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 
Strummer seemed like a good guy
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PIL are a terrific band.
The Sex Pistols are exciting but I’m getting on now. When I was a kid, about 9 or 10, I always looked out for the Sex Pistols graffiti on a wall on the Brithweunydd Road. That would have been 1982 or something so a few years after they went.
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My favourite band from that era is The Jam. I own every album by them and think they were simply great.
This is my favourite song by them. Superb live version – just 3 of them working as a tight unit
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I like it that punk and ska/reggae have the crossover they do and I guess The Clash played a big part in that, but I only really like them when they sound like this:
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Just to clarify I wasn’t comparing the Clash to Oasis. It was more about my own contrariness to listen to something else rather than what everyone else was raving about. This probably exposed me to a lot of shite music, but it was at least it was my self-discovered shite music.
Think I called it right with Oasis though. Couldn’t get past Liam’s voice and all the jack-the-lad antics. I used to subscribe to music mags back then, and the only time I ever sent a letter to one was when I cancelled my Q subscription after something like a 10-page Oasis special centreing on a fawning, idiotic interview with Liam.
I suppose it stems from that pivotal teenage time when you realise there is more out there than what’s playing on the radio. I might even have got into Prog if the 6th Form insider clique at Newbridge Grammar hadn’t been so obsessed with it when I arrived like Tom Brown from Pontymister Secondary Mod!
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I really liked the Jam and I think This is the Modern World was the first full length punk-ish album I bought. I won’t say anything about the Style Council…
I also like the Clash songs posted here. Great times.
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Well Tom Brown from Pontymister Secondary Mod should have at least liked the Jam, them being secondary mods and all that.
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And there it is, he did.
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@iks
Was there a Flashman at Newbridge Grammar?
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Interesting .. I saw the Jam on their “farewell tour” at Bingley Hall in Birmingham in 1982 or 83… maybe that gig…
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I once saw someone buying a Jive Bunny triple CD in a service station. This was about 2007, so not even at the Jive peak.
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@trisk
Full gig here. See if you can see yourself moshing at the front
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Strong element of tertiary mods among your Britpoppers.
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The Clash, good call. Not really punk, just a great band around at the right time with a general anti-establishment vibe (and who doesn’t love that) which chimed with punk
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@ot
moshing at the front – ha!
only time I’ve ever been in the mosh pit was Springsteen in Thomond Park 2013…. (I’ve told this tale before) – arrived really, really early and someone was playing away at the front – so wandered down to see what was happening…. turned out Bruce was playing solo to about 200 people – my understanding is that he did that at every ‘new’ venue. Having got to the mosh pit – we stayed there (even got the little wrist band to go back and forth)
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@iks
It was more competitive at my old school (mid-70s) – try to find the most obscure bands or musical genres – Amon Duul II (which a pal of my rendered as Eamon Dooley), Magma, Gong, PFM – an Italian band on ELP’s Manticore label, Focus, Stomu Yamashita, Mahavishu Orchestra… fans of post-Gabriel Genesis were looked down on as irretrievably mainstream…. Floyd or King Crimson were acceptable…. if you could find the Beatles’ Lady Madonna on a juke box – put on the ‘Inner Light’ B side just for kicks
Happy days eh?
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Aye Utna – Ginger Baglow.
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Eamon Dooley! Marvellous.
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No specialist second row cover on the pine
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Bradbury, I guess?
I expect Mata can push like fuck, if required.
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Trisk, I went down the post-punk / industrial path to obscurity in the late 70s-early 80s, and probably chose bands as much by the record label as anything else.
I’ll refrain from posting any ‘songs’ here but yes, happy days!
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Mid life crisis alert:
OK, so, my wife is pregnant (think I mentioned that) and we are putting the lad in a new room and keeping the nursery as a nursery. This involves a lot of dull upstairs rearrangement. My office is becoming the lad’s bedroom, and the spare room is becoming an office/spare room hybrid, etc.
One consequence is that my wife and I are going to chuck a lot of clothes. In fact, we’ve decided to do more than trim the fat and, instead, bin a load of it and buy a few new things (which she does infrequently and I do almost never).
So now here’s Enzo looking for a few t-shirts. I’m looking at band t-shirts on eBay and Amazon.
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Trisk: Ash Ra tempel, Popol Vuh, Can, Klaus Schulze?
I even attended a Magma concert.
Don’t think I could listen to any of this now.
Nowadays, one thing leading into another, it’s more Monteverdi and Mozart.
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Not even bands I like. Ultravox? What the fuck? I know one song and it’s that song that surely no-one listens to by choice? Cool t-shirt though.
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@enzo
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This means nothing to me….
Sorry! It was an open goal….
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@OT – up there with his collaboration with the Wonder Stuff.
