Comments on: The Days Before We Came http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DJ Punctum http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410721 DJ Punctum Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:40 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410721 I find it strangely reassuring that Camel were still playing Reading as late as 1990 but then they were on the Mean Fiddler stage where 100% of the acts of whom I've never heard/can't remember were playing. Not sure who this "Gary Cail" was though; did he have the Non-U Sund System as backing band? I find it strangely reassuring that Camel were still playing Reading as late as 1990 but then they were on the Mean Fiddler stage where 100% of the acts of whom I’ve never heard/can’t remember were playing.

Not sure who this “Gary Cail” was though; did he have the Non-U Sund System as backing band?

]]> By: CarsmileSteve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410670 CarsmileSteve Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:53:21 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410670 hahaha, yes, i'll be composing a carefully worded missive pointing out exactly where they are WRONG, eg the "session" tent in 88 with suede playing??? hahaha, yes, i’ll be composing a carefully worded missive pointing out exactly where they are WRONG, eg the “session” tent in 88 with suede playing???

]]> By: CarsmileSteve http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410668 CarsmileSteve Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:49:03 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410668 i do wonder if the '76 Reading line-up is any less comprehensible to us (mid thirties people) than, say, '90 would be to The Young People Of Today, i mean <a href="http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/festival/search.asp?year=1990" rel="nofollow">look</a>, there are at least haf a dozen bands there (main stage) that would get blank looks from all but the hardcore... ...also i think i know what i'm doing for the rest of the afternoon now... i do wonder if the ’76 Reading line-up is any less comprehensible to us (mid thirties people) than, say, ’90 would be to The Young People Of Today, i mean look, there are at least haf a dozen bands there (main stage) that would get blank looks from all but the hardcore…

…also i think i know what i’m doing for the rest of the afternoon now…

]]> By: DJ Punctum http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410653 DJ Punctum Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:16:18 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410653 Sid Vicious was kind of the Michael Korvac of pop. Sid Vicious was kind of the Michael Korvac of pop.

]]> By: Tom http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410650 Tom Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:09:50 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410650 I almost put a bit on Steve Gerber in there Marcello but I thought I'd stick to music. 70s Marvel pre-Jim Shooter would definitely fall under the "lost world" crieteria! I almost put a bit on Steve Gerber in there Marcello but I thought I’d stick to music. 70s Marvel pre-Jim Shooter would definitely fall under the “lost world” crieteria!

]]> By: DJ Punctum http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410649 DJ Punctum Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:04:52 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410649 My mid-'70s: The Defenders, Man-Thing, Howard The Duck, Dr Strange, Bob Shaw's Slow Glass series in Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction, reading the Silver Surfer comics for the first time (all eighteen of 'em), Bester's Demolished Man and Sturgeon's More Than Human. My mid-’70s: The Defenders, Man-Thing, Howard The Duck, Dr Strange, Bob Shaw’s Slow Glass series in Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction, reading the Silver Surfer comics for the first time (all eighteen of ‘em), Bester’s Demolished Man and Sturgeon’s More Than Human.

]]> By: jeff w http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410631 jeff w Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:25:50 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410631 I think the reactions of your fellow PF contributors will also be interesting. I think for most of them the mid 70s = Eno, Krautrock and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I think the reactions of your fellow PF contributors will also be interesting. I think for most of them the mid 70s = Eno, Krautrock and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

]]> By: david.schwarm http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410626 david.schwarm Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:18:30 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410626 This is good. I liked the diversity of source material that you used. thank, david S This is good. I liked the diversity of source material that you used.
thank, david S

]]> By: Pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410612 Pete Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:44:41 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410612 Point taken on yr age. But I am using the ready and possibly throughly inaccurate stereotype that Pitchfork readers are a bit thick! Point taken on yr age. But I am using the ready and possibly throughly inaccurate stereotype that Pitchfork readers are a bit thick!

]]> By: Tom http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410602 Tom Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:17:46 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410602 Well, I wanted to see what (if anything) anyone got out of it with me not discussing the link - it's meant to 'work' as a bitty selection too and I think only the Farren one doesn't. But I'm well aware that the answer might be "huh?". (I don't know if my age or Popular are relevant - the P4K readership 'weren't there' either so that's the "we" being talked about. Anyway, regular readers - if there are any! - might roughly know my age since the last column was all about me turning 35!) Well, I wanted to see what (if anything) anyone got out of it with me not discussing the link – it’s meant to ‘work’ as a bitty selection too and I think only the Farren one doesn’t. But I’m well aware that the answer might be “huh?”.

(I don’t know if my age or Popular are relevant – the P4K readership ‘weren’t there’ either so that’s the “we” being talked about. Anyway, regular readers – if there are any! – might roughly know my age since the last column was all about me turning 35!)

]]> By: Pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410592 Pete Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:01:23 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/the-days-before-we-came/#comment-410592 Its a pity your first para above, isn't perhaps the closer of the column, because without it the piece doesn't tie together half as well. You might notice that everything being referenced is mid seventies, but casual readers not knowing your age, and perhaps what's going on in Popular may just find this a bit bitty. And if the title has been The Days Before We(I) Came, that may have been implicit too. Lovely collection of items though. Its a pity your first para above, isn’t perhaps the closer of the column, because without it the piece doesn’t tie together half as well. You might notice that everything being referenced is mid seventies, but casual readers not knowing your age, and perhaps what’s going on in Popular may just find this a bit bitty. And if the title has been The Days Before We(I) Came, that may have been implicit too.

Lovely collection of items though.

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