I read somewhere that at the height of their fame and wealth Bono had a bright yellow MkIII cortina for driving around dublin, I hated him a little less when i discovered that.
I like the facelift grille on some models.

mmmm utilitarian….. like. :P

my outsie light which cost about 5 times as much as a filament bulb lasted 8 months and certainly did not get turned on every night, bleedin rippoff.

Stereo Mcs-Step it up.

Did 2000km round the south island in 99, most fun holiday ive ever had, people are friendly ,hospitable and the scenery is mostly stunning outside of canterbury plains, start in christchurh and do a clockwise cicuit following peddlars paradise guidbook, you can't go wrong.

squin I had the Eldridge Grade that same year, it did me until '98!
no pics unfortunately but i loved that bike more than any other i've owned.

the Lemonheads

Always had a roof above me
Always paid the rent
But i've never set foot inside a tent
Can't build a fire to save my life
I lied about being the outdoor type

I've never slept out underneath the stars,
The closest that i came to that was one time my car
Broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night
I lied about being the outdoor type.

Too scared to let you know you knew what you were looking for
I lied until i fit the bill god bless the great indoors
I lied about being the outdoor type
I've never owned a sleeping bag let alone a mountain bike

I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend
What if somethings on tv and its never shown again
Its just as well i'm not invited i'm afraid of heights
I lied about being the outdoor type

Never learned to swim can't grow a beard or even fight
I lied about being the outdoor type

Urge Overkill
Gaye Bikers on Acid
Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction
Pelvic Thunderhound
Raging Speedhorn
The Rock of Travolta
Northshore Ponyclub
archers of Loaf
Fountains of Wayne
elemeno p
Skinny puppy
Fat Freddy's Drop
the Spermbirds
The Cramps
The blubbery Hellbellies
Spear of Destiny

Royal Trux, Thee Hypnotics and Pavement I evetually gave the fisrt two bands cds to a friend I'm still trying to 'get' Crooked Rain Crooked Rain.

lol! you young turk!

Rise above the slagging the cruzer other you might come across as a grumpy auld bollox. just a thought if you're looking for bizness in these hereabouts,they're a testy bunch and love to play up.

Cos it was my birthday and it was a very original condition Marin Pine Mountain for about 60 quid from a cash converters. now my commuter/ race bike. I bloody love old steel Marins me!

Never seen another Jamis Dakota 631

always plenty of 'Whoohoos"( a la tigger from winnie the pooh) on the downs but more of a "pech" than anything else on the ups.

Don't ever tip the keyboard! hoover its grimy ass every now and then.

Fatboyslim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZ40l9c4dY
and of course the fannies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iuALpEXNlE

happened to me about a year into a five year relationship, it was never the same even though she fessed up to just on shag, i didn't even think about getting even, just felt really gutted and only about 50% as committed to the relationship for the remaining time.

similarly a muesli bar, a pair of Oakley Zeros which i felt guilty about keeping but it was on a regular roadies route so could have been anyones,(i lost them off the roof the car about 6 weeks later any way.easy come easy go)
about $ 2.20 in coinage,a french connection jumper size 12. gave it to a female friend.

" A coward you are Withnail, an expert on bulls you are not"
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The Mission- reading 89 walkd away after 3 songs cos I couldn;t take any more of wayne hussey's droning
The Lemonheads in Hobart tasmania in 93 so looking forward to it but Evan on the smak so he put no effort in ,just played his tunes and walked off. gutted.

Los Lobos- bambalayaa or whatwever it was called
Killer -Seal overrated tune
Anything By Van Morrison' working in a bar 'll do that to you although I concede he has a great voice.
Anything from Erasure.

john_drummer did you ever see NMA do a cover of "I'm a believer?" by Neil Diamond? They did it during a sound check on the '90 swedish tour and it was so good we talked them into playing it on the last gig of the tour. Justin obviously a bit of a fan deep down!!

lets not forget Bauhaus' ripper version of Ziggy Stardust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_YQXFs7Ts

jizz monkies I lol'd

Still gets people saying they didn't know it was an Elvis song when they hear it.
The King-Come as you are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoYc91Uohuk

My '90 Eldridge Grade. Best fitting bike I ever had and 6 happy years of rigid old school steel loveliness. Now in a barn in Fife.

Rush – Exit stage left, only have 2 live albums the other is Raw Melody Men which I was not that taken with as I've seen NMA live so many times anyway.

Elbow- on the car stereo, had to pack away all the Cd's in the lounge as the slimtubling was into them constantly.
got a bit of a grunge/ britpop playlist on the ipodd for commuting.

the acid house by Irvine Welsh, gets a bit scary but mostly just splatter gore fun and games.

sleeping that is, not cracking one off.

I used to find cracking one off would help. Now I have a kid sleep is such a luxury that I never seem to be troubled by lack of it.

taka nah bro Nu Zulland.
chunky suburb of the future mate don't knock the 'hunga

Onehunga to Auckland CBD for me.

Gin Wigmore She'sgonna be huge I reckon, most unusual voice and hot in a goofy way.

Auckland=Baltic.

Seeing them here in Auckland in march Woot!

Lets not forget my as yet unformed Zydeco/agitpop band 'slimtubing & the broken hardtails'

I was operated on by a Dr Hedley Philpott, struck me as a nice but old fashioned moniker for a fella clearly born in the 60's.

I think the majority of us Gen Xers are in the same boat music wise (am happy to be proved wrong) so if you chuck on anything indie/post punk through to the death of brit pop you'd please quite a few ears round 'ere.
for myself it has to be Teenage Fanclub, Husker Du and The Chameleons.

Auckland has something like 70 cones dotted around the city, we could find ourselves with North ,South and Middle islands quite easily.