A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

Marklr said:
i was at this gig. I'd bought Squirrel and Gman and wanted to know that the band was like live so on the bus down Oxford Road I got! It pissed down!
I went to the one 2 years earlier with James and Simply Redtwat too.
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One of the members of the early line-up of A Certain Ratio still gets to the City games. Seen him in the JA in town a couple of times.
 
Mike Cledford said:
One more person on the jury changing her mind would have meant a 10-2 majority verdict so he could have had a favourite shop in Southall Street.
Madely was a star inTescos security training films for a while.
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Guilty as fuck, everyone knew. But an expensive mouthpiece of a lawyer paid off and bought the right people. A hell of a lot of money changed hands that weekend
 
Marklr said:
That's right. I only got there in time for James...so i missed some decent bands. I got to see Yargo a fair few times around town over the years though.
Here's a link to a live bootleg of the James set. the quality is a bit shit unfortunately but still of interest..
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Manchester Platt Fields Festival – 2nd August 1985

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Yargo were brilliant, a great forgotten band. We have produced some great frontmen who can’t really sing. But I would wager Basil Clarke was the single best singer to come from Manchester. Ever
 
Mike Cledford said:
I knew a lad from Salford in 1966 who was virulent anti-Savile without saying why. I can hazard a good guess.
I also worked with a girl who had been a teen model. She hated Owen Oyston and his side kick for the same sort of reason.
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So obvious NOW!! Like fkcing cockroaches aren't they? That Oysten guy was a right slimy cnut. They were all in on it together...protecting each other.
Never again.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Yargo were brilliant, a great forgotten band. We have produced some great frontmen who can’t really sing. But I would wager Basil Clarke was the single best singer to come from Manchester. Ever
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Is Basil still knocking about, do you know? I used to see him at loads of free gigs around town back in the 80s. I saw them a few times and every time his voice gave me goosebumps...good tight band too. I've got some Yargo vinyl too...Get High on 12" white label and the album.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The 112 went to Moston / Midddleton

From Sale / Alty it is the 263
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Marklr said:
Is Basil still knocking about, do you know? I used to see him at loads of free gigs around town back in the 80s. I saw them a few times and every time his voice gave me goosebumps...good tight band too. I've got some Yargo vinyl too...Get High on 12" white label and the album.
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Basil has slightly disappeared the last few years but still a Don. A cool ruler, a steppin razor. Unlike many of his peers he hasn’t been a cliche and fallen victim to demons. God bless you BC, the only man to tell Tony Wilson to “Fuck off you ****” to his face during a negotiation
 
LongsightM13 said:
Basil has slightly disappeared the last few years but still a Don. A cool ruler, a steppin razor. Unlike many of his peers he hasn’t been a cliche and fallen victim to demons. God bless you BC, the only man to tell Tony Wilson to “Fuck off you ****” to his face during a negotiation
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haha. I hope he's still singing. There's some decent live footage of Yargo on YouTube...
 
For those of you who never heard Yargo, Wilson named his late night Granada TV show after this song. But he tried to get Basil to waive his royalties because ‘exposure’. Basil told him to fuck off and said ‘the Mondays are getting paid for Granada incidental music’
Wilson was scared of black people apart from his grammar school pet and backed down



And this is the best piece of black music to come from Manchester. Almost operatic. Barry Adamson had done Moss Side Story around the same time but Basil absolutely nails the vibe of Broadmoor Road at 11pm on a Saturday here

 
LongsightM13 said:
For those of you who never heard Yargo, Wilson named his late night Granada TV show after this song. But he tried to get Basil to waive his royalties because ‘exposure’. Basil told him to fuck off and said ‘the Mondays are getting paid for Granada incidental music’
Wilson was scared of black people apart from his grammar school pet and backed down



And this is the best piece of black music to come from Manchester. Almost operatic. Barry Adamson had done Moss Side Story around the same time but Basil absolutely nails the vibe of Broadmoor Road at 11pm on a Saturday here

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LongsightM13 said:
We have almost definitely been at the same gigs Mark
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Defo. It was a good time to be growing up and being into music in Manchester. I get people from all over the world saying they wished they were there at that time. People are still discovering it for the first time and loving it all. So, we know we were right!
No way, when watching Bez nod back and forth like some joy rider on acid, back at Platt fields in 1987, that he'd become a daytime, household, family TV name in the future with Shaun! But.... haha
 
LongsightM13 said:
For those of you who never heard Yargo, Wilson named his late night Granada TV show after this song. But he tried to get Basil to waive his royalties because ‘exposure’. Basil told him to fuck off and said ‘the Mondays are getting paid for Granada incidental music’
Wilson was scared of black people apart from his grammar school pet and backed down



And this is the best piece of black music to come from Manchester. Almost operatic. Barry Adamson had done Moss Side Story around the same time but Basil absolutely nails the vibe of Broadmoor Road at 11pm on a Saturday here

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A good friend of mine lived with his mum on Broadmoor Road. Used to park outside his house before home games and the "mind yer car for yer mister" boys would be out in force. Would tell them "my mum lives here" and they always left the car alone....

Did Northside waive the royalties on both tunes used for Granada Soccer Night and Granada Weekend Match?
 
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