PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

hey look.

seriously though, awesome band. Italian Flag is great but there is something about Aeroplanes that elevates it. i'd say it's probably one of my favourite albums. let's say top 25 conservatively. there isn't really much else like it.

What a great year 2008 was for Ming Mang Mong. They released two albums-the first was a concept
album about space travel, "Ming Mang Mong on planet Zog", followed by the awesome live album
"Get yer Ming Mangs out", recorded during their world tour at venues in Whetstone, Enderby and South
Wigston. They were also commissioned to write a song to celebrate 100 years of the boy scouts,
which resulted in the classic single "Wiggle your woggle". Finally they showed off their psychedelic
side with the track "Electric Aubergine in my mind" on the Metal Bongo various artist compilation
album "More songs about Elephants, Nuns, and Beavers". Lets hope 2009 is as good a year
for us Ming Mang Mong Maniacs !

hooray!

Big rumour of a Ming Mang Mong comeback tour as well. All of the 1,459 bands signed by Geordie Mick in the Orange Tree public house, during the Milk Cocktail wars when he was ‘A nd R’ing for Bunty Records have decided to reform and play a White Ciderfest at this years Glastonbudget. Whether the grumpy bassist can be persuaded to unleash his famous ‘bass attack’ on an unsuspecting East Midlands public remains to be seen….

...although Roberto Spiralli has already bought his ticket, convinced Ming Mang Mong will perform a unique version of old Prolapse floorfillers Headless in a Beat Motel or Every Night I'm Mentally Crucified (7000 Times)as an encore.

Archaelogical from another time, although it could almost be yesterday (except with more hair). There is even a hint of a smirk on Geordie Mick's face, although the tables were turned as Scottish Mick had secretly laced Geordie Mick's white cider with laxatives, when he was tuning his bass earlier. The second half of the video isn't a pretty sight...

The Italian Flag: Classic
The GIS results you get when trying to find the album artwork for it for iTunes: Very much dud

Exciting times on the Leicester music scene, as the teenage son of Derek Spong spearheads a glam rock revival. Inspired to form a band after listening to his Dad's old '70s glam rock albums, Zac Spong and the Spiders from Uranus are rumoured to be signing with Metal Bongo shortly, after playing their first gig last week with fellow glam revivalists The Funky Thigh Collectors.

Good news about Zac Spong and the Spiders from Uranus! Zac (real name Eric) and brother / drummer Zander (real name Merrick Spong) have also been drafted in for the latest in the series of "Mongoose" albums.

The group (named for the purpose of this album as "Methane Mongoose") have been inspired by the story of the famous French Flatulist "Le Pétomane" to produce songs using only wind instruments. The album, entitled "Smell My Art", features a song cycle (or should that be "pong cycle") about climate catastrophe caused by cows. Reports that initial quantities are available in a scratch & sniff cover have not been confirmed by Metal Bongo.

They've reformed! Big change in direction here. Donald Ross Skinner taking over the singing duties on this one.
Scottish Mick can just be seen dancing along in the corner.

In shock news today it was announced that Derek Spong has left Ming Mang Mong to pursue a solo career and manage his son Zac's
band The Spiders from Uranus. After a frenzied weekend of recording, Derek's firat single is ready for release and is set to be a cover version of The Queers' "I'm not a mongo anymore." Although the split was described as amicable, rumours are that the release of Ming Mang Mong's new EP "Pissed in a piss factory", originally set for next monday, has been put back until Derek's guitar and bassoon parts are re-recorded by his as yet unnamed replacement.

Hot news for Friday afternoon - an upcoming release from Ming Mang Mong is to be a concept album about concept albums.

The title is as yet unknown, but it has been revealed that the cover art is to feature a painting of an anthropomorphised can of white cider drinking itself. This has been seen by some commentators as being a comment on the self referential cyclical nature of 21st Century Society and indeed many of the comments on this thread.

However, Sperek Dong, author of the online news blog "The Daily Dong", believes it relates to a series of visionary dreams about apple derived alcoholic beverages which a member of the band had in the late 1990's.

