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John Smell, you are God.

Red Nagget, Friday, 10 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Having failed to entice Linda to join him in his new musical venture, Scottish mick has gone one better and recruited Janette Krankie to Mang Mong Ming. New material is apparantly a bit thin on the ground but their set at the Landsdowne gig is expected to include Prolapse classics such as "Fear of teeth", "Move to limit slabs", "Liquid compliment" and "Irritating dub" as well as Krankies classics "Fan dabi dozi" (natch),"Don't tell me ma", "Dirty wee boy" and "Haggis song".

Petula Purple Pants, Friday, 10 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The showdown gig between Ming Mang Mongoose and Mang Mong Ming has been confirmed for next saturday, March 18th at the Landsdowne, but in a shock move Donald Ross Skinner has announced his intention to play the night as well, having renamed his current band, Kiosk, as Mong Ming Mang. He claims that in the last days of Prolapse he and Geordie Mick were planning to form a band and it was HE who came up with the name Ming Mang Mong so he sees the showdown gig as a chance to reclaim the name. A panel of celebrity judges has been assembled who will decide which band is best on the night and thus have the right to the name. The celbrity judges are Turk (Prolapse's right hand man back in the glory days), John Hogg (Leicester music scene mover and shaker, and respected Northern soul expert and DJ), Reg Plaster (Founder and President of the Ming Mang Mong fan club, The Mong Massive), and Terri Wyncoll (Leicester Abbey Park Festival organiser and self proclaimed most important person on the Leicester music scene).
Geordie Mick is said to be livid at the latest developments and has vowed to win the showdown contest "by hook or by crook". Rumours abound already of judges being offered sexual favours and "all the white cider you can drink."

Roll on next saturday !

Rachel Tongue, Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

For those of you who can't wait until next saturday, Ming Mang Mongoose will be playing the Leicester Mercury new band showcase on tuesday at The Charlotte alongside Exciting Gusset, The Ploogs and Electric Pomegranate. My review will appear in the Leicester Mercury as usual on wednesday.

Dave Davies, Sunday, 12 March 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

the mercury showcase gig is now cancelled.

instead, theres a new ming mang moog tribute band, who will appear at a forthcoming pineapster communion. The australian yeah yeah nohs will headline.

septic dive, Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Wahey ! I've made the 500th post on this thread !!

This is the best day of my looooooiiiiiiiiiiiiife !!!

Turk, Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Dateline: March 13 2006 - but it's a flashback to an earlier age as Geordie Mick helps Turk celebrate the 500th posting on this thread by announcing the next in the Mongoose series of albums.

Psychedelic Mongoose has been put hold in favour of Medieval Mongoose. This "back to basics" album will include tracks such as: "My love gave me a codpiece", "sacks of spuds and curly kale" (a "downdating" of the Blockhead classic), "With cheeks as rosy as apples, I'd like to get in cider" and "The parsnip song"

Instrumentation is rumoured to rely heavily on lutes and recorders, but will not feature bagpipes. "I'm saving them for the 'Krankie Mongoose'" album said Geordie Mick, speaking earlier today from an Elizabethan dunghill.

Lord Percy Greensleeves, Monday, 13 March 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Whilst trawling through the net I came across a Ming Mang Mong review from none other than Ray Davies from the Liecester mercury...looks like the 'showdown' could be a 'tight affair' if this review is anything to go by....

"Ming Mang Mong's pounding, pulsating, power-pop opener boded well for their set - although it is the first time I have seen a bass guitarist stop playing, look bemused, down a pint of white cider, and scratch his head before launching into a blistering solo.
Their second song was possibly the highlight of a tight and refreshingly vocal-centred performance. "Theme from Ming Mang Mong" was three-and-a-half minutes of mid-tempo, sing-along bliss. Geordie Mick got the crowd to sing along to this toe tapping classic - surely if it were realsed as a single a top 10 summer hit awaits?

The refreshing emphasis on vocal hooks belied some seriously heavy guitar 'mingmongmangling' and made them a band to look out for in the future."

the ming mang mong t shirt seller, Monday, 13 March 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I love you guys! Woo hoo!

