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@ Shriekback, Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
DM, who influenced Shriekback's "Everything that Rises Must Converge"? I
just checked on some of the OtR mail right now, and it's AMAZING, 'cos the
last song I played on my drive in was "Fish Below the Ice" from the Oil &
Gold CD!! I just bought Shriekback's Care LP (leaving only Tench for me to
get). Used to be a big fan, but the late 80s, early 90s were creatively
terrible for them. "Go Bang" was rotten.
I saw them "Sacred City" era at Bogart's in Cincinnati and it was horribly
attended (200 people maybe) and Barry (the singer) went out with us to Club
Vertigo, a horrible cheesy dance bar. Some of the Shriek fans weren't 21
but Barry wanted to dance. I bought him a mixed drink of some sort. Kinda
odd to buy a hero a drink. Dave and Martyn went to a proper bar to see a
band.
On a completely unrelated note, at Daniels pub yesterday afternoon in
Cincinnati, an older (40+?) British chap with quite a hangover walked to the
bar downstairs and ordered a double gin & tonic double. Turns out, he's a
roadie for "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" and they'd just played at Top Cats
(60 meters from Daniels) the night prior. A member of the band and some of
the other roadies were upstairs eating lunch. We had a surreal (but nice?)
conversation about why Culture Club is more interesting than Aerosmith
("members of Aerosmith don't shag oneanother"), and what Frankie has done in
the last ten years (nothing really). I told the roadie that my favorite
FGtH track is "White Night Black Light".
Apparently Frankie are "glam rock" now that Holly Johnson has departed the
planet. There were dozens of perplexed fans that made a mass exodus from
Top Cats to Daniels about four songs into their set last night...
Bruce
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