14 June 2009

Daily Chat 14/06/09

Two things special to me in todays events and birthdays. First, the Battle of Naseby took place on this day in 1645, just over the hill from my 'home' in Leicestershire. Also occuring on this day, in 1839, the first Royal Regatta was held at Henley and in 1938, Action Comics published its first issue and introduced Superman to the world. Today's birthdays: Rowan Williams, Boy George, Steffi Graf and (this is the special one) Steffen Brandt, lead singer of Danish band TV-2. It's Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands. Here's some TV-2 for you:

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14 comments:

  1. Bitterweed14 June, 2009 06:22

    Have this then. The best Europop
    ever

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  2. Anonymous14 June, 2009 09:48

    You are being coy Montana - which side were the 'folks' on at Naseby?

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  3. monkeyfish14 June, 2009 09:51

    BW...you're mad...best europop ever...


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7aJr1fIGMk&feature=related

    Someone should run a 'link tutorial' on here...there's a two tier system operating. I'm starting to feel like a fuckin luddite.

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  4. Bitterweed14 June, 2009 10:30

    MF
    Excellent ! And sorry I was drunk and in that special place we call horny-lonely. Bad Bitterweed. Sad Bitterweed. Horny Bitterweed.

    Here's all you need to know

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink

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  5. Bitterweed14 June, 2009 11:14

    !

    Check out the wiki link above. (Use an old thread to test it. I did.)

    Off out now to put up stair rail for Mother in law. Happy days.

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  6. MsChin14 June, 2009 12:17

    I will look at the hyperlink thing later, honest, but meantime here's one for BW, when he returns from doing his good deed for the day -
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABubB-cqcyY

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  7. andysays14 June, 2009 12:42

    monkeyfish: Someone already has.

    Here’s what Montana told me just over a week ago:

    “to put a link into a comment here, use this, substituting < and > for { and } :

    {a href="URL to be linked to"}text to appear as a link{/a}”

    And about the “content” of your link – What the FUCK was that?

    MsChin: better, but not quite Europop.

    Does this count?

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  8. andysays14 June, 2009 13:02

    Just in case my previous post was ambiguous, here’s what I put in to get my link, substituting < and > for { and } obviously:

    Does {a href=http://www.last.fm/music/David+Bowie/_/Heroes}this{/a} count?

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  9. MsChin14 June, 2009 14:24

    Cheers, andysays. Not Europop I agree, but I like it! Also love Bowie ...

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  10. andysays14 June, 2009 14:59

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  11. andysays14 June, 2009 15:07

    Let's try again

    this isn’t Europop either, but I like it, like it, yes I do.

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  12. Montana Wildhack14 June, 2009 17:01

    Okay, look everybody, TV-2 aren't Europop. They're good, solid pop/rock music that happens to not be sung in English. Steffen Brandt is 2nd only to Terry Hall in my affections, so I will brook no slating of him or TV-2 here, geddit? Here's one of their earlier ones. Nothing visually on that clip, but it's a great song. Now, if it's Europop you want, this is always a treat.

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  13. Montana Wildhack14 June, 2009 17:16

    Oh, and anonymous: As I recall, the good folk of Naseby tended to be royalists. If you look at this picture from the Wikipedia entry -- the hill that you see in the distance on the right-hand side is the southern slope of the hill that I used to live just north of.

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  14. Bitterweed14 June, 2009 19:35

    MW
    Who knew ? that's just ten miles up the road from me ! Come on you Saints !

    Oh and thanks Mschin, liking that muchly...

    Andysays. Bowie's great.

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