Monday, 12 January 2009

Finally found the new Memorable Book

Hi guys,
Wondered why I hadn't received any Mem book emails for a while so checked it and found new version. Hope everyone is fine and dandy.

Love to all

Derek
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5 comments:

  1. Matthew12 January 2009 at 13:23

    Welcome to the Memblog Des! I'm well and hope you're rocking too. You still spending loads of time in the North East?

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  2. Sam Holliday14 January 2009 at 07:08

    Hi Derek,

    'Welcome to our home - just strap on a geetar AND WE'LL PLAY SOME ROCK AND ROLL'

    (Can anyone name that tune?)

    Anyway it is good to hear from you Des. To take part in some some recent debates just answer the following:

    1) Do you like The Wire?
    2) Glasvegas - yes or no?
    3) What was your album of the year?

    and (in honour of your glorious past)

    4) What (if any do you think were the best songs by your old bands...
    a) The Fretz
    b) The Classified Ads
    c) Alternative Emotions

    Do tell!!!

    Sam

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  3. Matthew14 January 2009 at 08:29

    Grip was the name of the tune. Don't you like the cut of my clothes?

    Girl down the street had a baby, she didn't want to have it, if only she had seen, the rock group the alternative emotions.

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  4. Sam Holliday14 January 2009 at 09:08

    An Alternative Emotions 'song' caused Nana to cry once. It was called 'Jimmy Fox' and was all about him reinventing himself as a mod. Not our kindest hour.

    And...not as good as one of Britain's first ever rap songs - 'Sexweb'.

    It was about the fact that Webbie had a period where he became suddenly attractive to women and we couldn't get our head around why.

    The chorus (and what a belter it was) was...

    'This is Sexweb
    Sexweb..this is'

    They don't write 'em like that any more.

    The whole point about The Alternative Emotions was that Clem, Web and me (and later Derek) wanted to mess about doing something musical that wasn't The Classified Ads and on my part it was entirely motivated by the fact that I had fallen in love with PIL's Metal Box and thought you could just play whatever you like without form, tune, chorus or point.

    We actually made three tapes of utter nonsense but the last time I heard one (years ago) I actually thought we had some good ideas amidst the layers of crap.

    My plea for an understanding of faith - Do Buddists Believe In Mondays? - remains my fave AE tune but we all rather enjoyed our anti-feminist rant 'Cook The Sausages, Shut Your Mouth.'

    Happy days....

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  5. bam20 January 2009 at 04:10

    No one has mentioned the 'Alternative Monganis' yet, so I may as well - were the Alternative Emotions the first Tamworth band to have their own parody group? As I remember, Clem was bigging up the Emotions for what seems like weeks before we heard the debut cassette recording, and as a result we were less than impressed when reality failed to live up to the hyperbole. Sadly, our comedy project generated quickly into hippie shite... I remember seeing a chord sequence Clem had written on the cover of one of his school exercise books (ABAB FEEE), which we turned into the chorus of a song - Abab Feee! Actually, just tried playing it and it's quite a good garagey riff, although the 'F' is in the wrong key...

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