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

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

Truk=Turk, sorry.

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

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-two years ago)

sydney wollongong? surely you mean bondi newcastle>

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

Rah! :-) A very good find.

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

i am starting a geordie mick cover band

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

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-two years ago)

ears go fffffffuckinhellwheresmywhitecider

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

>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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooooooooh, I do like his orange trousers.

― Lady tron, Friday, 21 May 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Brenda Fury, Friday, 28 May 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet he uses regaine.

― Jealous eddy, Friday, 28 May 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Micheal Lietgerwood, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazing!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(...)

― gordon shunway, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

argh!

if this doesn't work, I give up

― gordon shunway, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't give up Gordon...

― ulrich likes the field mice, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Dare, Friday, 13 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Two months ago hHe became the manager of a female cricket team in Italy. Sadly, he was sacked a few days later.

― gordon shunway, Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

...and here's the photo

http://www.ole.clarin.com/diario/2004/09/01/f004bh00.jpg

― gordon shunway, Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

thats strange, the last i heard of ol' rubber ear, the big bur dingy himself, he was tending goal for deportivo.
i hope he hasn't been taking lessons from julian "butterfingers" speroni.

http://www.rediff.com/sports/2002/oct/15jose.jpg

p.s. enjoying all those bbc olympic coverage royalties ulrich??

― iain dowies scary eyebrows, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: AUTOCADE.

That is all.

― stephen hawking, Monday, 6 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear on the grapevine that Pat's brother's band, Cherry Red angular punksters, 'The Tights', are reforming and doing a cover of Prolapse's semi legenderary classic, 'Tina, this is Matthhew Stone', and they have miracuously persuaded none other than William Shatner to do the Scottish Mick part! fagging ell!

Oh, and Iain's Scary Eyebrows, the royalty cheques have come in very handy thankyouverymuch, I may buy back Palace's ground back for them from Uncle Ron. The Ken Bates rumours concern me greatly...

― Ulrich Schnauss, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The other noos have to tell you is that Pat still hates ginger cake as much as he ever did.

― ulrich likes the field mice, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Although he still loves weasels, stoats and to a lesser extent, polecats. In fact anything with a long body, piercing eyes and sharp teeth.

He misses Bamboozle as you can't get ceefax in Denmark.

― ulrichfuggingschnauss, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Pat,

I know how he feels...

― Bamber Boozle, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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