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Is anything on this thread true?

I really REALLY miss prolapse.

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

Alls I know is, I can't read the word "prolapse" without thinking of the word "rectum" as well.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

I've spoken to Linda Steelyard a couple of times in her role as Leicester's answer to Lois Lane. I resisted the temptation to tell her how much I loved Prolapse, because to be honest I didn't.

Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

They opened for stereolab in 1996, covering "eat yrself fitter" much to my delight.

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

they covered sister ray that night too! (troubadour, right g?)

also coolest band ever to have girl's lyrics song by song on one page of booklet, next to boy's lyrics song by song on another page of booklet (italian flag cd)

Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 22 May 2003 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

wow, you have a good memory*

*well, better than mine.

wait, are you my stalker? oh well, sorry if this isn't about wolf eyes. i did see them a couple times about 6 weeks ago.

gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 May 2003 06:18 (twenty years ago) link

Geordie Mick is no longer a pagan monk, he was last seen playing bongos in Leicester nightclub Po Na Na for jazz funk band "The John Hogg Experience" wearing a Fez, no less.

Pripton Weird (flowersdie), Friday, 23 May 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

That Scottsh Mick from Prolaoipse is a bit of a cyba stolker - he keps learving messges on my LJ the scamp!

Susan Brunswick, Friday, 23 May 2003 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

I hear to cheer himself up after the Celtic result, he's decided to become a clown, travelling with a circus around Spain until September. Apparently he's going to be looking after a couple of small monkeys as well.

jortonhoopiter (flowersdie), Friday, 23 May 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

>I hear to cheer himself up after the Celtic result, he's decided to
become a clown,

no change there then

mr clocktower, Friday, 23 May 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Did anyone see the Freed Unit/Prolapse offshoot "The Inside ov a Butcher's shop" in London a good couple of years ago? A mad bloke claiming to be Pope John Paul the 3rd came in waving a gun at everybody. He ended up on stage singing backing vocals at the end. There is an extremely weird video of it available somewhere (On Outthere records?)

Romymidena (flowersdie), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

On stage? Wasn't that a Rough Trade instore? I was there & that guy wandered in talking gibberish & then started brandishing a 'gun'. Scottish Mick put his head against the 'gun' & said "Go ahead, shoot me", which I thought was risking it a little.

There's a CDr of the set. Ridiculously limited like that 1st _The Inside Ov A..._ record (the graveyard one).

Wandering Boy Poet, Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

The "set" only consisted of one song, "Carnage". Which lasted about 21 hours. The cd also consists of only "Carnage", a long version and a short version. Though the copy I have certainly isn't live.

I seem to remember it getting reviewed in the album section of the NME and getting 0 out of 10. So that's them and Stereolab then. Maybe there should be a "Who got 0 out of 10 in the NME" thread.

Bouquet (flowersdie), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

The "set" only consisted of one song, "Carnage". Which lasted about 21 hours. The cd also consists of only "Carnage", a long version and a short version. Though the copy I have certainly isn't live.

I seem to remember it getting reveiwed in the album section of the NME and getting 0 out of 10. So that's them and Stereolab then. Maybe there should be a "Who got 0 out of 10 in the NME" thread.

Bouquet (flowersdie), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

talking to yrself is one of the first signs
of madness mr wiltshire

anorak inspector, Friday, 30 May 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

"talking to yrself is one of the first signs
of madness mr wiltshire"

Is this one of the rare b sides?

Andrew Asprey (flowersdie), Friday, 30 May 2003 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Havoo my friend jeremy used to have a fluffy little rabbit called flopflop but it died cos of the horridness of noisy guitars.

sid moony, Monday, 16 June 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

"Akin to the weasel" was about scottish mick's imaginary pet weasal, who was called Jeremy and featured drummer Tim on backing vocals for the first and last time.

