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This Friday BBC 4..

"Two nights of documentaries, interviews, profiles and archive footage devoted to the new wave record label. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/s ... tiff+night

edit - watch out, apparently there may be strong language!

Cheers Dave

Is this about Viagra?

Edit ***** is V*agra how spooky

QB has censored the word Via-gra because of all the spam merchants. Might throw a spanner in their works having the spam links turned to viagra

and just when were Dr. Feelgood on Stiff?

James Blast wrote:and just when were Dr. Feelgood on Stiff?

Well I for one feel good when stiff

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James Blast wrote:and just when were Dr. Feelgood on Stiff?

In 1986.....

Singles

Don't Wait up/Something Good
See You Later Alligator/I Love You So You're Mine


Albums

Brilleaux
The Southenders



Anything to help


I actually think Stiff Records is my fav record label - if I go through my singles it's probably the most prevelant.

Nice on Ness, his Blastness never knew that.
but Wilko was long gone by then

Look at THIS for a fantastic double bill

http://www.bangbang-live.com/wilko.html

If it wasn't fot the fact I was off to Brum the following night (for mi buffdi) I'd seriously give this a go.

Me LOVES Mr W. Eric

Debaser wrote:Look at THIS for a fantastic double bill

http://www.bangbang-live.com/wilko.html

If it wasn't fot the fact I was off to Brum the following night (for mi buffdi) I'd seriously give this a go.

Me LOVES Mr W. Eric

We saw Wreckless Eric support The Damned earlier this year, a great night

I heard old Wreckless interviewed on R4 a few years back, he's stopped drinking, lives in France (those two things just do not go hand in hand) and is a total mess. He sounded like he should change his name to Fucked Fred!

Nice to finally see that Devo vidaeo (sic), but didn't Stiff release a load of shite!?
Tracy Ullman (FFS!), Rachel Sweet, Jona Lewie, Alvin Feckin' Stardust, the Bellend Stars etc....

Nice to see Ten Foot Tadpole again (SKIDS meets PsychoBetty?) and did anyone spot that Mad Bovril John Ottway in the Stop the Cavalry appearance?

James Blast wrote:Alvin Feckin' Stardust

Heard the JR cover on Dios Esta De Nuestro Lado?

Puts the original to shame.

Dark wrote:

James Blast wrote:Alvin Feckin' Stardust

Heard the JR cover on Dios Esta De Nuestro Lado?

Puts the original to shame.

Nope! and I really don't care to.

Lighten up, Mr B.. you know you love Gangwar really.

James Blast wrote:

Dark wrote:

James Blast wrote:Alvin Feckin' Stardust

Heard the JR cover on Dios Esta De Nuestro Lado?

Puts the original to shame.

Nope! and I really don't care to.

It's very good Mr B

I had to turn the channel over last night as this was on at 2am

James Blast wrote:but didn't Stiff release a load of shite!?
Tracy Ullman (FFS!), Rachel Sweet, Jona Lewie, Alvin Feckin' Stardust, the Bellend Stars etc....

i was quite amazed at the amount of one hit wonders Stiff actually had...not counting the serious amount of utter bollocks that was released as well i'm amazed that the label stayed afloat for so long

James Blast wrote:Nice to see Ten Foot Tadpole again (SKIDS meets PsychoBetty?) and did anyone spot that Mad Bovril John Ottway in the Stop the Cavalry appearance?

Eddie Tuderpole ...what a star!
and just where was John Ottway?...i didn't see him...

Ottway was playing the drums in the squaddie backing combo

Burn wrote: i was quite amazed at the amount of one hit wonders Stiff actually had...not counting the serious amount of utter bollocks that was released as well i'm amazed that the label stayed afloat for so long

...

ahhhhhh but the gems, the gems, Wreckless Eric (well he's MY gem), the Blockheads, Kirsty MacColl, Madness, The Pogues,The Damned, Elvis Costello, Plasmatics, Department X, the most wonderful King Kurt,

I think they were also responsible for distributing a young Theatre of Hate.

I'll forgive Stiff anything, even the Belle Stars *shudder*

And I wouldn't want to argue with a man with a baseball bat behind his desk LOL

Debaser wrote:And I wouldn't want to argue with a man with a baseball bat behind his desk LOL

very Spinal Tap

Debaser wrote:

Burn wrote: i was quite amazed at the amount of one hit wonders Stiff actually had...not counting the serious amount of utter bollocks that was released as well i'm amazed that the label stayed afloat for so long

...

ahhhhhh but the gems, the gems, Wreckless Eric (well he's MY gem), the Blockheads, Kirsty MacColl, Madness, The Pogues,The Damned, Elvis Costello, Plasmatics, Department X, the most wonderful King Kurt,

I think they were also responsible for distributing a young Theatre of Hate.

I'll forgive Stiff anything, even the Belle Stars *shudder*

i realise that Stiff Records did indeed bring some top quality to the waiting public eager for that something different to the tragic normality that the big labels tried to install after and during the punk years...but it was almost as if the documentery searched out only the hideous outsiders and the one hit wonders...or Madness...

thank f**k for Stiff...with out their stance against normality we'd not have the wonderful and varied independent music scene that survives today


Department S...Is Vic There?

Stiff's advertising campaigns plus Barney Bubbles artwork was so right

The whole thing raised, once again, the perennial question... was Shane McGowan actually born with teeth like that?

boudicca wrote:The whole thing raised, once again, the perennial question... was Shane McGowan actually born with teeth like that?

The first time I saw that programme about him I was nearly in tears, I remember him at the first Pogues gig I went to in 1985, The Pogues were the Second live band I saw and it's left a lasting impression, anyone who saw the Pogues about the same time will testify to the sheer energy & passion from both the band and crowd of a Pogues gig, I've never experienced anything like, even when I was following Fields of the Nephilim, nothing ever matched the Pouges gigs I'd been to, I saw then 6 or 7 times between 85 & 89ish, like them or not, I rate them as one of the best Bands Britain has ever produced.
It's probably typical of Great Britain's attitude to it's artists that he will never be fully appreciated until he's dead, which, if carries on like he is, won't be to long.
Shane MacGowan is one of the best, most under rated, unappreciated Lyricists and song writers of all time, seldom has an artist had the respect of his peers that MacGowan undoubtedly has.
It breaks my Heart to watch him decend to the Depths he has.
And no Claire, his teeth haven't always been as bad.

Keith