New Musical Express, September 5, 1981: Difference between revisions
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HIGHLIGHTS | |||
The Polecats dedicating a song to me. | |||
The Polecats going berserk on stage. | |||
The strawberry milkshake on sale at the site/sight. | |||
Bono waving to me from the stage (I waved back, so did hundreds of other people. I was embarrassed. But Bono said he was waving to me "It's funny but I always spot you." It's my nose.) | |||
U2 not being too rock 'n' roll. | |||
The walk away from the stadium on Sunday night. | |||
Three Tia Marias at the hotel on Sunday night after leaving Rory Gallagher to get on with whatever it was or may once have been. | |||
Elvis Costello saying hello to me in the hotel bar on Saturday night. | |||
Bedtime. | |||
Ian Dury talking about Jack De Manio at breakfast on Sunday, and anticipating appearing on Brian Matthews' Radio Two show the next day. | |||
Tim of The Polecats telling me that I'm Jake Riviera's least favourite "journalist." Wind up or not, I blushed. | |||
Missing all but three minutes of Dr Feelgood's set. | |||
Missing all but ninety seconds of Rory Gallagher's game. | |||
Not even knowing if Fist, Diamond Head, Huang Chuang and whoever replaced Pauline Murray actually played. | |||
Spotting Brendan Foster. | |||
Being mistaken for Ian Penman. | |||
The Polecats' van breaking down as they tried to make a sensible getaway — the battery had gone flat because they'd been watching too many videos. | |||
Leaving Newcastle. | |||
BALDERDASH | |||
Like all pudding mild mares, the rock on the Tyne just wouldn't hurry up and let me go. Lifelessness was in the air: my mind was numbed, my feet were jammed, the view was the same. You're acquainted with that whopping list of complaints The Festival Review a stiffening parody of such an event's deadlock. Tyne was, even with Saturday's gesture towards American New Wave/the play abandon of new pop, yet another show down of bald stability. | |||
The Festival, any outdoor pop roll-up lull, has past the point of being a toothless | |||
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