Actually, I remember now:
He got an invite to a press launch in the outer hebrides, and was all prepared to go (or was at least very tempted), only to find it was Virgin Marketing's idea of a joke, and it wasn't true.
Yeah, how to get your record played!
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 October 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, do you lot remember "Sweet Surburbia" which had a "weird gimmic", but no-one knew what it was?
Apparently, the edge of the record was razor sharp, and was supposed to wear out the sleeve from the inside.
TATLOCKGoodnight!
― Mark G, Friday, 26 September 2008 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link
So how many names on this single are even remembered thesedays?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ena Sharples!
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
David Hunter!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Meg Mortimer! Stanley Ogden! ALBERT TATLOCK! ALBERT TATLOCK!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Johnn? PEEL!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Sandy Richardson!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Annie Walker!
I was thinking of this a few months back when there was a splodgenessabounds/"punk pathetique" thread, wondering if it owed anything to this song. But if it was a meathead anthem then I guess they were very separate scenes.
(itt a not-quite-young person tries to make sense of different times)
― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Now, here's a thing...
Note that I had the "Charles" single for sale on e-bay a few years ago, not one bid.
I look on popsike, there's people having won auctions for £100, £29 and £19 ...
Now, I look on e-bay proper, one sold recently for £3.50 which is what I'd expect.
So, what of the three I mentioned above? Are they all fakey bidders? Somebody trying to get popsike to list them as 'pricey things' by fake-bidding their own?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
This track is a classic, of course!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
And now, "Scared to dance" has come out as a three-CD deluxe edition.
Cd1 the album plus singles etc.
Cd2 early demos
CD3 HAS THE LIVE GIG THAT THAT TV STARS WAS TAKEN FROM!
Ahem. Hray.
― Mark G, Friday, 29 December 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
Will check out but the big box set that came out last year satisfied my Skids needs.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
It was still the rule back then that if a live track was issued on a single, they had to say "Goodnight" at the end. Like it was the last track.― Mark G, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:08 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:08 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funny thing is, he doesn't say "Goodnight" (or, to be more precise, "ALBERTTATLOCKGoodnight" - its a sly edit/overdub taken from his actual farewell two songs later.
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link