Simple Pieman
Posted by Mr Drayton on 28 June 2008 - 10:22am.
Never mind Glastonbury, did anyone see the Mandela 90th? (Poor bugger, he spends all that time in chokey, brings about the end of apartheid and has to sit next to Gordon Brown on his birthday).
Simple Minds??? Oh my life. We all know what Jim Kerr has being doing since Don't You Forget About Me - eating all the pies.
Couldn't U2 be arsed to play? Kerr was doing the poor mans Bono. Not even a poor man, a very, very poor man. A man with no legs, no eyes, no money, no heart, no hope. A destitute, dead and blind mans Bono.
Don't get me started on 'One-song Winehouse', the poor mans horse/scarecrow...
Awful, awful, awful.
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Yes...
...Kerr's clearly another candidate for the 'Gastric Band' thread elsewhere on this blog! What a bloody awful song that one was too, and I love those early 80s albums they did.
I watched bits of this trying to avoid The Fratellis/Editors at Glastonbury, and the strangest thing was Stephen Fry rambling on for about five minutes about the importance of the event, struggling to make himself heard above Queen and Paul Rodgers.
shouldn't this thread be called
Glittering Pies
or
New Pie Dream?
followed by
Don't You Forget About The Peas and I Travel (To The Chippy Most Nights)
Two words
Annie Lennox
What is the story there?
Diana memorial concert / Mandela 90th / Beckham 150th Cap Gig..
ENOUGH! No more of these pointless singalongathons! They're shite!
Steady on
Without these concerts the BBC would have nothing to show. We would be stuck with weeks of reality music talent contests, featuring Graham Norton and him off Torchwood.
Oh. We are.
Poor Nelson, no wonder he is going into hiding.
it...
...was on itv!
Proves
My point
* sheepishly *
Who Goes?
It's a concert for people who haven't bought a record since 1988. It is, as Patrick says, Shite.
Annie 'feel my pain' Lennox? We do love.
Oh yes
Swedish telly are just showing it now. Now, the spectacle of 'Queen featuring Paul Rodgers' was bad enough. I mean, it made me realise that I really, really, REALLY miss Freddie Mercury. But what an egomaniacal bastard - the last song was 'All Right Now'. Talk about pissing up all the goodwill that Queen have acquired up the wall.
And then Amy Winehouse stumbled on stage to shout the words to 'Free Nelson Mandela' off of an autocue, and proved in one fell swoop that she is a singer with a lot of technique and no soul.
An awful, awful concert. Why do the Brits think that Nelson Mandela owes them a cultural debt because a bloke from Coventry wrote a song about him and a few student unions named a bar after him?
Sun City
I cannot believe the guile of the remaininmg members of Queen doinbg this gig. Whilst Nelson Mandela was in prison those money grabing bar stewards were earning a pretty penny in Sun City entertaining the people who upheld apartheid in South Africa.
I can't understand how they got the gig in the first place or had the nerve to show up!!
I was
just about to post this too. Perhaps the organisers could have rustled up Clapton, Jim Davidson and the remnants of Skrewdriver......
Simple Minds
What a sad decline. I agree with JJ, the early 80s stuff was just brilliant. I Travel, The American, Love Song ...
And I still remember fondly a fantastic gig at Barrowlands.
If you only know them from the awful late 80s stadium rock days, then check out the Early Gold compilation.
Juan Kerr
I have nothing against the 'Minds. Loved them back in the olden days. That appearance just showed that sometimes it's better not to bother, or if you are going to try it on again, get thee to the gym first and shed the beer belly. It's impossible to look all mystical when you resemble Rik Wallers Uncle Jim. And yes, I know this is sizeist. I don't care.