12 Nov 2007
The burly physio of non-league Farnborough Town
Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite is notable for containing one of the oddest bits of trivia ever to occur in a pop song. HMHB have an awesome track record of mentioning people and places in their lyrics which suddenly go, er, tits up. From Rod Hull and Tony Bastable, to Rob Fisher of Climie Fisher, you wouldn’t want to get a namecheck in one of their songs, and not just because your name is probably being taken in vain. Anyway, it’s perhaps not surprising then that non-league Farnborough Town went into liquidation in 2007.
See lyrics of Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite
17 Letters Sent:
Pete T
Always thought it was “saw your pastel on the precinct floor”, but hey good effort.
Pete
May 2nd, 2008
chris
Another one we’ll probably never be quite sure of!
May 2nd, 2008
Treadmore
“torch songs” – I thought that would refer to something specific, like the Carly Simon LP, so would be “Torch songs”.
Oct 4th, 2009
Treadmore
nevermind, just read the wikipedia article
Oct 4th, 2009
dagenham dave
I agree with Pete T’s May 2008 suggestion about the ‘pastel on the precinct floor’.
Now I really must leave this site alone and go to bed……
Feb 25th, 2010
Dave F.
Yet again from the lyric book, it’s ‘pastelling’.
Tell me when I sound like a stuck record, won’t you?
Feb 25th, 2010
lurking like len
Does anyone know if “I’m Standing In The Road” was actually penned by said burly physio of non-league Farnborough Town?
May 17th, 2010
John Anderson
Sad to say it wasn’t.
May 17th, 2010
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
I think that they were all Villa fans though.
May 17th, 2010
lurking like len
it seemed so unlikely – i thought it might possibly be true!
May 24th, 2010
Neil G
From the Blackfoot Sue website:
“After coming home from a gig, they would unload their gear out of the van and straight away set it back up in their front room, ready for rehearsing and noodling out new song ideas. It was here that Standing In The Road was written, in January 1972, during an extended jam session, based on a rhythm that had come to David in a dream!”
I hoped it was true, I must admit. I don’t think any members of Blackfoot Sue ever went on to become burly physios, non-league or otherwise.
May 24th, 2010
Poolio
Not happy with Kenneth, Emma, although might be the two voices overlapping that confuse… sounds more like….
Kendif.. Emba.. althought can’t think what on earth might replace it….
And I think RADA should be R.A.D.A. or R A D A or R-A-D-A otherwise I want ot pronounce it Rada like Lada…
Home time – yippee!!
Sep 6th, 2010
Dave F.
Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson, who were married luvvies, darling.
Both slappable.
Sep 6th, 2010
Dougal
Rainer Werner is probably Fassbinder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder
R-A-D-A is probably The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (which Branagh attended):
http://www.rada.ac.uk/
Apr 6th, 2011
churl
Seems to be an unwritten rule on here that nobody should ever be churlish enough to point out the unwritten rules.
Like the fact that if it’s on hmhb.co.uk, well we assume everyone knows.
Not that Gez is always 100% right, but anyway I’m so churlish these days that I’ve turned into an actual churl
http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/records/Leaden.htm
Apr 6th, 2011
Chris The Siteowner
Ah, but Churles, you maybe assume that Gez’s site is somehow where HMHB fans live when they’re not eating or sleeping, whereas I’m going to humbly suggest that a decent number of visitors here have probably never been to that fashionably black place. We’re just approaching our 200,000th visit here since records began, and something like 55% of them came from Google. So straighten your tie (and your act), your ramblings may be one of the first things many people ever read about the band!
Apr 7th, 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
As Billy Boy once wrote:
“tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.”
Apr 7th, 2011
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