Dong reports that the transcripts of these dreams are tipped to be available later this year from the publishing arm of Metal Bongo records in a collection entitled "How I learned to stop worrying and love dirt cheap white cider even more than I did already"

Rumours abound today that Metal Bongo Records are about to step in to save legendary Leicester venue The Charlotte, which recently went into administration. Negotiations are allegedly at an advanced stage but have hit two stumbling blocks-firstly the new name for the venue, with three suggestions-"Bongo Frenzy" "Princess Ming Mang" and "Pile Tent" having been rejected by the current owners, and secondly a clause in the contract which states that the new partners will be eligible for free cider at all times.
So once these details are ironed out, hopefully the lucky punters of Leicester will be treated to a nightly dose of Metal Bongo bands such as Delicate Custard, The Flaming Flap Jacks, Pant Botherer, The Electric Sausage, The Mango Manglers, Savage Toothbrush, and Ethel Spong's exploding teeth. Can't wait !

Fed up of being held back by his increasingly slacking band mates, Geordie Mick has decided to go solo and has quickly recorded an album, taking the Ming Mang Mong name with him. It is thought that a last minute headlining slot is still a possibility at this year’s Glastonbudget, so keep ‘em peeled.

He has decided to release it on his own label which he has entitled ‘White Lightening’, and the release date is “on any day other than April Fools day”. He has taken an autobiographical wander through his own past, and below is a leaked tracklisting for the highly conceptual album, which is to be called “How much is the fishy on the dishy in the window?” If the album is inexplicably a huge hit, there could be a writ on the cards as his former band mates are decidedly miffed at their former leader, (who continued paying them in out of date white cider and second hand ELP albums to the very end).

How much is the fishy on the dishy in the window? (Working Title)

1) Canny Lass
2) Supercanny Lass
3) Thou shall have a fishy on a little dishy (when the boat comes in)
4) Kicking Scottish Mick up the arse
5) White Lightening, White Heat
6) Jazz Union
7) Pissed in a Piss factory (with Rick Astley)
8) Theme from Ming Mang Mong (reggae version)
9) Six Irritable Gits
10) (It took me) 13 hours (to put my socks on)
11) Milk Consumption

Exciting news has emerged of two new releases. After the "Fishy on a dishy" album flopped, Ming Mang Mong have been back into the recording studio and recorded a new Psychedelic EP, "Explosion in a vomit factory" (the title being taken from a particularly vitriolic MMM live review by top Leicester music journo Dave Davies). Along with the title track, the EP features "Psychedelic theme from Ming Mang Mong", "Electric aubergine in my mind (slight return)" and "Lovely Lemon Lady".
The other release comes from Rhino Handmade (the label behing the 7CD box set "

The Complete Fun House sessions" by Iggy and The Stooges. They'll be releasing "The complete Airvent Telephone Vasectomy" Sessions by Ears Go FFF!, A 5 CD box set lovingly remastered from the original cassette tapes, featuring Six Exciting hours of out-takes charting the development of this avant-garde classic.

Exciting noos from the Ming Mang Mong Fan Club – Geordie Mick has recorded a solo Christmas album, entitled ‘Who’s a Naughty Boy Then? (A Christmas Carol)’.

The sessions for the album started out light heartedly as Geordie Mick made friends with everyone at the studio, but by lunchtime (after he’d pinched everyone’s white cider, fags, lager, 2 bottles of Bailey’s cream and an out of date half finished bottle of buckfast AND tried to get off with the studio engineers’s girlfriend’s cat) GM wasn’t talking to anyone in defiance, and was cowering in a corner under his own personal raincloud. The songs on the new album thus reflect his mood at the time.

Tracks include classics like the mogadon paced “What if the hokey cokey really is what it’s all about?” the angry and punkish “Hadaway mon! Ootside!” and the sad and regretful “Looks like rein, deer”. Other tracks will be leaked soon. Will keep you informed….

get back to your data cleansing, "peter"

Can you look after my cat please "Zappi"?

as long as she doesn't read any Bulgakov, "Ambrooooooose"

She's only into the early plays. She's more into Leskov if truth be told, "booooooombscare".

good, don't want her getting ideas (or smoking my cigars).
FREE THE BAKER 13.

The Baker 13's are playing the criterion tonight. Their version of Pissed in Art Gallery has to be seen to be believed.

oh, i heard The Baker 13s demo the other week, singer "Wildcat" Willy ruined their song "The Battle of Wounded Knee" with his incoherent ramblings. something about "lilleh whaaaaahts"?

Is there any truth in this thread regarding post-Prolapse activity?

Yes. Yes, there is.

BAKER 13 Head Honcho 'Willy' Wildcat is planning a Xmas duet with former Prolapse front man Scottish "Free Bevvy!" Mick. They plan to record a version of the Snowmen's classic 'Do the Hokey Cokey' in an attempt to usurp Geordie Mick's alternative gloomy album version. Free swig of buckfast to the first 100 customers of the cd only single - being released on Cloudberry next week.

