Last Late Late before Christmas

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Bizarrely, the East 17 song doesn't feature the word 'Christmas' in the song at all - only some bells at the end (no jokes, please) give it a festive feel.

It's about his Brother who killed himself

Happy Christmas

http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/3374/tony-mortimer-interview-stay-another-day-about-my-brother-s-suicide

grey_so_what

I'm not into the "cord" stuff to be honest......

Roger_007

Floods, death and Louis Walsh................can this possibly get worse?

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Bizarrely, the East 17 song doesn't feature the word 'Christmas' in the song at all - only some bells at the end (no jokes, please) give it a festive feel.

And the fact that you hear it every five seconds once November hits.

Didn't one of Louis' bands do something like Seasons In The Sun or something with added sleighbells for Christmas?

dublinman1990

This show is turning to be some ****e just before Christmas. Not this thread though. This is a far more entertaining read.

Happy Christmas to you guys. Hope you all are having a good night.

Atlantic Dawn

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Bizarrely, the East 17 song doesn't feature the word 'Christmas' in the song at all - only some bells at the end (no jokes, please) give it a festive feel.

Yes and it's actually wrote about suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Another_Day

Torricelli

Roger_007 wrote: »

Floods, death and Louis Walsh................can this possibly get worse?

You must have missed Jason Byrne.

monkey9

No offence here, but John B Keane died a few ago. So why is his son on a chat show in 2015 talking his ma's death??

Welsh Megaman

Roger_007 wrote: »

Floods, death and Louis Walsh................can this possibly get worse?

Ol' Donie

Skid X wrote: »

It's about his Brother who killed himself

Happy Christmas

http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/3374/tony-mortimer-interview-stay-another-day-about-my-brother-s-suicide

Baby if you've got to go away...

Yeah, I see that.

PeterTheEighth

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Bizarrely, the East 17 song doesn't feature the word 'Christmas' in the song at all - only some bells at the end (no jokes, please) give it a festive feel.

All I read there was East 17 Bell-Ends.

Greentopia

Roger_007 wrote: »

Floods, death and Louis Walsh................can this possibly get worse?

You forgot Jason Byrne.

Lady Chatterton

Mary and Billy were on with Miriam on her radio programme earlier this year and it was a great interview.

grey_so_what

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Happy Christmas to you guys. Hope you all are having a good night.

Have a good one dublinman...xxx:)

Firefox11

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

More misery. All the festive spirit of an Eastenders Christmas tonight.

I wont be hanging around for the cliffhanger at the end either......Norton is on soon. :pac:

Harry Angstrom

Roger_007 wrote: »

Floods, death and Louis Walsh................can this possibly get worse?

Mary Robinson will be on shortly to do a bit of pontificating.

Ol' Donie

monkey9 wrote: »

No offence here, but John B Keane died a few ago. So why is his son on a chat show in 2015 talking his ma's death??

Why is anyone on talking about a few relatives who died?

This makes no sense.

Kerrydude1981

Come on now,im sure the pub was open for a few of the regulars

Torricelli

"death, blood, sin and misfortune"

Yep, that sums up the LLS.

Atlantic Dawn

Firefox11 wrote: »

I wont be hanging around for the cliffhanger at the end either......Norton is on soon. :pac:

Stick it on record on the oul vhs.

Azrel

I'm putting together a soundtrack for tonight's show, first up we have The Cure with their 1980 smash hit "The Forest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-y0xlpZ0

Feel free to make your own contributions.

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

And the fact that you hear it every five seconds once November hits.

Didn't one of Louis' bands do something like Seasons In The Sun or something with added sleighbells for Christmas?

The Millennium Prayer was denied the 1999 Christmas No 1 spot – as well as the chance to be the Millennium No 1 – by a devastatingly effective Westlife pincer movement: a double A-side coupling Abba’s I Have A Dream with Terry Jacks’ Seasons in the Sun. The latter is frequently considered a suicide anthem, but was described by Jacks as being about a man “dying of a broken heart because his best friend was screwing his wife”, having originally been written by Jaques Brel in what Brel told Jacks was “a whorehouse in Tangiers”. Happy Christmas everyone!

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/10/drugs-austerity-and-thatcher-what-christmas-no-1s-tell-us-about-britain

Harry Angstrom

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

All I read there was East 17 Bell-Ends.

Wasn't he the fella who ran over himself with his car after he ate too many potatoes??

Red Kev

randy hickey wrote: »

Sing it with me - to the tune of Do They Know It's Christmas:

Feed Ryan Turbridy
And let him know it's Christmas time...........

"Sack Ryan Tubridyyy
and give the boot to Joe Duffyyyy"

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Bizarrely, the East 17 song doesn't feature the word 'Christmas' in the song at all - only some bells at the end (no jokes, please) give it a festive feel.

'Stop the Calvary' by Jona Lewis isn't even about Christmas, it just sounds Christmassy with all the trumpets.

