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It's 9:27! I'd sure hope you aren't drinking!
Well I mean for the foreseeable future.
Next 8 hours?
That's about as far as I can see.
Quote: Griff @ August 21 2008, 12:32 AM BSTThere was a brief time, long before many of the good people on this board were born, when Bob Geldof's Boomtown Rats, along with The Jam, Ian Dury, and perhaps Elvis Costello, completely defined the spirit of anti-establishment music in the UK. (OK, the really cool kids knew about bands like the Ramones, but I'm talking about the bands everyone knew.) Pretty much everyone in my school and all their scary dole-scum older brothers worshipped Geldof and the Rats. And to be fair, they were a fantastic band for a short period of time. Songs like Rat Trap, Someone's Looking At You and Diamond Smiles are f**king brilliant.
Up until that time Radio One was dominated by rubbish like Showaddywaddywaddy and Olivia Newton John, and there wasn't any other national station that played rock music. So the arrival of these post-punk bands (punk never got played on the radio except late at night when John Peel might play Smash It Up by The Damned) was like a bomb going off.
Geldof's real stardom only lasted a couple of years, and had faded long before Live Aid. But for a couple of years in the 1970s every music magazine, newspaper and TV show followed him and the Rats in the same way the Gallacher brothers were ubiquitous in the mid 90s.
I saw Geldof perform with the Rats during the peak of their powers a few times, and they were amongst the best gigs I ever saw. Utterly mesmerising.
Totally agree, albeit "Vegetarians of Love" was a decent album released 10 years later.
Geldoff had a glorious 2 years with the Boomtown Rats.
He also set up one of the best concerts of all time in Band Aid.
There's something snide in picking on some one for being as good all their careers.
You'd be left with Cliff Richard.
That few years of Elvis Costello, Boom Town Rats, The Jam et al, were great.
I think this is a very cool version, so it probably isn't.
Quote: EllieJP @ September 4 2008, 9:27 AM BSTI'm not drinking at the moment... off the booze.
Good girl. 
As my pub landlord once said to me 'Matt this not drinking lark, its not good for you and its certainly not good for me, now get ya act together'
If you really feel that you are drinking too much then change from pints to shorts. Sorted 
Shorts are the ones that make we wasted.
Pints I can handle but are bad for love handles.
Quote: EllieJP @ September 4 2008, 11:46 AM BSTShorts are the ones that make we wasted.
Pints I can handle but are bad for love handles.
I'm exactly the same! Shorts are my nemesis, pints my salvation.
Although I have to disagree with your logic. Pints are GREAT for love handles, the trick is finding someone who appreciates them!
Ha - my guy appreciates them - but I don't think he wants any more. lol
I'm guessing it wont be much of an issue, I dont think you have anything to worry about:
although when considering men and women in relationships I often think of this........
Men enter a relationship hoping that their girl will never change.
Women enter a relationship hoping that their man will change.
Invariably both end up disappointed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKwk_xPIXJw
Sums up my attitude to the one true proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Too true sofa_matt
At least I still have all the strange online people who like me for my personality and my unusually well taken avatar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHP1tWWEvI&feature=related
Puts it even better. Hooray for beer!