City Rocker

Absolutely smokin' blues from Grinderswitch, John Peel's theme tune. 

Never heard of 'em? Well for anyone who grew up listening to the Peel show (10 til midnight, Monday to Thursday on Radio 1) those opening few bars evoke so much. 

Opening monologue would invariably be something along the lines of:

"Good evening boys and girls, on tonight's show, sessions from Einsturtzende Neubauten and Killing Joke, [something about Liverpool in Europe, and probably a reference either to Kenny Dalglish or Bill Shankley], but first, these are the Fall..." 

#ReveredUncleJohnny

20 minutes ago, Not Banksy said:

FFS, how embarrassing? Is he Rovers top boy? Scary. 

Right, here's what I don't get about this whole thread... for the whole 47 years I've been going to City games, the Saturday matches have been kicking off at 3pm, roughly half way between lunchtime and dinnertime, (or dinnertime and teatime, as we used to call it when I were a lad). 

So my question for you all is, why do you need food when you go to football on Saturday? It's totally between meal times, isn't it?! Can we not wait a couple of hours? 

11 hours ago, TV Tom said:

Have some of this 

Fantastic! An inspired choice, my friend. Two supremely talented artists and a sublime song. How sad that both were such tortured souls.

Terry Hall was an early hero for me - along with the likes of Chris Garland, Gerry Gow, Joe Strummer, Pete Shelley... you get the idea. 

7 hours ago, SydneyCity said:

As with every season, I expect we’re going to get promoted. This expectation will start to diminish from Saturday onwards but will remain quite high until Christmas. From there, it will free fall to thoughts of relegation but will bounce to lower mid table albeit with an uptick in the last few games that resets the expectation cycle for next season.

Brilliant summation. If I didn't know better, that reads like one of Nick Hornby's "football as a metaphor for life" monologues.

Is life shit because City are shit, or the other way round?

1 hour ago, bert tann said:

Let me take you back to your childhood when you couldn't resist the temptation to bite into a piece of plasticine.

I fear the Children of Horfield are about to experience a similar taste sensation. 

Hmmm... so does this cryptic wordplay mean you're not coming for us again? I'm struggling to keep up, to be honest. 

Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence

Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent

I'm flat broke but I don't care

I  strut right by with my tail in the air... 

3 minutes ago, Taz said:

They haven't got a leg to stand on.

 

Indeed they haven't. Nor, as @chinapig pointed out, a stand to sit in. 

51 minutes ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

They’ve not even got a ‘Shed man’....how Tinpot!

25 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Allotment Alan is saving to buy a step ladder.

Well you say that, but they've got tracksuit bloke. Admittedly he lacks the style and charisma of our own shed man. Or a shed, for that matter. 

56 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

There's 2 episodes i think. 

Not watching the first one as Palace are on and might catch a sight of fat fruity Francis. John Cleese and Peter Cook are supposed to be in the studio with Brian Moore, mind. That might be worth watching!

He was big in the seventies, you know.

Indeed, he's pretty hefty today.

9 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

He was an investor . Put money into the Club and then was invited onto the Board , if Memory serves.
I can't find anything either, I'll try and search my books, but I am 100% I read he'd been asked to join the board.

100% yes. Whether or not they registered TC at Companies House I don't know, but the club definitely listed him as a director in their match day programs in the mid 80s.

3 minutes ago, Gazred said:

"The council has advised the club that no work should take place before permission is granted."

And that's why it currently looks like landfill.

Tinpot.

And yet they are still going full speed ahead with the build, the pile holes have all been drilled. No regard for due process or for the local community, sadly. 

I'm told that after "someone at the football club spoke to someone at the council" they were given the impression that because the proposed new structure is not as tall as the plans approved in 2008, the application process should be quick and straightforward. 

It seems they've now been assured that's not the case at all. The local councillor has requested that the application be referred to Development Committee rather than be determined by the officers. The club have belatedly engaged a planning consultant to gather the necessary additional documents for the application, but these are yet to be submitted. 

So it's all looking quite promising then. 

