I tired to edit my post above with this additional comment, but the forum says it's spam. Well, no more so than the rest of my ramblings here! So, new post:

The bit where Tina Weymouth was talking to Bootsy Collins about how the frontman (e.g James Brown) would claim the bassplayers's bits as his own writing was funny. Having read some of the stuff about the battles between David Byrne and Weymouth in Talking Heads, you just know she was refering to Byrne when she was referring to the "front cat" or whatever her expression was.

Yes I was quite surprised to learn how innovative Mcartney was in achieving that bass sound and the stuff with amps.That sounds like a backhanded compliment but I never had him down as technically innovative, innovative in songwriting yes but never thought he was innovative in stuff like achieving a new bass sound/ style. I guess I’ve never paid much attention to the technical sound of The Beatles, it was always about the catchy tunes and lyrics for me.

Can’t say if last night’s bass doc was better than last week’s drums one as I only watched the Steve section of that.Last night’s
has definitely inspired me to look up more of Talking Heads’ stuff.They did some cracking stuff but have only really been aware of their big hits like Once In A Lifetime, Burning Down The House etc

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The ad I saw was only 30 seconds long, and AoC played through the whole clip. Hoping it turns up again somewhere.

I will say the song in the video you linked is pretty interesting. Definitely hear the influence.

New footage of New Order's last performance at Jodrell Bank has just landed (pardon the pun!) on BlueDot's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com.../posts/2001741439916709/

Not sure if that's a direct link, but you should find it. Thanks to DigiMike for the heads up.

in episode 1 of the show, they play a snippet of elegia.

later
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Very odd, but pretty cool.

Sounded like Love Will Tear Us Apart played in the Etihad stadium after the final whistle of Man City 6 Chelsea 0 today. Was watching in the pub. Hard to say for sure and maybe I imagined it. Why would they play such a sombre reflective song after Man City won by such a margin?

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Not sure Sumner knows much about football and Hook would probably fall into the post 1992 Utd fan bracket although haven't seen him in VIP with Simply Mick. Gretton was a hardcore City fan, as was Curtis according to his daughter.

Think its sung probably just because its a catchy tune. Do Utd still sing the Giggs aka Family Man version?

Oh it was absolutely blasting out (mind you I was watching via USA's NBC which may have had the stadium volume higher in their mix than Sky).



That sounds like it might be a banner rather than song lyrics.



I think at Brixton Academy 2001, where I was at the second night, Bernard mentioned Man Utd having won a game the previous night in the Champions League and saying "it was a bit tense" (it was!). I wonder if they waited for the game to finish before taking the stage? As for Hooky, I remember an interview where he said he had a season ticket at Old Trafford (not VIP) at one point but he got a bit bored going to every game. Probably was post '92, alright.



After the Glazers took over, an act called Hanky Park put out We'll Never Die which they got Hook to produce and play on. I've got the CD single somewhere in my collection. Track 2 on the CD, "Christian Word" is Terry Christian talking some hype about Utd. I think that's the track that had a big blast of Hooky bass at the beginning. Certainly one of the tracks has some Hooky bass louder in the mix than the main video version that's embedded in Discogs. I suppose due to it's anti-glazer roots it doesn't get played over the PA at OT.

As for LWTUA at City, it was being sung during the game yesterday (as well as at the end). I got the impression they were singing "Kun will tear you apart" - as in Sergio 'Kun' Aguero, who of course matched Shearer's hat trick record and I think set a City goal record too. Perhaps any City fans reading this know more about (a) the records, (b) the song and (c) his nickname 'Kun' which came from his time at Atletico (?). Personally I like adding a T to the end of Kun, although I really wanted City to win yesterday (someone needs to challenge L****pool FFS!).

Think there’s a photo in one of the books of Ian Curtis as a kid wearing a Man U shirt. Maybe in Touching From A Distance. It’s the old 1970s shirt obviously.That old plain red with white hoop collar and not even the Man U badge.So it could be just a generic football type shirt, I don’t know.

There's also the story of Hook telling Giggs to F-Off for sitting on his car which was parked inside HAC/Stringfellows. Think it was in "I used to be in a Band" Vol.4. Those were the days.