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According to Geordie Mick Ming Mang Mong have disowned the advert, which was sanctioned by TuftyClub supremo Torquil Twongton-Hogg. Livid with embarrasment at being associated with the "rough-as-fuck minor has-been celeb" (his words) he announced the band were changing their name to Mung Mang Mong and the new album would be renamed "In Search of Beans". "We're like Hawkwind now," he added, "only better."

― Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Bt., CVO, QC, Friday, 27 May 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

That's impossible.

― Dave Brock, Friday, 27 May 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Huh. He'll be claiming to be better than Gong next.

― Daevid Allen, Friday, 27 May 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

He once claimed Prolapse were better than Supertramp. Arse hole.

― Roger Hodgson, Friday, 27 May 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Geordie Mick was spotted at last nights New Potatoes sporting a stencil of the word SLAVE on his cheek, which he now intends to have every time he appears in public as a statement on the impasse between himself and Tuftyclub records. He is apparantly refusing to gig or do any promotional appearances under the name Ming Mang Mong until released form his contract, and instead the band will be playing a series of secret gigs as The Cabbages. He was last seen lying in the gutter (but gazing at the stars) on Free Lane,muttering "If Tuftyclub think they're getting their poxy £270 advance back they've got another thing coming. It's all gone".. while staring at the bottle of White Lightening he was clutching.

― Rachel Brunt, Saturday, 28 May 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a rumour going around that "The Cabbages" will be playing a guerilla gig at tomorrows bank holiday all dayer at the Firefly, storming the stage just before Kevin Hewick's set.

― Stephanie Crumpet, Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Sadly a rumour was all it remained, although apparently Percy and Mick now end their comedy set crossed legged on the floor facing the audience, with their thumbs aloft like fonzie, singing "ooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy! Condensed Milk Sandwiches!" in a high pitched nasal twang.

It's hilarious!

― The Phantom Flan Flinger, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Mick is now claiming to be "better than Robert Calvert" and, under the Mung Mang Mong psuedonym, has released a cover of the "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters" album, but all changed and mixed up so as to slag of everyone ever. The cover just features a big picture of Pat's weary face, but upside down!

― My Chopper is a Wopper, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Audience shot from the geordie mick 'n' percy comedy show below

ihttp://photos.l33t-d00d.co.uk/p3732710.html

― Dancin' like a strung out crazy, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never met him, but Geordie Mick has been my artistic muse ever since I heard the Fabians/Ears go fff! split single.

I have written a short story about my lovely muse which you can read here : http://www.cheyenneblue.com/cactus.htm.

― Cheyenne Blue, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Strange but spoon bendingly completey true. Kesh Mongreilf has written a screen play to a Ming Mang Mong sit-com, which also stars Jade Goody, who lives in a house with the rest of the band. The crazed mathematician and open plan barge designer knocked up the idea whilst trying to teach himself plumbing and had the first 6 episodes ready by tea time. The idea is loosley based on the young ones except instead of blowing up the telly Geordie Mick consumes all the milk in every epsisode, much to Peter Unpronouncable name from Heavenly's (who guest stars as himself) annoyance.

― arnold falsener, Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I have seen the rushes. Like Japan, the result is unmitigated exoticism by way of subtractive process.

Peter Unpronouncable name from Heavenly says at the end of every episode "It would appear that Geordie Mick has consumed all the milk" beofre splitting his infinitives yet again.

― Roger O'Donnell, Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I have insider details (oh, alright, Geordie Mick himself told me) of what geordie mick has been up to. He plays bass on that new Go Kart Mozart record under the pseudonym "Brown Sauce". Lawrence had orginally met him in cherry red's offices when he went in to complain about them never getting the covers to look right, and they hit it off immediately. Although he didn't get any hard cash for his bass doodlings, GM was paid by 'laughing larry' in the form of 47 3 litre bottles of only slightly out of date white lightening!

― henry tassles, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

That's rubbish. Everyone knows that all the posts on this forum are written by a bot. Even this one.

