PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

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a writ on the cards as his former band mates are decidedly miffed at their former leader, (who continued paying them in out of date white cider and second hand ELP albums to the very end).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

https://twitter.com/colmuacuinn/status/552854848723775488

So yeah, more than rumors!

we're playing London and Glasgow. The roundhouse and the Barrowlands. That's all I can say now unfortunately.

I think that might be a joke... I mean I'd be really happy for Prolapse if they are playing the Roundhouse, but

Ya never know. What about Mick's first tweet there?

Oh I'm very much hoping that part is true

I can confirm.

Rock. :-)

I just need Urusei Yatsura to reform and play 3 nights at Brixton Academy now.

The dates are supporting 'another band'. Announcement next week apparently. It's Mogwai I think, if I'm reading Mick's response to my tweet correctly: https://twitter.com/DERRYMICK/status/552874406134169604

get tunic and eska as well for a love train reunion

I find myself *really* wanting Tiger to follow suit now