For your edification -- Taylor Parkes interviews S*M*A*S*H, _Melody Maker_, 1994

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Is this the same band? Because that "fake British accents" line is good for a laugh. (As is the listing of "Smash Mouth" as the performer.)

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

No, it's this one

Michael B, Monday, 1 September 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

'didgeridoo'! The axiom that a band should never ever ever ever listen to well-meaning crits proved beyond doubt yet again

dave q, Monday, 1 September 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

Who cares about SMASH? I loved Taylor's Jimmy Greaves autobiography review in this months When Saturday Comes (if it is indeed the same Taylor) Also David Stubbs seems to be writing for them as well these days...strange.

flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
Looks like S*M*A*S*H are back together again, after a "long break". See photographs from their recent gig (16 Oct 2003): http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/smash/index.htm

vu, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

i'd be all too happy tpo hear 'shark in my swimming pool' live...i see bring on the new wave of new wave of new wave (NWONWONW).

paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

NWOOOOO!

N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

I cannot tell you how MUCH I used to love S*M*A*S*H*, but I couldn't name a single one of their songs now. Just say no, kids. I still listen to These Animal men sometimes, though! ;)

adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

You're going to scare Nicolars with that kind of talk!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

"Theres a guy who sells singles over there / but he's not open yet . . "

Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

Lynksey, first Credit To The nation, now this?

adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
In case you haven't read it yet:

Sat 28 February 2004
S*M*A*S*H and THE SLAMMERS play Hitchin Club 85. Doors open at 7.45pm.

http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/smash/index.htm

vu, Friday, 12 December 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
is taylor's bis article anywhere on the web?

cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

he has a blog (and a link to his website):
http://www.livejournal.com/users/taylor_parkes/

nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 22 February 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...
Anyone who has an online journal is a cunt. Its as simple as that.

Smash are back and thats all that matters.

Micky Sheehan

Micky Sheehan, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

*looks down at watch* Ten years, yeah, time for a half-hearted reunion attempt.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"cunt" is such a dangerous word.

adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

apostrophes are the devils cock waste.

adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone who has an online journal is a cunt. Its as simple as that.

A novel way to ingratiate yourself with ILM posters.

Smash were trying to make 'Cunt' a positive word with all that Germaine Greer quoting after all.

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think anyone who has an online journal is a cunt at all, but i fail to see why on god's green earth anyone would want to ingratiate themselves with ilm posters, either.

stelfox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Lady Love Your Blog

briania (briania), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha ha oh dear...

Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

As long as there's not a These Animal Men reunion it will all turn out alright...

Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
A Taylor Parkes reunion is the one thing nobody wants.

Taylor Parkes (Taylor Parkes), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been wondering where you've been since the thread was revived a while back. Is all well?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 September 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

How was ITC, Taylor?

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 30 September 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
S*M*A*S*H were a fucking awesome band - still are - lomax in 94 was
ON TOP :)

peace to de and the boyz

moon, Monday, 14 November 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
four weeks pass...

Taylor Parkes' "J'accuse"/bitchslap of Tim Lovejoy in the latest When Saturday Comes is probably the best magazine article I've read in five years.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link

"'Lovejoy On Football' is part autobiography, part witless musing, and one more triumph for the crass stupidity rapidly replacing culture in this country. Hopelessly banal and nauseautingly self-assured, smirkingly unfunny, it's a £300 T-shirt, a piss-you-off ringtone, a YouTube clip of someone drinking their mate's vomit. Its smugness is a corollary of its vacuity. I hope it makes you sick."

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyone got the Bis article mentioned upthread?

Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyone who has an online journal is a cunt. Its as simple as that.

Smash are back and thats all that matters.

Micky Sheehan

http://www.myspace.com/mickysheehan

S*M*A*S*H released a new album last month.

onimo, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link

i wondered who taylor wrote for now.

he is a total fucking hero.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link

yo ithappens, you should hire him for real.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link

One member of Smash used to own a very twee shop near where I live. They're playing here soon, supporting some band called Goldblade - should I see them?

the next grozart, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Goldblade is John Robb's band, yes?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Smash the blue.

Mark G, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Yes

Boxing Kangaroo, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/145/29/

Here's the Tim Lovejoy article referenced upthread.

Also - original zing crew members. You know that fat, suicidal, bi-polar chick with the dyed hair we know? No, not that one, the other one. Apparently she rolls with TP now. Small world.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I actually read all of Taylor Parkes stuff on that site after you pointed it out to me, despite knowing nothing about football.

I'd still like to read the Bis article.

Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link

yo ithappens, you should hire him for real.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:26 (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

mfkn real talk

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link

This thread is the top result for Taylor Parkes Bis.

The only Bis related Parkes piece I could find, a review of Luscious Jackson: http://lusciousjackson.net/articles/moist.html

Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

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