I beleive they're mentioned quite a bit in the new John Robb book.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/ed1.jpg

In exciting news, it's been announced that Ming Mang Mong have been comissioned by the Leicestershire Tourism board to record a concept album about Leicestershire towns and villages. Recording is already well underway, with several tracks completed including "24 hours from Husbands Bosworth", "Do you know the way to Broughton Astley ?", "Get your kicks on the M69", "Hit me Blaby one more time", "Oh Wigston Magna, so much to answer for", "Rowley Fields forever", and "(I don't want to go to) Cosby". More news as and when !

Disaster has struck yet again in the Ming Mang Mong camp. After virtually finishing the Leicestershire concept album in a little over a week,the band found themselves one song short with only 2 hours of studio time left, so decided to do a cover version of the traditional murder ballad "Raped, mutilated and left for dead in Kirby Muxloe". So taken were they with the results, they decided to make it the title track of the album, a decision which led to the Leicestershire Tourism board issuing the ultimatum that either the track was removed or the album would be shelved. The band stuck to their guns, issuing a statement saying "we will not prostitute our art for the man". So, it's yet another unreleased Ming Mang Mong album languishing in the vaults, the only winner being the bootleggers.

Their fanclub Organiser/T Shirt Seller man, TURK, ran away to Canada to teach parachuting and was never heard of again.

More bands need backstories like this

Ming Mang Mong off-shoot band The Vitamin Sees (featuring multi-instrumentalist Geordie Mick on drums) can be seen here playing live at Sumo in June : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Gpixdwrog

And the new series of long running internet soap opera Chez Lester features a guest appearance from a certain ex-Prolapse member, along the ghost of Freddie Mercury in this episode : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcSV6R0Hkt8

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs337.snc3/29486_123213641046004_105808859453149_163502_8349895_n.jpg

“Och wee man, ye cannae drum fer tawfee!”, says Jim Reid cheekily to Geordie Mick in the aftermath of the last Ming Mang Mong gig. GMs move to drums has been less than successful, especially on the new Motorik beat driven version of “Theme from Ming Mang Mong” where he fell over into the drumkit (legs akimbo!) after getting confused by the intricate time changes, and having to sing as well.

The scenes after this picture was taken aren’t a pretty sight, (the diss from Jim Reid reminded GM of the times Scottish Mick used to berate him for wasting all his drinking money on Catherine Wheel 12inches) as GM nicks all the money the band had cobbled together for recording the next album, and goes on a ‘white cider’ drinking spree around the corner shops of Leicester. He was last seen trying to hitch a lift back to Newcastle clasping a bottle of white lightening, with his tail between his legs, murmuring elusively “I’ll be back, but next time fitter and stronger,” adding enigmatically, whilst staring at what was left of his bottle of corner shop piss, “like Ralf Hutter in peanut butter.”

What next for Ming Mang Mong…? Could this really be the end? And who thinks about the fans in all this?

How has it taken me this long to get into both Prolapse and this thread?

I don't know, they're fairly obscure at this late date. What's been tickling your fancy? "Italian Flag" is still my fave.

'Backsaturday' is getting some pretty serious rotation, and indeed 'The Italian Flag' is marvelous. I need more.

'Pointless Walks' ftw. 'Italian Flag' is fucking great though, aye.

Sometimes I think The Italian Flag is the greatest achievement of the human race to date. Say, approximately every time I put it on.

this track from Fucked Ups next album sounds very similar to Prolapse

http://i45.tinypic.com/vhrsef.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfl8JW5LNxU

Prolapse side project activity from the vaults! This time from the rough trade shop in Notting Hill.

I remember retreating quickly to the back of the shop when that bloke started waving a gun about. Had to hide amongst the Sarah singles, only a Gentle Despite 7 inch away from certain death...

I think I'd actually gone outside for a cigarette (even in the good old days of smoking inside you couldn't smoke in Rough Trade)... vaguely remember being at a safe distance so I think I was peering in through the window at that point.

I get the song stuck in my head every few months, to this day.

Is everyone who was there going to post? If so this thread is gonna be carnage ..... carnage ....

Bah, How come my you tube embedding no longer works? Show me how to do it samwan.

You had it as 'https' -- drop the 's'

Woo hoo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfl8JW5LNxU

Guess I should mention I was there too then? Didn't catch a good view of the gun, so thought I must've been mistaken & didn't get too worried. Damn you poor eyesight!

There are rumors.

https://twitter.com/DERRYMICK/status/552822730819895296?lang=en