Slade

[Sprocket.]

I only ever saw them at the Gardens.

Me too.
Though I did also spend a lot of time in Cleethorpes at the all nighters at the gardens. Happy times.

 

[dessiato]

Me too.
Though I did also spend a lot of time in Cleethorpes at the all nighters at the gardens. Happy times.

I used to go to the Thursday rock nights. I saw some great bands, apparently. I was usually stoned, drunk or both.

 

[Spod]

They are still surviving. Jim Lea (the bassist/violinist and joint song-writer) lives near me. I see him occasionally in the Spar. No airs or graces.

 

[blossie33]

Slade when they were called the N'Betweens back in the 60's

 

[blossie33]

The N'Betweens released a version of You'd Better Run in 1966 at the same another local band called Listen whose vocalist was a certain Robert Plant

 

[a_chap]

Not sure how I missed this thread. As a nipper I was a huge Slade fan but was too young to ever see them in concert.

What's their fan-alienating 'Slade in Flame' film like? Anyone seen it?

It's been picking up good reviews on its re-release and I'm intrigued.

I saw it when it first came out. At the time I loved it. But then I was ten at the time.

Mark Kermode rates it:

 

[blossie33]

....."Midland Northerners" tho

 

[Casual Observer]

Some kind person put Slade In Flame on YouTube a few months ago. Never mind Flame, I reckon Roy Priest & The Undertakers could have been huge if they'd got the breaks.

As well as Slade, there's a few other familiar faces in here - Alan Lake (Mr Diana Dors), Johnny Shannon (Preformance), Harry Cross from Brookside etc.). All good fun.

 

[Idris2002]

it really is a good movie, as a movie, and not just a cash-in.

 

[StoneRoad]

Had some fun with listening to Slade's music as a teenager, Loud it certainly was.

Think my parents' disapproval made me like it even more ...

 

[Pickman's model]

Had some fun with listening to Slade's music as a teenager, Loud it certainly was.

Think my parents' disapproval made me like it even more ...

for me xmas is never xmas till noddy holder's sung

 

[blossie33]

 

[hash tag]

Noddy used to drink in a pub known to Mrs T. Decent bloke, apparently.

 

[a_chap]

Having recently re-joined the world of work I now have the small matter of the occasional three hour drive to work

I've got one of these modern phones that also plays music so guess what I've loaded onto it....

Spoiler

 

[mx wcfc]

Having recently re-joined the world of work I now have the small matter of the occasional three hour drive to work

I've got one of these modern phones that also plays music so guess what I've loaded onto it....

Spoiler

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I've got a best of Slade double CD on my ipod for the train.

(and a Sweet Greatest Hits CD, and a Suzi Quatro CD)

 

[hash tag]

Ouch! Have just checked my phone. There is stuff much older than Slade on there, more popular MOR music than Slade even, but hey, no Slade..
A definite excuse to go visiting record shops

 

[danny la rouge]

Having recently re-joined the world of work I now have the small matter of the occasional three hour drive to work

I've got one of these modern phones that also plays music so guess what I've loaded onto it....

Spoiler

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Please add Everyday.

 

[a_chap]

"Everyday" is from the LP "Old, new, borrowed and blue" which I bought when it first came out.

I still have it!

 

[mx wcfc]

"Everyday" is from the LP "Old, new, borrowed and blue" which I bought when it first came out.

I still have it!

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I had that on cassette!

 

[hash tag]

Oh dear, 53 years Slade split after over 53 years with Don Powell ditched over email by Dave Hill

 

[blossie33]

That's a bit off isn't it.
I wonder if there's more to the story than that though

 

[clicker]

Reading that link, it was only Dave Hill and Don in that version of Slade. Noddy fell out with them all years ago. It says Don is now fit enough to play the drums again? He'll be setting out as 'Don Powell's Slade'. Sounds all very acrimonious and un-glam.

 

[skyscraper101]

Lost his short term memory after a car crash back in the day and had to be constantly reminded how the songs went on stage for a while.

Let's be honest it was never really Slade without Noddy.

 

[Pickman's model]

Lost his short term memory after a car crash back in the day and had to be constantly reminded how the songs went on stage for a while.

Let's be honest it was never really Slade without Noddy.

yeh can't imagine anyone else singing this

 

[ElizabethofYork]

So now there's Dave Hill's Slade and Don Powell's Slade.

Bit like the Bay City Rollers - nowadays there's the Les McKeown Bay City Rollers and the Woody Bay City Rollers

 

[editor]

So now there's Dave Hill's Slade and Don Powell's Slade.

Bit like the Bay City Rollers - nowadays there's the Les McKeown Bay City Rollers and the Woody Bay City Rollers

I'm with Don on this one.

 

[blossie33]

Don Powell has just had a stroke

Former Slade drummer Don Powell suffers stroke

Former Slade drummer Don Powell is said to be in "good spirits" after suffering a stroke three weeks after he was fired from the band.

www.expressandstar.com

 

[a_chap]

Bugger

Hope he makes a decent recovery.

 

[Tankus]

Noddys got an interesting voice, its like theres two people singing in unison in different pitches

Slade when they were called the N'Betweens back in the 60's

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Just how in the hell did smithy photobomb this ?