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Went to two shows today:
First up was The Noise Next Door.
This is brilliant. 5 out of 5. There are two shows - the watered down daytime version and the more edgy evening one. We went to daytime, but taking wife next week to evening show. It's basically an improv show within a sketch, but is really clever, and well done, and incorporates the audience really well. The audience throw words at the four guys on stage and they build them into a running thread. You could essentially go to every show, cos I'm guessing every one will be quite different.
The we headed over to the lecture theatre for The Oxford Review.
This was, quite simply, the worst comedy group I've ever witnessed - in person or on TV. 0 out of 5. Three middle class Oxford students who've seen one sketch show too many and thought 'how difficult can it be?', before putting together an hour of 'quirky' (read p!sh) sketches. So awful I'd have thanked you for killing me after 5 minutes. I reckon the lecture theatre holds maybe 150 people. I reckon about 15 left before the end.
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Was hoping to go see him with my son, but sold out tonight and (perhaps unsurprisingly) no under 18s!
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In the 1990 we were in the boozer (Bobby Smith's in Dalkeith) and the barman, Andy, went down into the cellar to change the keg. When he re-emerged up the steps somebody in my group (it might have been me, I can't remember) shouted 'Andy's the gimp', at which it seemed that the whole pub, all at once, started chanting this, very loudly:
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A friend of mine just contacted me saying he needs a piper for a wedding this afternoon (4pm) in Dalkeith. Not sure what happened to the original one, but he's struggling now. My mate Craig is available on 07413592155.
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Here are a list of relatively recent US sports films which didn't really get any promotion over here, most of which are just a relaxed watch on a Sunday afternoon. A couple are excellent, and well worth a watch, and probably could be compared, quality wise, to Remember the Titans.
Baseball
Million Dollar Arm
42
Trouble With the Game
61*
The Perfect Game
Basketball
Coach Carter
Glory Road (excellent watch)
American Football
The Blind Side
Invincible (excellent film)
Gridiron Gang
Athletics
McFarland USA
Prefontaine (well worth a watch)
Without Limits (also about Steve Prefontaine)
Horse Racing
Seabiscuit
Secretariat
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3 hours ago, Ormond said:
Really liked Race. Also, if you fancy something very similar to that then watch the film 42. It's about Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the MLB. Harrison Ford is brilliant in it. It came out in 2013.
Yep, 42 is excellent. US sports films is a place to find really good films that don't get any promotion over here. Kevin Costner also had a really good one out recently. Will post a list of some of the best ones.
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Saw Race last night, the story.of Jesse Owens. Very watchable, although strays from the book for dramatic effect.
And if anyone is interested, I'm writing a book about a similar subject (some of the same characters appear as in the film). More at www.craigstatham.com.
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Surely a person in his position can't say stuff like this and not expect some consequences, both politically and culturally.
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2 hours ago, HUNTINGMcGREGOR said:
I want my life back, and so does the wife. Absolute garbage.
Sorry!
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1 hour ago, biffer said:
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is now available on Netflix. It's brilliant.
Great film!
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War for the Planet of the Apes is brilliant. Great three movies. Guessing there will be more.
If you can't find anything else try 12 Feet Deep. Not brilliant, could have been better, but watchable.
Going a bit deeper tonight with 47 Meters Down.
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Just remembered I saw Justin Currie get booed at Edinburgh Playhouse for having a go at Edinburgh. He was clearly joking, and seemed to revel in the boos.
Not boos as such, but I was at Steve Earle at the Barrowlands in 1990 (the greatest show I've ever witnessed) and he twice had to stop mid song because the crowd were chanting the old football song 'Here We Go'. That didn't seem to bother him too much, and years later he would list the Barras as one of his favourite venues. What did p!ss him off, however, was the crowd singing 'Get Your T!ts Out For The Boys' to his sister, who was in his band at the time.
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Apologies in advance!
