An item in The Guardian about Simple Minds led me to reminisce btl

[Sir C]

about a weekend at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986 - I suppose what passed for a festival in those days. A bill which featured Simple Minds, The Waterboys and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.

Others who had been there responded with the names of other acts I had forgotten: The Bangles, The Cult, Big Audio Dynamite, Sam Browne and Dr and the Medics.

Dr and the Medics. With the novelty 'Spirit in the Sky' cover. What in the name of God were Dr and the Medics doing there?

I took an enormous quantity of drugs, I seem to recall, and Lloyd Cole got bottled off stage for laughingly announcing that England were losing to Argentina.

Good timez indeed.

[Burney]

about a weekend at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986 - I suppose what passed for a festival in those days. A bill which featured Simple Minds, The Waterboys and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.

Others who had been there responded with the names of other acts I had forgotten: The Bangles, The Cult, Big Audio Dynamite, Sam Browne and Dr and the Medics.

Dr and the Medics. With the novelty 'Spirit in the Sky' cover. What in the name of God were Dr and the Medics doing there?

I took an enormous quantity of drugs, I seem to recall, and Lloyd Cole got bottled off stage for laughingly announcing that England were losing to Argentina.

Good timez indeed.

Ah, Susanna Hoffs. :love:

I don't want to know what she looks like now. :-(

[Sir C]

Ah, Susanna Hoffs. :love:

I don't want to know what she looks like now. :-(

Better. Much, much better.

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[Pokster]

Ah, Susanna Hoffs. :love:

I don't want to know what she looks like now. :-(

A quick search on Google and she looks good for her age...unlike you

[Burney]

Better. Much, much better.

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But old now. Old. There is no true beauty without decay. :-(

[Sir C]

But old now. Old. There is no true beauty without decay. :-(

Indeed I often wonder where Susanna is now. Probably wintering with her mother in Guildford. A cat, rain, Vim under the sink, and both bars on.

[Burney]

A quick search on Google and she looks good for her age...unlike you

Your mum wasn't complaining.

[Pokster]

Your mum wasn't complaining.

She said your dad was better

[Ash]

The Cult

Never quite liked them as much as the two iterations before: Southern Death Cult. #80sHipster


Dr and the Medics.

I have an embarrassing story about Dr and the Medics, The Electric Ballroom in Camden, the 'beetle dance' and the car keys to my Ford Escort Mk 1.

[IUFG]

used to love a bit of Big Audio Dynamite.

I went to see them on their reunion tour in 2011. Mick Jones acted like a right **** tbh :-(

[Sir C]

Never quite liked them as much as the two iterations before: Southern Death Cult. #80sHipster



I have an embarrassing story about Dr and the Medics, The Electric Ballroom in Camden, the 'beetle dance' and the car keys to my Ford Escort Mk 1.

In that case I'd say you should tell it. A new thread would seem appropriate.

[Ash]

In that case I'd say you should tell it. A new thread would seem appropriate.

No, a new thread would only draw attention. I shall whisper it quietly here.

Long, long ago I used to drive to Camden to see bands at the Electric Ballroom, and would usually be able to park in the little side street between Castlehaven Road and the rail viaduct. Dr and the Medics had a song, during which the more impressionable and foolish young elements of their audience would be persuaded to perform a 'dance' which involved lying on the back and kicking the legs in the air. I was near the front, participated in this cringeworthy ritual, and a few minutes later yer man The Doctor up there held up some car keys and said "who's lost their car keys". Everyone laughed at the muppet who lost their keys when I suddenly realised they were MINE! Sheepishly I shuffled up to claim them, vowing never to do the beetle dance again. Luckily though I was able to drive me and my chums back home.

[Sir C]

No, a new thread would only draw attention. I shall whisper it quietly here.

Long, long ago I used to drive to Camden to see bands at the Electric Ballroom, and would usually be able to park in the little side street between Castlehaven Road and the rail viaduct. Dr and the Medics had a song, during which the more impressionable and foolish young elements of their audience would be persuaded to perform a 'dance' which involved lying on the back and kicking the legs in the air. I was near the front, participated in this cringeworthy ritual, and a few minutes later yer man The Doctor up there held up some car keys and said "who's lost their car keys". Everyone laughed at the muppet who lost their keys when I suddenly realised they were MINE! Sheepishly I shuffled up to claim them, vowing never to do the beetle dance again. Luckily though I was able to drive me and my chums back home.

:clap: I will always cherish the image of you lying on your back waving your legs in the air whilst the Dr dangled your car keys. I bet he looked a bit ptying, didn't he? :hehe:

[Sir C]

used to love a bit of Big Audio Dynamite.

I went to see them on their reunion tour in 2011. Mick Jones acted like a right **** tbh :-(

I can't remember a single thing they did, now :-(

[Ash]

:clap: I will always cherish the image of you lying on your back waving your legs in the air whilst the Dr dangled your car keys. I bet he looked a bit ptying, didn't he? :hehe:

Oh, it was some minutes later that the keys found made their way to the stage. I developed a theory that the whole dance was a scam to get people to drop money out of their pockets, and that agents in the crowd would scour the floor after that song for money that would be split with the band.