Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Ha! just heard this on the radio...

"Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!
Move y'self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place"

The Clash's The Magnificent Seven of course and I used to sing it in my head everyday when I worked on a production line making storage heaters for Dimplex in the early 80s..

 

Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings
The six-o'clock alarm would never ring
But six rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
The shaving razor's cold and it stings

Kudos for the seldom-seen 'neath in a popular song

 

Not from personal experience, but obviously a heartfelt paean from the greatest living English songwriter:

 

Delroy he's the boy

 

This one used to run through my head quite often in the mornings. Think it was the lines,

How you get so rude and reckless?
You been drinking brew for breakfast...

Back when I used to frequently start the day with a can of Special Brew and a spliff (not recommended btw)

 

Great song, inspired by a series of Rudy tunes, found these, there may be more.

Happy Friday all

 

Trojan Records ^^^^ Look out for a new documentary about the label, currently in production

 

Turns out it was released last November...

 

I'll dig that out and watch. I was 16 in '66 a mod then. but in my early teens hung out in The Old Manor Cafe on the A30 in Blackwater, lived just down the road. The Agincourt ballroom was close by saw all the 60s bands there. Gino Washington a crowd rousing favourite. Then one Sunday 12-3-1967 I walked in to see 4 long haired, kaftan wearing musicians playing very loud with a primitive oil wheel projector light show... Pink Floyd.
Tunes from those venues
The Old Manor

and Danny

And the "Ag" Geno

and the Floyd

 

James performed a very unusual pre acoustic set, at Soton Guildhall last eve, before providing us with 100mins of fantastic album tunes & Tim Booth’s whirling devershire dancing. Mesmeric.

 

Just found this on Wiki. Apparently the band weren't at all happy with the film.
The Clash became so disenchanted with the film that, by its release, they had Better Badges make badges stating 'I don't want Rude Boy Clash Film'.[6]Joe Strummer told Melody Maker in 1980: "We didn't like what they were doing with the black people, because they were showing them dipping into pockets and then they were shown being done for something and that was their only role in the film ... Who wants to propagate that? That's what the right wing use, 'all blacks are muggers' which is a load of rubbish. After that rough showing I've never seen it since and nor have any of the Clash."[7] Strummer added that the band had no further contact with directors Dave Mingay and Jack Hazan after the film was shot, and never received any payments from them.[7]

 

That's an entirely different film StJ, Rude Boy was a fly on the wall type documentary style film following The Clash over a few months on the road with improvised scenes and actual footage of events like the Rock against Racism concert in Victoria Park in Hackney in 1978.
I'm currently listening to an audiobook written by Johnny Green and narrated by Phil Daniels, a Clash roadie telling the behind the scenes story and it's very good, they took the piss out of Mingay quite a bit and fleeced him for money for drinks and drugs and suchlike at the time that he was shooting them. They suffered him mainly on the orders of the band's Manager, Bernie Rhodes, who was a mate of Mingay's.

Here is a description of it...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/804111.A_Riot_of_Our_Own

 

Thanks StA, So two films same title? Link to the documentary appreciated. Book will get a look.

 

Was this shown on Sky Arts or BBC Four? Think I saw that.

 

I can do it but I'll have to charge you for my translation services...

 

Thanks for that, Ides, I hadn't heard it before. It'll never, ever get on the R2 playlist.

 

I record the old ToTP that are shown on BBC4 - they're up to 1987 when this was number one. I'm so, so sorry...

 

Oh Helen

 

It could if there was enough demand. It is not as if R2 have commercial commitments. It is on the BBC Radio Wales playlist. She is big on the jazz and folk circuit. Just needs that extra bit of exposure.

 

So sad to announce the passing of local legend and friend Johnny Rankin Rench of the Inbredz and Monkey Bizzle.
As his best mate and collaborator Skoob Perrin said:
“You filled the world with your boundless energy, your abundance of creativity, imagination, positivity, passion, sheer joy and love.”

RIP Johnny Rankin Rench 1970 - 2019