[kj] OT Headcount supporting SLF

[Neil Perry]

Headcount are *fatter* than Stiff Little Fingers.

On 22 March 2011 21:45, jon chapman <jonniespatula at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


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> Headcount are better than Stiff Little Fingers.

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> From: gregslawson at msn.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:12:31 -0400

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> Subject: Re: [kj] OT Headcount supporting SLF

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> I actually think Go For It is a fine album, some great tracks on it. Never

> had the 4th album though--very hard to find in the US>

> I have all their 2nd incarnation albums too--pretty good stuff except for

> Hope Street.

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> From: stronkle at hotmail.co.uk

> To: gathering at misera.net; Gathering at misera.net

> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:34:27 +0000

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT Headcount supporting SLF

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> first band I ever saw was slf in 79 on the inflammable material

> tour,cracking gig supported by the starjets (crap), like everyone else I

> lost interest when go for it came out but they played stoke on that tour so

> I went along anyway & they were excellent again, they were supported by the

> wall who were excellent too Sent from my Nokia phone

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> From: pssyche23

> Sent: 3/22/2011 4:49:47 PM

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Cc: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT Headcount supporting SLF

> I saw SLF at Glasgow Barrowlands last week & it was mental ... they played

> a blinder & the crowd was crazy. Jake could spend time with Jaz's personal

> trainer but his extra chubb did not affect the performance in any way.

> Brilliant having Ali McMordie back on bass with all his energy.

>

> Similar to Neil, I'd gone off them after Go For It but did see Jake Burns &

> The Big Wheel in 1986 & then my only previous SLF gig on St Patrick's Night

> in 1988 - exactly 23 years previous !

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> With other school mates, I'd turned up at the London Lyceum in 1981 for one

> of those legendary Sunday night bills, only to find that SLF were no longer

> appearing - it was 27/09/1981 and we got The Damned instead (excellent) but

> also the then unknown Wall Of Voodoo - despite the bass player donning a

> Damned t-shirt straight off the merch stall, the crowd were not fooled so

> Stan & co got somewhat covered in lager and phlegm a la Aztec Camera etc ...

> such vivid memories !!!

>

> Sent from my iPhone

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> On 22 Mar 2011, at 15:39, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  To be honest I mostly lost interest when Go For It came out (fickle fan

> wanted

> another Inflammable...) and only ever saw them once, around the time of Now

> Then

> (82/83?). Always cursed the fact I never saw them earlier. And yes Foxton

> would

> put me off!

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> On 22 March 2011 16:13, Brian Whitehead < <bawhitehead at gmail.com>

> bawhitehead at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Thanks for that, I loved SLF but didn't realise that. It meant nothing to

> me either as a 16 year old.

>

> Thing that annoyed me about SLF is the amount of final, as in last ever,

> shows they did. I hitched down from Manchester to London for at least two

> before I gave up. Turned me off SLF a bit.

> Another was the Bruce Foxton on bass thing. I'd be watching SLF with Town

> Called Malice going through round and round in my head.

> A guy I know was in the room when the sacked Foxton and told me is was a

> unanimous vote by the rest of the band as he was too big for his boots.

>

> Having said all that I'll be there at Manchester Uni next week.

>

> Brian.

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> On 22 March 2011 14:19, Neil Perry < <65snoopy at gmail.com>

> 65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I had to go and look all this up again as I couldn't remember the details,

> it's been a while!

>

> Gordon Ogilvie, who was their manager for a while, was a Daily Express

> journalist (on Wikipedia he is a described as a "Marxist journalist on the

> Daily Express",

> which seems unlikely!)

> It was he who apparently suggested to the band in their very early days

> that they sang about

> the Northern Ireland troubles - and he and Jake Burns wrote the songs

> together,

> with Ogilvie credited for many of the lyrics.

> Of course when this was discovered by the music press back in the day they

> had a right go (god I miss the music papers), as this suggested that SLF

> were somehow not "authentic", or

> were being controlled by this shadowy journo character with a hidden

> agenda.

> All this meant nothing to me as a 13-year-old fan, of course.

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> In this 2009 interview Jake Burns said:

> "Gordon was like a fifth member of the band. We wrote songs together and he

> took

> care of the day to day management. It's impossible to over-estimate

> Gordon's part in the band's story."

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> <http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1377/stiff-little-fingers-make-inflammable-material>

> http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1377/stiff-little-fingers-make-inflammable-material

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> On 22 March 2011 14:30, Brian Whitehead < <bawhitehead at gmail.com>

> bawhitehead at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "And yes I know about all the lyrics being written by an ex-Daily Express

> journo"

>

> Really? I didn't know that - please elaborate.

>

> Brian.

>

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> On 22 March 2011 13:12, Neil Perry < <65snoopy at gmail.com>

> 65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I was looking for something else in a box of, er 'nostalgic' items over the

>

> weekend and rediscovered some signed postcards of Jake Burns, Ali McMordie

> and

> the rest, which I got after I wrote off to the SLF fan club around the time

> Inflammable

> Material came out, when I was 12 or 13 I guess. There was also an

> Inflammable Material sticker which I'd obviously

> decided was so precious I never stuck it on anything (it's not sticky

> anymore.)

>

> In terms of what it meant at the time, how much I played it to death and

> how it got me into so much more music,

> I think that album is my all time favourite record. I played some a while

> back and it

> still rocks. (And yes I know about all the lyrics being written by an

> ex-Daily Express journo

> or whatever he was, and I still don't give a toss!)

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>   On 18 March 2011 17:28, Rob Moss < <rob.moss at gmx.com>rob.moss at gmx.com>wrote:

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> Just been asked to support SLF at the O2 Academy Oxford on Wednesday!

>

> Anyone wanting to go can come along for just ￜ6 if you email me for

> details.

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> Now, better learn the songs proper!!!!

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