Reply With QuoteHugh Laurie would have been an Etonian who would be roughly contemporaneous with Weller, I think. As an accomplished wet bob, I'm sure he'd have battered Weller without breaking a sweat.Originally Posted by Sir C
The oiks got battered. That's the whole point.
Hugh Laurie would have been an Etonian who would be roughly contemporaneous with Weller, I think. As an accomplished wet bob, I'm sure he'd have battered Weller without breaking a sweat.
Council estate types from Slough back in the 60's would frequently amuse themselves by roughing up Etonians and pinching their top hats.
Now there is an urban myth that arose about an Eton boxing blue who would deliberately set himself up as bait when the word went round that the roughs were up to their tricks and would beat the shít out of whoever tried to take his hat.
It wasn't an urban myth though. Not long before Rifles came out, an Eastender I was working with when I did my apprenticeship, told me he and a little mob of his mates had gone to Eton to pinch top hats and their daddy had, indeed, been battered by a toff. True story.
I always assumed the story had somehow made it to Weller
"All that rowing puts hairs on your chest" would've worked rather well too, wouldn't it.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
"There's a row going on, down near Slough", in fact.
Weller was not actually involved in the scrap, it was an event which he had read about.
The lyrics were part based on this event and also on a fight which occured in Leeds between members of The Jam and their road crew and an Australian rugby side, the incident resulted in PW attending Leeds Magistrates Court where he was charged with some nonsense or other, breaching the peace type thing.
Shush. I'm just enjoying the image of Weller being punched in the face by Hugh Laurie.
Typically around £50 for a pair of 501s at the Levi outlet store at Gunwharf. A terrible place, of course. But I tend to get dragged there once every 12-18 months through no choice of my own
I had an idea you were a married man, R? That's what wives are for, you know; shopping and stuff.Typically around £50 for a pair of 501s at the Levi outlet store at Gunwharf. A terrible place, of course. But I tend to get dragged there once every 12-18 months through no choice of my own
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Well, engaged for now, r. Let's leave the married part until 2019.
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