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BIGGEST LAUGH in this month's (Bowie) issue IS...
Posted by JeffLeopard on 13 September 2009 - 7:29pm.
...can you guess?
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calm down now
Oi'll give you a clue.
It's in the Reviews section
Can't guess
I'm a subscriber and I'm still waiting for this month's issue.
zat cos
...they're still sending them via New Zealand?
It wouldn't be any slower
but it's because of postal strikes.
I was going to guess at
Jah 'Chuckles' Wobble, but he's not in the reviews section.
I was planning on buying his autobiography, but those extracts have put me *right* off.
Fair play to him for sorting out Sean Hughes though.
I enjoyed the Wardle extract
...especially the togs he was wearing in New York, 1980.
Can't help feeling the whole P.I.L. exit episode was a bit lop-sided.
NEWS FLASH - according to Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jah_Wobble
In September 2009, John Lydon announced PiL would reform for a series of concerts in late 2009, but Jah Wobble will not be featuring in the line-up.
(erm, why bother, John?)
But yer right - this wasnt in the Reviews section.
Another clue:
-its in a simulatenous review of two LPs.
Hmmm ... is Yoko Ono involved?
....
No
wrong era - try more recent
Small Faces & Deep Purple
both unintentionally hilarious, then there's Henry Wellcome combination of 'tache and headgear, the guy with the glasses from King Crimson he's a funny one, there's a scruffy Jimmy Saville lookalike.......
ah no I have it its the only good mention yet given anywhere on planet earth for Tarantino's new opus.
NOPE
again, wrong era
By a process of elimination...
...I deduce that it's David Quantick's Cribs/Bad Lieutenant review.
Which IS pretty amusing, I agree, though not quite laugh-out-loud-able.
So what is then, you smug bastard?
and I bet it's not as 'funny' as you think it is
Tell you what, Chasby
you go ahead and suggest something (anything) you consider "funny", and I'll tell you the answer to my question.
Go on squire
Thought as much
Too frit to stick yer neck out, eh Chasby?
You know, humour is very subjective.
One man's Michael McIntyre is another man's Monty Python. What tickles me might tick-off you. So, it's a hard discussion to enter. Having said that - I found Quantick's review of Sumner & Marr's new efforts quite amusing... Was it his invention of a new word sustence at the end of the piece that you found funny? Or was it that he reviewed Barney & Johnny rather than The Cribbs & Bad Lewtennant?
Well done Adman
not the typos, rather:
"Thus Johnny Marr is expected to wait on the sidelines, holding his brilliant song-writing and guitar-playing skills in check while his mardy former collaborator slugs about covering Smiths songs with a pub rock band."
...with effective reprise swipe at the end.
Not hilarious in isolation, obviously, but given the well publicised recent history between reviewer and one half of the aforementioned duo above (including legal proceedings / Moderator pleas on this Website back in Spring - hence the discretion) - a hearty, knowing guffaw.
Huzzah!
First thing I read in the mag. As a (formerly) rabid Smiths & New Order fan I take an interest in these things, still.
BTW - Johnny Marr and The Cribbs - WTF?! If someone could explain that one to me I'd be grateful. Surely they are nought but third rate, second division, indie-schmindie clodhoppers? It's like God joining The Wurzels. I mean a quick jam & a pint of scrumpy, fair enough, but actually signing on the dotted lino... just plain baffling.
Funnily enough
...22 Years ago today since "Strangeways".
I cannot believe that Morrissey and Marr have never gotten back together since. Don't suppose it'll ever happen now, and I think that's a shame.
It is a shame.
They might surprise everyone, like Page&Plant in the 90s. (That might be a bad comparison, but my brain is still waking up.)
Quantick makes snidey aside about Morrissey
Shock.
He has previous in this area.
The Cribs
Having heard them live in session recently (Rad&Mac) I couldn't believe how tuneless and stodgy they sounded. It made Quantick's reference to 'pub band' for Boz & co seem ridiculous.
Is ir John Leckie -Five things i've learnt?
4 -Never run out of Rizla. "All the best things are made on drugs....everything outside of the studio is forgotten."
It is then followed by
4 -Never leave the house without a hat and cane
Pedant's corner
Having praised the mag elsewhere today, I do have to moan at the proof reading this month. This issue is lottered with mistokes.
Glad it's not just mine you notice, Moley...
I spent the weekend
being given hell for not proof reading my own copy properly at work, so I'm on a mission!
Maybe...
it's Irvine Welsh's guide to writing a novel:
1. Pretend to take drugs and write about it
2. insult your public with a load of old pony on the assumption that they'll buy anything by the author of Trainspotting
3. do this again
4. and again
5. and again.
Magazine?
Sheesh. Any subscribers got their yet? I'm having a dreadful time with all of my various subscriptions at the moment...
Mine arrived today
BTW, do any subscribers ever get the cover CD in a flat cover? Mine, as tonight, as ever was bent. I'm expecting the disc in 2 pieces any month soon.
My funniest moment
Mine only arrived yesterday and I've read very little so far. It's hard, though, to imagine there being anything as funny as the letter from Mr Huffman. It's even funnier and more deranged than the one from Rod Liddle.
Up to a point, Lord Copper
Personally I would find that letter a lot funnier if I didn't suspect that a lot of his fellow countrymen are in agreement with him...
Mine arrived last friday
with CD, as ever, intact. Must have good posties round our way.
Not found anything outrageously funny yet, but I guess the piece on Wogan was written before he announced his retirement....writing about how he seems to go on forever seemed particularly bad timing !
Still no sign of mine
I'm running out of patience
The Terry Gilliam article
has got yo be a candidate: puts the t in solid, indeed!
Note to Terry Gilliam
please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please make the movie of Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens that you been linked to for over a decade
Seconded
Christ...
But that's a terrible cover. How on earth did Word manage to turn up such an awful shot of David Bowie?
Great mag otherwise, natch.
Bad covers
are becoming a bit of a Word speciality. PSB, Iggy and Bowie especially. Is it deliberate?
Oh, I don't know - it's not the first.
Look at the Word Bowie cover inset above the Paul du Noyer piece. In that he looks like someone giving you the rapt attention that precedes a request to bum a pint, a cigarette or even a creme-de-menthe (none of which I'm sure apply nowadays) - but probably nothing more.
One thing does seem common to all the Bowie pieces in the issue - the application of charm and the demeanour of someone who's like the acquaintance you bump into from time to time, and know will be good value, and then most likely a completely different kind of good value the next time you meet. You know it's all a bit of performance, but a good and artful one, and a bit of engaging artifice you can easily forgive.