North Stand Demolition

[NeilH]

A quick intervention in support of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Belle & Sebastin, Mogwai and bits of Franz Ferdinand!

Teenage Fanclub, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Deacon Blue, The Associates, The Beta Band, Primal Scream...

You can add Camera Obscura to that list too and Isobel Campbell.

[Brazilian Villain]

Me in goal in the background to Mogwai (Rotterdam 82 long sleeve was my goalie uniform) as a longhair, courtesy of a 20yr old Select magazine.

What's the black and white A.F.C. shirt? Doesn't ring any bells. Or is it M.F.C. as in Mogwai?

[LeeB]

A quick intervention in support of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Belle & Sebastin, Mogwai and bits of Franz Ferdinand!

Teenage Fanclub, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Deacon Blue, The Associates, The Beta Band, Primal Scream...

You can add Camera Obscura to that list too and Isobel Campbell.

Never a fan of Deacon Blue, but at the entrance to the service deck underneath the original Mersey Tunnel somebody had painted their name in massive letters and black paint. It had clearly been there sometime without ever being touched, until my sharpie added 'are wank' underneath.

[LeeB]

Wet Wet Wet.....

I fundamentally disagree with LeeB

Look angel eyes, you're either with me or against me, capiche?

[Nev]

Good afternoon Boys and Girls.

Justly, Skillfully, Magnanimously.....I give you...

....The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

[eamonn]

I like Paolo Nutini, he's very good.

Him and Sharleen Spiteri could have played for Scotland but their Italian blood proved too powerful (and the chance to play alongside Del Piero rather than Gary McAllister).

[Clampy]

Good afternoon Boys and Girls.

Justly, Skillfully, Magnanimously.....I give you...

....The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

I top that with the Bay City Rollers and Biffy Clyro.

[Mister E]

Good afternoon Boys and Girls.

Justly, Skillfully, Magnanimously.....I give you...

....The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

They headlined Reading Rock in 1977 ... a vintage year, with Thin Lizzy, Frankie Miller (another Scot), Hawkwind, Graham Parker the Doobie Bros. And many more.
My first big experience of Rock festivals, flying Party 7 cans and mud (the stuff not the band) in huge volume.

[Sexual Ealing]

I've inhaled hashish. I've been on all-weekend binges to Prestatyn to see Wings.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Good afternoon Boys and Girls.

Justly, Skillfully, Magnanimously.....I give you...

....The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

I bloody loved The SAHB!
From the first time I saw them at Barbarella's in '72(?), the Town Hall not long after and The Odeon a year or so after that, then Reading....what a cracking line up that was!
Bit of a revival early 2000s with a whole weekend at The Robin in Bilston, with Zal still on lead, Chris Glen on bass and the McKenna cousins doing their bit. Alex's replacement was very good, just not Alex.
Alex Harvey....RIP.

[Ian.]

I like Paolo Nutini, he's very good.

Him and Sharleen Spiteri could have played for Scotland but their Italian blood proved too powerful (and the chance to play alongside Del Piero rather than Gary McAllister).

Ah quite true, not full bloodied Scots. How could I forget Sharleen Spiteri either though.

[purpletrousers]

Me in goal in the background to Mogwai (Rotterdam 82 long sleeve was my goalie uniform) as a longhair, courtesy of a 20yr old Select magazine.

What's the black and white A.F.C. shirt? Doesn't ring any bells. Or is it M.F.C. as in Mogwai?

Aye Mogwai had their own shirts (I think just for playing rather than merch - I did have an early t-shirt, but wasn’t so into them by this point).

They also had some rather poor merchandise “Blur are shite” t-shirts, which some wags copied in the same style to say “Mogwai are Slint” which for those in the know, was very valid.

 I do have 2/3 of an apparently very pricey zildjian cymbal of theirs along with part of a megaphone and some keyboard keys from a very drunken early gig where they literally tried to trash everything, right down to pooring pints of Guinness into kicked in amps. Probably need another thread for music memorabilia!

[IFWaters]

The first photo is kind of ok. I like the brick finish but a part of me thinks the corner just makes it look like the start of the stadiumification of Villa Park. It looks too much like the big corner of St James Park or a wedge cut out of Old Trafford. No, I want Villa Park to be the greatest FOOTBALL GROUND in the country, which means stands which are seperated, but perhaps with towers in the corner finished with Byzantine domes like Birmingham University.

[Risso]

Point of order.  The t-shirts said "Blur: are shite".

[Ian.]

I don’t like those images at all, that’s an absolute monstrosity.