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Oh Lynskey, you're so wacky!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

This has all just reminded me that I had a ticket to see Prolapse and Cha Cha Cohen at the Garage years ago, and my mum wouldn't let me go and I had to throw the ticket away. I was only about fifteen or something. Seven or so years on, I'm still bitter as fuck.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Prolapse Rarities: I have the Prolapse DEMO Tape, AHA! Is that worth five million quid yet? This one has the first 30 seconds WIPED by the sound of me, PISSED, trying to play it when I came home from the pub, and so is even MORE valuable.

I also have VERY MUCH pre-Prolapse material by Tim The Celebrity Drummer, as he MADE me listen to it.

― MJ Hibbett, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

Hello MARK!

Do you STILL play 'Bands From London are SHIT', now that you LIVE in LONDON?

― Sid, Friday, 13 February 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

YES! For LO! I am:

a) not a band
b) not from London
c) [removed due to public disagreement]

― MJ Hibbett, Friday, 13 February 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

The mystery of letter c quite intrigues me!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

I think the answers in the song title!

― The Good Dr Neil, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Geordie Mick t'other day, he lives on Aylestone Canal with Ratty and Moley and sometimes Toady visits. They are going to set up a white cider factory together when the sales from the Conveyor belt single come pouring in....

― Kenneth Grahame, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

what, he's jumped in the canal AGAIN???

― , Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

He's renting from Moley so I've heard. He has a great view of the bullrushes from his part of the hole.

― Kenneth Grahame, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

You're behind the times-Conveyor belt have split, and Geordie Mick has now formed a band called Ping with ex members of Bloom, Sikorsky and Unknown Stuntman. They specialise in loungecore versions of songs by Joy Division, The Field Mice and Yes. Geordie Mick plays a custom built glockenspiel made out of white cider bottles with varying amounts of cider left in them to make the different notes. Early reports from live gigs say they're really good but the glockenspiel tends to go out of tune as the night goes on.

― Roger Parkinson, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

Conyeyor Belt is Geordie Micks ongoing solo project, so he cant split from himself. But yes he has formed a band called Ping, with other members. They play at a Leicester lounge bar called Pong every sunday afternoon, and free white cider is given to all attendees. It's quite good 'if you like that kind of thing'.

Menwhile Truk has run off to Argentina and is trying to recruit a Prolapse boy band (and one girl) tribute act there, the rascal. He has gathered various lookielikiees from around the country. They have got the top part right but keep insisting on wearing flip flops and bermuda shorts on the bottom half.

As Turk would say, "I dontttttt beeeellllliieevvveee iiiiitttt!"

― Evvoia Cyclades, Friday, 27 February 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

Truk=Turk, sorry.

― Evvoia Cyclades, Friday, 27 February 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

Turk is also going to ring Red Ken up and suggest a
bar / disco in the back coach of each tube train on the London Underground, otherwise he is gonna sue!.....

He has also been frequenting a goth club in Buenos Aires called Requiem and think its is like Leeds in 1984 except the gothesses here are far better looking.....

― Sydney Wollongong, Friday, 27 February 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

sydney wollongong? surely you mean bondi newcastle>

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 27 February 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know if the geordie mick stories are true or not, but they should be.

― fluffonthemallow, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

just picked up "ghosts of dead aeroplanes" for $0.99 at Academy Records in NYC. And it's great! Some of you already know this, but just wanted to let you know that Prolapse are still, errr...shifting units.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

Rah! :-) A very good find.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

i am starting a geordie mick cover band

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

Are you going to recruit 5 geordie mick lookielikees to be in it with you?

― fluff on the mallow, Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

ears go fffffffuckinhellwheresmywhitecider

― fluff fluff, Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

>Are you going to recruit 5 geordie mick lookielikees to be in it with you? <

Mmmmmm... Heaven for the ladeeez

― John Hogsworth, Thursday, 11 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Is anyone going to see Ping at Pong on sunday ? I'm coming down from Manchester and could do with a bed for the night. I'm bringing some potatoes with me which were signed by Prolapse in 1996 which I've kept in a freezer ever since. I'm going to give them to Geordie Mick to sell on ebay to fund his next release. I wish he'd do some more Ears go Fff! recordings.

― Richard Wom, Friday, 2 April 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Ping at Pong today and they were fantastic ! Nice to see them introducing the odd Sea Urchins cover into the set. Wasn't sure about their "ironic" cover of Britney's "Toxic" though. During their version of The Field Mice's "I can see myself alone forever" Geordie Mick destroyed his white cider bottle glockenspiel, Keith Moon style. Brilliant.

― Marcia Electron, Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

Geordie Micks new shoes are so slidy that he can sometime bearly keep upright. He sometimes slides down bannisters standing up looking like a bit like the Silver Surfer from the Fanatsic Four...

