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Nileism...it started on page 47
Posted by herecomesbod on 4 November 2011 - 11:21pm.
Good book and all that. Big fan of the band and all that. But I've never read a book with so many inaccuracies. It started on page 47 and never let up. Volkswagen never made a 5 door Scirocco, Storm or otherwise. Page 69 'Drakemore Drive' does not exist in Glasgow. To write a book on The Blue Nile and get something as fundamental as this address wrong is fundamentally wrong. I read this book months ago but have only got round to posting now.
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There is.
I don't know the book and I don't know much about The Blue Nile but there is a Drakemore Drive in Castlemilk.
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You sure it's not 'Drakemire'?
FFS - how niche is this?
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You sure it's not 'Drakemire'?
FFS - how niche is this?
That'll be Drakemyre Drive
Never mind the inaccuracies. There are so many typos in there.
That's the one!
I was close though...
"Volkswagen never made a 5 door Scirocco"
That sounds like a quote from "I, Partridge" by Alan Gordon Partridge.
I'm more a fan of The Black Nile...
Besides all of that,
what a thoroughly depressing read it is. There was a lot of misfortune along the way, but I was left with a feeling of dismay with Paul Buchanan. I always assumed his lack of output was due to his perfectionism. It's not. Everyone who came into contact with the band talks of their frustration with them and by the end that's what I was left with, frustration. I wish I hadn't read it.
There might
be a Drakemore Drive and furthermore, A Drakemyre Drive in Castlemilk, Glasgow. I never checked the A to Z before posting. But Linn Records were based at 235 Drakemire Drive, Glasgow according to the sleeve notes of A Walk Across The Rooftops. A book written solely about The Blue Nile should get this right, should it not?
I am chuffed to bits that the VW Scirocco comment was compared to Alan Partridge. That's made my weekend.