Simply red to split

[upsidedownwalrus]

What the fuck is he going to do, decimalize it?

HOLLY: I'm not bored. I've had a really busy morning. I've devised a
system to totally revolutionize music.
LISTER: Get out of town!
HOLLY: Yeah, I've decimalized it. Instead of the octave, it's the
decatave. And I've invented two new notes: H and J.
LISTER: Hang on a minute, you can't just invent new notes.
HOLLY: Well I have. Now it goes: (Singing) Do Re Mi Fa So La Wo Bo Ti
Do. Do Ti Bo Wo La So Fa Mi Re Do.
RIMMER: What are you drivelling about?
HOLLY: Holrock. It'll be a whole new sound. All the instruments will be
extra big to incorporate my two new notes. Triangles will have four
sides. Piano keyboards the length of zebra crossings. Course, women
will have to be banned from playing the cello.

 

[Dubversion]

This is pretty much how I see it. People in the UK can't stand seeing a ginger bloke who's a millionaire and is always being photographed with good looking girls on his arm. It doesn't fit with their image of the weak ginger child who got bullied at school. their music is shit, but so is a lot of other music, and i think at least half the flak they get is because he's ginger.

that's an absolute crock.

 

[maomao]

I thought Mick Hucknall was Simply Red. Hopefully in this case 'split' means down the fucking middle with an axe. I could wait a couple of years to see that.

 

[wishface]

Mick Hucnall is the greatest living talent this country has ever produced.

 

[Augie March]

Mick Hucnall is the greatest living talent this country has ever produced.

Like fuck he is, the bass player from UB40 is the greatest living talent this country has ever produced.

 

[wishface]

:d

 

[ThierryEnnui]

that's an absolute crock.

No, it's not. If Hucknall wasn't ginger there's no way he's attract the same levels of loathing, he'd just be another bloke in another shit band.

 

[Dubversion]

No, it's not. If Hucknall wasn't ginger there's no way he's attract the same levels of loathing, he'd just be another bloke in another shit band.

well i guess neither of us could ever prove it, but i'm pretty convinced that's bollocks.

Bono isn't ginger but look how reviled he is.

Or are you now going to argue that he wouldn't so hated if he wasn't Irish. Or short. or something

 

[killer b]

in documentaries, when they talk about that manchester free trade hall sex pistols gig that all the bands in manchester went to, why do they always mention that mick hucknall was there? it would've been much cooler if he hadn't...

 

[Dubversion]

in documentaries, when they talk about that manchester free trade hall sex pistols gig that all the bands in manchester went to, why do they always mention that mick hucknall was there? it would've been much cooler if he hadn't...

he was in a punk band though - the Frantic Elevators - and part of that scene, at least for a while. So to leave him out would be a bit revisionist

 

[bluestreak]

I like gingers and I hate hucknall. does that skew the figures?

 

[Dubversion]

I like gingers and I hate hucknall. does that skew the figures?

ditto.

thierry ennui will doubtless tell us we're wrong

 

[killer b]

he was in a punk band though - the Frantic Elevators - and part of that scene, at least for a while. So to leave him out would be a bit revisionist

craziness. were they any good?

you probably don't need to answer that...

 

[Pigeon]

and doesn't he own half of blood and fire records?

Yes. And, in fairness, is therefore responsible for ensuring that some of the finest musicians of the 20th century finally got decently paid for their work.

 

[killer b]

just found this pic of mick with a gun in his mouth... if only, hmmm?

 

[Dubversion]

christ, didn't realise he'd recycled an old Frantic Elevators song..

 

[ThierryEnnui]

well i guess neither of us could ever prove it, but i'm pretty convinced that's bollocks.

Bono isn't ginger but look how reviled he is.

Or are you now going to argue that he wouldn't so hated if he wasn't Irish. Or short. or something

Bono does plenty of work to make himself hated but Hucknall is almost never seen promoting himself outside of music-related circles, you don't see him preaching about politics and third world debt or anything like that, so Bono is a bad example to compare him to.

But i agree it could never be proved, so fairly pointless arguing about it.











But I am right.

 

[Dubversion]

except there are plenty of people who hate Hucknall and don't hate gingers.

so you're wrong

 

[Wookey]

Bono does plenty of work to make himself hated but Hucknall is almost never seen promoting himself outside of music-related circles, you don't see him preaching about politics and third world debt or anything like that, so Bono is a bad example to compare him to.

Would that be Hucknall, the most significant Blairite in the world of rock??

 

[William of Walworth]

and doesn't he own half of blood and fire records?

Yes. And, in fairness, is therefore responsible for ensuring that some of the finest musicians of the 20th century finally got decently paid for their work.

Find it hard to really hate Hucknall , for that reason alone ....

I'm happy to say though, that the only SR album I have (Stars) I haven't played for somewhere around 15 years. My main fault is that I never chucked it in bin.

 

[William of Walworth]

Confession time!!

Mick Hucnall is the greatest living talent this country has ever produced.

Like fuck he is, the bass player from UB40 is the greatest living talent this country has ever produced.

Some time around 1986 ( ) Simply Red were the then scarcely known support act to UB40 at the Academy (and possibly support for the Brum pop reggae-lite outfit on their whole tour).

I was there, my first ever gig at the Brixton Academy. And I didn't think ether band were that bad either. Actually I thought UB40 were great. THEN!!, OK?

I have a horrible feeling that wishface means it with that post though, which is frightening ....

 

[pogofish]

Hucknall is almost never seen promoting himself outside of music-related circles,

No, he is too busy joining the landed gentry:

I had the pleasure of doing a bit of poaching on his fine salmon waters recently

Here's his new house:

As to his being a good or bad Lairdie - Its a bit early to tell yet but at least Hucknall has stopped some of the thoughtless & purely profit-driven schemes of his predecessor. Who was a total cock.

 

[bluestreak]

Mick Hucnall is the greatest living talent this country has ever produced.

Mich Hucknall isn't the greatest living talent that his mother has ever produced.

 

[wishface]

WHen Michk opens his mouth, doves cry.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I went to a Simply Red gig at the NEC once

In my defence, it was only coz me and a mate had been given VIP tickets, and as such there was free booze available all night

 

[bluestreak]

WHen Michk opens his mouth, everything cries.

Corrected.

 

[wishface]

Corrected.

 

[Pigeon]

Mich Hucknall isn't the greatest living talent that his mother has ever produced.

I think I'm right in saying that Adrian Sherwood once described him as the best white vocalist he'd vever worked with...

 

[Dubversion]

I think I'm right in saying that Adrian Sherwood once described him as the best white vocalist he'd vever worked with...

well i hate the bloke and his work, but he can sing - very very well. In fact, I'd go as far as to say on occasion i've actually liked the sound of his voice - as well as being technically good, he does have some real feel.

but with one exception, it's all utter toss.

 

[bluestreak]

Which tracks do you reckon he exhibits any sort of, for want of a better word, 'soul' on?

See, my trouble with Hucknall, over and above him being a champagne socialist *spit*, is simply that his stuff is tepid as fuck. The music veers from offensively elevator to mind-numbingly coffee-table. Of use only for trying to charm middle-aged barmaids into the sack.