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8 hours ago, wanderer said:
Not Booed off stage as such, but in 2010 took the Mrs to see Pink at Hampden for her Birthday, and this was during the 2010 World Cup, and was the day after England v Germany..... half way through the concert she made a comment "terrible how you guys were cheated out of the world cup last night", which she got hounded for by the whole stadium and you could see the look of total fear in her face on the screen as she could not put together what she had said wrong
and actually took about 5 long minutes for the whole incident to cool down.
Sure I heard something similar happened to Phil Collins at Ingliston a few years back. Think he announced that England were winning a game at half time.
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1 hour ago, wanderer said:
Roger Daltrey spoke about that Who tour with Brian Johnson on his excellent Sky Arts show...... basically they were young and eager to hit the States, and Hermans Hermits had scored a number of top 10 hits..... and when they went out there they felt so out of place on that tour, but were convinced it would be a good pay day, only to be handed a bill at the end of the tour for what they owed as a result of the damage to hotels they did while on the tour (once their fee had been deduced).
When Springsteen inducted The Who into Musicare he told the story of going to one of these shows - opener was Blues Magoos, then The Who, then Herman's Hermits. 'No justice' was how he put it.
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Setting up mismatched bands was quite common in the 1970s. This was regularly the case for Springsteen in the early years when promoters had no idea who he was, only that he had released a couple of acoustic and semi-acoustic albums. As such they often paired him with MOR bands.
He did a tour with Chicago in 1973 where he was booed off stage pretty much every night.
Sometimes it worked the other way around. He was big in New York City in 1974, but was put second on the bill behind Anne Murray (who'd just had a number one hit). Springsteen's manager Mike Appel, a pretty aggressive guy, called Murray's manager and asked him to put Springsteen top of the bill. They refused. Bruce came out to a crowd that was 90% Springsteen fans and did his usual set. A couple of songs into Springsteen's set and Murray's manager was going ballistic, aware what was happening. When it was announced that Murray would be next on the Springsteen fans started a Brooooce chant. Murray thought they were booing her (some probably were) and apparently she burst into tears backstage.
Years later Springsteen brought Terence Trent Darby (remember him) onstage and some started to boo him. Springsteen went ballistic, calling the crowd 'rude b@st@rds'.
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Once Upon a Time in Venice with Bruce Willis. That's an odd one. John Goodman looks like he's melting. He must be ill.
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On 25/06/2017 at 10:16 PM, thplinth said:
How is Ed Sheeran famous. So bland... Complete mystery to me.
I posted exactly this on my FB page during Glastonbury, and turns out there are lots and lots of folk who feel exactly the same way. Admittedly all older. My wife really likes him, so I have to listen to his p!sh about Doncing in the Dork all the time.
My son's in London to see Green Day today at Hyde Park. Don't know if they're any good, but I did like that Time of our Life song.
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Folk who can't seem to drive around a bend in the road without crossing into the other lane. It's getting worse. Hardly ever happened when I was a lad.
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If you have nothing else to do catch The Belko Experiment. Not the greatest film, but certainly watchable.
Extortion with Eoin Bailey (David Webster in Band of Brothers) was surprisingly good too.
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2 hours ago, wheres the pies said:
Lilly Allen was getting interviewed the night on channel 4 news the night and said that she is hearing on the ground that up to 150 people could have died in this horrendous incident this could turn nasty against the authorities if that's the case
That would appear somewhat conservative imo. I would guess about 20 people living per floor, and it appears that virtually no-one above the 17th or 18th floors got out, while huge numbers below that level also perished. Terrible stuff.
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1 hour ago, weekevie04 said:
4 nominations for SNP leader : Drew Hendry, Iain Blackford, Tommy Sheppard, and Joanna Cherry.
Disappointed Gethins hasn't thrown his hat in, but I think he's just had a baby, so maybe that explains it.
Sheppard for me.
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Pretty sure that this is one of Zevon's last live shows. Everyone knew he was dying, including Letterman. The song was the b-side to Werewolves if London, an equally great song. I give you Roland the Headless Thomson Gunner.
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Band was awful. Binned by management after about 10 songs. Right back to the DJ.
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Eh, Red Dawn!
Boys... Boys... Avenge me, avenge me!!!