Interesting Facts About Band Members

[Benfleet A1]

Moving on a tad with the bands/music thyme, what interesting facts do you all know about different bands?

I'll start.
While recording Misplaced Childhood in Berlin, Marillion's lead singer Fish would chuck bricks over the wall into the east trying to set of landmines.

 

[Member]

The Who's Pete Townshend was arrested and cautioned for purchasing child pornography.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Moving on a tad with the bands/music thyme, what interesting facts do you all know about different bands?

I'll start.
While recording Misplaced Childhood in Berlin, Marillion's lead singer Fish would chuck bricks over the wall into the east trying to set of landmines.

Fish originally threw Marillion records over the wall but the East Germans threw them back.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Fish originally threw Marillion records over the wall but the East Germans threw them back.

Not a fan then.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Not a fan then.

I like Kayleigh.

 

[Benfleet A1]

I like Kayleigh.

Worst bloody song they ever done. Try the first two albums, they are really good.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Worst bloody song they ever done. Try the first two albums, they are really good.

To be fair they are one of those bands that I think I don't based on image.

Any tracks you can recommend that I listen to on YouTube whilst I am supposed to be working.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I love Clutching at Straws & Brave. Misplaced Childhood is ok. Not listened to anything post Brave with the "new" singer.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Dead, the lead singer of the Norweigen black metal band Mayhem was obsessed with death and used to try to make himself look dead. He even used to bury his clothes with dead birds and dig them up before a concert to smell like a rotting cadaver. He eventually killed himself and left the suicide note "Excusethe blood". His band mate (Euronymous)found his body and took photos, one of which was used as the front cover for Mayhems next album. It is alleged that Euronymous also took fragments of Deads skull which he polished up and turned into necklaces and also made a casserole with bits of his brain.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Owen Paul collects Barbie Dolls, so much so that he bought a small shed to house them all in.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Jet Black used to run an off-license before The (Guildford) Stranglers became successful and the band rehearsed above it. As interesting as Steve Davis, I grant you.

 

[MK Shrimper]

James "Midge" Ure got his nickname as he attracts the little biting gnats like a human **** magnet.

 

[Benfleet A1]

To be fair they are one of those bands that I think I don't based on image.

Any tracks you can recommend that I listen to on YouTube whilst I am supposed to be working.

Where to start,
Garden Party
Fugarzi
Forgotten Sons
Assassin
Script for a Jesters Tear
The Web
Chelsea Monday

But make sure it's Fish singing, Steve Hogarth just dosen't cut it for me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Where to start,
Garden Party
Fugarzi
Forgotten Sons
Assassin
Script for a Jesters Tear
The Web
Chelsea Monday

But make sure it's Fish singing, Steve Hogarth just dosen't cut it for me.

Grendel is great. Goes on a bit. Market Square Heroes is toppermost of the poppermost.

 

[londonblue]

Piers Hewitt (the drummer for The Boxer Rebellion) is a massive Southend United fan.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Where to start,
Garden Party
Fugarzi
Forgotten Sons
Assassin
Script for a Jesters Tear
The Web
Chelsea Monday

But make sure it's Fish singing, Steve Hogarth just dosen't cut it for me.

So it's Prog?

My favourite of the genre...

 

[Benfleet A1]

So it's Prog?

My favourite of the genre...

Prog ish.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Rapper Christ Bearer chopped his own dick off while high on PCP

“Women say men think with their little head too much, they always think with their little heads,” he says. “So I said ‘You know what? I got something for these bitches. I’m cutting off my little head and [I’ll] be forced to only think with my big head’. That was as clear as day to me and I acted upon it. I went to the kitchen with a kitchen knife and I chopped it off.”

 

[Napster]

Jet Black used to run an off-license before The (Guildford) Stranglers became successful and the band rehearsed above it. As interesting as Steve Davis, I grant you.

Steve Davis is interesting. He's a massive music fan.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/10/steve-davis-snooker-champion-radio-show-dj-interview
https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/steve-davis-the-10-records-that-changed-my-life-640154

 

[Napster]

Stewart Copeland's father was a CIA officer