― Valley girl 66, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

hey everyone...i was not familiar with this band until i started an art history class at my college this semester....and the teacher was no other than....David Jeffries...he mentioned he was in a band once when we were all doing our first day introductions...that band was Prolapse...so i came home and checked em out and found this post so for anyone wondering what David Jeffries is up to these days he is a proffesor at Savannah College of Art and Design in the U.S.....this is not bullshit or anything its true...just thought i would share this info for the fans!!!

― SCAD STUDENT 666, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

hey everyone...i was not familiar with this band until i started to scratch my scrotum with a cactus....and the cactus was no other than....Geordie Mick...he mentioned he was in a band once too often yawn...that band was Prolapse...so i came home and checked em out and found this post so for anyone wondering what Geordie Mick is up to these days then you really ought to get a life....this is not true...just thought i would share this info for the dhss!!!

― SCUD MARX 668, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Great Noos!

Scottish Mick has formed a tightly knit Norwegian agit pop band called Derrick and the Diggers. They sound a bit like Gang of Four mixed with Sonic Youth mixed with The Fall. How about that?

Press photos below. (See how they are digging a hole to 'play' on their name. Arf!)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jo.bhosle/diggers1.jpg

― Goggy, Monday, 17 May 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

The 3 piece band's first single is a critique of the foolish monarchy in Norway. It's ironically called " I'd packed the The Travel Scrabble for when we were travelling, and the ordinary Scrabble for when we'd arrived" backed with the spoken word ditty "I hope I don't bite myself"

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jo.bhosle/diggers2.jpg

― Goggy, Monday, 17 May 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooooooooh, I do like his orange trousers.

― Lady tron, Friday, 21 May 2004 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Oooooooooohhh, He's got hair like an action man.

― Brenda Fury, Friday, 28 May 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I bet he uses regaine.

― Jealous eddy, Friday, 28 May 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, just noticed that The Smiths C/D thread has had 145 replies, and the Prolapse one 144, but in seven months less. Therefore Prolapse are officially more popular/influential than The Smiths. So why has Q never done a special edition featuring the inside story of Prolapse ?

― Nancy Vodka, Friday, 28 May 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Another simliarity between the two bands is that Geordie Mick used to run the Newcastle branch of the New York Dolls fan club and 'do' his hair a bit like Johnny Thunders, the little scamp!

― Herbet Gin, Friday, 28 May 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

To be fair, only about 7 answers on this thread are actually answering the question, the rest is supposedly 'hilarious' made up stuff about Linda's watchmaking skills etc, so I think The Smiths still win.

I would have liked Prolapse to have played my meltdown thing, I always wanted to meet Scottish Mick (sigh)

― Morrissey, Friday, 28 May 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

how to meet scottish mick part 476
1. put on your best flowery dress and anorak (for extra marks wear a celtic badge)
2. go to a pub and order fizzy ribena
3. start singing 'fandabbidozie' by the krankies
4. look out for a grizzled old man with action man hair and slits for eyes but no pet monkey

― andrew symingtons haircut, Friday, 28 May 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

The one on the left looks a bit like Lol Tolhurst.

― Micheal Lietgerwood, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I have it on good authority that Geordie Mick is writing his autobiography, to be called Irritable bowel syndrome : My life in Prolapse and other stories. Sounds like a good read.

― Martha Longhurst, Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jo.bhosle/gog.jpg

Exciting news! Scottish Mick is now the treasurer of the norwegian branch of the Crystal Palace Independent Supporters Association, based in Oslo. Here he is celebrating the Eagles wonderful promotion with the secretary of the Association, Kasper Kamp.

― olag, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I have it on good authority that the sales from Scottish Mick's ceramic monkey shop have gone from strength to strength. He is making ceramic monkeys everyday, using a shakermaker he bought off ebay, and sometimes sells up two dozen of his individually painted monkeys everyday.

He is also thinking of branching out and opening another ceramic monkey shop in Whitchurch in Shropshire, employing Geordie Mick as a manager there, the white cider factory idea being shelved indefinitely for reasons best not discussed.

― Ulrich Schnuass, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Ulrich! Nice to see you taking time out from your busy schedule.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Anytime Ned!

I was thinking that instead of ripping off bits from the Cocteau Twins and Slowdive to try sampling stuff of that new Cure album.

The only trouble is that its not that good really, so i don't think I'll bother.

― Ulrich Schnauss, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Amazing!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

latest sightings of scottish mike suggests that he is doing velvet underground & zappa & uriah heep covers in a tango fashion

― gordon shunway, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

(...)

― gordon shunway, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

argh!

if this doesn't work, I give up

― gordon shunway, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't give up Gordon...

― ulrich likes the field mice, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick is possibly selling off all his records to clear his debt from when the white cider factory purchase went balls up. Currently selling all his old prolapse vinyl(as well as other stuff) on ebay. Have a looksie:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2260&item=4030410223&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

― ulrichfuggingschnauss, Friday, 13 August 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

This band is very difficult to find on certain online p2p engines.

― Dare, Friday, 13 August 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

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