Ned Raggetty-Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Wowzer!

Red Nugget, Monday, 13 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

WUV

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

NUBS

Grib Spugboat, Monday, 13 March 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Humps

Bed Ratchett, Monday, 13 March 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Lady lumps?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Brady Bunch!

Feg Wiglug, Monday, 13 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Out to lunch

Hogg Hogghogg, Monday, 13 March 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

just a hunch

engelbert humptybump, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I was planning on going to see Ming Mang Mongoose at the Charlotte tonight, but having flown over from Australia especially to see them, I find out that the gig has been cancelled.

Can anyone suggest alternative entertainment in Leicester for tonight? I'm an eccentric millionaire so money is no object. I was thinking about havng a Geordie Mick themed evening and have bought myself four crates of 2 litre bottles of white cider. Will this be enough for one evening do you think?

Bruce Barbecue, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick is heading down to the Orange Tree to consume all the cocktails that contain any milk at 6.30pm (GMT). If you'd like to pay for him to do it I am sure he'd oblige.

Dr Emily Pickles, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow - this information is gold dust me old cobber! To spend the evening buying drinks for Geordie Mick would be an honour!

If anyone else on this thread would like to join me later that would be a brucie-bonus. I will be wearing a kilt, flippers and frogmans top with a string of raw sausages for a scarf (it's cold out after all)

Bruce Barbecue, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

The recent cancellation of the Carribean Carnival after Terri Wyncoll "consumed all the money" has led Geordie "Im" Mick to reform imaginary reggae has-beens "lance brûlée". A protest/fundraiser at the B1 club is planned. The set will feature covers of "Don't Mess With Jill", "Fire Down Below" and "Down By The Canalside". His new dread/floppy fringe combination hairstyle has to be seen to be believed.

Jomo Kenyatta, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

During rehearsals for the Mang Mong Ming gig on saturday a new song HAS been written so the set will not now be entirely made up of Prolapse/Krankies covers. The song is called "Eating a kit-kat with a weasel on my back", and Scottish Mick is said to be so excited at seeing a Derrick/krankie writing credit on a label that he has already offered it as a single to Bunty Records (also rumoured to be in the running to release the Funky Mongoose album)

Simon Harrison (no relation), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

It's true- Bunty Records bosses have been visiting Seamus Wong studios where, despite the recent upheavals Funky Mongoose are still recording their album. So pleased were the label with the "Ralf Hutter in the peanut butter" track that they are now insisting the album be a double-the first disc will consist of songs about normal tainted foodstuff (the latest being "Snakes in my corn flakes" and "Drek in my Ready brek" - obviously a bit of a breakfast vibe going on there !), and the second disc will consist of tracks about foodstuffs tainted by celebrities, which will include the aforementioned "Ralf Hutter" as well as new songs "Syd Barrett spat on my carrot", "Cilla Black shat on my flap jack" and "Raymond Froggat curdled my yoghurt". More news as and when.

Milly the mole, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

A new track, entitled 'Melissa Etherdige has puked in my fridge'(and consumed all the milk!), has got the label very excited. They have given Geordie "Milksnatcher" Mick £5,000 to spend on a video for what they want to be the opening single. Heis under strict inctructions not to spend the money on white cider or any of his 'milky' cocktails.

The tears of Robert Smith, Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

It took Geordie Mick exactly 3 hours and 24 minutes to spend the whole of the £5,000 advance from Bunty records who are said to be "a bit miffed".

The 'Mickster' is currently trembling away in hiding, although there are some reports of a sighting in the chamapagne bar, quaffing away on a last bottle of champagne. (It gives you fizzy knees by all accounts!)