6 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

I don't want to quote the whole of @ExiledAjaxlast post, but am I right in thinking that Terry Cooper was also a director when he was our Manager? I have known it happen at other clubs too.

Player, manager, director, administrator, father-figure, ticket seller, caterer, cleaner, ambassador, role-model, removal man*, spokesman, saviour, legend.

*ref Alan Walsh

Frankie Fielding's (back) in the building! 

6 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I was going to add that I missed Madness due to this change of label. I am sure there were 4 bands though, so if it wasn't The Bodysnatchers, I wonder who I am forgetting?

Pretty sure it was just the three bands on that 1979 tour. 

In 1981 I saw New Order at the Trinity and U2 at the Locarno. 

You'd go to one or two gigs a week in those days though, and there was always a good chance of seeing something amazing. 

On 17/07/2023 at 08:41, Port Said Red said:

Early days of Two Tone, I saw a bill which started with Dexys Midnight Runners (they got a barrage of "who are you" from the crowd), and finished with The Specials, with the Bodysnatchers and Selecter in between.

I think you're conflating two different gigs there mate, I was at both shows too and the buzz was incredible. 

The first 2 Tone tour featured the Specials, Selecter and Dexys (who joined the tour part way through to replace Madness). A few months later, Selecter were back at the Locarno headlining their own tour with support from the Bodysnatchers (fronted by the fabulous Rhoda Dakar).

Standout memories for me of this gig are of one lad deciding to dive off the balcony into the crowd on the dance floor, in a Jimmy-from-Quadrophenia moment, and a vicious scrap between Bristol mods and Gloucester skins, which I somehow found myself in the middle of for a few terrifying moments. 

Such an exciting time that was to be a teenager, though the tribalism was pretty insane and like a lot of kids at the time, I could be a mod, punk or rude boy on any given day of the week, depending on which album I was listening to, or which latest fashion item I happened to have bought from Rodney Thomas or Paradise Garage. 

Terribly sad news. One of my earliest Bristol City memories is seeing Chris Garland score the winner against Manchester City, a moment that rocked my world and changed everything. Absolute legend. 

Rest easy

15 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Do you know what rhetorical means?

Do I know what rhetorical means?!! 

1 hour ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Thought you were gonna suggest "Tommy Gun" ....

 

Tommy Con, you ain't happy unless you got one, Tommy Con

 

Nice work my friend 

6 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

He’s from Taunton!

Oh....

WelI anyway I was thinking I might hold it back for the next Bristolian forward to burst through the ranks - as long as their name scans with the last line of the song (maybe something for Tins and the academy staff and scouting network to focus on there). 

How about this one for Tommy? Yes I know he already has a song, but this, much like Paul McCartney's 'Let It Be', came to me in a dream. Seriously it did! 

To the tune of She's Electric:

He's from Bristol, He shoots the ball like a pistol, He's gonna cost you a fistful, Tommy Co-on-way

Okaaay, as you were...

49 minutes ago, Norn Iron said:

It was on a Friday night. I think we scored fairly early on? Then it was more of a 'making sure it stayed that way' type of match. Not a good game football wise but oh boy, the atmosphere at the final whistle....Ashton Gate went mental. BS3 had a football team and as Jim D said, it was like winning the World Cup.

Yep, we were in the middle of the east end that night and I remember a palpable connection between team and crowd. e.g. Glyn Riley whipping up the chanting at a corner (which I don't think players really used to do back then, as they do now).

It certainly seemed to me like the start of the resurrection. 

5 hours ago, Jim Davey said:

Beating York City 1. nil felt like winning the World cup .

1 hour ago, redkev said:

Was that the famous Ralph Milne slice ( chip ) last couple of minutes 

I remember running down the terracing jumping on to the fence ( lost my grip ) straight back into a puddle

i think nowadays I would run down the terracing and go straight through the fence

I suspect he probably means a few years earlier - 83/84? 

On the way back up from the depths of 1982 and IIRC I think this game sent us to top of div 4, with the first 10k+ crowd in a few years.

City are back, 'ello, ello! Let the (comparatively) good times roll.