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He of Fountainhead fame? By the way, I have spoken to Geordie Mick, his current favourite band name is Bog, Thats Real!

It works on so many different levels.

― Donald Ross Skinny, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's another geordie mick/speak and spell tune, to a funeral like dirge using a bass line not to dissimilar to 'Faith' by the Cure.

It's called "Elementary Proofs"

The existence of transendental numbers used particular proofs that pi or e
were transendental, then Cantor's diagonal argument showed the Reals were
not countable and as algebraics were, transendentals must exist.

I heard about a very longwinded existence theorem for some esoteric type of
agebraic object, only for the author's student to show it only existed in
the
trivial case. Mongreilf rock.

― Kesh Mongrielf, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I AM DALE OLIVIER!
I WAS A SHY MONGREL!
I WAS STREAMLINE RECORDS!
I AM MATHS!
I AM KESH!
I AM NOT GOTH! check out www.gothicrevue.com/daleolivier.html

Let me tell you mon, back in jo'burg life was tough for a young Goth with a puffy name.

― Rex Harrison, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1444

It's not wonderful, but it's more than anyone else has written about Prolapse thus far this year.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

If Geordie Mick is using Kesh (Mongreilf) as his lyricist, does he not hate him any more?

― Martin Greasepaint, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Kesh has recently formed a Celtic Rock band, check here for details - http://www.thekesh.org.uk/kesh/
i always suspected there was an Irish Joe influence in his music....

― Wonky Boy, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Not content with writing all geordie Mick's nu ming mang mong songs for him to explain his obession with imaginary and irrational numbers and BEING a band, kesh now has a folkie side project called Mooncoin to satisfy his pastural leanings. He can be heard playing the fiddle on much of what passes for covers of "The Hangmans Beautiful daughter" in many folk clubs on the norfolk circuit. Here's da link kids:-

http://www.mooncoin.org.uk/mooncoin/default.htm

― Glebe's Thrift Funnel, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link

meanwhile, back in the land of pork pies, fox hunting and tj's blue cheese sauce. the latest incarnation of the leicester music scene : pineapster brings you

the pineapster communion
the attik
thursday 27th Jan 2005

House of the famous poets
lo-ego
the displacements

£3 entry / £2 flyer.

lo-ego have their latest prog rock ish post punk all sorts lp out now whilst the displacements have just reached the final of an xfm rock competition.

the 80's was shite......

― andy black, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

You do realise no one will beilive you on here don't you?

― Mongreilf, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Waaahhhhaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!

http://thetubebar.co.uk/

― Turk E Heaven, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Mongreilf has never had an obsession with imaginary numbers, that's probably some other mathematician on the "Leicester Scene", now living by the sea. Mongreilf only speaks of irrational, algebraic and transendental numbers. It helps keep him calm.

― Uli Schwabe, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

In an alarming Volte Face The Haggis Collectors have renamed themselves as The Haggis Collective and are singing dreary agit-prop. Their first release is called, simply, Lung-Meat. No-one knows if it is an oblique and ironically sexist reference to one of Scottish Mick's early girlfriends or simply a paean to vegetarianism: revealing what haggis is actually made from.

― Dale Olivier, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

hurrah....the tube bar finally gets a decent web site.

i trust you are aware of this.

http://www.thetubeclub.co.uk

anyway, the turk should look at

www.pineapster.co.uk

at which he'll be able to plug the tube bar nights for free under the venues page. and pineapster gets 5,000 hits a day....huge...free...charity funded website.

― andy black, Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ming Mang Mong have been added to the line up for next Tuesday's charity gig in aid of the badger protection league at the Beacon Inn in Loughborough. Because of the short notice they haven't got a full set of original songs, so will be doing some cover versions, including Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Ooo Wakka Doo wakka Day", and Jonathan King's "Leap up and down, wave your knickers in the air."

― Gertrude Ectoplasm, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Ming Mang Mong have written a new song in rehearsals called "Theme From Ming Mang Mong". Kesh (Mongrielf) wasn't allowed to write the lyrics to this one given his monomaniacial fascination with various integers so Geordie Mick improvised, just singing the words 'Ming Mang Mong' quickly over and over again until he got dizzy and fell over (legs akimbo) in a heap on the floor.

― Ming the Merciless, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Integers?! If irrationals or transcendentals are integers it's a world gone upside down.

― Mongreilf, Friday, 28 January 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Can we talk about Bloom some more?

― Vin Vandal, Friday, 28 January 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Are Bloom still going ?

― Mr Pleasant, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if Bloom are still going, but I've heard their singer was a bit of a goer.

― Gary Dent, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't she concieve at a Kevin Hewick concert ?

― Karl James, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually she was a bit of a Gower, as in related to David Gower, the famous leicestershire batsman.

Octavia Alfonso Gower was her full name, nothing at all to do with the Kesh Mongreilf family whatsoevahhhh

― Foxy Sideburns, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not surprised, seeing Kevin Hewick live always makes me feel like a good, hard shag.

