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  1. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

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    Great singers and the X factor in the same sentence is surely an oxymoron?
     
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  2. Leon T Trout AFC

    Leon T Trout AFC Well-Known Member

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    Oh indeed.

    But when I've had the misfortune to hear/see the prog, it has contained technically very able singers.
     
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  3. Ernie Shackleton

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    Sophie Ellis Bextor, what shall we text her?



    The greatest of parlour games.




    An example: Hi Sophie. Can I **** your Mum?
     
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  4. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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  5. bum_chinned_crab

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    Who is the hottest Blue Peter presenter?

    Personally I struggle to look beyond John Leslie.
     
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  6. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    The Gold Nose of Green Ginger

    Greenginger.org
     
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  7. Party Hull!

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    MES is my hero.

    The only hero.

    Off to see him in Manc in August doing some bizarre performance (without The Fall) about Wyndham Lewis.

    Can't wait. Girlfriend is not so excited.

    Hup!
     
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  8. Leon T Trout AFC

    Leon T Trout AFC Well-Known Member

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    Haven't seen them/him for a long time. Remember once doing Stockport away and a Fall gig on the same night.

    Not everyone's chupa chup, granted, but it seems somewhat benighted to consider his singing ability as something to measure, nevermind compare it.
     
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  9. Party Hull!

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    He's up there with Whitney & Mariah and let that be the end of it.

    No, of course not. Though I think it is possible to be a great vocalist as much as a great singer - an important difference. And for me MES is a great vocalist. No one else like him.

    Well, there have been imitators of the style since, but none have done it with all the numerous ingredients that MES has.

    IMO
     
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  10. Party Hull!

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    Further to this, Hull City played at Stockport on 18th August 1998 drawing 2-2.

    The Fall played the same night at the Students Union at Manchester University - details here http://thefall.org/gigography/gig98.html

    Sad though it is to quickly research this, I think I have identified the day in question. This is life.
     
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  11. Leon T Trout AFC

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    That's the one.

    Literally just a few miles down the road from each other.
     
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  12. Leon T Trout AFC

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    MES must have been heavily influenced by Beefheart and the likes of early Can but agree, MES is very much his own incarnation and indeed, no one else like him.
     
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  13. Party Hull!

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    Without a doubt, certainly.

    I think your Wedding Presents/Pulps and maybe even Arctic Monkeys have taken huge cues from him in terms of an almost spoken word delivery in a regional accent - though none with the same nuance or wit I don't think.

    IMO.
     
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  14. TIGERSCAVE

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    Wasn't he the one that got into lumber...?
     
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  15. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    Konnie Huq pushed into second by Helen Skelton.

    Huq's married to Charlie Brooker.
     
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  16. Ernie Shackleton

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    Valerie Singleton.

    And her girlfriend.


    Probably.





    I'm just watching.
     
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  17. bum_chinned_crab

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    Yeah Huq for me as well, just ahead of Ellis.
     
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  18. Carmine Galante.

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    Bill is Dead is one of my favourite songs of all time.

    The Wedding Present are one of my favourite ever bands.

    My mate's bird cheated on him with David Gedge. He was fuming to start with, when he found out it was Gedgey she was knocking off he found it all rather amusing.

    True story is that.
     
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  19. Party Hull!

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    I don't own any Wedding Present records but I do like a fair bit of what I've heard.

    Did he stick with her?

    Takes some brassneck that...
     
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  20. bum_chinned_crab

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    Our Kid was / is a massive Wedding Present fan, he was in the fan club and got the full set of the 12 heavily limited edition 12" singles released in one year.

    Corduroy is ****ing brilliant.
     
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