Boris Vian (flowersdie), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

i love this thread so

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

I heard a rumour that Dave Jeffries is playing the lute in a Columbian skunk mine and he gets paid in dead flea shit.

sid moony, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:47 (twenty years ago) link

wahey!!!!!!!!!!!!
i remember the first time i saw prolapse.
it was the BEST DAY OF MY LIIIIIIIFE!!
i am suing the london transport system....they are calling their
trains 'tube trains'!!! after all the hard work i put in and they
want to take the credit....i dont belllllieve it!!


turk - ham on hand, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

The rumours true, Dave Jefferies gets 14 oz per hour, we've got Geordie Mick and his bongos (and famous fez), playing at the next event. (We're only giving him 11oz of the dead flea shit tho' ha ha )

Columbian Skunk Mine Owner (flowersdie), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

Turk is that actually you? Still involved with Beatglider? I'm sure I saw their name on a forthcoming gig listing somewhere...

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

Don't talk to me about Beatglider!!!!
After ALL THE MONEY I SPENT!!!!!
And now DJ Jason Basin is leaving the TUBE BAR!!!!!
What am I GOING TO DO NOW!!!!!!
OOOOH NOOOOO!!! This is THE WORST DAY OF MY WHOLE LOOOIIIIIFFFEEEEE!!!!

turk - ham on hand (flowersdie), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

God I love prolapse. 'Italian Flag' was bloody great...didn't like ghosts of dead aeroplanes much though. Can't believe i've found other people who like them as much as i do...

Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Thursday, 19 June 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Kate, you're a fool - while The Italian Flag is indeed great, Ghosts Of Dead Aeroplanes is BETTER. So ner.

And Turk, I'm sorry if I've caused you any anguish - just an innocent enquiry ;-) - I'm a Tube Bar alumnus '96/'97 vintage, see?

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

I've just spent a good few minutes trying to remember what the name of their song 'Deanshanger' was. I was getting it confused with 'Panshanger, a district of Welwyn Garden City where some of my friends lived around about, coincidentally, the time when 'Deanshanger' came out.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

Deanshanger is a village in Northants, UK that Pat and Mick from Prolapse used to frequent when doing archeology digs. They also used to go round the charity shops there so that Mick could find yet a another ceramic monkey to stick on his "toy wall".

Derrick McDerique (flowersdie), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

My nephews mates granny had a pet monkey who set fire to the curtains with a lighter.

sid moony, Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

I heard a rumour that Geordie Mick has auditioned as bassist on Simon Le Bon's new solo album. Remember, you read it here first kids!

Boris Vian (flowersdie), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

Mick and Pat are moving to Scandanvia together and are forming a band called olag the great. They have recorded a hard house tune called "viking boyz" with legendary producer Ben Keen and the girl who used to be in Tiny Too.

sid money (flowersdie), Friday, 27 June 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

Linda has got into watchmaking (but only as a hobby)and drummer Tim was involved in a freak accident involving an umbrella and a pair of kitchen scales. Sorry.

sid moany (flowersdie), Friday, 27 June 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

Freed Unit gimp Jeremy (son of) Peel is recording an album of
Prolapse covers playing only the tambourine with his 'sock monster'.

the Field Mice were unavailable for comment.

john hogg, Friday, 27 June 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

I've heard that S. Mick has tried his hand at producing, and has engineered The Haggis Collectors (two bored 14 year olds from Ayr)new single, a cover of the Ligament Blub Brothers classic "Big Shoe Boy". It's out in October on Pickled Egg.

Sid Meany, Sunday, 29 June 2003 12:37 (twenty years ago) link

my grandmother was telling me about her prolapsed rectum last week and for a moment I disassociated to this thread.

