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Tony James - Maybe?????
Posted: 15 Jan 2005, 02:08
by Dave R
if you want to see him, that is if he is still in the band, then get your ass down to the biggest venue in Stourbridge....
Thats right kids, the Sputniks are playing in my backyard! at the venue as world renowned as New Yorks CBGB's and Londons Marquee....
Stourbridge Rock Cafe - last Saturday of January 2005
and if you are really keen, catch Chas and Dave a week saturday...yep the venue atrracts alll the big names.....
Can't make it meself, gotta stay in that night and shampoo the aardvark.
Ho Hum.
Posted: 15 Jan 2005, 02:20
by James Blast
I won't show
Dave thanks for the 'heads up' tho, I am saving my groats for a certain meet in Leeds, very, very soon
Posted: 16 Jan 2005, 22:24
by The Pope
It's not SSS exactly, but Sputnik2, Degville's thing. I guess he's playing his own stuff and old Sputnik stuff.
TJ is touring with Carbon/Silicon starting in February and I've heard that the next real Sputnik gig is in Moscow in March.
Posted: 17 Jan 2005, 00:12
by Dave R
Ok...
ooooohhhhhhh
(raises handbag and apologies for not being a sputnik fan.....)
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 13:20
by DerekR
Spotted on BBC4 NME documentary
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 16:34
by James Blast
aren't his eyes blue
Posted: 16 Sep 2005, 13:26
by straylight
They always were very piercingly blue but seem to have got darker with age...!
Ach, I always did have a soft spot for ol' TJ. Even if they are contacts good luck to him.
Posted: 16 Sep 2005, 14:45
by edu
Toni James a couple of months ago with SSS in Barcelona
http://www.fotolog.net/congrio/?photo_id=11722607
Posted: 22 Feb 2006, 13:57
by Norman Hunter
Posted: 22 Feb 2006, 18:48
by James Blast
very interesting, thankee
Norm! 
Posted: 22 Feb 2006, 18:50
by radiojamaica
"... getting really drunk with Kristianne Backer..."
Go, Tony!
Posted: 22 Feb 2006, 22:15
by canon docre
How funny, my ex-bf recorded aswell in PUK and praised the same things: the jacuzzi and the reasonable amount of computer/video games, albeit more up-to-date than tetris.
the album isnt necessarily benefitting if the band has it too comfortable while recording.
Posted: 22 Feb 2006, 23:57
by mugabe
radiojamaica wrote:"... getting really drunk with Kristianne Backer..."
Go, Tony!
Yeah, and seeing Roger Walters.
Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 00:01
by EvilBastard
Isn't it comforting to know that the Gonzoid Bastard Gothic Overlord Of The 7th Circle Of Hellfire wears Marks n'Spencers undies? I can see him doing an ad for British Tourism...
Scene: Hieronymous Bosch painting on a bad day - widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth, rains of fire, many demons. In the middle of the apocalyptic landscape, one ANDREW ELDRITCH stands, clad entirely in black leather, clutching a microphone stand while screaming blue murder at some nameless sound engineer.
AE (basso profondo): Listen, you halfwitted muppet, I don't care how long you have to suffer the attentions of satan's pitchfork up your jacksie, but we're going to keep doing takes of Vision Thing until we get it right, do you understand?!
Eldritch notices camera and crew
AE (switching to normal cockney sparrah voice): Oh, hello - didn't see you there. You know, when I'm not laying waste to half the known world on tours with my band, The Sisters of Mercy, there's nothing more I like than...
Fadeout to Eldritch lying in a deckchair in a suburban back garden, clad only in M&S undies, at his elbow a cup of tea, copy of The Observer, and a portable radio with the cricket commentary. There is a white knotted hankershief on his head. The sounds of an english summer (birdsong, rotary lawnmowers, etc.) in the background, while Elgar provides an appropriate musical underscore.
AE: ...to spend a perfectly pleasant afternoon in England, lying back with a nice cup of tea, in comfortably boxers from M&S (5 pound for a 3-pack, now that's a bargain), and the cricket on the radio.
Tagline: England - It's What I Do To Relax
Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 00:18
by James Blast
but, the offending pant was not of boxerdom
Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 10:01
by Karst
Derek - what was that BBC4 documentary (the missus insists on Corrie - so I don't get much of a chance to watch things these days) where James appeared in.
Also, would you buy a car from that man?
Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 10:31
by Quiff Boy
probably time to plug this for the newcomers that missed it 1st time around
Heartland Interview with Tony James
http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7355
Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 13:45
by Norman Hunter
Quiff Boy wrote:probably time to plug this for the newcomers that missed it 1st time around
...Just read it
Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 13:47
by Quiff Boy
Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 15:51
by Al
Just started reading through this, and he certainly has led an interesting life.
Certainly worth a (ghost written) autobiography.
Posted: 13 Mar 2006, 21:46
by spot778
He also replies to your emails !
Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 12:49
by Norman Hunter
Think he's on C4 Planet Sound Teletex (p.340?) today, talking about Carbon/Silicon.
Posted: 09 Nov 2008, 02:27
by Brad
I saw him the other day on The Biography Channel which was featuring Billy Idol.
I have honestly not seen him since his days with Andrew, but it seems he is morphing into Pete Townsend.