No Kesh No, Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Tonights "Showdown" gig at the Landsdowne ended,predictably, a fiasco. The three bands played but then the panel of celebrity judges couldn't decide which was best. They couldn't even agree on which band was the worst. After this the three bands all sat round a table and had a few drinks together and decided to form a 14 piece supergroup- Mega Mong. To celebrate this they all got on stage to play one last song of the night but couldn't agree which song to play, so all three bands played different songs simultaneously. While certain members of the Mong Massive said they liked this-saying it reminded them of "Back Saturday" era Prolapse, most sane members of the audience agreed it was just a horrible noise.

After this, Geordie and Scottish Mick had a huge row which ended with Geordie Mick pouring his pint of cider over Scottish Mick's head. Then, horrified after realising the bar had just shut, Geordie Mick spent the next 20 minutes LICKING Scottish Mick's head, an experience Scottish Mick was heard to say he found "strangely erotic". Shortly after that the pair left together, leaving three sets of bemused musicians unsure of their future.

So, the future of Ming Mang Mong, Mang Mong Ming and Mong Ming Mang hangs in the balance. Who knows what will happen next ?

Sheila Template, Sunday, 19 March 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

This is terrible news - when oh when will Geordie Mick realise that not only is he letting his fans down but that he is letting himself down too?

It's as if he'd be quite happy spending the rest of his life drinking white cider and performing a series of increasingly marginalised vanity gigs.

I can't be alone in hoping that a night of rough sex with Scottish Mick will sort him out good and proper and get him back on track sharpish.

Derek Pakora, Sunday, 19 March 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Trouble in the Ming Mang Mong camp. Geordie Mick has tried to get Scottish Mick to 'take on the debt' of the £5,000 Bunty Records video disaster, claiming that "thats how much a 20 minute HEAD LICK costs in Britain nowadays." Scottish Mick was having none of it however, as he knows even with the economy in Norway, you can get one for the equivalent of a couple of mars bars.

teach my grandma how to suck eggs, Monday, 20 March 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of the bands, Bunty records is pressing ahead and rush releasing Mang Mong Ming's "Eating a kit kat with a weasel on my back"/"Irritating Dabi Dozi" single next monday on CD and limited 7", and are hoping the Funky Mongoose album will be ready for release two weeks later. Interest in the single is strong and Bunty are hoping for the first post Prolapse chart hit !

Crazy Crazy Knight, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Disaster has struck the Mang Mong Ming single promotional campaign as Janette Krankie today announced she was leaving the band. In a press conference she said she was leaving due to musical differences, and the fact thatshe hadn't realised she wasn't being paid. In private, however, she has confided to friends she was sick of one member of the band "constantly trying to get into my knickers".

I'm not your stepping stone, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Ming Mang Mong played their first gig since the lansdowne disaster at the Princess Charlotte last night to keep their profile up, but poor geordie mick was having problems with hecklers. Scottish Mick was there, and kept yelling "Och, play the wan aboot white cider!" which had the audience in hysterics. Momus impersonator Kesh "Mon" Mongreilf was there also, and kept shouting out numbers in a crazed mathemetician type way, which had the audience non plussed. Turk was also there, and didn't mean to heckle, but everytime Geordie's bass went slightly out of tune, he'd cry out "I don't believe it, thisistheworsedayofmywholelife!" excitedly, and run around at the back of the venue like a rooster on speed.

After the gig geordie mick made a quick dash for it, as the man from bunty records wanted to ask him about the video money, although it is understood gerodie mick is keeping the tapes of the new album 'hostage' until Bunty Records grant him a years supply of white cider!

Beta Max, Friday, 24 March 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard a rumour that Geordie Mick has started his own 'arsequake' band, he scents a revival of this type of thing and he has been playing his Butthole Surfers and Swans records all week.

He is calling the band "The Horridness of Noisy Guitars" and he wants the band members to wear pagan monk outfits in an attempt to look like Sunno))), although some dry wags have conmmented that the band - who all look like small versions of Geordie Mick and are called Geordie Dick, Geordie Rick, and Geordie Mick Jr (no relation!) - look more like Spinal Tap! Stooonennnge!

it's not a big college town, Friday, 24 March 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

The man from Bunty Records was looking for Geordie Mick at the Charlotte the other night, but not to ask about the video money. Rather, convinced of Geordie Mick's musical genius he has offered him his own record label ! The labels name hasn't been decided yet but negotiations with local bands Bongthrasher, Bloated Scrotum and Anal Strangulation are currently under way.

