Pete Doherty vs Justin Hawkins - Round One! (apparently...)

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So, both have their singles out, and the NME getting all keen...

Um, is this a scrap to see who gets to number nine? At the most?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 August 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

blow, blow me out i am so sad i don't know why

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Pardon my Yankee-ness, but i guess this means that Pete Doherty is out of the Libertines for good? If so, bummer. I quite like the Libertines.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 15 August 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

what is this round one bollocks? theyre not fighting it out, their singles are just out on the same day. its not like blur vs oasis again.

― ok, Monday, 15 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

That Justin Hawkins' single is FUCKING SHITE!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 15 August 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

SHOCKAH!

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I know, but astonishingly shite and pointless and downright lazy

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 15 August 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Sparks are totally approving of it though - even appearing in the video with him.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Umm, Sparks "approved" of that rubbish Faith No More version, even singing on it.

Everyone who buys this, would rather have the Sparks version.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Most people who will buy this will probably never have heard of the Sparks version (cf. Fugees/Roberta Flack).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Sparks are totally approving of it though - even appearing in the video with him.

Can I let you into a secret? If it becomes a hit, they make money, they have families + mortgages... shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 15 August 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Sparks have families?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 August 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

The Maels didn't just fall out of the sky from Mars, you know.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 15 August 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

The Maels are all Male

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 15 August 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

The Maels have a quite nice house in the Hollywood Hills and would I am sure not mind extra cash for recording costs for the next album.

Various folks on the Sparks list have spoken favorably of the remake; I myself rather violently disagree.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

I gave both these singles 0 in the Stylus jukebox.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

see it all here!:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1800

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

"The Maels have a quite nice house in the Hollywood Hills and would I am sure not mind extra cash for recording costs for the next album."

You mean these two (I would imagine) reasonably wealthy brothers; both of whom are in their fifties; actually live together all the time in the same house?

Do they go on holiday together too?

Is it just me, or does anyone else find this vaguely disturbing?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Not as disturbing as Justin Hawkins, obv.; but reasonably disturbing nonetheless.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

like the barclay brothers, really. or the chuckle brothers, perhaps.

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

You mean these two (I would imagine) reasonably wealthy brothers; both of whom are in their fifties; actually live together all the time in the same house?

The things you learn when you run the Sparks mailing list as I have for a decade (!) now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Do you live in the house with them?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

No, that would be strange. (At least one listmember did visit the house as he works with computers and Russell had some problem with his that needed a fix.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

"No, that would be strange."

Unlike two (I would imagine) reasonably wealthy brothers; both of whom are in their fifties; actually living together all the time in the same house - which is obviously entirely normal - you mean?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Sparks should cameo in the next series of Joey

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Where I come from no one knows who the hell either Pete or Justin is, luckily.

― mimi)), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

both these guys rock in there own right,but petes a 70s punk rocker/poet, and justin is a 80s glam rocker twat!

― dj wheatley (dj wheatley), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

if you say so!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

The Fly Will Change Your Life

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Much as Herr Hawkins is a Dickrancher, he's already put out at least 4 times as many good songs as Doherty.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

(NB according to midweeks Doherty is winning, though not as much as McFly. Hawkins is also doing OK, albeit less OK than Iron Maiden)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Hawkins is also doing OK, albeit less OK than Iron Maiden

Heheheh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

So, Doherty and McFly are both doing better than Blunt.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Fuck forever got to number four. British Whale to number 6.

Just to complete this old thread I found...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh I was reading it as if it was new. I thought Sparks were involved in that Up Yours Germany song.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 15 May 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

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