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el_starkos
19-04-2007, 10:34
Was thinking in the car this morning of bands / artists who originate out of Bath. Came up with ...
Tears For Fears
Eat
Gabrielle
Jesus Jones
Goldfrapp
Propellerheads
Any others????
climie fisher?
also peter gabriel lived in bath for years, and van morrison had a place there too (but they don't count obviously)
el_starkos
19-04-2007, 10:50
Jamie Cullum
Just remembered!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
19-04-2007, 10:50
climie fisher?
also peter gabriel lived in bath for years, and van morrison had a place there too (but they don't count obviously)
He lives in Box
ATOMIC SUPLEX
19-04-2007, 10:53
Was thinking in the car this morning of bands / artists who originate out of Bath. Came up with ...
Tears For Fears
Eat
Gabrielle
Jesus Jones
Goldfrapp
Propellerheads
Any others????
My ex grew up next to the fears boys and I went to college with Will from the Propellerheads.
Er?
I've run out of not very good bath clams to fame.
Oh, I went round Peter Gabrels house once.
. . . . . .Around his house.
The outside.
I know someone who went to Van Morrisons house and snogged that curly haired guy from toploader while she was there.
My ex grew up next to the fears boys and I went to college with Will from the Propellerheads.
Er?
I've run out of not very good bath clams to fame.
Oh, I went round Peter Gabrels house once.
. . . . . .Around his house.
The outside.
i was outside his house too a few times - he lived in a place called wooley, just outside bath, he used to come into the grocers i worked in on a saturday - very nice blerk
and curt smith's mum used to work in boots in town, no eyebrows:(
el_starkos
19-04-2007, 11:05
On the clame to fame note, I know Neal who is the old guitarist for Tears For Fears. He went on to guitar for Chris De'Burgh (top bloke apparantly) and now guitars for Robbie Williams (complete c##t apparantly) !!! :D
oh, and Van the Man came in the pub once, and he's an even bigger c##t !!!!
does anyone remember the pre tears for fears band, graduate? just the two of them, used to be on a bbc west music show a lot, with andy baden foster, can't remember what the show was called
Paul Russell
19-04-2007, 11:52
Originate in Bath? I think Alison Goldfrapp only moved there recently having lived in London before, although Goldfrapp recorded their second LP in Bath.
Could be wrong...
Was thinking in the car this morning of bands / artists who originate out of Bath. Came up with ...
Tears For Fears
Eat
Gabrielle
Jesus Jones
Goldfrapp
Propellerheads
Any others????
ATOMIC SUPLEX
19-04-2007, 12:06
oh, and Van the Man came in the pub once, and he's an even bigger c##t !!!!
I have had too run ins with Van and can confirm his cunt status.
He had the cheek to call me a cunt, the cunt.
i saw van the man in the crystal palace one night, he was being a miserable cunt but was just drinking on his own, he didn't call anyone else a cunt, while i was there anyway
ATOMIC SUPLEX
19-04-2007, 12:25
i saw van the man in the crystal palace one night, he was being a miserable cunt but was just drinking on his own, he didn't call anyone else a cunt, while i was there anyway
To be fair to Van I ran into him and knocked him over (by mistake), I was right on top of him when he called me a cunt.
To be fair to Van I ran into him and knocked him over (by mistake), I was right on top of him when he called me a cunt.
so you were being a little bit of a cunt then
ATOMIC SUPLEX
19-04-2007, 12:51
so you were being a little bit of a cunt then
It was a mistake. I was late. I ran out of Fodders and he was behind a car, I couldn't see him.
Paul Russell
19-04-2007, 13:16
When I lived in Bath (about 6 years ago now) he always used to be in that French cafe in the courtyard near that postal museum.
On his own. Looking grumpy.
i saw van the man in the crystal palace one night, he was being a miserable cunt but was just drinking on his own, he didn't call anyone else a cunt, while i was there anyway
When I lived in Bath (about 6 years ago now) he always used to be in that French cafe in the courtyard near that postal museum.
On his own. Looking grumpy.
i've been there, shires yard, i looked a bit miserable in there as well to be fair
el_starkos
19-04-2007, 14:27
i've been there, shires yard, i looked a bit miserable in there as well to be fair
LOL :D Yup.
does anyone remember the pre tears for fears band, graduate? just the two of them, used to be on a bbc west music show a lot, with andy baden foster, can't remember what the show was called
Yeah Andy Batten Foster's show was called RPM Rock. They featured very early Aardman Animations shorts from Nick Park, which were brilliant and groundbreaking.
Graduate were kind of ska-based if I remember right. Which was cool enough, but didn't fit in with the local (i.e. Bristol) scenes - St Pauls sound systems (Wild Bunch, City Rockas), Art-school new wave (Pop Group, Glaxo Babies, Electric Guitars), Avant Jazz (Pigbag, Mouth, Rip Rig 'n' Panic), Punk (Lunatic Fringe, Disorder, Vice Squad, etc etc), Reggae (Black Roots, Talisman)...etc
Bath didn't have a scene to compete with Bristol's so they went and got some hit records instead! Fair enough.
Yeah Andy Batten Foster's show was called RPM Rock. They featured very early Aardman Animations shorts from Nick Park, which were brilliant and groundbreaking.
Graduate were kind of ska-based if I remember right. Which was cool enough, but didn't fit in with the local (i.e. Bristol) scenes - St Pauls sound systems (Wild Bunch, City Rockas), Art-school new wave (Pop Group, Glaxo Babies, Electric Guitars), Avant Jazz (Pigbag, Mouth, Rip Rig 'n' Panic), Punk (Lunatic Fringe, Disorder, Vice Squad, etc etc), Reggae (Black Roots, Talisman)...etc
Bath didn't have a scene to compete with Bristol's so they went and got some hit records instead! Fair enough.
cheers, but foster had another tv show, or presented part of it, he was a mop headed bloke, looked a bit like a mature student trying to look hip
cheers, but foster had another tv show, or presented part of it, he was a mop headed bloke, looked a bit like a mature student trying to look hip
Yeah same bloke, same show. Originally call the Rectangular Picture Machine, later shortened to RPM. They did, as you say, feature Roland & Curt's 'Graduate' and many other local artists. Andy Partridge off of XTC presented one episode from SwineTown as I recall.
Yeah same bloke, same show. Originally call the Rectangular Picture Machine, later shortened to RPM. They did, as you say, feature Roland & Curt's 'Graduate' and many other local artists. Andy Partridge off of XTC presented one episode from SwineTown as I recall.
i remember it now as rpm, on about 7 in the evening after the local news
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