Tiny Tootsies, Saturday, 25 March 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The first signing to Geordie Mick's label (now confirmed as Metal Bongo records) is none other than former Prolapse right hand man Turk, who recently launched his own musical career. Cruelly dubbed "the poor man's Chico" by Dave Davies in a review of his first solo gig, the first single will be a new song called "It's Turk time". The b side is a cover of the Bruce Forsyth classic "I'm backing Britain".
It's strongly rumoured that the second signing to the label will be up and coming local band Bum Snogger ("Leicester's answer to The Arctic Monkeys" - Dave Davies).

Tantric Tony, Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard a rumour that first signing to Geordie Mick's new label will be the solo album of Scrumpy Jack, ex lead singer of mid 80's peel favourites, 'The Sad Hedgehogs'. Scrumpy's new work is a concept album, called "Drinking For Tramps," revolving around the different white ciders available in the UK. Tracklisting here:-

1) White Lightning
2) Special Red
3) Frosty Jack
4) Diamond White
5) Pulse
6) Blue Ocean
7) Spar own White Cider

A special promotional campaign is being orgainsied, which is being sponsored by all the brands mentioned on the album, who will be sending free white cider to all the gigs supporting the the tour.

Here is a press shot of scrumpy jack:-

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Geordie Mick's Press Officer, Monday, 27 March 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Or even

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Geordie Mick's Press Officer, Monday, 27 March 2006 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Or even even

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Geordie Mick's Press Officer, Monday, 27 March 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie has been begging Scrumpy Jack to allow him to play bass and "look after" the riders on the tour - Geordie wants Scrumpy to be in tip top condition and not get too drunk on all the free white cider that's available at the gigs. As a seasoned professional GM knows all about the trappings of fame and free drink and wants to keep Scrumpy on the the straight and narrow. "Short, professional sets are where it's at. We will leave the audience begging for more, just like at those early mary chain gigs!" said GM at the press conference unveiling his new star.

Geordie Mick's Press Officer, Monday, 27 March 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Here is a Scrumpy Jack live shot from his gig at The Toft and Hemulyn pub, in Lutterworth last Saturday. Keep off those ciders, Jack!

Geordie Mick's Press Officer, Monday, 27 March 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

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Has anyone else noticed the remarkable similarity between "Scrumpy Jack" - the fresh new young talent recently unearthed by Geordie Mick and "Charlie Bronson" - UK celebrity prison inmate shortly to star as Zebedee in a live action re-remake of The Magic Roundabout? Might they perhaps be related?

Blue Peter, Monday, 27 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick is going to be taking party in the WORLD'S ANGIRIEST BASSIST competition, based in California, next month.

Although the favourites are amongst others, Peter Hook, Larry Clayton, Kim Gordon and Simon Gallup, Geordie is hoping that the fact he has only smiled 3 times in the last 5 years will count for something, and he has been practicing frowning in indignation and gurning manically in front of the mirror all week!

Tim's snare drum, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The Mang Mong Ming single "Eating a Kit Kat with a weasel on my back" was released on monday and looked to become the first post-Prolapse chart hit, reaching number 23 in the mid week chart announced yesterday. Disaster has struck today however when the single was DISQUALIFIED from the charts after somebody went into Rock A Boom in Leicester and bought 397 copies. Accusations are flying as to who the culprit is, some saying it was an over enthusiastic member of the band or their family, while other people are muttering darkly about a member of a rival band deliberately scuppering the singles chances.

Tony Trotsky, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

When he heard about the Mang Mong Ming single being disqualified from the charts, Geordie Mick laughed out loud, manically, like Mutley. Unfortunately, at the time he was in the premiliminary round of the ANGRIEST BASSIST IN THE WORLD competition, up aganist "that bloke who used to play bass for Ride who nobody remembered the name of", and so he too was DISQUALIFIED from the competition. (The Judges had banned laughing, smiling, or even smirking inanely, as part of the ABITW competition.)