― Prole-bot, Friday, 10 June 2005 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Geordie Mick has changed his name to Captain Rational and Ming Mang Mong have changed direction yet again, this time doing loungecore versions of Damned songs. At the opening gig at the musiciain in leicester t'other week, Geordie's bass went very out of tune during "Just Can't Be Happy Today", yet he only made rudimentary attempts to get it back in tune, and it still sounded horrible. "That'll do for you bastards" he said in a croydon accent, winking at the dumbfounded audience below.

― Cuddle, Monday, 27 June 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes its true, Scottish Mick is now a DJ on Norwegian radio!!! Last week was his inaugural show, and he wowed his listeners with a mixture of Rudimentary Penii, Androids of Mu, Seefeels' classic track "The boy who cries from one eye", Holiday Boy, Fish From Tahiti, Noise R Us, Thee Saxby St Hookers and a rare flexi by c86 chancers the Snowbirds.
Unfortunately he forgot to play anything by the Krankies, and now has to renounce his presidency of the Krankies Fandabidozy Fan Club. Wee Jeanette was quoted as saying "I might have broken my leg falling of that scenery last year, but this just broke my heart"

― Springheeled Jack, Monday, 27 June 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I hear tracks by Yeah Yeah Anorak Squid, Another Sunny Day, The Scringe, Nice Strong Arm, Blodwyn Pig, Holly Hobby, The Washing Up Liquid, Look Mum No Hands, and the Honkin' Nasal Twangsters also made Scotia's playlist.

― Casual Sect, Monday, 27 June 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Not forgetting The Haggis Collectors, Scraggle, Po!, Blessed Ethel, Rognor Begis, Henry Flaccid and the Steaming Coilers, Jefferson Starship and ELO.

― Scared of Ghosts, Monday, 27 June 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

As well as all this, to liven up the show, Scotia started telling anecdotes about the time he played on the dodgems with Brian Molko at the Spanish version of Reading festival, getting Charlie Nicholas to autograph a copy of Pointless Walks to Dismal Places, going to see QPR with Robert Smith and Sean Hughes, and the time he was he had a walk on part in panto (in Alladin!) with Tim Brooke Taylor.

― Only for Cuddles, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Nova Scotia Mikhail did start to lose the crowds sympathy a bit when he mentioned that as a fully signed up Mormon he was planning to get into the Guiness Book of Records for the largest simultaneous polygamous marriage.

The marriage, which will take place on an island in the middle of Norways famous Black Fjord later this month, will involve the union of Mick, a spider monkey named Chichi, an Austrian lass he met in a pub in Oslo (name unknown) and the entire female population of a tribe of chimpanzees from the Congo.

Attendance open to all and the gift list is available at Threshers.

― L Ron Hibbett, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Apparently songs at the wedding will include 'Big Pink Cake' by the Razorcuts, 'She cries alone' by the Skeletel Family, Coil's version of 'Tainted love', 'Scared of Ghosts' by Discordia, 'The Don Diddy Song' by Fools Dance, 'Exercise is Good for You, Laziness is not' by the Wombles and 'Toni Macoroni' by the Krankees!

― A wonky eyed boy, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Unlikely but true pairing. Scottish Mick and Jay Kay from Jamiroquai have teamed up to record a 'funkay' version of Lionel Richie's "Dancing on the Ceiling" for Live 8. The video is hilarious, with Jay Kay able to bounce around all over the ceiling, while the confounded Mick just taps dances in confusion on the floor, like a dieing fly. Rumours are the pair got on great and exchanged hats/ceramic monkeys at the end of the session, and to celebrate went for a pretend grand prix race on the go karts at Wicksteed park! Jay Kay won, although generously gave Mick some of his fizzy white cider he got as the prize. Free Bevvy!

― The Insider, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Does the large-livered one perform his famous coffee table tap dance at all? Or is he just dancing whilst wrestling with a giant beer tap behind the 10 foot high bar in homage to the Goodies and the Beanstalk?

His public needs to know!

― Alfie Bass, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Shock news is that Scottish Mick has asked Geordie Mick to be his best man at the forthcoming wedding. Unfortunately Geordie Mick can't make it as Ming Mang Mong are performing at Live 8 on the day of the wedding. He is planning on sending a man in a dead badger costume as a stand in instead.

Dead badgers are considered very lucky at Norwegian weddings and this gesture of goodwill could lead to the oft-mooted Prolapse reunion happening much sooner than expected.

