That ****er's made my life a lot ****tier over the last 20 years or so.... ...I even started calling myself 'Christopher'...
I know.... I guess it could have been even worse. For reasons that she never cared to share, my mother was intent on naming me Robin. My father wasn't having any of it. He wanted 'Chris'. My mother's response to that was..."Yes, but Christopher...with Robin as a middle name." I'd have been ****ing Christopher Robin Martin... My mother thought it was 'nice', but then again, she dressed me and my now deceased brother in girls' clothes when we were young kids. Not dresses or skirts, but socks and coats with flowers on them. I was having a tough enough time at school, without being Pooh Bear's best mate as well... That woman was ****ing nuts!
It did for my siblings, though. They're all nuts, too!!! I have pics of me in my cross-dressing, younger days...people tend to think that I'm making it up...
Before the baby was born my mother was certain it was a girl and she was to be called Charmain after a song by the Bachelor's, lucky for the kid it was a boy a 6ft tall rugby player
I'm not really with it...and my brain applied predictive reading...so it was "Chairman". Possibly a song about Frank Sinatra or in honour of a short bloke who used to appoint and sack coaches on behalf of Spurs? Chairman, if we're ever in trouble Your casting vote counts as double... Mmmmm, nice!
Imagine the **** that the mediocre footballer got: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Martin_(footballer,_born_1988)
It seems that there are endless amounts of us... 3 cricketers (including a New Zealand international); a clothes designer; 2 DJ's; A 'low brow' artist - he did a number of posters for The Cramps; The list goes on and on...
Not sure where I happened across this either - I wasn't a big fan in the 80s but I rather like this too
An article in The Guardian by John Harris about gig pricing. Yes, slag of Oasis and dynamic pricing, BUT, FFS did he have to do the... "...the best gig I ever went to cost £4." So ****ing what? Probably 3 of the best gigs that I attended cost less than half that...in a different time, where artists/bands got paid for selling records. Now, they don't. They earn from merch and gigs, which have proper security, etc... Even bands, with real concern for the fans, have to price gigs in the modern world. Free festivals are a thing of the past. If you want cheap/free gigs, go to a pub, mate...you'll be stunned rigid how much a pint costs.
For those that can't be arsed to check, it was The Smiths at Salford University in 1986. Harris says that the equivalent today would be £12. He would've been 17 and I doubt he gets paid the same now as he did then, somehow. As you say Brian, bands then sold albums and singles. If everyone's using Youtube, Spotify and the like, then they make full all from releasing songs. Snoop Dogg famously claimed that he only made $45k from 1 billion streams.
A few days ago, I watched a Sky Arts documentary about Mike Scott of The Waterboys. He spoke about loving songs back in the 60's and early 70's and how you heard them on the radio or TOTP (or didn’t), or you bought them. That was it!! Albums cost a lot (comparatively)...but that was how we sponsored the artists that provided us with so much joy. Nobody (save The Clash) did too much to reduce the cost of buying vinyl, but it was a tolerable situation. In 50 years, things have shifted. Listening to albums, via home taping and now, Spotify, costs **** all. Consequently, artists and bands make **** all from it. Merch, advertising and ticket sales are what keeps the machine ticking over for the creatives...so, Mr Harris, get your head out of your arse and support tose who have provided you with a very nice life and living...and stop writing harmful, slanted bollocks. Rant ends!!
