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Ah, yes. Mac Bolan. We used to call him Big Rubber Apple Mac


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WEDNESDAY


There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner -


Check out the lyrics! It could have been written yesterday!

Albert Hammond Jr and Julian Casablancas met at boarding school in Switzerland.

The Strokes - "Under Cover of Darkness"

Ingram Cecil Connor III - Streets of Baltimore or In My Hour Of Darkness

Diplomat's son...Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - 'Get Down Moses'

- Chris Spedding - I believe he can trace his ancestry all the way back to his father

Nice one Julie.

Surely "they" can't ignore Joe & the Mescaleros anymore. We're all Clashed oot!

Frank Turner went to Eton...'If I Ever Stray'

#8...oops should be 'I Ever I Stray' by Frank Turner...sigh!

#62 prev.

Sorry to hear about the asteroids, Mac - have you tried the ointment?

;o)

John Lennon, the defiant composer of Working Class Hero, was a middle-class art school boy. As was Pete Townshend, the man behind My Generation. Joe Strummer of The Clash and Pete Doherty of The Libertines were privately educated. So what!




How about nepotism as a theme?

You'll be laughing on the other side of your face Glen when I've made my millions!

Forget Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 or Space 1999 if you want a piece of the action then hit www.planetaryresources.com/

I'll get back to Memory-Map and A'Mhaighdean.

Karl Wallinger (Charterhouse) ...World Party - 'She's The One'

#10 & #12

I should have read this thread first.......

Marcus Mumford went to a posh Wimbledon School before studying classics at Edinburgh Yoonie

The Cave - Mumford & Sons

#3

The cost of Boarding school in Switzerland will be the reason Albert Hammond Snr. is playing Oran Mor these days.

It's not the swearing on Working Class Hero that invalidates it, it's the hypocracy.

I find the nature of the theme rather surprising in its offensivness. People are no more able to to control their upbringing than their sexuality, yet I'm sure there are no plans for a 'performing gay boys' or a 'talented underclass' theme.

At least 'Artists Outlived By Megrahi' is not discrimina-tory. Besides, as someone brought up in Bearsden and had a lifetimes' judgemental sarcasm, I'm not for indulging our hero's inverted snobbery on the subject. Some of the nicest, most open minded, generous, kind, non-judgemental people I've ever come across are 'posh'. Some of the most judgemental, bitter,and narrow minded are not.

But none of it has anything to do with musical ability or songwriting talent.

regardez youse

henri

#12

Try a soft cushion in the short term.

#18

You're right about this theme. Have a good command of English and you're condemned as a "plummy voiced posho", This from a man who doesn't know his it's from his its.

And now we have newsreaders coming from a land where the currency is "poinds". Lord Reith must be doing 78 rpm.

Previously on the blog #47
What's the best way to get coffee spray out an iphone?

Cheers Glen!

Loving you has made me bananas / Guy Marks

I hear Victoria Beckham used to be posh.

I also hear she once tried to sue Peterborough United for stealing her name!

the thing about 'posh' is that there is a power element to it.
its a slightly amusing term (boris, cameron, wills and kate etc) but don't go rocking the boat or you'll get pushed in.
the reason that pete doherty, for example, is indulged is because he is 'posh' and has lots of 'posh' mates and not because of any superior talent in writing songs.
the concept of 'posh' is different from sexual orientation and being part of a substantial underclass.
those who are 'posh' can renounce their 'poshness' but they choose not to because of the power element and often the (relative) wealth that goes along with it. i've never heard of anyone either, who has renounced their 'underclass' status, i just wonder where such a class would go.

fairly recently after watching (tv on mute) my favourite scottish current affairs programme (no irony) an interview with 'keef' came on and for some unknown reason i de-muted to listen to what insights (none) he had to offer whilst promoting his book. well, call me what you like but don't call me 'easily shocked' but when i heard 'keef' probably for the first time in my life, i was like O M G ....LOL....not even his years as a rocker could hide those plummy posh vowels.
i was well shocked.
so maybe 7:84 got the proportions just about right on the balance of power in the pop world too.
still , ye cannae dispute a good song 'posh' or not....i make no judgement on the degree of 'poshness' (very high) of this band though, 'posh' to a man.

'jumpin' jack flash'............................rolling stones

cheers frae the dale (where it can be quite posh, not round my bit tho')

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I get fish from a van, I'm a Kelvinside man!

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#18, #19

At least it's not a repeat. Miss Babs will allay your fears. (Her being from the posh end of Drumchapel).


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#20 Wash it in the bath, or drop it in the toilet. Works for me every time.

#18 spot on, Henri. Maybe our next theme will be schemeys. I turned off Call Kaye for good after a programme about correct grammar in which she (unbiased presenter?) routinely made fun of 'talking posh' as if speaking correctly made one a snob. Maybe she was just playing to her audience...


If You Wanna - the Vaccines

"Wildly oversubscribed" i.e. 22 requests.

#27

The same dumbing-down, every-child-receives-a-prize mindset has produced an illiterate, inarticulate, ignorant and largely unemployable generation.

The words 'open' and 'can of worms' do come to mind.... where does 'posh' start and finish?... if you ask say 'Bryan Ferry' who he would regard as 'posh' what would he reply?... yet I bet Bryan F gets a play tonight....

