Brad and Ange are suing the Screws
for saying their marriage is on the rocks
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ahem ,*points down* as a 'Manc keyboard warrior' may I point out
that neither New Order nor 'Gerry and the Holograms', were the first musos to leave the stage with the instruments still playing. Kraftwerk had robots, or mannequins manufactured and they were first used on stage at gigs in 1978, without the actual members on stage and only to playback music. Kraftwerk of course were a big influence on New Order....(one of the funnier to happen to the godawful Spandau Ballet in their early '80s pomp was when they went to New York and under the conceit that black New Yorkers would lurrvve their "soul" music. They went to black clubs only to find 'em playing electro, Kraftwerk and 'Blue Monday' every five minutes...)
uncle_whuppity 21:13, reply
that's very good son, very original, did you do it all by yourself?
or did you have help you drooling window licker? That's about the 584th time you'v posted it
Tell us about Gerry & the Holograms again with the dates all wrong again....
uncle_whuppity 0:11, reply
wadda you know about anything outside the Herts/Essex borders
or 'God's Own Sod' you pikey bog trotter? Go sell some pegs
uncle_whuppity 0:17, reply
Belated Celeb Spot
Paloma Faith on Friday night at the Wright Bros. Oyster and Porter Bar in SE1. Very friendly.
edmor 19:08, reply
(I'm not saying she's not friendly, like, but)
she'd need to have some positive attributes to make up for near total lack of talent. (less than average tits too)
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agree totally
it's not as though there aren't viable remedies nowadays..
(I'm not totally anti-Burlesque influenced music, Bellowhead are fab)
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excellent news
we need a good a-list/tabloid scrap
JT's cock antics don't really cut it
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not as pop or bitch as monkey sex or hypnotised dogs I grant you,
and as it relates to events yesterday, obviously not as current either.
jesus_h_christ 17:31, reply
Peter Hooks new Manchester Club
called FAC251 (geddit?) in the old Factory Records building, hosted Hooky's new band on friday night. They played some new stuff and then ripped into some Joy Div/New order classics with gusto, like the pub-band they are. In fact Hooky sang Blue Monday without even having to touch the guitar slung round his neck- an achievement for such a bass-heavy track!
And finally the answer to why Peter Hook seems to source such phallicaly-huge Bass Guitars: He is a 5foot 6in shortarse! (as I didn't tell him in the VIP bar afterwards.)
bogarts_lung 11:39, reply
Tony Wilson's funeral was catalogued as FAC 501
(it was on his coffin) and was meant to be he last Factory catalogue number
uncle_whuppity 20:49, reply
They're no Monaco
creatif 19:47, reply
It's a sad day in Broken Britain when a cop of the realm
can't frame who he likes when he likes.
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Trying to remember
how many times they've been close to getting rid of him...
Did some work that involved the NBPA years ago and seem to remember his reps were finding it pretty hard to defend him then...
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He's a fucking shoo-in
for the Police Commissioners job in Afghanistan when he gets out.
scoundrel 16:08, reply
Hack hijack
I know she's universally regarded as weapons grade awful, but honestly has anyone ever seen anything worse than this report. The timing of the opening 'gag' is worth the price of admission on its own www.guardi ... ord-street
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'I've never understood the attraction of dinosaurs...
.... what with being a self obsessed gobshite all my life.' I'm paraphrasing of course, but really who thought it was a good idea to have her as a roving reporter taking a look at the lighter side of life? And who directed it, Helen Keller?
squireofknottyash 15:56, reply
Fucking hell.
"I was sat in the hotel room across the road before looking out of the window and it was mad," Hook told NME.COM "I was like 'fucking hell its like 1988 and The Haçienda all over again'".
In what way, Peter? In that you've attracted the cream of Manchester's lagered-up teds and laid the foundation stone of your new venture on 2-4-1 booze offers, which are BOUND to get that peace-and-love-everyone-tearfully-hugging-each-other-in-disco-ecstacy thing going?
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indeed
it was conceived as the effortless encore - press the switch and sod off home.
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It was also most likely conceived after listening to fellow Mancs Gerry and the Holograms record from 4 years earlier.
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you prick honk
I guarantee you'd never even heard of the fucking Holograms until that A Track cd last year.
Any other criticism of era defining bands we can look forward to?
Perhaps Paul Weller had heard some Small Faces as a youth?
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Who the fuck are you?
Yet another Manc keyboard warrior, how quaint. Did they really 'define an era'? Not if you lived outside the M60 they didn't.
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As an attack I don't think I can improve on that defence
You fucking moron.
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with pleasure
Or do you want to rip Noah and the Whale apart referencing Lonnie Donegan?
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honk it's ok
Your opinions count. Even if you haven't thought about them.
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excellent
I had a horrible feeling it was about some tedious electro pop from the 80s
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fight, fight, fight!
horsespider 15:40, reply
Cue posts from 12 yr old Pbers
regaling us with tales of the Hac 'back in the day'. And, how fucking annoying is that ad? *looks up*
scoundrel 11:57, reply
MMM - it was all a bit of a let down really
I got dragged along by an old friend of Ben Kelly' - pub rock was the order of the night... it was all a bit 'Tony would have loved this, I'm doing this for Tony, for this city', which in itself is great but when he was here he was the most hated man in M/cr in certain circles. The ghost of Ian looked on. Dont really know what to expect from walking through the old doors of the place.
Still, Thursday night looks promising with Elgazelle on the bill. Yes - a shameless plug... worth it tho!
meatandtwoveg 11:52, reply
It all looks like a load of fucking shit, and Peter is a no-mark cunt.
