immediately thought of Love Missile F1-11. Did they have any other hits? Anyway, fair play to him. Still living the dream and that youtube link led me to a clip of Tenpole Tudor on TotP. Happy days 🙂

^^ that has to be the best what’s on board I’ve ever seen.

Classic 😆

At least they’re headlining after Saturday Menu… Now, they were a good but little known band 8)

Great pub btw, agree with pictonroad

I rode past (seeing if a certain bikemonger was open..) and saw that they were playing – awesome

They were not ready for sigue sigue Sputnik

and ran out of “U”s

and had to spell “darts leagVe”

PMSL at that board.

What better epitaph for a band long dead…….

I was looking for one of the headlines that they made back in the day and found this:

Googling Sigue Sigue Sputnik I noticed that there are two competing versions of the band!
Degvilles Sigue Sigue Sputnik Electronic and Tony James’ and Neal X Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
Now I like SSS Electronic and I also like SSS, but which one is better?
There’s only one way to find out…….FIGHT!!!!!

Autobiography of SSS on the tony James Site….

Last page of the story.

I know one thing though. The Starship Sputnik will live forever, immortalised in cyberspace where it truly belongs….. And I’m really proud of that.

The Sigue Sigue Sputnik Electronic album is absolutely dire.

Charlie, you’re a top bloke. And thanks for the Jones, really loving it.
Oh , and you smell nice 😉