lord summerisle

Lester, you've made my week! I'm a massive Hammer fan, in fact I'll watch most British low budget Horror films from the late 50s to the mid 70s. In the 80s, My Dad would record them onto Betamax for me and my brother when the BBC showed such films on most Friday nights. I urge people of a similar persuasion to check out "English Gothic - A Century Of Horror Cinema" (Amazon.co.uk: English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema: Books: Jonathan Rigby) - it's a wonderful reference book for the genre. Also, if you want a laugh, check out "Forbidden TerrorTory", the full-on cheese that is the Hammer Horror Interactive Board Game (http://www.hammerfilms.com/acatalog/Hammer_DVD_Board_Game.html). Bagsy the Captain Kronos figurine! Anyway, enough pant-wetting from me. Lord Summerisle's favourite frighteners (I enjoy the soundtracks almost as much as the films themselves!): "Psychomania" (early 70s UK flick about a biker gang that make a pact with "Auld Nick", kill themselves and come back from the dead) "Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter" (18th century romp with a swashbuckling protagonist who may or may not be a time traveller - was intended to have been a series of films) All seven "Dracula" films (eyes, even the Kung Fu one that didn't have Christopher Lee in it!) The original "Wicker Man", naturally (is it or it is not a horror film?) "Death Line" (inbred progeny of walled-in Victorian underground workers go radge on the railway) "From Beyond The Grave" (fine example of an Amicus "portmanteau" film - i.e. four or more stories linked to one theme, place etc. in this case an grubby old antiques shop conveniently run by Peter Cushing. Basically, four customers rip him off when they buy things from him and suffer the consequences for it. David Warner buys an antique mirror at a knockdown price, has a seance in front of it an inadvertently summons a "Dorian Gray"-type bloke who's stuck on the other side and who then demands that he be fed blood. Warner goes psycho, mirror bloke gets fitter and healthier with each plasma boost and eventually takes the place of Warner, who in turn gets trapped behind the mirror. New folk move into his flat, someone says "Hey! let's have a seance!" and so it begins again! Sacred me shitless as a 10 year old) ...and lastly, for pure cheese, check out "Horror Hospital" - starring Confessions "star" Robin Asquith as our "hero" and Michael "Batman's Alfred" Gough as a deranged doctor in charge of a hospital of mutilated teenager.

"Down Down" - Status Quo

This thread brings back bad memories of the whole Summerisle family being sheared by the local "house call" hairdresser in the late 80s. Verily, a whole household of mulleteers - Pater (balding mullet), Mater (mullette - feminine, you see!) and the two young chaps (Chris waddle, eat your heart out!).

Very good, Frosty! We got stuck in a 40-mile tailback on the M6 - a lorry had overturned at 11 in the morning and took 5 hours to be shifted, during which the police had blocked both sides of the said motorway. As if luck would have it, our vibes player Geoff had lived in the area surrounding the motorway (Cheshire) and was able to get us off it in order to head North across country and help retain our collective sanities. Ian had expressed an interest in buying the DVD set-up earlier in the week, so we relieved the boredom by going on a Tesco hunt, due to the fact that I'm sad enough to own a Tesco road atlas (much cheaper to use Tesco than those bloody motorway services! - 1.85 surcharge on taking out a tenner from the "hole-in-the-wall", I ask you!). I think we watched 3 DVDs - Bad Santa, Meaning Of Life and The Last Supper (not sure about the last one as I was driving at the time!). PS London (still) sucks! Lancaster's good though - check out the promoter Hamcaster on myspace. He's a decent bloke and a mate of mine.

Wow! I've managed to create a thread that people have actually responded to! (I've also been guilty in the past of unintentionally ruining other people's threads by posting seriously inane comments!). I've been away down south gigging with the Stanley boys so this is the first chance that I've had to go online in a few days - some really interesting choices of music etc. Now I can die a happy man!................................(steady on, Lord Summerisle!) PS Ian the legendary Sound-man broke up the boredom during our 18-hour nightmare journey home from London by investing in a 2-LCD screen portable DVD player - inspired! Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life has never been more enjoyable!

Ah, that's what you were doing!

Funeral Music This thread isn't meant to be morbid and certainly not distasteful in view of what happened yesterday afternoon on Union Street, but I just wondered if anyone's considered what music they might want to go out on. Lady Summerisle was asking me the other day about important stuff like what I might want put on my "Last Will and Testament" etc (she's not planning to do me in, I hope!), and it got me thinking about how I'd orchestrate my own funeral service. No offence to the good Lady, but I'd hate for someone else to put together a completely unsuitable one for me. Now being a good Pagan boy I'm not going to go for a church service or anything like that, but I told her I wanted the following four pieces played when I go. These are: Swervedriver - "Last Day On Earth" (truly a greatly-underrated band) Beach Boys - "Til I Die" leading into "Surf's Up" (from the 1971 album "Surf's Up"). Vastly superior to the early stuff. and finally.... Henry Purcell - "When I Am Laid In Earth" (Dido's Lament) (from the 17th century opera "Dido and Aeneas") I know it sounds pretentious, but so what! I like classical music too, and this piece actually sounds quite contemporary. So get going, you lot! Let's see your suggestions - either that or nobody'll respond to my comments (as usual) or I'll get dog's abuse!

