HW: Brixton & Guildford

[Jon Browne]

In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.960624091552.14395B-
100000 at suma1.reading.ac.uk>, "Dr Pepper (they call me Mister Pibb)"
<M.S.Wright at READING.AC.UK> writes
>Overall it was marvellous, so I then managed to catch 40 mins sleep
>during the Ozrics,
Good one, mike!
> woke up in time for Minty, and watch it from a
>respectable distance with Carl and Jazza (well any closer I was afraid we
>would either be accused of being perverts, or an errant pubic hair would
>leap out into someones eye and blind them - I mean do these art jazznoise
>merchants have any health considerations in mind when they divest
>themselves of their clothes? Do they undergo rigorous safety procedures?

>I think not). I want to know are minty crap, or does the fact they have
>naked people on stage in some way atone for the terrible noises they produce?
I didn't watch them so I can't comment on the show but I've bought
records by them before so I might be able to fill you in on them a bit.
Do you remember Liegh Bowery? Sort of Performance artist , celebrated
night clubber and *very* strange dresser? One of his more memorable
outfits was Bowler hat, _big_ painted smile 12 times too big for his
face which was otherwise made up clown-like, green jacket with circular
mirrors, pink tu-tu, umbrella etc. Ring any bells? I think he was more
often on the News South-East more often than any music programs withs
his socially deviant prankster behaviour. Any after a few years of being
famous for being famous he formed Minty, who are a sort of trance -
jazz- house techno ish outfit of the type much despised on this list.
Leigh sadly died last year, but the band carried on.
I couldn't believe it when I saw them on the bill. Only Take That
could've been less appropriate :) You'll laugh but apart from the people
I know just _because_ they're Hawkfans, I probably know more people who
dig Minty than the Hawks'!
>
>As for Guildford, well I was a lot more sober which maybe meant that I
>didn't get into it as much.

That's reasurring. Reading the list, I was begininng to think I'd had
one too many to appreciate what was going on, because I was too busy
running around shouting a lot, socialising and laughing my head off!

Erm, Is that six posts? Great, it's lunchtime already, what an
exhausting morning. (I love being my own boss!)

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Jon Browne