Skid X

Slade were playing in Dublin last week. I know someone who went in on the spur of the moment and ... Noddy Holder isn't in Slade anymore.


That's like a Wham! reunion with Andrew and someone out of Brother Beyond (but not Nathan)

grey_so_what

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Mary Robinson will be on shortly to do a bit of pontificating.

She'll be doing it without me Harry.

She did a runner as far as I'm concerned.

Firefox11

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Mary Robinson will be on shortly to do a bit of pontificating.

Just to get you into the festive spirit!!

Skid X

Speaking of East 17 ... ouch

MANY OF US remember East 17 with a certain fondness and they certainly bring with them a whole load of 90s nostalgia.
However, this was the grim scene at their gig last night in The Academy, Dublin:

http://www.dailyedge.ie/east-17-2183776-Jun2015/


https://twitter.com/tomflynnphoto/status/614419485622145024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

grey_so_what

Skid X wrote: »

Slade were playing in Dublin last week. I know someone who went in on the spur of the moment and ... Noddy Holder isn't in Slade anymore.

Don't be shy Skid, tell us!!....:D

Lady Chatterton

My parents stopped off in John B Keane's pub during their honeymoon, they ended up staying for about five days. They returned to Listowel to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with the Keanes.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

Slade were playing in Dublin last week. I know someone who went in on the spur of the moment and ... Noddy Holder isn't in Slade anymore.


That's like a Wham! reunion with Andrew and someone out of Brother Beyond (but not Nathan)

Noddy and Jim Lea could retire from the royalties they earned, while Dave Hill and Don Powell have to keep touring to make money.

Note to musicians - write the songs, pop-pickers! :cool:

Kerrydude1981

Good to see the Love/Hate women are back on screens in the New Year

monkey9

Thank Christ for Apres Match coming up. This show could do with a Dunphy impression.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

Speaking of East 17 ... ouch




http://www.dailyedge.ie/east-17-2183776-Jun2015/


https://twitter.com/tomflynnphoto/status/614419485622145024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Looks like there was 'nobody' in the House Of Love

:cool:

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

The Millennium Prayer was denied the 1999 Christmas No 1 spot – as well as the chance to be the Millennium No 1 – by a devastatingly effective Westlife pincer movement: a double A-side coupling Abba’s I Have A Dream with Terry Jacks’ Seasons in the Sun. The latter is frequently considered a suicide anthem, but was described by Jacks as being about a man “dying of a broken heart because his best friend was screwing his wife”, having originally been written by Jaques Brel in what Brel told Jacks was “a whorehouse in Tangiers”. Happy Christmas everyone!

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/10/drugs-austerity-and-thatcher-what-christmas-no-1s-tell-us-about-britain

No that is bad.

But i'm still so angry...so f*ckin angry...that The Darkness were denied Christmas number one with an actual good song by that silly half arsed Mad World b*llocks.

Roger_007

monkey9 wrote: »

Thank Christ for Apres Match coming up. This show could do with a Dunphy impression.

The last time I saw them doing Dunphy, I thought they had slipped a lot..........then I realised that it was actually Dunphy!

Atlantic Dawn

Skid X wrote: »

Speaking of East 17 ... ouch

Additional ouch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sDEij2eHyA

Skid X

Ol' Donie wrote: »

No that is bad.

But i'm still so angry...so f*ckin angry...that The Darkness were denied Christmas number one with an actual good song by that silly half arsed Mad World b*llocks.

Couldn't agree more. Biggest injustice of all time.

Anyone who brought that Mad World Dirge should be shot. Dead.

PeterTheEighth

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Wasn't he the fella who ran over himself with his car after he ate too many potatoes??

He had a bit of a meltdown a few years back. edit: feckn Atlantic Dawn for stealing my East 17 thunder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sDEij2eHyA

Apparently after this he had his baseball hat surgically removed as the final part of his "shedding of the East 17 skin" process.

Ol' Donie

I hate the music in those M&S ads.

Skid X

I do like House of Love.

Proper tune. No joke.

monkey9

Ol' Donie wrote: »

No that is bad.

But i'm still so angry...so f*ckin angry...that The Darkness were denied Christmas number one with an actual good song by that silly half arsed Mad World b*llocks.

LOL. I despised The Darkness with a passion. They were a comic band that were never funny and i genuinely loved that Mad World song.

Christ, i hate The Darkness.

Firefox11

monkey9 wrote: »

Thank Christ for Apres Match coming up. This show could do with a Dunphy impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiLLyXvkFY

grey_so_what

It's like the Titanic sinking music..............RIP James Horner

Harry Angstrom

This guy is starting to believe his own hype.

Ol' Donie

Is there not a celebrity singing priest every year?

Welsh Megaman

''Viral sensation''

Ah, but he's no Teresa Mannion.

KungPao

Ah, Father Dick Byrne!

Atlantic Dawn

Father Ted was so ahead of its time.

Azrel

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."