Hats off to Sparks that have consistently followed their own musical path and haven't been tainted by what's gone before like the rest of us. I'm in awe of any musicians that can successfully stand out from the crowd due to their originality.

I'm so out of touch that the Gamecube's cutting edge to the likes of me. But then again, I am an avid reader of the great magazine that is Retro Gamer! N64 and Goldeneye RULE! LORD SUMMERISLE'S HOME COMPUTER/CONSOLE TIMELINE: YEAR - MODEL - INFO 1981 - Sinclair ZX81 16k - Black & White Screen, No sound 1982 - Sinclair Spectrum 48k - Bought in kit-form & soldered up 1986 - Sinclair Spectrum + - Upgraded the old Spectrum case! 1987 - Sinclair Spectrum 128+2 - Now we're talkin' 1989 - Atari STFM 512k - "Sensible Soccer" Rules! 1992 - Atari STE 4Mb - Cutting Edge!! 1995 - Nintendo SNES - Late starter, but "Mario Kart" rocks! 1997 - Nintendo 64 - I'm getting all misty-eyed now! 2002 - Nintendo Gamecube - Hardly touched it! 2002- - Various PCs etc. How sad was that! That's me ruined another perfectly good thread! Sorry!

Best thing to come from BBC3 in my opinion (OK, it was on Radio 4 first)! The Mod Wolves Song/Dance routine did it for me. So many great characters - Old Gregg, The Man-Witch, Rudy and especially Bollo! Still haven't seen it live, though.

.....Flippin' hell! I just played the "Village Green Preservation Society" for the first time in ages and the whole LP's brilliant! (Yet another perfectly good thread unintentionally ruined by Mr Summerisle!)

For me, at the moment, it's "Autumn Almanac", by the Kinks (from 1967) - it comes over like Ray Davies' response to the Beatles "Good Day Sunshine". I recently re-discovered it (good timing, eh?) and it always makes me smile even though the "nights are fair drawin' in" (as my dear dead Grandad said) and the freezing darkness that is winter (and the S.A.D. that it brings) is just 'round the corner! All together, everyone! - "I like my football on a Saturday, Roast beef on Sundays, all right. I go to Blackpool for my holidays, Sit in the open sunlight" Failing that example of an aural anti-depressant, try Acid Reign's frenzied take on "Hangin' On The Telephone", the Divine Comedy's "Becoming More Like Alfie", the Kinks again with "The Village Green Preservation Society" or "Self-Preservation Society" by Quincy Jones etc. from the original Italian Job soundtrack. PS Contrary to belief I am NOT a Mod!

Well now' date=' it's all getting a bit silly! Unless the people that run this website are willing to change its domain name to [url']www.bored@brucemiller-music.com then I suggest that this thread gets killed off pretty soon by general disinterest! However, I feel obliged to step away from my nom-de-plume in order to state that I am NOT Mr Crowley, especially seeing as my real name, albeit incorrectly spelled (as far as I know, I am not a town on the Isle of Man!) was mentioned in a list of possible suspects by Mr Alkaline. In defence of the other potential villains that he listed, might I also point out that you don't have to be a local band-member to contribute to this site. Anyway, as I said earlier, it's all getting a bit silly......

Yeah, The Crimea are definitely interesting. I saw them at the Tunnels and my only criticism was whilst I was really enjoying what the rest of the band were doing, I was finding Davy increasingly uneasy on the ear!

The line up's not too bad, is it? - definitely a suitable alternative to T in the Park (you've got less chance of having to deal with annoying inebriated Central Belt types too!). I wouldn't mind getting tickets for it, but I'm going to hold off and see if Uncles Tom & Vic at Radio Scotland will be kind enough to let our band play on the Seedlings Stage (chance would be a fine thing!). They've been running a competition for unsigned bands to play at it.

...anyway, I really shouldn't be talking about stuff that's nothing to do with this thread - sorry!

I would say that Stanley do have the songs - however, there's always room for improvement, but last night's audience certainly weren't complaining. In fact, I'd say that the audience were the best that Stanley have had for a while. It's always good to see unfamiliar faces in the crowd as well as the "hardy perennials"!

As for bands with vibraphones (but not a pedal steel, however) ....there's one already on our collective doorsteps, isn't there?

Best of luck as a duo, Les - you'll be fine!

I think Stanley might be the "TBC" band on the bill at Drummonds on Friday (that's waht I heard, anyway).