It is unknown if Scottish Mick has invited Linda to be a bridesmaid, but Tim the drummer is believed to be doing the catering. I can't wait for one of raw fish vol-au-vents!

― Alan Toilet, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Just think of what great stories would've been in the the best man speech, tho.

― He said he wanted to be reincarnated as a patch of lichen., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The one about them trying to sell some old metal they'd found in the train graveyard to a scrap metal merchant in order to get the £1.42 needed to buy a half a pint of mild each would've been in there, I think.

― Edna Sharples, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Or the one where, in desperation, they drank after shave and orange juice one night. ("not bad" according to Scottish).

― Peter Scant, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone remember Mick and Mick's one page fanzine that you got for 5p less if you had an emily badge?

― Posh Spaz, Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone remember Scottish Mick's late-80s comic strip about Jaikies?

― ourwulliewallpaper, Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

no but i can remember the special Prolapse guest appearance in an "Oor Wullie" strip. Fat Bob, Wee Eck and the gang wanted to go and see the band at the 13th Note, but they had no money. Scottish Mick was short of something to drink his beer out of, so Wullie lent him his pail. The whole gang got to sneak in to the venue in one of Micks giant hollowed out ceramic monkeys, but ran away holding their ears when Tim started pounding the drums (to general cries of "Jings", "Crivvens", "Help Ma Boab" etc)

― Pa Broon, Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

And what did Wullie do with the tanner that Mick gave him? Fuckin' spent it on yo-yos!

― Granny Sooker, Thursday, 7 July 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

A friend of mine is writing a biography of Larry Grayson and has uncovered paperwork about an album he was about to make before he died. Apparantly Cherry Red had persuaded him to make a follow up to his classic 1975 "Oh what a gay day" album, and it was to be a set of covers of contemporary indie tracks with slightly altered lyrics to reflect Larry's character. Title track of the album was to have been "Shut that Doorstep rhythmic bloc." Obviously his untimely death robbed us of a classic.

― Purple Petula, Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Scottish Mick's new children's book "The Day the Ceramic Monkeys Knocked Over the Clock Tower" is a numbah one best seller in Norway, with sales of over 400,000, outselling the new Harry Potter book by 2 to 1!

The plot revolves around a dream he once had which involved him and geordie braking into Threshers, out of date white cider, drinking perfume and aftershave in plastic glasses that took off all the enamel, male snogging, a coffee table, emily badges, the little fella from Comet gain that liked biting people, the drummer who i can't remember the name of out of Sperm Wails and headbutt, playing tambourine for Onionhead, and a chance encounter with the bloke who plays Kramer in seinfeld!

It's for adults too!

― Wee Jimmi Ghostface, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Not to be outdone, Geordie Mick has written his own book, and has had a stab a writing a Harry Potter spoof, based on a true event Mick once experienced, called simply, 'Harry Potter and the Itchy Carpet', in which Harry loses a bet after his spell goes wrong and has to sleep naked on the carpet in the Hogwarts school common room, which unbeknownst to many is infested with crazed fleas. It's going to be a long night!

Krazy Kesh Mongreilf has provided the illustrations for this one, altho' all the drawings are really just a barely concealed load of guff about algebraic number theorems!

― rettoP yrraH, Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Gosh-lo, algebraic numbers is gay you know. Solvy polly-wolly-nomials in countable one-to-one-tee with nature's numberings. Veg Tak, Nej Tak! Atomkraft oonst Nordsk.

Remembering Narvik.

― Mongreilf, Friday, 29 July 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

There's some videos featuring various members of Prolapse at the "History of life" event in Leicester 10 years ago over on the video page at www.sorted-records.org.uk . See Scottish Mick interviewing a little boy about monkeys !

― Billy Bottomley, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Hot news from the Ming Mang Mong camp. Not to be outdone by Scottish Mick's stint as manager of the Haggis Collectors, Geordie Mick 'pulls the strings' behind his own Newcastle/Noo York creation, Ming Ping. The Milli Vanilli influenced sexy synth pop duo, (that Mick found in a chance encounter when on a quick flight over to play golf with Jimmy Nail at Tupper Lake) have been persuaded by the Mickster to do a cover of both Coldplay's 'Yellow' and Prolapse's own 'Fear of Teeth'. Mick has clverely booked them in for a week of gigs around Leicester, to riase their profile, and he intends to join them onstage for encores at every one for low strung bass action!

