Gazing at life through a haze of opiates, I’m intensely relaxed about not getting a proper blog post up, and just giving you the matches.
But I will add an emphatic TSK!* that the Cardiff and Ulster matches have yet again been scheduled at the same time.
*This is more vehement than a PFFT!
6N Blog Meet Update
The Heidelberg Tourist Information Bureau has posted this:
Falcon tries to decide whether to deliver a TSK! or a PFFT!
And this.
And as a reminder, here’s the info.
On the telly this week
Friday 3rd January
| Cardiff 14 – 16 Scarlets | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 17 Munster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Sales 48 – 10 Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 4th January
| Treviso 19 – 38 Glasgow | 13:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 29 – 15 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Dragons 25 – 18 Ospreys | 15:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Zebre 41 – 13 Cheetahs | 15:00 | Freesports |
| Leinster 54 – 7 Connacht | 17:30 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Edinburgh 61 – 13 Southern Kings | 19:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 5th January
| Wasps 31 – 35 Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
End of January. Just in time to eclipse the drudgery of the Six Nations.
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Aha, noted, thanks!
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I sort of passed by the Clash, too over-hyped for me to follow in those times if that makes sense.
I had the same reaction to the Oasis frenzy. I’m not sure if I gave them a fair hearing because the hype boaked me out. With hindsight I think I got it right because Oasis still sound like shite to me. With apologies to any fans on here. If it helps I also thought Blur sounded just as dreadful.
Were the Clash especially good, or just got lucky by capturing the popular Zeitgeist? Serious question, not snark.
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“I had the same reaction to the Oasis frenzy. I’m not sure if I gave them a fair hearing because the hype boaked me out. With hindsight I think I got it right because Oasis still sound like shite to me.”
Every word true.
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Oasis? Weren’t they some sort of Crowded House tribute band?
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Everything after the Quo is just plucking the same string.
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London Calling on during the BDO darts end of set break.
Poor old BDO. It looks like the old local B league I used to play in.
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I might have worked for BDO back in the day. Got fired for failing an exam. And for not liking football and cars enough. And for thinking they were a bunch of synts.
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Never go full BDO, craigs
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Yos – I was part qualified when I left so I was safe. I worked at their Southampton office and they all thought I was weird for commuting by train.
‘How can you listen to Radio 1 on the way in’? was a common question. Looking back I really didn’t fit in there.
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“Probably more Norn Iron accents than Northern English ones, per capita.
Except in Corrie, although Jim McDonald was placed there to improve standards, SO HE WAS.”
FIFY.
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Really Lorenzo, I read that this morning and I still can’t believe you didn’t finish the sentence properly, so I can’t.
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Anyway Happy New Year everyone.
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Radio 5 is your place for Norn Irish accents. Stephen Nolan, Alan Green, Colin Murray. One of them probably doesn’t really deserve to be bracketed with the other two arseholes, but so it goes.
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Might even get the Ulster game on 5 Live sports extra this weekend. I like that lot on TV, but they’re even better on the radio when you only have their eye to see the game through.
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@TomP – “Stephen Rea played Gerry Adams for a bit.”
Reading around this earlier and I guess you could say he was an interesting choice.
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Mrs CMW off to Campbeltown tomorrow to look after the Norn Irish One again. Another weekend of being given the run around by the kids for me. Might catch some rugby on the radio while doing the dishes I suppose.
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“Adams at 13? I really really hope not.”
Same here. Seems to be in great form on the wing and we need him where he belongs.
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@Iks – “You might get less repetition and more wit and wisdom from the other Welshies here though.”
Well seeing as you’ve given Yos other duties that only leaves TomP and Utna, but you knew that.
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Or BRB of course.
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Happy New Year CMW.
Passport come through yet?
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BDO does look out on its feet. Like darts is filling the gap until the bingo starts.
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Really enjoying Luther right now.
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@Craigs – just wait till you get to Thesis 84.
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@Iks – not done nuffink yet, will doubtless end up leaving it too late.
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Really? All that Clash talk and no links ?
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Good on you SBT! Great way to start the day!
