NOSTALGIA: Catch – Bingo
Wow, Britpop, you gave us this! An Ridonculous Pop Song, wherein a seventeen year old public school boy goes to Soho to lose his virginity and gets ripped off in a brothel!
They were gonna be hugem you know. Raygun, heed!
Wanna know what lead-singing pulic school brothel creeper Toby’s doing now?
He’s “blending wild, clattering drums and percussion with acerbic lyrics and chanting backing vocals,” in a band called Tough Love, who “have been described by The Guardian as “the Afrobeat Scissor Sisters” and by Flavorpill as “tribal pop ambassadors”". He’s also wearing lots of make up and calling himself “Tobias”. Fuck!
My little brother Alexander reminded me of this. He loved them. I think I liked this song too. I think I bought it!
- Happy Birthday Zef!
- Zef’s Hareem
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- Last Night At The 100 Club
- My New Favourite Band
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Tags: afrobeat scissor sisters, bingo, brothel, catch, public school, soho, tobias, toby, tough love
As I recall it, I was ambivalent. But maybe that’s a Maoist rewrite of history. I distinctly remember being into lots of classical jazz in the late 90s, for example, and running my own bistro…
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December 15th, 2009 at 11:59 am
yes yes yes, i love bingo. so much so that i didnt even bother reading the rest of the post!! joy!
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
oh, what a thing hindsight is. having posted a comment i promptly started the clip playing and was vastly disapointed by the expectations of my memorys
ok, the below par pulp-esque lyrics tell a decent little story, but for the most part its pretty rubbish actually
however, i will still listen to sleeper and echobelly with joy in my heart
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December 16th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
…from an ancient time, before Soho lost it’s edge to commerce, councils and daemonic property developers intent on ‘cleaning-up the streets’. Sigh…
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December 21st, 2009 at 12:46 pm