I thought Sid was South African. There's a blue plaque dedicated to him on a house on the North Circular just past Ealing The NME once reported that Bradford were to release a song called 'Laugh Like Sid James'. Sadly, it never happened I'll go now. Paul. Thanksto all for the 3 o clock info. Two more posers 1 - once at the reading festival i heard a song on the p.a that contained the line' Pristine Christine' & NO it wasn't The Sea Urchins. It sounded like Julian Cope 2 - When at university i used to get up in the middle of the night to tape 'transmission' on itv. It was the mtv indie show & was presented by a lovely ginge called Rachael. Anyway i used to tape the best bits & watching it all again a while back there is a really good pop song by a bunch of typical indie kids circa 1989 - lots of flowery skirts & brown suede. Two guys, the lead singer has brown curly hair & the obligatory tamborine girl had a blonde bob. The chorus went something like 'Today...is turning out to be a ??????' I always hoped i'd buy it one day on a compilation without realising . & then playing it & being really happy, but i guess after 9 (gulp!) years that romantic notion will never happen. Can anyone help? If so mail me privately as i realise that this is probably all a bit tedious....
---------- From: Chris[SMTP:cja1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk] Sent: 23 February 1998 04:34 To: PKHINTZ@aol.com Cc: sinister Subject: Re: Sinister: native naivete
Blinkers are things that they put on racehorses to stop them looking around, and hence being distracted / startled when they're running. When humans wear them it's usually a sign of being focussed on one idea to the point of exclusion of all others (to put it politely.)
Sid James was an Australian who lived with Tony Hancock in East Cheam. He had the world's dirtiest laugh, and a pretty dirty face too.
C.
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