So what did you all wish to be once you had your O Level/GCSE results then?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

I desperately wanted to be a rock journalist for the NME or somesuch.

I now walk around Cornwall in the rain for a living http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Ben.]

thought I'd get in first

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Jake]

Think I burnt my results before Rage Against the Machine.

I'm a f**king rebel.

[Snin]

[Berni]

people for the privilege of doing that. :-(

I had no idea what I wanted to do for a living. That's the basic qualification for becoming a journalist, I believe. That's where you went wrong, I reckon.

[Snin]

slow coach ?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Career wise I never once, then and in the formative years to follow, could think of a realistic job I wanted to do.

And now look at me, a Manager.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

'Would you like clotted cream with that you fat northern c**t?' :-(

[Jake]

[Snin]

[Berni]

that it actually is?

[Snin]

don't give him a complex

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Jake]

I estimate I've aged about 1 mental year since then but 6 physical ones :-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Ashberto]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I feel for you.

[Snin]

f**ked up, dreaming of getting f**ked, and pissing about with mates, covered in ****e n mud..bit of dance tent, wander past some guitar band ****e..that type of thing..doubt mines even looked at actual line up tbh..that's for the auld cnuts

[Snin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk
tooo partay

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Pokster]

[Ashberto]

Or is there still some tin left?

[Berni]

cheese-esque goo that resembles no foodstuff on earth?

[Snin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xAeSkdtaeI

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t28COxEp2k

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Still, **** line-up all the same.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The filling is hotter than the sun, as well.

[Berni]

[Snin]

heathens

[Pokster]

[Ashberto]

More commercially realistic back up option: Computer programmer, as software developers were known back then.

[Jake]

Then again I pissed on a woman at Glastonbury this year, so standards haven't improved too much.

[Snin]

it really is B isn't it ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xAeSkdtaeI

[Classic Jorge]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

they'll stop coming :cloud9:

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

And as such now you would still have to work, though perhaps not in as lucrative a career as you do. You could even be a bum, or worse an ex-pro bore rolled out every now and then to give your opinion on the modern game.

Wd the motor industry and all that sail in her.

[Snin]

PL imo

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Streams of Pleasure, Kings Cross.

[Snin]

:-)

[Ashberto]

wd him, getting to share a bill with his heroes who inspired him to pick up a guitar. He always wanted it more than me. The thought of success always a little bit terrified me tbh.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Big Country are headlining the 02, previously the Milenium Dome?

[Berni]

It can't be Big Country without Stuart Adamson really, though, can it?

[Ashberto]

Perhaps it's the 02 tent at the Chalfont-St Giles village fete.

[Brentwood]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Is there on around Angel?

[Supermac1976]

[Berni]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

I wanted a refund.

[Jake]

He'll probably be playing Indigo at the O2, imo.

[Luis Anaconda]

and yes we do remember


Always loved that line

[Ears are alight]

Paphitis' mob told me I was overqualified for a weekend shop job for extra pocket money at 14 since I already had 4 O-levels that summer.

It's one of the reasons I never went on Dragon's Den. Not the main one, obviously.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

A career of 200 quid a week in the fourth division, I suspect.

[Ashberto]

The Doors but Ian Astbury was superb, and almost certainly gave a more professional performance than that drunken prick Morrison would.

RIP Ray Manzarek, :-( So pleased I had the chance to see him perform.

[Berni]

:-

http://b.smimg.net/12/19/300x225/andyhessenthaler_20120107.jpg

[Berni]

them any more.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Sweary men in changing rooms.

Every. Single. Day.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

for longer than Hugh?

[Ashberto]

Arguably this Big Country show would be a similar type of thing.

[Berni]

of a sensitive and intelligent man like yourself? :cry:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Though sorry for his family's loss etc.

[Ashberto]

didn't really do anything in his era imo. The Baz Warne v3.0 era though has been excellent.

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

which Billy Jean is basically nicked from. Riders, in turn was influenced by Ghost Riders in the Sky, sung by, amongst others, Vaughn Monroe. which was in turn based on Johnny Comes Marching Home by, erm, The Clash. Oh wait.

Fascinating stuff, musical DNA.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Supermac1976]

https://youtu.be/Wn6iEy7qWnw

[Ashberto]

At the end of the day, Clive, there are only 12 notes.

[Ashberto]