Details here:

http://www.omegaauctions...gnature-collection-2021/

Catalogues available at £15 a shot (£23 for signed; £35 for a personal inscription).

Two variants of the cover; one with the Blue Monday anvil award, the other with the NME Godlike Genius award.

Not much interest, eh?



Got the catalogue today.

As suspected, it's a nice item, full of some real cool memorabilia and, admittedly, some tat (some Get Ready, WFSTC etc. promo items, for instance).

The choice article for me is the Blue Monday anvil.
Think Tony had about 8 made, each with their names individually cast onto them. This one says 'Peter'.
Starting price is £1k but it’ll fetch a lot more, I’d think. I would LOVE this!

There’s also his Brit Award for the True Faith video, plus an Ivor Novello and the NME Godlike Genius award.

Apart from those, there are a LOT of very interesting tapes (demos, live sets etc.) that I'd love too. They start at around £100 for a set of them.

There's quite a few guitars for sale too. Some of which would be bloody nice to own (one of his Shergolds and a couple of his BB1200Ss, including his original one). There's also his HOT and HOT2 Eccleshall guitars, which look fab!

However, I'm not really sure who would want to own a bass guitar that was obviously gifted to Hooky and he never played (or, at least, not in any meaningful way). He's pretty much known for only ever using the BB1200S and Marathon, but there's quite a few 'other' makes (including some standard guitars). It would be weird to own a Hooky bass that isn't a Yamaha or Shergold.


Anyway, I won't be bidding. Too rich for my blood, sadly. :-(
I also find auctions really annoying. I like to know that the price stated is the price I'm going to pay. It's frustrating when things escalate quickly.

But, still, I'd definitely recommend the catalogue (as I would the first auction's one). It's a lovely item and very nice to see all that memorabilia together in one place.

Only the BM Anvil was of real interest to me when skimming the web page linked above.

No way an ordinary bloke from Salford is going to win an auction for that, so fuck it. I'm out.

Ordered the catalogue, but it'll be a while before it arrives, probably thanks to Brexit and brazilian postman

Again and again I'm flogging too much,
of the crap that costs you too much,

And it ain't just Hooky

http://forums.neworderon...sts&t=4964#post36193

I wondered if these alternative "raps" would see the light of day as outtake excerpts on the 'Technique' definitive edition (they'd need to be clips of just the raps, not the entire song several times over).

Do you think Hooky selling off his tapes now will prevent this occurring - and from other, more significant, alternate takes and outtakes appearing on future boxed sets? Hope he doesn't have the only copies of such masters - or that the tapes have already been digitised ready for mastering and inclusion on the boxed sets.

Be a shame to flog off the only copies of stuff now and exclude them from future boxed sets in the process!

Are there any other tapes in Hooky's auction?

Edited by user 08 July 2021 03:23:59(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Loads and loads of interesting tapes. Basically from 1980 to 1990 there are assorted tapes of live recordings and demos and rehearsals. Each lot is roughly 7-17 tapes split on years. E.g. 17 live cassettes from 1981 December 1980 to Jan 1981. 7 cassettes from 1980 studio and demo. Some seem very interesting. All start at £100

PUNK!

'Thr B-Side' was basically the demo version. I read somewhere about who did the rap but forget - it wasn't the players. Perhaps Keith Allen?

Im pretty sure I remember John Barnes saying in the middle of NewOrderStory the decision on who did the rap came down to him, Paul Gascoigne, Des Walker and Peter Beardsley ( ) and obvs on that clip the second was Gazza and the third was Beardsley ( ) so was that first one Barnes or could it have been Walker?

Edited by user 09 July 2021 03:07:54(UTC)  | Reason: Diving? Lose sportingly or win like the rest? Hmmm

HaHa. Nice one, Fotz!

To be fair, it was a very soft penalty.
But these things even themselves out.
Kane should’ve had a penalty earlier, IMO
Their free kick that they scored from shouldn’t’ve stood etc.

Balance of play, we deserved the win, I feel (even if the penalty was soft).
We created the best chances and were denied goals thanks to the brilliance of Schmeichel.
Also, for much of the second half and ET, Denmark didn’t seem to want to win the game, maybe (realistically) believing that Schmikes would get them through a penalty shoot-out. England on the other hand, were pretty much camped in the Danish half for much of the latter parts of the game.

Roll on Sunday.
I will say that I’m not very hopeful, regrettably. Italy look great and, sadly, a better side than us.

But you never know. It could happen.
I’m just happy we’ve got a chance. A major final, eh? Who’d have thunk it? 😀

Just to keep this slightly on topic, World In Motion is on heavy rotation in my house.

Edited by user 09 July 2021 02:44:59(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

This. Totally.
His tactics have been spot on. Also, much as I love Grealish, you've got to admire a man who isn't afraid to sub a sub if it means shoring up the defence.



This too!
This is the best England squad I've seen at a tournament since the first one I saw back in 1982. We've had some pretty good teams (1986, 1990 and 1996 spring to mind), but never had the same wealth of players to pick from.

Even if we ultimately fail on Sunday (such is the England way), it's still a great time to be an England supporter. Semis in the World Cup and Nations League, plus the Final (and maybe beyond!) in the Euros. Exciting times!


We're singing for England! En-gerr-land!

PS we still don’t care. 😉