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     Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2004 |
I would just like to wish everybody on this board around the world a happy St George's Day from England. I'm sure many of you will be wearing white and drinking many pints of Carling in celebration. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 393 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not round ere they won't, no one knows about it! Its about as well publicised as Robert Maxwell's financial accounts were in the 80's! | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 122 Registered: 07-2005 |
Cheers few St George flags in Preston but though people were getting excited about the World Cup early. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 109 Registered: 11-2004 |
Exactly Spence - It goes down like a lead balloon in the UK compared to St Patricks Day, St David's Day and St Andrew's Day. Australia Day or ANZAC Day are probably celibrated with more fervour in London than today was! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 400 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just back from the Morrissey concert tonight. I think he can sum up why the English dont celibrate St Georges day with the fervour of the Irish, Scots and Welsh - these lyrics say it all "I've been dreaming of a time when To be English is not to be baneful To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, Racist or partial I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour, And Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell And denounce this royal line that still salute him, And will salute him forever." He absolutely spat these words out with pure venom in his voice. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 395 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev was he any good? He's a sad old bastar* these days, I think he should pack it in after this album. The irony is he moans about England and the state of it, but he live(d) in LA and now lives in Rome, what a hard life he has!! He's as bad as Johnny Rotten (who lives in the US) moaning about the Queen and the Royal family. Johnny's been away that much that he seems to have forgotten no one gives a monkey's ass about the Royal family, get over it Mr Rotten!! We don't care, so you really shouldn't bothere. Jerry, I haven't heard owt about the World Cup, there doesn't seem to be a build up, maybe it comes in the last month, the only thing I have seen is a lame pack of Paninni England FC football stickers in my Newsagents!!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 396 Registered: 05-2005 |
One thing about MORRISSEY, I saw him in Birmingham just before his spectaculart rise to famea again, and he looked really knackered and struggling to sing. This new found fame (and wealth) must have worked wonders for him as he looks so good nowadfays, but he really looked old and past it wehen I saw him. The performance was very good. Old Boz needs to lose the beer gut though! | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 109 Registered: 05-2005 |
I always found those words about Cromwell a bit odd. The royal family certainly doesn't celebrate him - he had one of their number executed after all. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 402 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, he was unbelievably good. From the moment he confidently bounced on stage and launched straight in to a ferocious version of "first of the gang to die" I thought, oh, this could be interesting to say the least. Then it was "Still ill" and "you have killed me", the pace was just not letting up. This is probably the closest I will ever get to seeing one of the great old crooners play Las Vegas, the old queen was really hamming it up big style.Other higlights were an amazing version of How Soon is Now, and from the new album At last I am born and Life is a Pigsty. All in all I thought he was a revelation, far from washed up and a must see if you are a fan | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 397 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, cool, sounds like it was worth it! great! He will probably be a live act worth seeing for a few years yet... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 403 Registered: 05-2005 |
Only 1 regret Spence. He had been playing A Song from Under The Floorboards by Magazine every night of the tour so far (i know this cos Im sad enough to check the set lists posted on a Moz website) Last night however he substituted that song with Human Being by the New York Dolls. Great song but I was so looking forward to Floorboards set list here http://tour.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/22/1632237 |