On the basis that 'Queen' will probably also get a play (does Brian May speak yer actual 'posh'?) can we hear SPREAD YOUR WINGS please! (just for a change!)

Hey, maybe there is a theme here... 'posh' singers with the name Brian/Bryan?... maybe not!

Ah what the heck!... lets just have 2 hours of Noel Coward and then there's no debate!!

#28 @ ya GM

too harsh.
after all the Lord Mayor can hardly be blamed for his upbringing!! (no irony intended , at all).

cheers frae the dale ( the fish van comes roond on a thursday btw)

#30

Say that again when your pension stops.

- The Viscounts (UK) - Featuring Gordon Mills
- The Viscounts (US)

Which is cooler? There's only one way to find out..............

Well, just listened to last nights show... Cavatina (sublime!), Dueling Banjos (superbly recessive!)... but NOT the 'theme' from the film guys... just featured in it... naughty!!

Would have been good to hear Big Country doing 'Come Back To Me', which is played over the closing credits...

... of Restless Natives.

Jake Thackray sounds posh but wasn't. Lah-Di-Dah.

P.O.S.H.-Port Out Starboard Home...Didn't matter much if you were in steerage on the Titanic though.

TAKE ME HOME from READ MY LIPS by SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR

#33
Mike, Cavatina is the theme of Deer Hunter


However, agree with you about some of the others.
They have been very loose with the themes recently. It's not as though we dont give them a heads up...

#19

For my head or my arse?

'It's your suggestions of the double barrelled, plummy voiced poshos'

Sorry but no suggestions from me...

Who suggested this theme?

Al.

#39 Some stupid James Blunt ☺

... tell you what ...

'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off' ~~~ Fred Astaire & Ginger Rodgers

... now then, now then .... potatoe or potato anyone?

#35 correct.

Last night, I had sails out to the right on the way out and to the left on the way home. Very posh.



We buy our fish before it gets to the van

#38

Yes

#42

Isn't that soph?

The fish van visits on Tuesdays and Fridays in EH10...does that make us twice as posh? ;o)

#43

Is that, YES... this theme was made for Ms Babs!

#44

That's a lot of pollocks.

#45

Most people in Bearsden are living in the kitchen round a one bar fire.

# previously many comments about 'fish vans'

very often a measure of 'poshness' can be determined by what is not said.
and i haven't heard any mention of 'ice cream vans' in yer street.

one visits my street...yassssss and i can hear chimes waft over from the darker regions.

so for one upmanship on the 'posh' stakes the 'dale has it.....and there's a spar!!! with a 'subway' inside it....
repeat after me..

we are 'posh' and don't we know it.

however this theme seems to have set off a guid few detonators so lets hear a big one from surely a posh person.........

'atomic energy'.................sir lancelot

(you'll find it on the interesting triple cd 'little red book' of protest songs)

cheers frae the dale

#42 #44
We have a fish van comes here to Cathcairt.I think he's from Pittenweem.He's an awful nice wee main.Mainly we get our fish at the farmers market though so its nearly fresh??

I will copy direct from wiki:

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British military officer and professor of psychology.

Sounds posh but was it? Well you would need to read her superb autobiography to find out. An incredinly interesting woman and one of my all time favourite tracks is:

Marianne Faithfull - Times Square, from the trilogy of great albums she did with a lot of the same musicians Grace Jones was using in her prime.

failing that the re-record of As Tears Go By

Florence Welsh of Florence And The Machine went to a posh school,Thomas London Day School(seen as a feeder for Eton)-Dog Days Are Over.
Lily Allen on the other hand, has been thrown out of more posh schools than Florence has had hot dinners.

#42

Buy your fish! We used to catch our own!*








from the "Four East Neukers" sketch

#50

Some parts of the education system are working, then.

#51

Fish? Dulse soup was a treat.

#52 You could afford seaweed? Think yourself lucky all we got was Chondrus crispus soup....

Chondrus crispus was for Christmas. Most days we'd boil up a Scampi Fries packet if Dad had managed to find one.

Jake Shillingford of My Life Story is quite posh, and what posher thing to do than to found your own orchestra as well... How about the MLS cover of Duchess to keep with the theme.

Ha-ha! Most of the blog is posh and some have taken exception to the theme!

#54 You got a packet with your scampi fries? Ours were wrapped in newspaper.

#46

Aye, and chips on theirs shoulders about being labelled posh LOL!

#43 re #42 ha! Someone rose to the bait I see! You lot too busy speaking about fish vans while I was merrily waiting for a bite!

Sailing lesson:

Port Tack: Wind coming over the port (ie left side facing forward) so sails out to the right

Starboard Tack: Wind coming over the starboard (ie right side facing forward) so sails out to the left

Last night, the wind was from the east and I headed south from harbour (a bit daft to head north this side of the Forth) meaning Port Out before tacking / gybing and then Starboard Home.

Has anyone suggested P. O. S. H. from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"?



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#55 & #58

Well, it quite clearly states in the BCC - No riff-raff!

#59

Sadder and wiser, Ancient Mariner, I will seek consolation at the Paisley Beer Festival.

Have an Ovalteen on me

#60 see #11

I understand the BEEB are firm believers in such a recruitment policy ;-0