― Sandie Bush, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I get similar urges seeing MJ Hibbert, especially after a few lager and blacks.

― Big Mad Susan, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey Mad Susan, if you want to get off with MJ Hibbett learn to spell his name properly. We hear he tests people before having sex.

― The Noing Sisters, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

God, I'm going out and buying the biggest dictionary I can find. Mmm-mm.

― Big Mad Susan, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Scottish Mick has taken on a new sideline project/job, that is disposing of any unwanted coffee tables anyone might have. Disposing of unwanted coffee tables is not as easy as you'd think (the council now charge for taking away household objects), but Mick has thought of an ingenious way to do it. In order to the reduce the size of the furniture he psychs himself up by dancing manically to "She's Lost Control" by Joy Division and then does a big belly flop onto said table smashing the legs off in one fell swoop. He can also dye carpets (tho only pink) using a special sceret formula only he knows (he will also grant Prolapse fans who know the lyrics to Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc a special 'two for one' deal where he will do both for no extra charge).

― Mongreilf, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Well he's got competition. Steve Baker has been dying his friends carpets a dirty pink for years. Upholstery too.

― Mongreilf (The real one), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I hear Steve Baker also provides this service completey free of charge

― Let me sleep in a bush, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The Ming Mang Mong charity gig came to a premature end last night when Geordie Mick went into a trance like state during the first song, "Theme from Ming Mang Mong", spinning round and round chanting the words like a mantra with his eyes closed, and fell off stage knocking himself unconcious. He was rushed to hospital, and support band Men with Cigars had to do an impromptu second set to try to calm the restless crowd. They decided to do some Prolapse covers but only knew "Fear of teeth", "Irritating radiator" and "Liquid compliment" plus the Prolapse tribute song "A hat, A hat, A mongoose and A hat" by The Scringe.

― Mad Mang, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a press conference scheduled for the visitors room in Leicester General Hospital (floor 3, B ward) at 3pm this afternoon by "Michael Daltrey Townsend Entwistle Moon Topographic Oceans Harrison".

It's rumoured that the complete tracklisting of the new Haggis Collective album "White Light, White Cyder" will be announced.

I for one am positively trembling with excitment.

― Call the polis - there's a Mad Mang in town, Friday, 4 February 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Here is a leaked partially complete tracklist for the new Haggis Collective/MMM album of cover versions of songs which have influenced Geordie Mick in his formative years:

Ming me a mong (Marc Bolan)
Mangalang (Bay City Rollers)
Every little ming she does is manky (The Police)
Mang Mang (Cher)
911 is a joke (Public Enemy)

― Lester Newshound, Friday, 4 February 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Have not forgotten "Everybody Ming Mang tonight" by Mang Mong

― The ghost of nigel's coffee table, Friday, 4 February 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

BIG excitement at the press conference at the hospital when Geordie Mick appeared wearng a kaftan made from colostomy bags which he had borrowed from the medical supplies cupboard. It turns out that the promise of track titles from his new album was a smokescreen for "the small minded critics and non-believers".

"The Mickster" looked well, and now that the trademark Harrison pudding basin haircut has grown out, he has had a scouser perm with blond highlights which set off his red eyes nicely. He glossed over Tuesdays gig incident, saying it was a deliberate act of theatre, akin to Jim Morrison or David Icke.

He announced that he was holding the press conference to announce that there would be another press conference next week when he was out of hospital. Dave Davies from the Leicester Mercury shouted out that this was an old situationist trick from the 1760s. All subsequent questions from the press were greeted with "no comment" and Geordie Mick returned to the ward to have a nasty boil lanced by Nurse Betty.

― Harold Giblets, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I have news of another Ming Mang Mong tune set to the beat of the backing music to a casio 'soccer lcd game' from 1984. Once again kesh (Mongreilf) has provided the lyrics, with the battered old speak and spell game providing Vox fx.

It's called, 'Like rubbing crab juice on Reg Varney (Is there order among imaginery numbers?)' by Ming Mang Mong (projected title) home demo: 5th Feb 2005.

"Not sure about this.
How do you prove the premises of any mathematics are true?
I've not studied Frege Russel et al and work from axioms taken as read.
Remember Euclid's parralel axiom?
Surely the ARGUMENT is sound if the logic is sound, but the CONCLUSION
is sound only if both logic and premises are sound. Mongreilf likes numbers. (repeat to fade)."

― Creamy googlised underpants, Monday, 7 February 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Scenes from the Geordie Mick Press Conference t'other day

http://www.revivall.com/www/pics/pcc/fellwshp1.jpg

― Completely Bakered, Monday, 7 February 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

OMG! I'm listening to ghosts of dead aeroplanes RIGHT NOW!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Latest from Leicesterchestershire. Geordie Mick has discharged himself against the advice of the medical proffesion and hopped it to London. His attempt to break into broadcasting house and interrupt the transmission of Stuart Maconie's "The Critical List" was thwarted by his having lost completely lost all track of time. Those listened to this week's Radio 2 broadcast by Humphrey Littleton may have noticed the usual trad and non-threatening modern jazz replaced by "bleeping and stuff about numbers", as Humph later described it. Something of an epiphany may have occurred however, as the next day Mick was seen looking at the trumpets in Sheehans while humming little be-bop ditties to himself. Are we entering a new Jazz Age? Well are we?

