Nearly forgot Swords contacted me ... I love her X He is on a ban again but wanted me to tell the forum that he likes Jim Diamond No idea if that's his new boyfriend or what ? He sent a video as well of a pub singer but I can't seem to post it on a phone Apologies I am sure it's means something
Thought things were a bit quiet at present. Not too sure who Jim Diamond is but I'm big on Neil Diamonds' Hot August Night, if that means anything ........... especially the intro.
Swords hasn't been banned. He's decided to take a self-imposed break and will return on his own choosing.
Seconding 999s here.....We have not banned him and have not been told by the supaMods that anyone else has either. Swords said he was taking himself off on a 2 week sabatacial, and I have not heard from him since
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/11/jim-diamond From the gruaniad The Scottish singersongwriter Jim Diamond, who has died unexpectedly aged 64, guaranteed himself a niche in the annals of pop music with a trio of top five hits during the 1980s. The biggest of these was I Should Have Known Better, which topped the UK charts in 1984. But pop quiz buffs will also be familiar with I Won’t Let You Down, which Diamond recorded as a member of the trio PhD, and Hi Ho Silver, which gained priceless exposure as the theme tune for the ITV series Boon. It was his work with PhD that first brought Diamond to general public attention. He formed the band with Tony Hymas and Simon Phillips, who had both played with Jeff Beck, and the first single from their 1981 debut album, PhD, was I Won’t Let You Down, a slick synth-pop confection with a memorably anthemic refrain that reached No 3 in the UK charts in 1982. A second album, Is It Safe? (1983), produced the single I Didn’t Know, which flopped in the UK but was successful across Europe. Then Diamond contracted hepatitis, which prevented him from touring and prompted PhD to split. In 1984 he was back in action as a solo artist, triumphing with the No 1 heartbreaker I Should Have Known Better, often remembered for its soaring “I-I-I-I-I” chorus. The single, which was from his album Double Crossed (released in 1985), earned him a nomination for an Ivor Novello award. In the same year Diamond went to No 1 again with the celebrity ensemble The Crowd on You’ll Never Walk Alone, a charity record for families of the victims of the Bradford City stadium fire. In 1986 his second solo album, Desire For Freedom, delivered the No 5 hit Hi Ho Silver, a song commissioned for Boon, starring Michael Elphick, and featuring yet another of Diamond’s catchy choruses, this time set to a briskly pumping reggae beat. Diamond was born in Glasgow’s East End to Sarah (nee Harper), a seamstress, and Lawrence, a firefighter, who would habitually get up to sing at parties. Apart from his father, his earliest musical inspirations were soul music greats such as Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. By the age of 14 he had joined his first band, The Method, and later he became lead singer of the Glasgow group Jade, touring the country playing club and college gigs. Then he embarked on a European tour with the band Gully Foyle (he had seen their advertisement for a lead singer in Glasgow’s Evening Times), which included some dates supporting Procol Harum. His next stop was a quintet called Bandit, who were signed by Arista Records. The lineup made only one album, Bandit (1976), which was swept away by the emergence of punk rock. But the record brought Diamond, who had written five of its songs in various styles, to wider attention and was enough to prompt the NME’s reviewer, Tony Stewart, to comment that he was “an inspired and remarkable vocalist who projects himself well, displaying not only a passion for the music but a staggering range, which he uses fully”. Bandit split up soon afterwards, but Diamond and Bandit’s guitarist, Danny McIntosh (now Kate Bush’s husband), also appeared on Alexis Korner’s album Just Easy, while all of Bandit played on Korner’s The Lost Album, which was recorded in 1977 but languished in obscurity until the tapes were rediscovered in 1990. Diamond recalled Korner as “a hard man to please, he knew his stuff, and when you pleased him it was a buzz for him. Alexis was the boss: he told you what to do.” Word was spreading about Diamond and his powerfully expressive singing, and he was invited to fly to Los Angeles to form a band with the guitarist and David Bowie collaborator Earl Slick and the drummer Carmine Appice, who had been playing with Rod Stewart. The trio worked in the studio with the producer Eddie Kramer, who had collaborated with a who’s who of stars from Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin and Bowie. Before the project could come to fruition, Diamond was in demand again, returning to England to form PhD and embarking on the series of hits that sealed his reputation. Diamond’s career cooled after his intense burst of success in the early and mid-80s, although he participated in another charity chart-topper, Ferry Aid’s recording of Let It Be, in 1987. Recently he had worked on behalf of the Cash For Kids appeal in Scotland in cooperation with the Scottish billionaire philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter. In 1993 he released the album Jim Diamond, which reached No 16 on the UK charts, and went on tour performing acoustic versions of his catalogue of songs. In the late 90s he teamed up with the saxophonist Chris “Snake” Davis, renowned for his studio work with M People, George Michael, Paul McCartney and many more, and they performed as The Blue Shoes. With the Hammond organist Paul Birchall, they also worked on Diamond’s 2005 album Souled and Healed. In 2009 PhD reunited to record a new album, Three. In 2011 Diamond joined up with a group of Scottish musicians, including veterans from Wet Wet Wet and the Proclaimers, to record City of Soul, a collection of soul music cover versions to raise money for Cash for Kids. He is survived by his wife, Chris (nee Bailey), their daughter, Sara, and son, Lawrence.
Funny that even when Swords is not here he manages to catch centre stage. With the international break now almost over he must be chomping at the bit to get back into the action.
Won't have a bad word said about the woman He's gorgeous for a non tinker Here's his video: No idea where he wants it and apologies yes he is on a reflective convalescence in Ballybay
Christ i have met this bloke Micheal Elphick 30 years ago at the Boship Farm Hotel when he was filming on location … bloody nice bloke, and he could drink!
Surely enforcing a self-imposed sabbatical is some sort of contravention of house rules or something? On the basis that only the Mods can take such action, I demand this matter is investigated thoroughly.
That would be correct in the normal course of events but Swords felt that his comment on the Clive W thread overstepped the mark. It was part of a long standing joke that I'm sure most on here were aware of, but he decided to have a break because of it. It wasn't a mod issue.
He's serving a penance, for he has sinned, just like the seminary lad he is should do. As long as he's not reading any of that eugenics crap all will be well, he will return purged and clean. Until the next time.
