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Post by nickheynes on Feb 1, 2016 15:05:32 GMT
"He speaks like a Brummie grocer getting flustered because he’s accidentally overcharging a customer for grapes. "
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Post by dillwyn on Feb 1, 2016 15:54:04 GMT
they missed one...6...NME both loved and hated him in the same decade and now all this time later ...apparently love him again
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Post by dillwyn on Feb 1, 2016 16:10:03 GMT
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Post by dillwyn on Feb 1, 2016 16:12:43 GMT
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Post by queenofthehours on Feb 1, 2016 17:47:11 GMT
"He speaks like a Brummie grocer getting flustered because he’s accidentally overcharging a customer for grapes. " That's the one of the best things I think I've ever read . Jeff's always going to be just a bloke you see down the market.
"And, crucially, he’s incredibly grateful for all this" - truth, and this is exactly we he's loved. We are grateful in return.
One point bothers me with Glastonbury - I've no doubt he will go down an absolute storm and I'm not complaining at the Sunday afternoon spot ('MBS' will sound a lot better with an actual blue sky and no distracting flashy lights). But isn't the "legends" spot burying him before he's ready? Jeff is still working, still having hits. He's never had a slump or retired or even rested on his laurels. He's beaten the "guilty pleasure" tag (mainly because his music was never "guilty" to begin with) and he's got nothing to prove, nothing to sell to the "young people", the festival-goers, because they've already bought him!
ELO music is hardly afternoon music, it's headlining music. If the Who can headline so can Jeff. I just hope that the new audience Jeff will reach will not see him as old, as a "legend" but as a current artist who has more vital talent than the rest of the acts put together. Jeff in the same slot previously taken by Bassey, Parton, Bennett, Ritchie and the ENO? I'm sorry but that just doesn't fit for me. All their hits were in the past but Jeff's are yet to come.
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Post by unomusette on Feb 1, 2016 19:59:48 GMT
I would like to be associated with everything that queenofthehours just said, and second it heartily, hear, hear He does deserve a proper headline slot, but it could be they've already booked the headliners. Plus with Dolly Parton pulling the biggest crowd ever during her Legends performance, it's really almost as good a position. I bet he can easily attract a bigger crowd than Dolly and thus enter the history books. Plus he can relax after that, the pressure will be off and he can go to bed early Or, if the rumours are true, maybe even go and join the moshpit for Muse, I bet he's secretly dying to.... On a personal level though, I'd love to think Damey and Muse would meet up and get on like houses on fire. That would totally make my year
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 1, 2016 20:05:16 GMT
Dolly Parton is still around? Talk about Matuzalem... Well, in any case, mad respect for her. Her duets with Porter Wagoner are legendary and one of the best country music acts IMO. Pretty much agreed with queenofthehours.
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Post by vlogdance on Feb 4, 2016 12:08:02 GMT
Had fun at the supermarket this morning... "Cumin" soon... *sits back, awaiting lifetime ban from her local branch of Morrisons*
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 4, 2016 18:39:01 GMT
Good way of giving Jeff some publicity for free. Did you buy any at least or did you just set up everything, took the photo and fled from the shop?
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Post by vlogdance on Feb 4, 2016 18:50:14 GMT
Good way of giving Jeff some publicity for free. Did you buy any at least or did you just set up everything, took the photo and fled from the shop? Snap and flee, Helmut83 bach, snap and flee! Well, to be honest, it was snap, put everything back tidy, and THEN flee. Aye. Mun.
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Post by unomusette on Feb 4, 2016 21:03:47 GMT
Heee! Nice work vlogdance ! My mother and her sister, who go everywhere together and are both over 70 (over 80, one of them) find it impossible to resist spelling out words with the spices in supermarkets like that. Rude words. It's quite shocking and I should be ashamed of them. Edit: And they NEVER put things back properly either, they just scuttle away, cackling like witches.
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Post by vlogdance on Feb 4, 2016 21:13:49 GMT
One of my colleagues was telling me about her Welsh friend who lives in America. This friend has a habit of going into shops and rearranging letters on display to spell out rude words that she knows the Americans won't understand.
See, us Welsh aren't just good at rugby and singing.
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Post by BSJ on Feb 4, 2016 21:17:50 GMT
Shame on you all! You've just made the dreaded food shopping something to look forward to!!
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Post by dillwyn on Feb 12, 2016 19:26:40 GMT
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Post by jackpunch on Feb 12, 2016 19:54:12 GMT
[br Yep, saw that in another article. Bizarre
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