― Dale Olivier, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Poor Geordie Mick got confused at the GO! Team gig last week. On the bit when the singer gurl got the girls to shout "Go!", and the guys to shout "Team", Mick tried joining in but kept shouting out either "Ming!" "Mang!" or "Mong!" by mistake during the bits where the audience were meant to participate.

It doesn't matter tho' because Ferraro Roche want to use "Theme from Ming Mang Mong" as the backing music to one of their adverts, horrraaahh!

― Tudor Road, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Ming Mang Mong have been asked to oversee the soundtrack of a goth soft porn vid starring Sadie Cakes. After Kevin Shields' success with "Lost in Translation" the two Harrisons are said to be considering the offer with a serious amount of seriousness. Ms Cakes opined that their bleeping-beeping stuff was just the sort of retro/futuristic take on cheesy organ music that got her motor running.

― Torquil Trismegistus, Friday, 25 February 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Trouble in the Ming Mang Mong camp. Mongreilf was blanked by the Geordie one in a pub recently, probably due to the groups lyrical change of direction from "stuff about numbers" to "made up stuff about Mick". "I really didn't think he'd mind, or indeed care" said Mongreilf before hinting that the band may be covering the Rex Harrison number from My Fair Lady "Why can't a woman be more like a man?", but calling it instead "Why can't a woman be more like a piano playing spaniel?"

― I'm a good girl, I am!, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The Haggis Collective have a new line up: the entire population of Lanarkshire! Their new single's video "Come on everyone, lets play sneaky-snorkels" features a mass trespass by the band's 621,067 members into a garden in Lesmahagow. The annoyed resident is seen shaking his fist at the snorkel-parka'd multitude before being reminded that he too is a member of the Haggis Collective. At this wonderful news he dons his own parka and joins the throng, dancing the night away to the Collective's groovy music.

― Alasdair Gray, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I am starting a Ming Mang Mong fanzine, and am currently researching a Ming Mang Mong "rock family tree". If anyone has any information about the other bands the members have been in I'd appreciate it. Obviously I know of Geordie Mick's bands Prolapse, Ears go fff!, Ping, How many means bake five and Vibrating Elephant, but are there any others ?

― Rachel Pringle, Friday, 11 March 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe he's been involved with The Stale Jokes, Male Pattern Balding, Regret Syndrome, The Neverwasbeans and ABBA!

― ourwulliewallpaper, Friday, 11 March 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

For those of you missing Scottish Mick he can be seen in a video by The Council at WWW.Sorted-records.org.uk

― Fishman, Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Fanzine Info.
Geordie Mick was also in the following bands: The Benign Tremeloes, Anal Anus and Consumed All The Cheese. Recent excitement that a new project was afoot after he was seen carrying equipment into stay-free was dashed when it was revealed he was, infact, their new premises officer.
Mongreilf was famously sacked as Discordia's keyboard player for playing the high notes with his left hand crossed over his right. He also published several slim volumes of verse. The most well received, "An Introduction to Topological Spaces" was praised by The Literary Review for its "taught, caustic reflections on the banalities of analysis" while Poetry Today described it as "More of a maths textbook than poetry". Its most famous poem "The Heine-Borrel Theorem: The Unit Interval is Compact, Hurrah!" won the Golden Trumpet award in 1997. Though he doesn't like to admit it, in his youth he was also in This Picture, Esprit-de-Corps and See-Feel.

― Uli Schwabe, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Not forgetting kesh mongreilf's stint as a roadie for simon gallup's between Cure period band "Fool's Dance".

― wee joni ghostie, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Hot News! During an excavation under the old Magazine (ably led by Mr. Tony Throatwarbler-Bamboo) a cache of very rare video footage from the mid 90s was discovered! Highlights include Zach swigging some minature Tia Marias, not 1 but 2(!) Regs dancing in a field, and an interview with glamourpuss sexdwarf Jeremy "The Blanked" Hollyhobby. Rumours of the existence of footage from Milk Of The Stars' infamous month-long Droneathon show are however sadly untrue.

― not so able tasman, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

More groupie than roadie, ghostie, but during their "Fools Can Dance" period. They later renamed themselves to avoid confusion with 4AD serious squad "Dead Can Dance". Suffice it to say they were awful.

― Kesh, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Legal News: "The Haggis Collective" have reverted to old name "The Haggis Collectors" after fear of legal action from "The McQuaid Collective." The former Tube Bar Records stars haven't been heard of for years, but the threat of Turk turning up at Haggis gigs and complaining and moaning and kvetching, let alone screaming, was enough to spur them into action.

― Tim Brook Tinker, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

mad susan is that you from over the road? got any wine?if so pop round soon!!

― birmingham bully girl, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

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