Boring bastard! White suite, white hat, tasting fruit, saying yes. Whats to love about that??Loved the man from delmonte
It was a very expensive few bottles of booze and he wasn't found not guilty on the second count as he maintains. The judge didn't want another expensive trial and big media circus again.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
I was at a doo a couple of years ago and Carol from tulochs shop was there
Love Basil. Met him a couple of times as we were doing some personal work for him. He was slightly embarrassed when I told him that I had seen Yargo a few times and had the 2 albums. My highlight was the International 2 gig with Basil booming, stood bare chested on top of the speakers.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
Used to play pinball a lot in the Sunspot as a teenager.Sun spot arcade in Piccadilly, a regular wagging haunt, as was the pool hall under the railway bridge Stockport.
One of the best hidden gems anywhere is the Moravian square droylsden, still there and still spectacular.
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
She's retired now.I remember you saying pal, she became a top detective at Scotland Yard I think?
Used to play with her brother Donnie - mad fucker.
In the later 60's, I sometimes took part in a phone-in on Piccadilly Radio as a "Travel Expert". The calls were taken live with no prep'. I gave one caller a reply to his question on holidaying in Malta. Soon after, another caller came on air to argue with my assessment. "You know f*ck all he said (live on air), I was there last year, swimming in the sea and all I could see were turds floating by".I once won a prize at that Piccadilly Radio stand for saying the alphabet backwards quicker than the other contestants. Turned out I won a poster of the band UFO which didn't make it home with me.