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Um... wow.
Ben, I wasn't going to attend - for essentially the same reasons that you considered - but after that epic comment (deep breath...) I'll be there.
Respect!
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George Harrison was sued for over £3 million for using an old song by the Ronettes ( He's So Fine )...
Not the Ronettes; the Chiffons.
But George Harrison's use was more than thinly veiled.
They made him pay for that:
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Stormbringer!
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Y'know, the title of this post is so good that I'd assumed it was quoted from somewhere else, but having googled it it appears to be original. Is this so? If so, bravo; it's a beautiful, poetic line.
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George Harrison was sued for over £3 million for using an old song by the Ronettes ( He's So Fine )...
Not the Ronettes; the Chiffons.
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I think I remember that. Whereas Bailter Space punters had to listen from outside the venue, didn't Disaster Area fans have to observe - or whatever the aural equivalent is - from a nearby planet?
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Legend has it that Pink Floyd played a 1971 show at the Crytal Palace Bowl which was reportedly so loud that it killed most of the fish in the adjoining lake (though other reports place the blame on a malfunctioning smoke flare-powered giant inflatable octopus, which had become damaged by numerous hippies blundering about inside said lake.)
Ref
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This is starting to piss me off a wee bit.
So I think what Trowenna Sea is, is the beginning of a hybrid book in which [you have] the problematics of acknowledgement of historical material and historical inspirations. Where you have non fiction writers traversing that area then they can use footnotes but fiction writers can't so I am having to try to figure out creative ways of addressing that and I think that what we will end up with is in fact a very, very exciting new approach to creating a framework to those new fictions.
Can I just say, that's a bunch of horseshit (quite apart from largely contradicting the previous explanation.)
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Are you buying it?
What, the book or the explanation?
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Seriously, Witi, do not let the words " less than 0.4 per cent" pass your lips again because that's so far from the point it will need serious air points to come home again. Just stop trying to mitigate or minimise what you did. Please.
To be fair, there's no indication that he's "still" running with that one, rather than the Herald merely rehashing two-week-old copy.
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Another phenomenon is the ironic most-inappropriate-request. On the plus side, it's a way of expressing great fan-ness, I suppose, by knowing just which request is the most inappropriate; unfortunately the artists, naturally, seem to hate it, so it shouldn't be done.
Someone at Ray Davies (at the Civic) yelled out for Groovy Movies, one of the Kinks' most obscure, and easily one of their worst ever, but also one of the few not written or sung by Ray but by brother Dave. He shot back with some quip or other, but not before his shoulders momentarily sank.
In a similar vein, I joked of requesting Sweet Jane of John Cale, and then mused that it had probably happened to him for real.