That's 'Irony' for you, folks!

Laughing Larry Lenin, Thursday, 30 March 2006 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick has a new skill, that is balancing crinkly crisps on the end of his chin in a vain attempt to berate the goatee beard wearing hippies that he hates so much. The angry bassist has just about got over his defeat to 'the bloke out of ride that no one remembers' at the ANGRIEST BASSIST IN THE WORLD competition, and is keen to get back on track with his new label and band. He has written some dazzling new basslines and is ready to take over the world. he wants a Ming Mang Mong/Scrump Jack top 10 by the end of the year - and is keen to get it "by hook or by crook" say insiders.


First Class Stamp, Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Bunty records have announced a Metal Bongo all dayer at the Fox and Trumpet in Cosby to celebrate the new signings to the label. As well as signing Scrumpy Jack and Turk, a bumper FIFTEEN bands have also been signed, so the Metal Bongo roster now boasts the rumoured Bloated Scrotum, Bum Snogger and Anal Strangulation as well as Hogg Machine, Broken Parsnip,Diarrhoea for breakfast, No fixed abode, Pant Botherer, The Angry Anchovies, Sikorsky, The Sploogs, Fried genitals, Exploded pigeon arse soup, Smell of wet dog, and There is much pervertalism here. Despite the upbeat nature of the announcement, in private Bunty Boss William Bunty is said to be alarmed at the number of signings, and was heard confiding to an employee that Geordie Mick "seems to be signing any band who'll buy him a couple of pints. In the Orange Tree the other night he signed 7 bands in 3 hours !"

Delia Dangledong, Sunday, 2 April 2006 08:18 (eighteen years ago) link

that's less than alan mcgee

electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 2 April 2006 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link

An impasse has now been reached after Geordie Mick tried to sign joke Leicester band 'Mr Mcroonheid and the Cheeky Wee Bizums', who are really a performance art collective dealing mainly in swordplay. However Mr Mcroonheid (chief fencer) once bought Geordie Mick a bottle of diamond white, and so was 'owed a favour'. William Bunty is getting increasingly stressed, as none of the other bands (except The Sploogs) ever seem to do much recording, rather they sit in the Orange Tree sipping on their bombay sapphire, pontificating on how Leicester City FC have failed so miserably this season.

Harold Creosote, Monday, 3 April 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

amongst the wonderful madness of this place. would the turk like to speak to us? we've got a wonderful mad charity project, and we're over potential use of the tube bar name for another last tub bar night evah?

yours awaiting in ming, mang holiness?

pineapster.

andy black, Monday, 3 April 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick has hired out ther Phoenix Arts Centre in order to do a Metal Bongo showcase one day festival - imaginatively entitled 'Mickstock'. There will be a premier of the of the Prolapse dvd (including Geordie's 1 hour diatribe against Evereet True), although sadly no knee sitting will occur.

Confirmed Bands are so far The Sploogs, No fixed abode, Pant Botherer, Mr Mcroonheid and the Cheeky Wee Bizums, The Angry Anchovies and Scrumpy Jack, and new Metal Bongo signings Zymoptic Aardvark, although the other bands Geordie has signed may join when they can be bothered to leave the Orange Tree. There is a rumour GM himself will be paying in some of the bands, although not on bass. Instaed he will play percussion on various 'found' objects. Art Rock!

He has persuaded none other than Turk to compere the event, who is getting increasingly more excited each day!

Pigeon Street, Monday, 3 April 2006 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick was said to be livid today after waking up to find that he had been duped into signing Mang Mong Ming to his label last night after being plied with super strength white cider laced with the finest Old spice after shave by Scottish Mick. Lawyers for Metal Bongo have annulled the contract after making a "golden handshake" payment to the band of £37. Geordie Mick has vowed to "never again" be duped by Scottish Mick and free alcohol.

Gloria Hunniford, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link


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