PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

The 'Mickster' is currently trembling away in hiding, although there are some reports of a sighting in the chamapagne bar, quaffing away on a last bottle of champagne. (It gives you fizzy knees by all accounts!)

After this, Geordie and Scottish Mick had a huge row which ended with Geordie Mick pouring his pint of cider over Scottish Mick's head. Then, horrified after realising the bar had just shut, Geordie Mick spent the next 20 minutes LICKING Scottish Mick's head, an experience Scottish Mick was heard to say he found "strangely erotic". Shortly after that the pair left together, leaving three sets of bemused musicians unsure of their future.

So, the future of Ming Mang Mong, Mang Mong Ming and Mong Ming Mang hangs in the balance. Who knows what will happen next ?

It's as if he'd be quite happy spending the rest of his life drinking white cider and performing a series of increasingly marginalised vanity gigs.

I can't be alone in hoping that a night of rough sex with Scottish Mick will sort him out good and proper and get him back on track sharpish.

After the gig geordie mick made a quick dash for it, as the man from bunty records wanted to ask him about the video money, although it is understood gerodie mick is keeping the tapes of the new album 'hostage' until Bunty Records grant him a years supply of white cider!

He is calling the band "The Horridness of Noisy Guitars" and he wants the band members to wear pagan monk outfits in an attempt to look like Sunno))), although some dry wags have conmmented that the band - who all look like small versions of Geordie Mick and are called Geordie Dick, Geordie Rick, and Geordie Mick Jr (no relation!) - look more like Spinal Tap! Stooonennnge!

1) White Lightning
2) Special Red
3) Frosty Jack
4) Diamond White
5) Pulse
6) Blue Ocean
7) Spar own White Cider

A special promotional campaign is being orgainsied, which is being sponsored by all the brands mentioned on the album, who will be sending free white cider to all the gigs supporting the the tour.

Here is a press shot of scrumpy jack:-

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Geordie has been begging Scrumpy Jack to allow him to play bass and "look after" the riders on the tour - Geordie wants Scrumpy to be in tip top condition and not get too drunk on all the free white cider that's available at the gigs. As a seasoned professional GM knows all about the trappings of fame and free drink and wants to keep Scrumpy on the the straight and narrow. "Short, professional sets are where it's at. We will leave the audience begging for more, just like at those early mary chain gigs!" said GM at the press conference unveiling his new star.

Although the favourites are amongst others, Peter Hook, Larry Clayton, Kim Gordon and Simon Gallup, Geordie is hoping that the fact he has only smiled 3 times in the last 5 years will count for something, and he has been practicing frowning in indignation and gurning manically in front of the mirror all week!

That's 'Irony' for you, folks!

yours awaiting in ming, mang holiness?

pineapster.

Confirmed Bands are so far The Sploogs, No fixed abode, Pant Botherer, Mr Mcroonheid and the Cheeky Wee Bizums, The Angry Anchovies and Scrumpy Jack, and new Metal Bongo signings Zymoptic Aardvark, although the other bands Geordie has signed may join when they can be bothered to leave the Orange Tree. There is a rumour GM himself will be paying in some of the bands, although not on bass. Instaed he will play percussion on various 'found' objects. Art Rock!

He has persuaded none other than Turk to compere the event, who is getting increasingly more excited each day!

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Geordie Mick has vowed (again)to "never again" be duped by Scottish Mick and free alcohol.

Geordie Mick was last seen shaking his fist towards heaven shouting, "Curse You God For Making Me This Way!" before making his way to the Orange Tree to sign another 15 local bands.

Geordie Mick has vowed (again)to "never again" be duped by Scottish Mick and free alcohol.

hey look.

seriously though, awesome band. Italian Flag is great but there is something about Aeroplanes that elevates it. i'd say it's probably one of my favourite albums. let's say top 25 conservatively. there isn't really much else like it.

