To mark the start of the football season here is 'Tom Hark' again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YssrjLMNP_Q

Altogether now:-

''Champions League? You're 'avin a laff.

Champions League? You're 'avin a laff.''

Before he became an insufferable champagne socialist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKcG3gn3F8

'Here we are in our Summer years,
Living on ice cream and chocolate kisses,
Would the leaves fall from the trees,
If I was your old man.
And you was my missus ?'

Real aussie rock.

INXS - Don't change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNV0Y0EKKnA&feature=related


Unique aussie bands that sound like no one else:

Rose Tattoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL4DSLd3KZU

Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-08-20 19:09:56)

^Nice to see Japan being posted.

I had on the expanded CD of Assemblage yesterday evening, some great 12" of Life In Tokyo.

Yes, Hepcat, they were really something special to me, growing up...

I feel pity for kids growing up today and all the manufactured & commercialized  bands. I was too young for T Rex but Japan did have the same manager in Simon Napier Bell . He knew a good thing when he saw it didn`t he!!!???lol But then he ruined it by going on to manage Wham!...Oh, well.

I always found Japan so inspiring. Probably more so than Bowie (who was also a bit of a local hero in Bromley, and who`s old house in Sundridge Park was somewhere i`d been inside; since it was now owned by the parents of two twin sisters me  and some mates knocked around with and briefly `went out` with).

I loved Japan`s un-compromising style. Their music, their `look`, really did seem so inspiring , fresh and bold , at the time. They didn`t give a fuck if you `got them` or not. It was intoxicating stuff . Maybe kids today get a not dissimilar similar rush from gangster rap.I dunno...


Theirs was also a very brave and probably not advisable look for the streets of South East London in the late seventies and early 80`s.

...Oh, no, They were BIG heroes for me.



Early on, they were quite tight knit and they all grew up together, and though i kind of like some of Sylvian and Karn , and the others later stuff , i think they were definately better as a group than the sum of their individual parts.


I met Steve Jansen at the Bloomsbury Theatre, when Porcupine Tree (featuring Richard Barbieri) were playing some years back.He was quiet, very diffident and friendly. I asked after David and Steve asked how Bromley was these days (i`d, actually  moved from Bromley about 15 years previously...).




Mick Karn , apparently, lives very near to me in Cyprus, but i`ve never seen him about locally and  he has , sadly, recently been diagnosed with advanced cancer.


God bless him.


Thank you, Hepcat.

Last edited by jesmond (2010-08-29 10:19:11)

Italian style?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olU40fxAXZs&feature=related