Listening to CAMRA Man, I don’t think Nigel likes Real Ale Bores. Must have had a bad experience with a beard as a child or something. Cheap Trick Live At The Budokan sounds even scarier though.
Listening to CAMRA Man, I don’t think Nigel likes Real Ale Bores. Must have had a bad experience with a beard as a child or something. Cheap Trick Live At The Budokan sounds even scarier though.
Paul
Nice website! I’ve got songs stuck in my head now..
However, in CAMRA Man I’m almost certain it’s
I want Dave and Barbara to refer me to the blackboard…
I could be wrong though!
Paul
1 March 2008
David dickies
I’ve got a Bonneville in bits but I’m gonna sort it out
Might read……but I’ll never sort it out
But it might not.
9 April 2008
chris
I’m gonna… stick with “gonna”. Opinion noted though!
9 April 2008
steve
Isn’t it
I want Dave the barman to refer me to the blackboard.
Thats what it sounds like and makes more sense if you know what I mean
23 June 2008
Dave
Guess the guest and win a night with…
should be
Guess the guest beer and win a night with…
26 June 2008
chris
Both of the two above read like they should be right, but don’t sound right to me on close listening. Unless anyone disagrees?
26 June 2008
steve
It is definitely
“Guess the guest and win…”
and on further listening I think you are probably right it is
“Dave and Barbara”
…can you believe i went and listened to it more than once to check?
It just goes to show that there really is nothing better in life than listening to the same lyrics over and over again on a Saturday night instead of going to the pub.
Keep up the good work
28 June 2008
Chesney wold
God i love this one. It’s practically perfect in every way. Usually there’s a little bit of bagginess, (as there is in virtually all lyrics), but I don’t think there’s anything slack in this. And learning that it’s Belstaff has just topped it off for me. I used to work in a factory with people who had the various attributes mentioned, i always picture a particular pub (The Cornhill in Rhayader, Mid Wales if anyone’s interested) where they went to drink. They were engineers and absolutely always tinkering with summat and I got a Belstaff jacket off one of them, but still never made the connection.
29 May 2009
Dagenham Dave
thank the Lord for this site, I’ve loved this song since I first heard it but never had a clue about the ‘Belstaff catalogue’. Thankyou.
18 October 2009
dagenham dave
Having spent years thinking it’s ‘Dave the barman’ I agree it’s ‘Dave and Barbara’. This fits with the image of the perfect pub with a happy couple standing behind the bar.
Discovered this (ignore the first advert)…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJ5lJ1R0nY
made me smile
1 March 2010
Chris The Siteowner
It is indeed “Dave and Barbara”, although probably not these two. Source
16 March 2010
Phil
On Peel it was a “Jack Dee biography” (shame), although oddly enough it was still a Sally James scrapbook.
26 March 2012
Hagerty F.
This is shamefully pedantic, but the back of the CD spells it C.A.M.R.A. Man, and the title above and throughout the lyrics has it as CAMRA Man.
2 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Shamefully?!!! On this site???! Have you no shame? (worthless prize for the first to identify that quote).
And anyway, CAMRA is pronounced CAMRA with or without the full stops, a rare FLA.
And being fat’n'old I can remember when they were SPBW.
2 July 2012
SPENCER THE HALFWIT
Even more pedantically, should it not be spelt Camra?
3 July 2012
John Burscough
CAMRA’s website has the FLA capitalised throughout (though their beermug logo might suggest cAMRA as more appropriate).
@ MiC Is the quote from Joseph Welch, attorney for the US Army at Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist Congressional hearings? If so, I claim the worthless prize for pointing out that it’s a misquote: Welch destroyed McCarthy’s reputation by asking “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
3 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Not the one I was thinking of, @John, though you’ve made me wonder whether I’ve remembered my source correctly. I’ll post my answer in a day or so and wait for someone to set fire to my shed.
3 July 2012
John Burscough
Marty Brown then?
3 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
@john. Nope. But you have unlimited goes.
3 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Oh – @john – don’t waste too nuch time searching online. I spent a worried hour this afternoon after you gave me the willies with your first guess and could find nothing to either confirm or deny my memory. Hint: a remarkably successful band took their name from the character who made the remark.
3 July 2012
John Burscough
In that case, I want Dave and Barbarella to direct me to the blackboard.
3 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Congratulations! You win my original copy of This Leaden Pall. The one I lent to an American who returned it with a bloody great scratch right across the playing area only days before fleeing the country. Perhaps NB could be persuaded to name him in a lyric.
Winner to collect, of course.
I contemplated several adjectives to describe Duran Duran’s career before settling on “remarkable”. I seem never to have bought any of their records. Odd that.
3 July 2012
John Burscough
How about “Notorious”?
3 July 2012
John Burscough
And “refer”, obviously.
3 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Definitely guest, as in “Two pints of guest, please”.
And IMO Cheap Trick did suck at Budokan, and elsewhere … except for I Want You To Want Me. Great look, though, truly wierd (I before E except after C).
6 July 2012
Archie D Walker
CAMRA Man could be yet another shot at my stepfather,he apparently disliked liverpudlians purely because he had his camera bag stolen from the front seat of his car…..
8 October 2012
Archie D Walker
…”8 months before u(me) were born…..”
8 October 2012