For those interested the website is here:-

www.mingping.com

― Dum, Dum Dum, Kitsch!, Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Or even:-

http://www.mingping.com/

― Dum, Dum Dum, Kitsch!, Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard it on the grapevine that Geordie Mick has started a one man Bobby McGee's tribute band, calling it simply "The Geordie McMick's". They are due to play a garden party in Leicester very soon. Be there or be square. Rumours are that GM is also growing a moustache as a tribute to Wee Jimmy as well.

Details here:-

http://www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees

Other Prolapse related news, Scottish Mick is spending all the profits from the ceramic monkey selling business. He's now changed his name to 'Emperor Fabulous' and has taken to dressing up as The Hemulen from Finn Family Moomintroll, starring in a amatuer dramtic version of November in Moominvalley (the sad one). Sadly it is unconfirmed at the present time as to who is playing Toft or Snufkin.

― Albert Schweitzer, Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Albert Schweitzer cured my diabetes by playing Atomic Cock covers on his bassoon. After 48 hours of this me gall bladder went sideways and I wos oon thee mooon with a basket of ffjmnjchjbd cwqfcknc

― below par, Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Did anyone see 'Who the Fu*k is Scottie Mick' on BBC 3 the other night.
It was a warts n all doc profiling the turbulent career of an out of control ceramic monkey maker.
His ardent followers think he is the best thing to happen to pottery since Clarice Cliff.
He could break big,but tabloid tales of drunkeness and an on-off relationship with supermodel Moomin Moo Moo
have caused concern.

― Sir Mister Spanners, Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I just bought Backsaturday for 50 pee in Cancer Research on Kilburn High Road! Even though I already own it! I had to rescue it! It's great!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't see the documentary, but I've got it on tape.

― Mister Sister Manners, Friday, 2 September 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard it from you know who that Sorted Reciords are going to release an unoffical Ming Mang Mong compilation of the early stuff (liscensed from Tufty Club Records). Tracks include the famous "Theme from Ming Mang Mong", "The Flaming Zip", "In Search of Beans", "Like rubbing crab juice on Reg Varney (Is there order among imaginary numbers?)", "Measure vs calculation", and of course "Elementary Proofs". Also included will be a limited edition dvd, although this will only consist of a 3 hour diatribe from Geordie Mick, waggling his finger angrily at the camera, berating everett true for a bad review of a prolapse live gig written in Melody Maker in December 1994.

― Super Hans, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

The projected title of the album will be Ming Mang Mong: Consuming All The Milk (2004-2005). It is so far unknown to everyone whether Kesh will be getting royalties for his maths lyrics.

― Super Hans, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Although Sorted have persuaded none other than Peter Unprounouncable Name from Heavenly (and later Marine Research!) to write a forward for the inlay of the album, to explain just how Geordie Mick 'consumed all the milk' when he came to stay at the Heavenly house.

― Supr Hans, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link

>>Consuming All The Milk

― Maddy "Mad" McMadMad, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Sorted album has been put on hold after Dave Dixey received a cease and desist notice from Mongoose, Mongoose, Hat and Partners, the law firm representing "Kesh" Mongreilf. The one time milk depot clerk for Express Dairies had instructed his solicitors that he had seen "all the milk" and it was lots; more than a derelict indie wastrel could consume in a month of making tea while listening listening to Slowdive/Yes/Red House Painters. Even macaroni cheese wouldn't do it.

― Sir David Sane, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Did anyone see the reformed Happy Mondays on Top of the Pops tonight ? Bez looked like Turk dancing to I'm backing Britain at the Tube bar.

― Flora Mineshaft, Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

And according to the 'biggest selling records' thing on T.V. last night, Ken Dodd, Tony Christie and Engelbert Humperdinck were amongst the most popular singers evahh.

Looks like Turk was right all along...

I dont believe it thisistheworstdayofmywhooollllleeelooiiiffeeeee!

― what a personal disaster, Monday, 3 October 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

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