Comments on: Squid yes, not so octopus

By: Bobby String

Bobby String — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:59:14 +0000

@Steve Nicholls

If Nigel does have an Aga, I bet he at least knows how to use it!

By: Ric-ardo

Ric-ardo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:23:48 +0000

My post of over 14 months ago – or post 34 (are those numbers new, or is it that I’ve just noticed them?) – seems to have passed without effect.

May I reiterate my request to have the hyphen in noseband removed? I am prepared to offer a “remove one erroneous hyphen, remove one free” deal, by suggesting that the one in packhorse be removed also.

By: @steve_nicholls

@steve_nicholls — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:21:08 +0000

I hear “Kids in Aga shops”. But that doesn’t really make as much sense as Argos shops.

Although does anyone say “Argos shops” – isn’t it just Argos?

I bet Nigel’s got an Aga….

By: @steve_nicholls

@steve_nicholls — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:05:50 +0000

Man charged with having photo of someone having sex with a dead squid – the charge was amended after it was admitted the animal could have been an octopus…

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:28:08 +0000

No hyphen in noseband.

A question mark after June?

By: @steve_nicholls

@steve_nicholls — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:28:08 +0000

fair enough … I must admit on my first hearing, I thought they were singing “Bend the aviaries”.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:28:40 +0000

Steve, we all knew Nigel sang “aviaries” at least once on the album version (and at least 4 times on the Peel version), but precisely because they are messing about, as he said in that interview, it’s not clear that all the vocalists on all the vocal tracks are singing a “v” sound on those last 3. In fact I’d say they definitely aren’t.

By: @steve_nicholls

@steve_nicholls — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:29 +0000

Surprised that the Avaries thing is still hotly debated after NB57 confirms this in the interview quoted above.

Which in itself suggests that it would be finches that spark the question “what’s them things there?”

BTW, in the “Evil Gazebo” discussion, I have accepted that my “remorse course” suggestion was wrong. Listening to HMHB on headphones makes such a difference (as with most music, I guess)

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:22:28 +0000

You’re quite right Neil, I remember now that it’s all perfectly clear from the Peel version and that’s why I didn’t feel the need to ask about this one.

On the album version only one of the four sound like a clean “aviaries”, and it’s either cos of this ‘double tracking’ business or it’s a cock-up on the backing vocals.

By: Neil G

Neil G — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:04:35 +0000

Listen to the Peel Session version. It has Nigel singing on his own and it is clearly Aldershot, finches and aviaries.