Things you were shockingly old when you learned

that it's elton john, not KISS, who sings "saturday night's alright for fighting"

That Pablo Cruise was a band and not a guy.

I just learnt that the Avalanches song title Pablo’s Cruise (released 22 years ago) is a pun or in-joke of some kind

the partition wasn't something you got taught in pre-o-level history back when there were still o-levels. maybe things are better now. but it does feel like the kind of thing gove would've stopped being taught.

Comedian Charlie Chuck was briefly a drummer with the Small Faces.

"She has a daughter called Liberty"

just remembered that the one of the fascist Mitford daughters, the one that was very close to Adolf Hitler was called Unity. Not sure what conclusion I am drawing here other than posh people are very bad.

The history of the Brixton Academy. That it only opened under than name in October 83 after somebody had managed to open it for a year as the Fair Deal the year before but it apparently took a lot of work to make it viable in terms of refurbishment etc when it opened as the Academy.
I was trying to find out what year Sun Ra played there around that time, must be the next year then . I had thought it was much longer open since it seemed to be a fixture for gigs when I was growing up. But maybe I was just graduating to bigger gigs at the time. being 16 or 17.
I saw Screamin Jay Hawkins there with a few weeks of the Sun Ra gig, thought it must be around the summer. Wound up walking from there to Trafalgar Square after one of the gigs.
Same premises had been the Sundown in 1972 and was one of the venues that Hawkwind's Space Ritual was recorded at.
I think one reason I was thinking it was an older venue was to do with the stage decoration I remember being there which I think looked liek it must be left over from something. Certainly more tahn being intentionally put there as decoration for a concert venue, like it was left over from a theatre or ballroom or something. Have since seen something possibly similar used to make Irish pubs look like tehy were much older than the redesign.
It was apparently bought for £1 when it was the Fair Deal and on its way to becoming the Brixton Academy.

but it was a theatre before? did you not finish reading the history or something? it was built in the 1920s and was a cinema and theatre called the Astoria from 1929-1972

this is what it looked like in 1929:

http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Brixton/AstoriaImages/Auditorium1.jpg

guess no hot linking on that image but it's here: http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Brixton/AstoriaImages/Auditorium1.jpg

yeah and it had become run down in the interim.

So when you heavily refurbish a place you tend to leave the previous contents in there? Is that what You're missing?
Contents from decades earlier non intentionally left there. Or brought in .
I am seeing a level of mise en scene that I would think was pretty far from automatic. Things left on side of stage and I thought a shelf like continuation around the sides. Certainly the way I'm remembering it.
So do you think you could stop projecting possibly?

i always wanted performers i saw there to make more use of that bridge-gallery thing above the main stage -- tho it may well have been unsafe and/or closed off by management to rock idiots lol

actually tbrr i wanted to wander around on it myself

That Sondre Lerche is a man.

You forgot to add “baby!” at the end.

He was good in those Clint Eastwood movies

I think that's why I thought he was a woman.

Just relearned the Pete Puma/Stan Freberg thing.

I was today years old when I heard about the extreme ignobility of the death of Michael Collins. Who had come out of the space he was being protecte din behind an armoured car to shoot some IRA members fleeing down a lane from behnd. HIm being exposed meant that he was also a target. Some of his closest confidantes went on to form the blueshirts Irish fascist party. NOw if i could just go back 25 years and play the podcast I listened to today to me when I was living in Dublin., Wonder what I would have thunk.

Also just sunk in that the member of the Saints that looks most like a longhaired rocker on the cover of (I'm) Stranded left to form a mod band. Kym Bradshaw was a founding member of Small Hours who are on Mods Mayday 79 among other things. Saints punks in suits look kinda rocks anyway. Been getting into Prehistoric Days for the last few days

not only does florida look like a penis. it is a penisula. and the first letters of that? it's penis

wait, hold that.

peninsula. penin, not penis.

that makes more sense. i was genuinely shocked, for a moment, that i had not noted this before

just to wrap this up i'd like to suggest that maybe we start calling them penisulas

also home of the florida state seminal vesicles

that Pakistan has more glacial ice than any other country outside the arctic zones. I know the Himalayan mountain range passes through it and it's a big country with a lot of mountains in the north. But I just thought somewhere else in that zone would have more ice.

that the Wolverhampton Wanderers once also played an offseason season in an upstart North American 'soccer' league, but they were rebranded the LA Wolves. as were other European teams who played, masquerading as American teams under pseudonyms.

was the late 60s

That's kinda crazy. And looking into it, the 1969 NASL year was really nutty. First the teams played a regular season schedule with presumably their own North American players and that was followed by an "International Cup" with each team being replaced by a real English or Scottish team. Aston Villa played as the Atlanta Chiefs, West Ham United played as the Baltimore Bays, etc.