Queen G returneth? (Queen G returneth?), Sunday, 29 June 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Jeffries new Aztec/emo/transvestite influenced outfit "The Salt" are currently working with my nephews mates grannys monkey as producer, at Bogsheds old studio.Honestly.

sid moony, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

In a bizzare twist of fate Geordie Mick has accidently burnt all his nostril hair off while trying to impersonate Ron Mael from Sparks using only a packet of matches and some "laughing gas". S'all true.

sid mangy, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Hey Turk! The 'Glider sank without a trace, anyway. F'k'm. Has Scotia gone to Norway with Elin yet? Might be up to play at the Spread Eagle before you know it! Be afraid, youth! Love to all if you see 'em.
DXX

DRS, Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

In a last ditch attempt at fame Geordie Mick has tried to create a whole new own genre. He takes his BONGO METAL outfit "How Many Means Bakes Five?" out on the road in September. The tour starts at the Shed in Leicester. The band all wear Fez's to "comical" effect. Keep it under your hats.

Edward Fizzy, Friday, 25 July 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

Strange but completely true. Ex Julian Cope guitarist and Prolapse Keyboard curlyhead Donald Ross Skinner has been offered a free season ticket seat (worth £650!)in the directors box at Port Vale F.C. in exchange for writing and performing a single with the team squad for the upcoming season to commemorate the "Valiants" 127th season in existence.

Gillian Mope, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

I like how this thread keeps coming back.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

Appppparently Scottish Mick got so drunk at his leaving Leicester party that his eyes completely sealed up like Rocky in Rocky 2 (or was it Rocky 3?) He had to be helped into a taxi and guided home as he could no longer see more than 3 yards in front of him. Fascinating.

Patrick Thistle, Thursday, 7 August 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

just takin a break from mah pigeons to tell ya that scottish
mick is plannin to start a Stockholm Monsters tribute band called
the Oslo Ogres.

John ****ing Lambie, Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

Awww Nawww!!! In his new job as a Norwegian fisherman Scottish Mick has been eaten whole by a whale. He was taking time out to contemplate who he liked more out of The Field Mice and The Cure and he was going to post the results of his musings on I Love Music. Now we'll never know. Ahoo! It makes ne want to cry on my teddy bear and sing big blue bus by Choo Choo Train, in melancholic sadness.

Dougie Freedman, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

Scottish Mick RIP 1967-2003.

So sad, to end up being eaten by a whale. A victim of his own deathlist really. It makes me sad, in the same way remembering drinking fizzy strawberry vodka in the park, with a girl you no longer know, listening to a tape she made you of The Fat Tulips, Cellophane, 14 iced bears, the Marigolds, the McTells and the latest Bouquet single, Blub!

a lonely fluffy pink cloud, Friday, 22 August 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...
Geordie Mick has retired to a rest home, called Sleeperbloke, for slightly famous ex members of mid 90's bands. He has a room in the home next door to to Neil Codling who used to be in Suede.

fat tulip, Monday, 15 September 2003 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

my blackened soul rejoices in the almost overbearing fear and despair
that lurks within the heart of the prolapse maelstrom.
quiver, mortals.

orchus, Monday, 15 September 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...
I remember Donald Ross Skinner bumming the little bloke from Fantasy Island whilst singing The Spider.

sid moony, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

I have a picture painted by Prolapse at one of their gigs (might have ben all-dayer in Kings Cross Arts Depot). And one of the hand-painted vinyl copies of 'Pointless Walks...'. Another of their side-projects was Cha Cha 2000. They are really bloody sadly missed.

Mog, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

NB Scottish Mick used to do phone-ins on the John Peel show with updates on Kingstonians football team. I think at the time they were sponsored by Cherry Red, though whether this means they played in a Prolapse strip, is unclear.

Mog, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

Aww yeah. Anyone know how big the venue is?

Trying to guess how soon I need to work out whether I can go to this...

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

150 capacity apparently

woof, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link

Yeah 160. Me and emil.y are booked in 💀

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link

150 soz

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link

Nottingham date happening now too. NAE LEICESTER MIND.

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link

I hear whispers that there may be yet further warm up shows..

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...
one month passes...

!!! TONIGHT !!!

Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 29 May 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link

At this btw and excited

woof, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link

well jeal

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 29 May 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link

Was great. Especially 'Flex'.