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@flair
Popol Vuh, Can, Klaus Schulze
Yeah – all of them. Not personally, but LPs and dodgy cassettes were swapped among us
Yeah… likewise. It’s probably some kind of symptom of general development of personality to seek out strange experiences – this is just the way it appears musically
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Josh Adams named at 13 in the Legends team for Sunday. It was meant to be televised but the BAD GUYS at BT Sport have pulled the plug on it, so we won’t know if he’s been going well.
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North also named at 13 for the ‘spreys.
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“”your”
Exeter team to visit Glasgow:
15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Jack Nowell, 13 Ian Whitten,12 Ollie Devoto, 11 Olly Woodburn
10 Joe Simmonds (capt), 9 Nic White
1 Alec Hepburn, 2 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3 Enrique Pieretto, 4 Jannes Kirsten, 5 Sean Lonsdale, 6 Dave Ewers,
7 Jacques Vermeulen, 8 Matt Kvesic
16 Elvis Taione, 17 Ben Moon, 18 Marcus Street,, 19 Will Witty, 20 Don Armand, 21 Jack Maunder
22 Gareth Steenson, 23 Sam Hill
– congrats to Simmonds junior
– big game for Hoggy
– test for Pieretto
– first call-up for Whitty (ex Newcastle)
– strong bench
– selection looks strongest available and with ‘fighters’ at positions 4 – 8
Ticht – cast an eye over Street when he gets on – looks the real deal to my untutored eye
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@Enzo – congrats on population explosion! Hope all involved stay healthy.
Please don’t bin old clothes – give them to charity
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Good news – Raka is in the French 42
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“North also named at 13 for the ‘spreys.”
Might as well, why not.
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Steff Evans named at 13 for the Turks and Ashton Hewitt at 13 for the Dregz
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“up there with his collaboration with the Wonder Stuff.”
I thought he played that (well the covers at least) relatively straight, certainly compared to the above.
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Though it might just have been Dizzy that they were on, rest of the album the silliness was musical as much as lyrical I think? It seems a long time ago.
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Congrats, Enzo.
Slade, I’ve been keeping an eye out for Street since you mentioned him before. He struggled in one game I saw him in, I can’t remember which one is was, but all young props get a hiding from time to time, it’s not the hiding that counts, it’s the next week and the weeks after that, you learn from it.
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Yos, there will be a stream of the Legends game, if not full tv coverage, won’t there?
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And there’s one I’d forgotten entirely. Have a vague memory of a possibly synthy version of Black Night, and VR singing Born Free just because it seemed funny to do so.
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Slade, where did you see that Raka is in the French 42?
He was not and that was a bit controversial.
Did another winger already get injured?
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@cmw
You did a bit of brass banding in your time didn’t you? My introduction to Born Free was via this brass band arrangement. Best bit is at 2mins 30s
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Your Turk Heroes to play Toulon:
15 Leigh Halfpenny; 14 Johnny McNicholl, 13 Steff Hughes, 12 Hadleigh Parkes, 11 Steff Evans; 10 Angus O’Brien, 9 Gareth Davies; 1 Wyn Jones, 2 Ken Owens (capt), 3 Samson Lee, 4 Jake Ball, 5 Sam Lousi, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 Josh Macleod, 8 Uzair Cassiem.
Reps: 16 Ryan Elias, 17 Rob Evans, 18 Werner Kruger, 19 Tevita Ratuva, 20 Jac Morgan, 21 Kieran Hardy, 22 Dan Jones, 23 Paul Asquith.
Steff Hughes at 13. Disappointing for some punters on the Turk Unlimited fansite who would prefer him at 12 for his distribution/lack of pace and young gun Cory Baldwin at 13 (not even in the 23). Unfortunately we’re playing Toulon and experience counts.
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@OT – I only know BF through the brass band version (over and over again) and Vic Reeves’ one. Not sure at all what it originally sounds like!
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Soungs I first heard being performed by a brass band of which I was a part (i.e. without having heard the originals) include:
Bohemian Rhapsody
I Can See For Miles
Super Trouper
The Birdie Song
When I’m Sixty-four
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The brass band Bohemian Rhapsody version is notable for having a drum kit part identical to the original, which I’d never seen before.
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6N preview:
England – massively evil like Jaws the shark or Jaws from James Bond
Wales – expected, bog standard evil like a British actor in a Hollywood movie (probably Charles Dance or Jeremy Irons)
Scotland – charismatically evil. Like Sean Bean from Goldeneye or David Bowie in labyrinth
France – surprisingly evil. like the kindly fairground owner in Scooby Doo.
Italy – incompetently evil. Like a Star Wars stormtrooper or a Nazi from Indiana Jones
Ireland- ultimate evil. More evil than Skeletor
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