five star - crap/not crap?

[Sunspots]

.... wonder what they're doing now?

Butlins, mostly...

 

[Pilgrim]

wonder what they're doing now?

Well, put it this way, the last line they rehearsed was:

"Good morning Sir, do you want fries with that?"

I thank you.

 

[Maggot]

It involved Stedman, IIRC...

(-Aaaarggghhhh, I've just realised how PopBitch this thread is! )

I don't care, I just want details!

 

[moonsi til]

Everyone has a five star LP, don't they?

I'd love to be able to say they weren't crap, but I can't.

lol...no but i used to watch my mates copying the dance routines

 

[Shirl]

'time on my hands' indeed...

<shakes fist, knowingly>

very knowingly grins

 

[spanglechick]

I never liked them at the time, even though i suspect i was the target demographic. I view this as evidence that i did have some taste in music...

 

[D'wards]

I don't care, I just want details!

As i recall, young Stedman was caught in the toilets, i believe the term is "cottaging". Just like Albert steptoe.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I s'pose 'Stay Out Of My Life' were not all that bad actually...



*Legs it*

 

[bigbry]

No. They. Don't.

I. Can. Tell. By. The. Way. That. You. Wrote. That, That. You. Have. Really.

Go. On.

Own. Up.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I find the degree of venom spewed 'Star-wards hard to understand. I agree that 'Luxury Of Life' had its teething troubles, but 'Silk And Steel' was the 'OK Computer' of the '80s - a succinct observational statement of the prevailing social and economic trends of the times set to highly radical musical arrangements for the era. The band's post punk influences are blatant on follow-up 'Between The Lines', from which a lineage can be traced back through Stiff Little Fingers and mid-period Clash to Throbbing Gristle and early Cabaret Voltaire. This trajectory into experimental territory was completed on 'Rock Your World', by which time the envelope had been pushed too far for Five Star to renege by merely returning to writing commercial hit singles, and therefore shared more with Talk Talk's 'Spirit Of Eden' and Miles Davis' 'On The Corner' than any of the S/A/W pop muppets that littered the charts at the time.

You are a presenter from one of those shows they have at 11.30 on BBC2 and I claim my five pounds.

 

[purves grundy]

I always remember the guy who phoned in to "Going Live" and asked them why they were so fucking crap.The looks on everyones face was priceless

"Just wanted to ask Five Star, why are you so fucking shit?"

or summink like that

 

[Maggot]

I always remember the guy who phoned in to "Going Live" and asked them why they were so fucking crap.The looks on everyones face was priceless

I have no memory of this whatsoever, I only remember the famous incident where Matt Bianco were called a bunch of wankers.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I have no memory of this whatsoever, I only remember the famous incident where Matt Bianco were called a bunch of wankers.

It happened to both of them, on the same show, within the space of a year. I think that spurred on the advent of time delay on phone-ins to Saturday morning kids TV programmes...

Also around the same time, Matt Bianco also got covered in yoghurt at an awards ceremony, a gesture which Mark Reilly responded to by kneeing the perpetrator repeatedly in the groin on stage. Priceless.

 

[pidgeonhead]

Matt Bianco also got covered in yoghurt at an awards ceremony, a gesture which Mark Reilly responded to by kneeing the perpetrator repeatedly in the groin on stage. Priceless.

Yeah I remember that. He got some serious kicks in as well.

I don't think the yoghurt thrower was laughing very much, IIRC.

 

[Dask]

I think that spurred on the advent of time delay on phone-ins to Saturday morning kids TV programmes...

"5 Star are fucking shit"

That phone caller summed it up perfectly.

 

[Rollem]

i voted not crap

its not that i think they are good

i just used to like copying their dances as a kid

without them, i would not have half the moves i have today

 

[sovereignb]

Loved Five Stars music and still do!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Also around the same time, Matt Bianco also got covered in yoghurt at an awards ceremony, a gesture which Mark Reilly responded to by kneeing the perpetrator repeatedly in the groin on stage. Priceless.

By a member of Fine Young Cannibals perchance?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Five Star and Matt Bianco reconsider the wisdom of agreeing to go on Going Live:

 

[skyscraper101]

Interesting story behind that Going Live incident.

Did the boy who swore at Five Star really apologise? A needlessly long investigation

Doubts have been cast on the identity of a boy who apologised for swearing at Five Star on live TV.

www.bbc.co.uk