What a great year 2008 was for Ming Mang Mong. They released two albums-the first was a concept
album about space travel, "Ming Mang Mong on planet Zog", followed by the awesome live album
"Get yer Ming Mangs out", recorded during their world tour at venues in Whetstone, Enderby and South
Wigston. They were also commissioned to write a song to celebrate 100 years of the boy scouts,
which resulted in the classic single "Wiggle your woggle". Finally they showed off their psychedelic
side with the track "Electric Aubergine in my mind" on the Metal Bongo various artist compilation
album "More songs about Elephants, Nuns, and Beavers". Lets hope 2009 is as good a year
for us Ming Mang Mong Maniacs !

hooray!

Big rumour of a Ming Mang Mong comeback tour as well. All of the 1,459 bands signed by Geordie Mick in the Orange Tree public house, during the Milk Cocktail wars when he was ‘A nd R’ing for Bunty Records have decided to reform and play a White Ciderfest at this years Glastonbudget. Whether the grumpy bassist can be persuaded to unleash his famous ‘bass attack’ on an unsuspecting East Midlands public remains to be seen….

...although Roberto Spiralli has already bought his ticket, convinced Ming Mang Mong will perform a unique version of old Prolapse floorfillers Headless in a Beat Motel or Every Night I'm Mentally Crucified (7000 Times)as an encore.

Archaelogical from another time, although it could almost be yesterday (except with more hair). There is even a hint of a smirk on Geordie Mick's face, although the tables were turned as Scottish Mick had secretly laced Geordie Mick's white cider with laxatives, when he was tuning his bass earlier. The second half of the video isn't a pretty sight...

The Italian Flag: Classic
The GIS results you get when trying to find the album artwork for it for iTunes: Very much dud

Exciting times on the Leicester music scene, as the teenage son of Derek Spong spearheads a glam rock revival. Inspired to form a band after listening to his Dad's old '70s glam rock albums, Zac Spong and the Spiders from Uranus are rumoured to be signing with Metal Bongo shortly, after playing their first gig last week with fellow glam revivalists The Funky Thigh Collectors.

Good news about Zac Spong and the Spiders from Uranus! Zac (real name Eric) and brother / drummer Zander (real name Merrick Spong) have also been drafted in for the latest in the series of "Mongoose" albums.

The group (named for the purpose of this album as "Methane Mongoose") have been inspired by the story of the famous French Flatulist "Le Pétomane" to produce songs using only wind instruments. The album, entitled "Smell My Art", features a song cycle (or should that be "pong cycle") about climate catastrophe caused by cows. Reports that initial quantities are available in a scratch & sniff cover have not been confirmed by Metal Bongo.

They've reformed! Big change in direction here. Donald Ross Skinner taking over the singing duties on this one.
Scottish Mick can just be seen dancing along in the corner.

In shock news today it was announced that Derek Spong has left Ming Mang Mong to pursue a solo career and manage his son Zac's
band The Spiders from Uranus. After a frenzied weekend of recording, Derek's firat single is ready for release and is set to be a cover version of The Queers' "I'm not a mongo anymore." Although the split was described as amicable, rumours are that the release of Ming Mang Mong's new EP "Pissed in a piss factory", originally set for next monday, has been put back until Derek's guitar and bassoon parts are re-recorded by his as yet unnamed replacement.

Hot news for Friday afternoon - an upcoming release from Ming Mang Mong is to be a concept album about concept albums.

The title is as yet unknown, but it has been revealed that the cover art is to feature a painting of an anthropomorphised can of white cider drinking itself. This has been seen by some commentators as being a comment on the self referential cyclical nature of 21st Century Society and indeed many of the comments on this thread.

However, Sperek Dong, author of the online news blog "The Daily Dong", believes it relates to a series of visionary dreams about apple derived alcoholic beverages which a member of the band had in the late 1990's.

Dong reports that the transcripts of these dreams are tipped to be available later this year from the publishing arm of Metal Bongo records in a collection entitled "How I learned to stop worrying and love dirt cheap white cider even more than I did already"

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….