@Iks – The Clash for me weren’t your archetypal punk band (I’d say the Ramones weren’t either, in a positive sense) and had the ability to move between genres and adopt styles seamlessly, whilst still being identifiably as The Clash. I only got into them in the 80s when most of the hype would have been done (and not being in the UK wasn’t exposed to it anyway). I honestly can’t think of an album that I don’t love and there are few tracks I would skip through, but that’s a personal choice. Perhaps it’s Strummer’s voice, (not to ignore the rest of the band’s contribution to the distinct Clash sound) but whatever genre they drew from, there was a still an edge to their music, sometimes slightly ethereal, sometimes primal
Were they overhyped? Possibly, I don’t know. Were the Pistols? Almost certainly. Does being overhyped mean they’re (Clash) crap? No, but it does perhaps take some of the gloss off. One thing they were definitively not, is a garage bad.
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Band, even.
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‘Garage ba(n)d’
Re re wind, when the crowd say bo! Selecta.
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I just broke wind in front of a crowd and they didn’t say that at all.
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They were having their breakfast to be fair.
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Got The Middle One cutting down her long list for her birthday party invitations. This is the fun bit.
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The boys have been cut.
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They had it coming.
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The one who doesn’t know any of the others? Cut. She can come round on her own some time.
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That one you don’t really like? They’ve got to stay. I see. Must be the star player.
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The cuts are the best part of any guest list or rugby selection.
I hope Rhys Webb doesn’t make the cut to middle one’s party.
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You’re a hard man, CMW! I think anyone under the legal drinking age should be cut too so you don’t have to sup alone.
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@Debee – the ones under the legal drinking age are fine, they can get on and make pizzas. Don’t want any of their parents hanging around to spoil the drinking.
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Surprised Train in Lane didn’t get a mention after yos’ Wales squad.
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This Clash thing is running.
I like the Clash quite a bit. Agree they are overrated but Oasis comparisons are very harsh. However, Oasis were a bit vanilla but probably had one long album worth of good (or better) songs from their first two albums. They also released other albums.
Not as good as Blur, who weren’t as good as Pulp. Britpop was a wild time.
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Lot of music stuff on this blog and it’s predecessor. Quite interesting to read*
I never really liked music at all. Didn’t dislike it, just never really “got into” it in terms of following bands, genres or buying records/CDs/MP3s.
Oh, I’ll listen to the radio and enjoy the odd tune, and I occasionally go and watch a “big name” concert (more for the spectacle and occasion than the music), but I never bothered to actively seek out or listen to music.
I will admit that a good film score greatly enhances my enjoyment of movies but, other than some evocative stuff from my youth (Star Wars, Indiana Jones and a few others) I couldn’t name any of them.
Always felt I was somehow missing out when friends and the like adopted a band or a particular movement as almost a religion. Still, to each his own
*same as the video game stuff and a few other topics. Not my thing, but can always learn something
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Oasis managed a few decent choons. Still one of the most overrated bands in history.
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Guess I’ll have to expand yesterday’s Scotland 6N preview a tad.
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We’ll be in bits by the time of that second test in NZ.
Seasons are too long, particularly in RWC years.
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I’m a Clash fan. Like the politics, like the cover versions cos they got me into Lee Perry and Murvin and all them fellas. I’m struggling to find a song of theirs which could be described as ethereal.
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Yos, it’s growing the game and growing the game is the name of the game.
I wonder where those excellent Japanese players from the World Cup’ll be playing. Just in the Japanese league. I think there were 6 Japanese players in the 2020 Sunwolves Squad I saw earlier in the week – Timmy Horan’s lad’s been picked up by them.
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Utna, I sort of agree. And the religion comparison is quite apt. That’s why I killed two birds with one stone and bought every Jungle record the former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey ever produced. Even when the quality went wa-a-a-a-y down around 96.
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Flogging the game, in both senses.
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I had mates who were smitten by the Clash, I liked them, sort of. I appreciate their importance in the scheme of youth culture etc, but they never got me hooked.
I remember an interview with John Lydon where he recalled some members of the Clash saying they wanted to be as big as the Pistols, Rotten said, “talk about missing the fucking point”.
I like some Clash songs, though. London Calling is a great choon.
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