I've just been on YouTube for time looking for a NMA song to post but I really cant pick a favourite. They all remind me of so many different things. I like them all.
Did I ever tell you about my most disastorous NMA occasion? It just goes to prove my bad luck....
It was 1994 I think and I came home from Brighton to stay with Johnson for the weekend when she lived in ...erm, wherever the velodrome is in Manchester - I cant remember. Anyway, I was kind of seeing this punk called Broady and there was a Criminal Justice Bill Rally thing in Rusholme so me and Claire got the bus and went. We had no money and I seem to remember we figured that if we pretended to be drunk we would eventually feel it, thus saving money. this went on for about 5 minutes then we cribbed some cherry wine off some goths. Then we were sat in the sun on Platt Fields, Broady was there and bought us more booze then I was busting for the toilet.It was miles away but I decided to go. After I queued up and finally got to pee I heard Justin Sullivan from NMA playing in the distance. Now he wasnt due to play but I was mid flow. I was so excited, after I finished and washed my hands I ran back to the stage. It was over, he had gone, he played just turned up unannounced pplayed one song and then left. To this day I have lied and said I saw it but I didn't, I just peed along to Vengence. The day was making so much sense until then, it got a lot more wrong...but lets not get into that.
Eleven Years by NMA always reminds me of Johnson, that and Whirlwind (from when we used to stay in Bosley), Adrenelin reminds me of living in Brighton, SmallTown England reminds me of drinking in the Millstone on a Friday night back in the day,...god, I could go on all day.
When I did the Europe tour thing we used to sit in a van driving from venue to venue, (and I remember hitching alot) Chumbawumba were supporting most of it and if we turned up early enough for their sound check Danbert would give us passes for the night. So we did that, drank wine from tetra paks and pan handled until they played. It feels like a million years ago now. I had paraclogs, dredlocks, piercings and everything. It was bad. I guess I've grown up now.
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Have you wrote into popbitch? They mention saskathingumy in this weeks and that mourning glory place.
yes....is it in? I havent read it yet.
Fame at last!!! I always knew I'd make popbitch one day!!!
Intersting that you mention Chumbawumba. They were dead popular in Leeds when I was a student there (as were NMA).
I'm a bit of Jazz musician on the quiet and last year I went to a weekend course in Llanelli and the trumpet player from Chumbawumba was on the course!
JQ
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