Atlanta Chiefs were represented by Aston Villa
Baltimore Bays were represented by West Ham United
Dallas Tornado were represented by Dundee United
Kansas City Spurs were represented by Wolverhampton Wanderers
St. Louis Stars were represented by Kilmarnock F.C.

Wolves won it too.

"that the Wolverhampton Wanderers once also played an offseason season in an upstart North American 'soccer' league, but they were rebranded the LA Wolves. as were other European teams who played, masquerading as American teams under pseudonyms."

My word. I was not aware of this. But it happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Soccer_Association

"Without any players of its own, (the new league) opted to import whole teams from Europe and South America. It was intended that these teams would represent the franchises during the inaugural season, giving them time to build their own squads for the following season. Wolverhampton Wanderers, who had won promotion to the English First Division at the end of the 1966–67 season subsequently represented the Los Angeles franchise."

The idea of Wolverhampton Wanderers suddenly decamping to Los Angeles in 1967 is faintly surreal. Decamping to Los Angeles to play the Washington Whips, e.g. Aberdeen. It must have been an incredible culture shock. Britain in 1967 was still almost entirely black and white and football back then consisted of kicking a massively heavy ball around a field made of mud.

That leads me to learn about Victorio Casa, "the first player in American professional soccer history (and only player in NASL history) to play with one arm; he had lost his right arm in a freak shooting accident before coming to the US". By 1970 he was making $15,000 a year, the equivalent of $115,000 today.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b9/79/1d/b9791df703df720a5827cd46c9f9f107.jpg

Oh right, there's two different competitions there in two different years - and Wolves won both of them!

not only does florida look like a penis. it is a penisula. and the first letters of that? it's penis

I have heard Florida referred to as "America's wang," but I think it's more accurate to call it "America's lower intestine."

> St. Louis Stars were represented by Kilmarnock F.C.

Today I learned that Kilmarnock, Virginia USA where my mom grew up was named after a place in Scotland and is not an Algonquin word, like the Rappahannock River, which it is close to.

Atlanta Chiefs were represented by Aston Villa
Baltimore Bays were represented by West Ham United
Dallas Tornado were represented by Dundee United
Kansas City Spurs were represented by Wolverhampton Wanderers
St. Louis Stars were represented by Kilmarnock F.C.

(xp) lol. Somehow I can imagine Virginia being full of people from Ayrshire.

Indeed Rappahannock is probably a scotiatization of whatever they heard the native Americans call the river.

Kudos to two-time North American trophy winners Wolverhampton Wanderers

The idea of Wolverhampton Wanderers suddenly decamping to Los Angeles in 1967 is faintly surreal. Decamping to Los Angeles to play the Washington Whips, e.g. Aberdeen. It must have been an incredible culture shock. Britain in 1967 was still almost entirely black and white and football back then consisted of kicking a massively heavy ball around a field made of mud.

Would rather watch this TV series than Ted Lasso, tbh

Plenty of scope for comedy Black Country accents there too.

There's a huge man-made cave complex in London (Chislehurst Caves). Why didn't I know this when I lived there?

Apparently Hendrix played a gig in there!

oh i missed the Wolves's mad American tournament chat. great videos

Queen of Canada is a separate title from Queen of England and theoretically Canada could have a different King or Queen than England

Well, to be accurate, there hasn't been a Queen (or King) of England since 1707.

Yeah, I guess I should have said Queen of the United Kingdom.

I guess I just assumed there was some "Queen of the Commonwealth" title or something that applied to all countries which have to put up with having this
old woman's profile on their coins.

a question, because I've just realised i don't know. Elizabethans, Edwardians, Jacobeans. but for Charles?

i like to consider myself part of Charles Nation

Carolingians?

Carlists?

Charlatans

Carolines perhaps? North and South Carolina both named after Charles I.

That it’s Alain Delon on the cover of the Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead