Frank Blank

Are there any covers bands specialising in cheese... Camemburt Bacharach Danish Deacon Blue Edam and the Ants Manfred Manchego Simple Rinds Simply Red Leicester

Stop Making Sense is a weekly event here, it’s sublime. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Tina Weymouth is my idea of the perfect bass player, completely song serving and just riding the groove.

Crass - The Clash, never the twain shall meet. You are a disgrace to your avatar 😁

Crass - hugely influential and formative band for me. Organised and enshrined my fundamental political stance, made me realise that music could be entirely about conveying practical messages and expressing alienation and also that I was capable of creating music myself. Hearing Crass was the first (and probably only) time I felt like I’d found a home. Killing Joke - while Crass dealt with the politics Killing Joke set out to define the exquisite beauty of the atomic age in terms of style, sound and form, and, frankly, that’s right up my rue. Killing Joke, along with Adam and the Ants, The Glitter Band gave me my love of tom-tom driven rhythms but the defining album for me is what’s THIS for? by Killing Joke, they sound like they’ve tapped into something primal but aren’t quite controlling (perhaps manipulating) it yet. KJ led me off on several directions, geomancy, the occult, folk horror, divination, vandalism, many of which (not vandalism unfortunately) endure to this day. I’m still in touch with them but very much miss my old friend Paul Raven but I do not miss moving his rig abou! Sleaford Mods - an erudite yob set to beats. As the ideals of punk and the utter irredeemable hopelessness of existence sinks in as a fact, my peculiar mix of existential ennui and detachment feels brilliantly summed up by messrs Williamson and Fearn, the dichotomy between wanting a better world yet feeling like you want to piśš all over it too. A mess of contradictions is what we are, just like the world we live in. Sleaford Mods reflect that perfectly. I realise this should be a list of three and yes I can count but I have to give special mention to Public Image Ltd simply because they made Metal Box / Second Edition, which is the best album ever made by a country mile, if the choice was between that album and the entire musical output of all the rest it would be Metal Box, Wobble innit.

Other cows?

This is absolute fückïng gold!

Do you have somewhere where your rig is set up so you can just add the speaker?

Where are you in the Midlands? You are welcome to try my QSC K12.2.

I’ll report back.

Come on, you’re milking it now, this should be over and dung with.

I saw that but when I went to the site I was getting dodgy ads popping up. I know it’s expensive but I think I’m going Gilboys.

Damn, was just going to order another tin! Going to source an alternative now.

You beat me to it.

This absolutely takes the brisket, any more and I cud take offence.

I’ve herd it all before you offal man.

This is an udder disgrace...

^^^ this is one of the big reasons I became a punk.

Boat, ship? That’s the whole point.

I love your 71 P, in fact that particular bass is exactly what niggles me at times, what I need to do is play it in direct comparison with the P. Also I think playing your singlecut may have been one of the reasons why I decided to go look (rather than just think about) at @TheGreek’s ACG Harlot singlecut which I subsequently bought. It’s like a fvckin’ splinter that P!

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I like Sardineista even more.

1. Poptones - Public Image Ltd 2. Never a Trust a Man With Egg On His Face - Adam And The Ants 3. Still Life In Mobile Homes - Japan 4. So What - Crass Sorry just noticed you said three...

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