Miles Hunt described doing #TOTP in his 1989 diary as "a sickening experience".
"The only thing I could think of was that The Clash had refused their invite. I just couldn't shake it, I felt like a sellout. Polydor pushed the band into it....
"From the moment that we arrived at the BBC the production staff gave the impression that simply by us being there we were inconveniencing them in some way... I hated every minute of it."
"Don't let me down, gently" is an infernal toe-tapper: once it gets into the noggin, it is only going to be expelled through the tapping of toes or fingers.
Mimed with verve and stage presence, one need only imagine what the Stuffies are like live.
Saw them live a month later. Brilliant. Always, always worth the trip.
"Don't let me down, gently" - The Wonder Stuff
Five young men playing a speedy version of folk music, all twangy guitars and banjos.
Lead singer is Miles Hunt, nephew of one of the chaps from Wizzard; Miles is in a frilly shirt and cloth cap, almost hiding his face from the camera.
Guitarist Malc Treece wears a t-shirt with Ned's Atomic Dustbin's radioactive logo on it, legend had it that the design was by his then-girlfriend.
#FridayNightJukebox asks for #SweetHeartsAndHeartAches
Today would have been Rob Jones's birthday; The Bass Thing from The Wonder Stuff died in 1993.
From their 1989 album "Hup", here's "Golden green", the closest the Stuffies have ever got to a sappy love song.
And we finish with "Dizzy", Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff.
They'd been on #TOTP two weeks earlier, slammed a tequila shot before every take, got so drunk they couldn't find the washing machine with a camera inside, and Mariah Carey got jealous because there was more dry ice on their stage than on hers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUQUnxBYhs
Our second Mystery Year was 1991, and Elayne Smith thought she was rubbish. No! Far better than Nigel Kennedy!
RIP music producer Pat Collier.
#RobynHitchcock #Wonderstuff #JesusAndMaryChain #HouseOfLove #SoftBoys
Started reading #GeorgeCarlin Brain Droppings and added the complete #BleakExpectations radio series to #aduible
#Music so far: #TheBeatles, #TheWho, #VelvetUnderground. #Stooges, #MC5, #VanHalen, #ThinLizzy, #TheUndertones, #RoryGallagher
Coming up: #PaulWeller, #JoeWalsh, #JulianCope, #Manics, #WonderStuff, #Metallica, #Megadeth, #Amaranthe, #DeLaSoul, #ArrestedDevelopment, etc
Our group declare to be true
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