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Steve Strange 'Blitzed' second half was a hard read.
His Descent into heroin addiction with no glamour , sitting in a church hall in a NA meeting in Porthcawl in kenzo leather bondage trousers with full on skag heads who robbed him of his strides for gear, pinched a bit.
He gave it is all steve but the damage was done, he never stood a chance the poor bugger.
oh yeah , Ed mitchell the ITN news golden boy of the 80's.. his auto bio 'from headlines to hard times'. his freefall into alcoholism, debt and homelessness was brutal. amazing book
. i'm proud to say i know Ed on a personal level, having reached out to him after his documentary was aired. lovely fella.
i remember my grandad taking me to valentines park in ilford to watch essex v middle and roland butcher going blitzkrieg in the 40 over sunday league. i think it was around 1981/2. i was about 14 .£2 entrance to watch edmonds and embury in tandem. magic.
i got simon hughes autograph and pinned it to my winmau dartboard.
QPR and Middlesex ccc. Magic.
Edit; i recall seeing sussex at lords around the mid 80's i think. first time i went on my own.
fastest bowling i ever saw live. Garth le roux. it was insane.
yep i enjoyed 'year zero' and loved 'GB84'. gave up with 'red or dead' unreadable.
A bit like Jake Arnott with the 'long firm' and 'he kills coppers' he shot his bolt and his latest stuff was utter crap. Irvine welsh another one, last few books were painful to read.
For a really slow motion riot of a book , look up glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyles auto bio.. 'a sense of freedom' Welsh based his character 'begbie' on him. jesus it was a bleak bleak read.
Anything by David Irvine shreds the skin like a potato peeler. just finished 'Dresden' i was in tears.
i love jake connor, especially when he was at hull. the stan bowles of rugby league. Wane wont pick him though.
I post quite a bit on the green machine forum, those aussies defo have a different sense of humor! i've tried telling them all about QPR but it's like me talking about dressage or table tennis on here.
it's got to the point now with me northern that i look forward more to raiders games than i do QPR!.. And we have the ashes to look forward to...
dont know what side you would pick but the best side i could come up with for the aussies given that lomax, percival and makinson have retired from international duty.
1. Connor 2. Johnstone 3. King 4. Farnworth 5. Young 6. Welsby 7. Williams 8. Thompson 9. Walker 10. Walsmley 11. Nicholson 12. Pearce paul 13. Radley
Noting the mentions for david peace. Imo 'red riding' was the most incredible strata of television I have witnessed in 57 years. Only true detective season 1 comes close.
Geek love. A story of a failing circus whose husband and wife owners hatch a plan to breed freaks and odditys using drugs to create deformity. Thus the circus becomes a huge success and so they take more and more pharmaceuticals to procreate more extreme freaks to satisfy the bloodlust of the public. Healthy born babies were abandoned as they would be of no use to the circus.
I'm sure i read somewhere that hollywood have tried to bring the book to the big screen several times but have given it up as a lost cause because it would be impossible to do so.
A Victorian freak show on amphetamines. Bad ones.
... amazing book and a song was wrote about it, which became one of john peels all time favourite records..
I remember 'Castlemaine' being showcased for the first time in my local, The GreenMan, east ham, 1985.
This exotic spice melange, the pump badge , glowing gold taking the pole position on the plinth of the bar.
This food of the gods born of far flung places, that to a young east ham lad of 17, might as well of been brewed on the sea of fecundity on the dark side of the moon.
This gateway to the palace of wisdom, this conduit for a prolonged derangement of the 5 known senses... all for 75p a pint.
The filthy cut to shit chemical skag of double diamond, Harp, and long life that the beaten generation suckled on for decades, now withering into the void like Keith Moons hampton after a 72 hour binge at the scotch of st james with spanish tony.
At last, a glorious new dawn of upwardly mobile refreshment, casting the grey esso blue 70's lager into the armitage shanks shit pipe..
Not for us flashing young blades around town in our italian knitwear , the thin gruel of the proletariat tractor nipple producing work to rule Skol drinker in his donkey jacket and carpenter jeans.
Alas it was too good to be true , it tasted like fu ckin grade 2 diabetisc piss with skin on top , so i was back on the skol within a week dreaming about Debbie the stripper from 'Minder' tossing me off with a feather duster in the back of my mark 2 capri (canary yellow with a black viynl roof) .
Still. it was good while it lasted.
Castlemaine.. we loved you, for about a week in september 1985.
I have a wonderful picture of him taken at his rambling bohemian gaff, that he sent me a couple of years ago at xmas , looking every inch the character he was.
Progressive rock Wild hair, A smile that shone like Turners Buoy and all encased in classical Roadie double denim.
i Always think of him when i hear the 'weekend world theme' tune. I'll be playing the Nantucket sleighride on rotation this morning.
watched the game pissed out of my skull in the leigh on sea constitutional club. Having drawn up a complex linear equation and computated the variables to within intergers beyond human comprehension. i thought we played with bravery , noble savagery and beauty. well done lads. A point earned in blood and graft.
I love the bones of this association football club. Always have. Always will.
lol at the experts predicting the wooden spoon for the green machine. Gave the bronco's a cuckolding not seen sally bercow took a shower with dj clinton oliver at her old mans grace and favour battersea dwelling.
With a pack of Tapine, Papali', Horsburgh, Hudson Young, Mooney, Hosking, Mariota and England international forwards Nicholson and Smithies, theres more chance of me sprouting a boneless parastic twin from my solar plexus than Raiders getting the wooden spoon.
Been bugging me for days since his passing, but if anyone remembers the whole Duffer of st George/ Talkin' loud/Dingwalls acid jazz culture of the early 90's , all the Talkin' Loud label artists were heavily influenced by Roy Ayres..
No sympathy at all for the depleted Roosters who spawned a fluke against the Green machine in the Grand Final of 2019, via having the ref in their back pocket . Not that i hold any grudge!
Their salary cap always seems more malleable than sally bercows multi speed non doctor strap fleurs-de-lys , How they can fit so many superstar players under the limit is a miracle of some wonder season after season.
Can't see past Brisbane, Storm and Penrith. Again. I reckon the sharks and the Bulldogs will have a good season, as will the tigers, comparatively speaking, as they have made some superb signings.
Interesting to see how lewis Dodd gets on at the rabbitohs, a fine player but doomed to fail imo with the toxicity there.
As for my lot, THe Raiders look out for Our fullback Keo weekes. winger Xavier savage and half Ethan Strange. Magic.
I reckon our usual 7th to 10th finish ,which given the young players in our squad will be reasonable. I think Canberra have a very bright future and will be a top four side again in the next couple of years.
Best sport on earth the NRL.. As Jonathan E said in 'Rollerball'.. 'I love this game Moonpie'!
I'm sure you NRL english fans already know but the following podcasts / you tube content are good;
bloke in a bar 6 tackles with Gus Freddy and the eighth Blake and the pork (Canberra raiders)
'He's a Superstar'.. I First heard this in the rare groove club 'the good, the bad and the ugly', next to Selfridges back in '87 as a 20 year old wet behind the ears essex funkateer, fed on the Tony Blackburn/Steve Walsh cud of baby milk formula radio London soul nights out.
Good clean family fun. With whistles.
I was Totally unprepared in every way for the Oort cloud top tier of the Funk and Soul elemental.
I almost passed out, overdosed on filthy raw funk tapped to the vein via roy's chugging bassline spawned from the 7th rung of hell.
No man born of gods 4th rib should have possessed such gifts that could render a man down to his knees at his funk/soul tabernacle.
A ridiculous track.. The funk keeps stacking until it's almost unbearable.
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