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Sham 69: The Paradox Years
I see that what remains of Sham 69 - now that they've got rid of Jimmy Pursey, as apparently he didn't want to play retro punk festivals (er, like a diary farmer who doesn't want to sell to the milk marketing board, I'd have thought...) - are playing a pub near me in a week or two. It made me think: are there any other bands whose names become embarrassingly 'ironic' if circs change in a certain way?
In this case, one could get into gordian knotys about paradoxes and tautologies - should this version of Sham 69 now be, in fact, Sham Sham 69...? Or if Jimmy Pursey started a rival version would one of them change to become True 69...? Or if John Major turned up at a gig only to be disappointed that the kids were no longer united, could he perhaps bestow upon them his in his memorable phraseology the name 'Bogus Sham' 69...?
Oh, where will it all end...
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I believe...
...that there is a Sham 69 tribute band out there that has already used Sham Sham 69.
The funny thing is...
...the Shamsters are being supported in Belfast by a 'supergroup' of local 70s punk people called Shame Academy. Obviously, if the headliners were to use the support act as a kind of recruiting ground for filling vacancies in their own ranks, they'd have to call themselves Sham Academy. Or... they could just pretend they were a recruiting operation for the Shamsters and call themselves, er, um, er... Sham Academy...
Either way, I can't at the moment think of a worse night's entertainment than paying into a darkened subterranean premises on a nice sunny evening (as we've been having lately) to listen to a load of crappy old three-chord yobbos. So, no, I'll not be there. Jeff Beck, however, is in town a couple of nights before that, and there the arguments to forego an evening's cycle in the country are considerably stronger...
With Pete Doherty ...
... Baby Sham 69
and George Michael
Wham 69
or 70s porn movie
Wham Bam Thank You M'am!69
Add Bryan Adams
And we could make this the Summer of Sham 69
Trash emails
Spam 69
Or they could merge with another hard-gigging outfit...
Shamsters 69
Shurely Shum 69?
Shurely Shum 69?
Sham 68
like S Club 7 did.
Exam fever
Cram 69
guest appearance in the video
dancing.... Kevin Bacon er um Ham 69.
Ham 69
Just...
(I'm still on swine flu fatigues)
Hi I've just popped over from 6 music's forum
can I just say how much I hate George Lamb 69....
No sell out
No Flim Flam 69
they went off the rails a few years ago
and became Tram 69..
..who subsequently split
due to "vehicle" differences, and formed two bands -
a) Driver 8 (REM covers band)
b) Car 67 (who sadly could only cover one song - Driver 67, but were approximately 8.5 times better than Driver 8, so...)
both decided to get back together, and agreed the way ahead was to stick with REM, so named themselves after track 5 off their "Monster" album. Star 69.
Help....
...I've created a monster! :-D
Drinker
Dram 69