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Mission
If you ever followed a band, at any time, for any amount of time, we would like to hear about your experiences. Or if you were in a band, or worked for a band that had a following we would like to chat to you to as well!
We are all independent, professional writers, photographers and artists who originally met on the road in the eighties. So if you were part of this culture between 85 and 95 we probably know you anyway.
We'd like to pop over to your house again and listen to you talk about your experiences and look at your photos, see your treasured t shirts and memorabilia. Put some records on. Have a laugh, maybe shed a tear. Perhaps have tea and toast (if that's alright with you).
We are in a position to make a professional looking documentary, which may even become a movie with the right backing (You never know!). But it is your input and belief in the project which is vital, if we are going to tell our collective story objectively. The time has come. This is our Quadrophenia (but without Sting and his rubbish hair/dancing).
Via Facebook: (preferred)
http://www.facebook.com/Bugwriter
http://www.facebook.com/Bugwriter/info
Direct email:
bugwriter@ymail.com
Or via Heartland:
http://www.myheartland.co.uk/profile.ph ... ile&u=5077
Thanks in advance
Ever followed a band around?
- EvilBastard
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...and by people who fancy having some free tea and toast, apparently. But you know it won't stop there - oh no, they'll expect marmite, or jam, or marmalade, or some other thing, and "oh, I don't like teabag tea" so they'll have you running down to the shops for some oolong.Quiff Boy wrote:The project is being driven by a gang of old sisters, ghost dance, salvation & mish followers
Be warned - if there's a knock at your door, and standing on the doorstep is a group of people who make the Mormons look like people you'd want to invite in, and some of them are carrying their own china, don't let 'em in!
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
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- emilystrange
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honey, those people are us...
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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marmite? jam? marmalade? Manna from heaven that... I think I lived on white toast and co-op tea from 86 - 92EvilBastard wrote:...and by people who fancy having some free tea and toast, apparently. But you know it won't stop there - oh no, they'll expect marmite, or jam, or marmalade, or some other thing, and "oh, I don't like teabag tea" so they'll have you running down to the shops for some oolong.Quiff Boy wrote:The project is being driven by a gang of old sisters, ghost dance, salvation & mish followers
Be warned - if there's a knock at your door, and standing on the doorstep is a group of people who make the Mormons look like people you'd want to invite in, and some of them are carrying their own china, don't let 'em in!
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- Emerald Green
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BTW thanks to Quiff Boy for plugging the project
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I can accept all of the above.....as long as they've got no dogs with a piece of string as a lead.Emerald Green wrote:marmite? jam? marmalade? Manna from heaven that... I think I lived on white toast and co-op tea from 86 - 92EvilBastard wrote:...and by people who fancy having some free tea and toast, apparently. But you know it won't stop there - oh no, they'll expect marmite, or jam, or marmalade, or some other thing, and "oh, I don't like teabag tea" so they'll have you running down to the shops for some oolong.Quiff Boy wrote:The project is being driven by a gang of old sisters, ghost dance, salvation & mish followers
Be warned - if there's a knock at your door, and standing on the doorstep is a group of people who make the Mormons look like people you'd want to invite in, and some of them are carrying their own china, don't let 'em in!
- EvilBastard
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...precisely!emilystrange wrote:honey, those people are us...
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
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Well, you know, if you allow New Model Army fans into your home then you deserve everything you get!Gollum's Cock wrote:I can accept all of the above.....as long as they've got no dogs with a piece of string as a lead.
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
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- Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
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There was a good quote in the Comments underneath that recent Goffs article in the Guardian about this phenomenon : "Though give or take the odd band still going from that time (New Model Army being the obvious example), following a band about & doing all the pyramids & shoulders stuff isnt really something you seem to get anymore. A wet tuesday afternoon spent at Trowell services waiting for a lift to take you to Leicester to see a dodgy band you've already seen five times that week - youngsters dont know what they're missing!"
Sums it up really. I stopped following bands in that way once the followers started giving themselves a name, printing their own t-shirts/fanzines etc, thinking they had a divine right to be on the guestlist and that they had proprietorial rights over the moshpit.
Sums it up really. I stopped following bands in that way once the followers started giving themselves a name, printing their own t-shirts/fanzines etc, thinking they had a divine right to be on the guestlist and that they had proprietorial rights over the moshpit.
I once followed Spiritualized around for a grand total of 2 gigs, but I don't think that's quite what they're looking for...
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
- markfiend
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I was too fond of my creature comforts to ever properly follow a band. The closest I ever came was hitching back to Leeds from the Sisters NEC gig in '92. And that was a fracking disaster, I think I got back home around 11am the next day.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
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You should have got the coach back with the rest of us!markfiend wrote:I was too fond of my creature comforts to ever properly follow a band. The closest I ever came was hitching back to Leeds from the Sisters NEC gig in '92. And that was a fracking disaster, I think I got back home around 11am the next day.
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
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- Silver_Owl
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Where's Scotty? He'd be the man they want.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
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I couldn't believe it when I saw that article!Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:There was a good quote in the Comments underneath that recent Goffs article in the Guardian about this phenomenon : "Though give or take the odd band still going from that time (New Model Army being the obvious example), following a band about & doing all the pyramids & shoulders stuff isnt really something you seem to get anymore. A wet tuesday afternoon spent at Trowell services waiting for a lift to take you to Leicester to see a dodgy band you've already seen five times that week - youngsters dont know what they're missing!"
Sums it up really. I stopped following bands in that way once the followers started giving themselves a name, printing their own t-shirts/fanzines etc, thinking they had a divine right to be on the guestlist and that they had proprietorial rights over the moshpit.
I think that's why the whole thing was such an interesting social phenomenon. With hindsight it was at times (well very often) a ridiculous thing to do but the tribalism & camaraderie held it all together. Sadly this tribalism encouraged some really unpleasant attitudes and behaviour at times, experienced both as tension and one-upmanship within followings and sometimes as outright violence to people outside the 'gang'.
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- weebleswobble
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Where the f**k is Scotty?
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It's a big regret of mine that I never got a kit bag out & followed any of my favorite bands on tour. In hindsight I'd have loved to have followed the Sisters, Smiths, Chameleons, Spear in 84-85, The Mish 86-88 or ROA, Balaam in 86-87.
My gig going years were 1985-90 (I was aged 15-20) & peaked in 1990, when IIRC, I went to 100 gigs but 90+ were in either Leeds or Bradford. Sadly I was too young to follow the above bands when I was 14-17, going on 18 but kick myself now that I didn't go for it with the Stone Roses in 1989. I was finally earning decent money (relatively speaking as a 19 year old) by then & should have gone on the road. Can't really think of any bands that I've liked enough to follow post 1989.
My gig going years were 1985-90 (I was aged 15-20) & peaked in 1990, when IIRC, I went to 100 gigs but 90+ were in either Leeds or Bradford. Sadly I was too young to follow the above bands when I was 14-17, going on 18 but kick myself now that I didn't go for it with the Stone Roses in 1989. I was finally earning decent money (relatively speaking as a 19 year old) by then & should have gone on the road. Can't really think of any bands that I've liked enough to follow post 1989.
Give me one good reason
Ah yes. Because there's no such thing as a Heartland t-shirt!Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:I stopped following bands in that way once the followers started giving themselves a name, printing their own t-shirts/fanzines etc, thinking they had a divine right to be on the guestlist and that they had proprietorial rights over the moshpit.
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn't work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness"