NFR NFC 2017 - The friendly thread for lovely people

[Funkyfairy!]

2 hours ago, bennyhana22 said:

Hello NFR lovelies!

Another of my, now customary, apologies for being so dreadfully absent from these fine pages. As many of you know, I am a bit of a creature of habit, and after 'my festival' feel a need to get back to normal life a bit, after my 6+ months of total obsession. Unfortunately, for someone of my OCD tendencies, that contact is a binary all or nothing - in short, I tend to bugger off completely. And there I shall remain, pretty much, until such time that the wonderful ticket gods deem to shine on me once more and make me the happiest boy in the world, by virtue of a GF2017 golden ticket.

Apologies too, therefore, for not being up to speed with everyone's news, happiness, travails and the like. I hope you're all well, with negligible sadness of any kind all 'round!

Just thought I'd pop in to say a brief 'Hi' and to let you know that (for those who were so kind to offer advice last year) Sunday saw Mrs Benny and me deposit the not-always-delightful Child 1 at the London School of Economics to start his university life. I was proud, I was tearful, he was quite a bit lovely.

Anyway, just to confirm that those of you (all of you, basically) who had been in the 'it'll all be alright in the end...' camp were, maddeningly, entirely correct of course!

Love to everyone, and massive positive thoughts for T Day. NFR and, more importantly, NFC.

Ben
xx

Ben

 

Good to see you back around these parts, and may the ticket gods shine on you (and all of us)

Glad to hear that Child1 was deposited safely- the next chapter is here, and I'm sure child1 will be on the phone shortly to send more funds as freshers week has been too much fun :-)

If t-day is not kind, I too will be adopting your approach and disappearing for a period of time to lick my wounds and work out next steps !

FFxx

 

[bennyhana22]

2 hours ago, Funkyfairy! said:

Ben

 

Good to see you back around these parts, and may the ticket gods shine on you (and all of us)

Glad to hear that Child1 was deposited safely- the next chapter is here, and I'm sure child1 will be on the phone shortly to send more funds as freshers week has been too much fun :-)

If t-day is not kind, I too will be adopting your approach and disappearing for a period of time to lick my wounds and work out next steps !

FFxx

 

Thanks, FF

It's good to be back, if only a little bit, until the fate of the 9th is known...Eek!

Ben
x

[Chawk]

1 hour ago, bennyhana22 said:

Thanks, FF

It's good to be back, if only a little bit, until the fate of the 9th is known...Eek!

Ben
x

Thought for a moment you meant your 9th child then...

[guypjfreak]

thanks peeps all went well just about feel human again lol ...and now its glasto time

[mr gumby]

2 minutes ago, guypjfreak said:

thanks peeps all went well just about feel human again lol ...and now its glasto time

Nice one, Guy. I saw some photos on FB, looked like a beautiful day. 

[sheffieldlady]

Glad all went well with your daughters wedding @guypjfreak! Nice to see you back around Ben.

I am overly nervous about ticket day, I keep telling myself it's just a festival, it doesn't matter if I don't get tickets... (of course, that's all a lie!)

[Curlygirl]

Hi all, I woke up in an optimistic mood today. With all of us trying on both Tday and resale, I have every faith we will get there. Stay positive and keep praying!! 

 

[mr gumby]

Morning all, happy equinox!  

[Quark]

Double dose of praisin' this morning!

[stuartbert two hats]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting very excited for new Gorillaz stuff.  They're each phase of their history one evening at a time.  Two days ago is was the first album, yesterday Demon Days stuff, presumably tonight is Plastic Beach and tomorrow... new single at least, got to be.  I've always been a big fan of their recorded output and was one of the few that enjoyed them at Glasto in 2010 and then later that at MEN.  It's more lively, varied and uplifting than Blur for me.  

Damon seems to be indicating he's knocking the melancholy on the head for this album, expecting something much better than his first proper solo album (although I loved Mali Music).

Really can't wait, it's my most anticipated release of the year, for sure.

[fatyeti24]

2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting very excited for new Gorillaz stuff.  They're each phase of their history one evening at a time.  Two days ago is was the first album, yesterday Demon Days stuff, presumably tonight is Plastic Beach and tomorrow... new single at least, got to be.  I've always been a big fan of their recorded output and was one of the few that enjoyed them at Glasto in 2010 and then later that at MEN.  It's more lively, varied and uplifting than Blur for me.  

Damon seems to be indicating he's knocking the melancholy on the head for this album, expecting something much better than his first proper solo album (although I loved Mali Music).

Really can't wait, it's my most anticipated release of the year, for sure.

do you think he'll have any involvement in next years MIF?  not necessarily Gorillaz, cos he's done that before.

it'll be good to have Gorillaz back though, they're always full of good ideas.  it's a pity that Glastonbury show didn't quite come off cos it had more imagination than any other headliner i can recall.  and half of The Clash.

Blur are still rubbish though (except for Beetlebum and Out of Time, obvs).

[stuartbert two hats]

6 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

do you think he'll have any involvement in next years MIF?  not necessarily Gorillaz, cos he's done that before.

it'll be good to have Gorillaz back though, they're always full of good ideas.  it's a pity that Glastonbury show didn't quite come off cos it had more imagination than any other headliner i can recall.  and half of The Clash.

Blur are still rubbish though (except for Beetlebum and Out of Time, obvs).

Wouldn't surprise me if he does some totally different thing.  He's already done at least one opera for the festival, as well as the Gorillaz thing.  The man doesn't waste any time.

Out Of Time eh?  Obviously Beetlebum is great, but of all the other decent songs you pick Out of Time?  I mean, I like it, but it's no Tender.

[fatyeti24]

Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

Wouldn't surprise me if he does some totally different thing.  He's already done at least one opera for the festival, as well as the Gorillaz thing.  The man doesn't waste any time.

Out Of Time eh?  Obviously Beetlebum is great, but of all the other decent songs you pick Out of Time?  I mean, I like it, but it's no Tender.

that's because Tender is awful.  really, really awful.

[Quark]

I was really disappointed with the Gorillaz set in 2010.  It sounded great, but just didn't seem to fit.  I don't know if their stuff just doesn't transfer that well to a festival stage setting,  but would like to see them on their own terms at some point.

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Scruffylovemonster said:

It's no "the end" then.

Which is no "This Is a Low"

[fatyeti24]

6 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

It's no "the end" then.

 

4 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Which is no "This Is a Low"

as i said above, there's only two half-decent Blur tunes, and i listed them.  the rest are rubbish and anyone who disagrees is to be pitied their ears of cloth.  or forced to look at videos of Alex James.

[Quark]

Someone's tired...

[fatyeti24]

3 minutes ago, Quark said:

Someone's tired...

i don't know that one.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

A bloke came in to the shop today and bought a shirt. My wife (drunk) insisted that if he wanted the shirt wrapped then he had to call her Miss Brahms (As in off 'Are you being Served'). He duly obliged and the shirt was wrapped up for him. I then asked him what he did for a living. He said that he was a musician in a band. I asked him what band and he said 'My Bloody Valentine'. We may have had our first 'celebrity' customer - or he could have just been another one of our delusional customers. lol  He said that his name was Michael but I can't see anyone called that associated with the band. However, that could be a result of inadequate searching ( I couldn't be bothered looking for too long).

 

[Quark]

Now that's the kind of service I look for in a shop!

Happy feckin' Friday beeyatches, NFR NFC!

[stuartbert two hats]

12 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

A bloke came in to the shop today and bought a shirt. My wife (drunk) insisted that if he wanted the shirt wrapped then he had to call her Miss Brahms (As in off 'Are you being Served'). He duly obliged and the shirt was wrapped up for him. I then asked him what he did for a living. He said that he was a musician in a band. I asked him what band and he said 'My Bloody Valentine'. We may have had our first 'celebrity' customer - or he could have just been another one of our delusional customers. lol  He said that his name was Michael but I can't see anyone called that associated with the band. However, that could be a result of inadequate searching ( I couldn't be bothered looking for too long).

 

Agreed, I can't find anything like that.  Wikipedia says:

Members	Kevin Shields Colm Ó Cíosóig Debbie Googe Bilinda Butcher
Past members	Joe Byfield David Conway Tina Durkin Stephen Ivers Paul Murtagh Mark Ross Alex Buess

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

56 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Agreed, I can't find anything like that.  Wikipedia says:

Members	Kevin Shields Colm Ó Cíosóig Debbie Googe Bilinda Butcher
Past members	Joe Byfield David Conway Tina Durkin Stephen Ivers Paul Murtagh Mark Ross Alex Buess

The odd thing is that he really did appear to be genuine. You can normally sense when you are talking to a nutjob fantasist. He was very well dressed and articulate. If you put a gun against my head and asked me to choose whether he was something to do with the band or not I would say that he was. I wished I'd asked him further questions about it now.

[mr gumby]

13 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

The odd thing is that he really did appear to be genuine. You can normally sense when you are talking to a nutjob fantasist. He was very well dressed and articulate. If you put a gun against my head and asked me to choose whether he was something to do with the band or not I would say that he was. I wished I'd asked him further questions about it now.

Maybe 'Michael' is his pseudonym, so he doesn't get mobbed by fans while he is role-playing as 70's sitcom characters in eccentric boutiques. 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

45 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Did he definitely say in the band. Maybe he was a technician or management or something. Or a complete liar!

Pretty certain that he said that he was a guitarist.

[guypjfreak]

On 20/09/2016 at 9:48 PM, mr gumby said:

Nice one, Guy. I saw some photos on FB, looked like a beautiful day. 

cheers old son ..im a very proud dad lol .......