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 30 May 2015 09:33 (eight years ago) link

so great. i've missed them

woof, Saturday, 30 May 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link

Really really really great.

emil.y, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

nottingham tonight!

ogmor, Friday, 19 June 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link

Brighton last night was fantastic. An absolute joy to put them on. Lots of Leiester in that room for a Tuesday on the south coast.

Semper fucken eadem!

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link

Saw them supporting Mogwai at the weekend, they sounded fantastic and went down really well... except for bloke standing next to me who turns to his mate and says "what the fuck is this? This is the worst shite I've heard in my life [glances at me] you like this shite?"

ailsa, Thursday, 25 June 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link

Nottingham gig was a huge amount of fun, glad they've been so well received

ogmor, Thursday, 25 June 2015 11:02 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

Something new from Michael Derrick. Bit weird, bit mad, bit low quality.

https://mrmichaelderrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-sexy-world-of-mr-michael-derrick

everything, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link

this is good nonsense

ogmor, Thursday, 1 June 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link

five years pass...

Ack one ticket for gig tonight at Oslo in Hackney but I can’t go.
Any takers? You just need a dice account and I’ll send it to you.
If you’re a London ilxor just buy me a pint sometime (probably greater than face value as things stand so maybe a half).
Ilx mail works - slightly busy afternoon but post here and send a mail and I’ll try to make it work.

woof, Saturday, 29 October 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link

oh that sucks. I am going tonight but already have a ticket

even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 29 October 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link

Do they plan a new record?

nostormo, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link

they had studio time booked but was scrapped due to lockdown, no doubt they'll get back to it at some point
saw them in Leicester the other day, as good as ever live, played all the "hits"

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link

Mick Derrick has a new record out, as National Screen Service, “A New Kind of Summer”: https://nationalscreenservice.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-kind-of-summer

bulb after bulb, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link

Wrong Mick!

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 29 October 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link

!

Mick Harrison, sorry.

bulb after bulb, Sunday, 30 October 2022 05:42 (one year ago) link

nine months pass...

I like the little ditties you write musing about imaginary numbers. Maybe you should team up with rock librarian god and leather trouser wearer, Stevie Twee (the sad hedgehogs have split, due to arguments about whether they should cover 'Let the sunshine through Your Anorak' by C86 favourites 'Cellophane'). You could be the next Morrisssey and Marr!
― The Walking Looking Up Man's Big Bag, Monday, May 16, 2005 10:24 AM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

working a job at the moment catalouging zines, and obviously there is a lot of c86 / indie pop fanzines in there. have come across one titled: 'let the sunshine through Your anorak'and this is the only use of the phrase i can find online; was this post from the enigmatic fanzine author?

devvvine, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 11:38 (eight months ago) link

four months pass...

some guy who runs a metal/noise label in Glasgow posted on his Instagram stories today that the biggest disappointment of 2023 was the bloke from Prolapse being an abusive dick at Mono in Glasgow, and all the bald blokes in the audience did nothing about it.

what's all that about? as far as I can see Prolapse played at Mono in 2022, not this year. maybe it was one of them solo? or was this guy completely unfamiliar with Prolapse and took Tina This Is Matthew Stone seriously? couldn't find anything about it online

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 01:23 (three months ago) link

they played Mono in October last year, maybe that's what he's thinking of?
when they recorded Tina in the studio for the 1st album the producer really thought they were having a fight and hitting each other in the vocal booth
they recorded a new album in Wales this summer, should be getting released next year

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 17 December 2023 01:47 (three months ago) link

I think that's probably what happened, bit embarrassing for the guy tbh, I think he's older than me, I'm sure he probably doesn't have as much hair as he used to

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 01:53 (three months ago) link

I saw them in London last autumn and the worst thing that happened was their t-shirts apparently stinking of fish because they'd been sat in a lock up somewhere for 25 years. I bought one and it did not smell of fish fwiw

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 December 2023 02:01 (three months ago) link


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