"My old house-mate was a massive fan of New Order and went to watch Hooky DJ a few years back - she managed to sneak backstage to ask for an autograph, at which point he asked her if she wanted to give him a blowjob.
And although he wasn't to know... she was 15 at the time."
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I tell what'd be nice
A blog that wasn't a bile receptacle for some bitter fucking weapon, railing against something that they secretly wish to be part of/ still a part of.
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I don't think that's really the case in Manchester
Even the periphary characters got bored of hearing their own voices 15 years ago.
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MMMM
even the other Gallagher brother (the one who can't sing or play) hasn't said a thing in ages...
meatandtwoveg 16:04, reply
Prob Corn but...
Douglas Booth has been chosen to play Boy George in the BBC's "Worried about the Boy":
vs 
whitemaninhammersmithpalais 11:07, reply
Is this the rose-tinted bio-pic?
No obesity, drug use, kidnapping, overdosing musicians and pikey Irish families riding horses around south-east London estates.
dawnsyndrome 11:13, reply
Katie Hopkins is getting married on tv
She's on a "celeb" version of Four Weddings. Vile.
simon_cowell 15:35, reply
Our Favourite Tory Ranter
is at it again with an article claiming that global warming is a construction of those wishy-washy lefties at the BBC. Now, if I lived in Harwich, I'd probably be hedging my bets on whether I was going to end up under 12 foot of seawater. Even funnier are the comments, one of which seems to claim that all this Global Warming nonsense boils down to people not having gone to the right type of school.
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Buster
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but the latest trend in radio ads for Government websites seems to be to tell the punters to "search online for whatever" rather than giving out the URL.
Not a good idea....
www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/directgov_busters_world/.
"Who at Direct Gov thought that the domain name of a gay porn site was a good idea for their Kids portal??"
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The unnamed 'sixth case' in the DPP prosecutions list is, apparently,
Baroness Uddin, who I'm told is refusing to answer questions. Allegedly. www.timeso ... 211846.ece
medium_smart 11:42, reply
he looks like a propellor head
and in climate change denying joins that elite group that includes Mad Melanie Phillips,Nick Griffin and Lord Monckton - *THIS JUST IN* MPs & a peer facing criminal charges over expenses:
David Chater, Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, and Lord Hanningfield (Paul White). They are going to try it on that they can't be prosecuted because of 'parliamentary privilege', court test case coming up....
uncle_whuppity 11:16, reply
Elliot Morley's got a stunning office
Comes from having been a select committee Chair. It has stairs in it and everything - he managed to hang on to it even when the whip was removed.
simon_cowell 15:46, reply
when i asked hanningfield
how he managed to square his expenses at ecc with his allowances from the lords, as it appeared he had been in two places at once and charging for both, he told me he worked 365 days a year, so that's all right then.
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but if he's in two places at once
it means he's actually working 730 days a year - come on D be fair!
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Jim Devine's defence is solid
"er, a bloke I met in a pub did thousands of pounds worth of work on my second home...but I can't remember who he is and he's vanished."
muttleee 11:54, reply
how did the Indian Labour Peeress with the empty house and the frightful tory couple escape being charged?
brdc 11:38, reply
Is this the couple who both put in a claim for the same cleaning services?
Mrs Uddin's neighbours have been keeping watch too hopefully.
vogue 12:20, reply
good, but whilst I accept this is neither pop nor bitch its pretty galling to accept that all of the MP's have until late Feb to pay yet we had to pay the IRS by 31st Jan. As the guilty ones are all retiring at the election they will all get their tax free resettlement allowance and final salary pensions.
Having witnessed Mandleson work the predominantly middle class, dye hard Tory passengers in the departure lounge at Corfu airport last summer before we all boarded a sleazyjet flight back I am a fan. The Prince of Darkness is everything Cameron and Osborne are not - hung parliament is a good call.
brdc 12:01, reply
But a bad result, at the back end of a recession.
A government that can make decisions without having to barter each time is going to be absolutely necessary. I'd rather have four more years of the Useless Cunt than neither one thing nor the other, frankly. (Lucky this media board allows us to discuss such things, innits?)
medium_smart 12:04, reply
you are, of course, correct. Which is why the Tories shoudl kick Cameron and Osborne into touch and get Hague and Clarke - then they would romp it
brdc 12:09, reply
The older Hague gets, the more I fancy him for some reason.
*borrows Valerie Barlow's hairdryer*
vogue 12:31, reply
It's not called Global Warming any more - It's Katey Price
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
reynolds_punch 11:12, reply
I can't see how anyone who is not religious can
give two shits about long term environmental problems or the fate of the human species
mrbradsteen 11:14, reply
They can relax because it is just natural cycles
unlike the cover up of $1 trillion tax to counter intergalactic pedlophiles.
reynolds_punch 11:37, reply
And he's right...
muzar 10:38, reply
If your point is that you don't agree
with something that a politician has said, you are probably 1) not in the minority and 2) posting your thoughts in the wrong forum. You're welcome.
medium_smart 10:30, reply
The article's about supposed media distortion of a pivotal issue of major public iterest. Hence it being on a media board. Or did this pass you by?
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i've just been drawing cocks on the screen in purple crayon
Have I been doing it wrong all along??
tania_bryer 11:10, reply
Don't be silly, dear.
This isn't the forum to discuss MP's views of the potential spin used in the reporting of global warming. Now, settle down.
medium_smart 10:49, reply
That's true but
you should never let the facts get in the way of a good tory.
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Hannan and Carswell wrote The Plan together.
'Kinell, I know more about your party than you do...
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