25 Jan 2008
Wendy Wimbush on a spacehopper
Christian Rock Concert undertakes the tricky but ultimately necessary task of taking the piss out of Christian rock. Which is uniformly terrible. I have no idea if Wendy Wimbush is, was, or ever has been, associated with evangelical Christianity, or whether she’s just one of those people they had to get into a song somewhere, even if there was no obvious connection. Apparently our favourite cricket scorer was “forced into retirement by the beancounters at the ECB” according to the Guardian Unlimited’s wonderfully named David Hopps, who managed to mention HMHB and spacehoppers in what was probably his last opportunity, ever. Good work, Sir.
See lyrics of Christian Rock Concert
10 Letters Sent:
thatman
Do you think it should be league and not lig?
Oct 16th, 2009
s.g.d. a ShropshireLad
Possibly ” .. after the fire we’re a mess on the floor”
s.g.d.
Dec 12th, 2009
John Anderson
It’s “After The Fire were a mess on the floor”
ATF were a late 70s early 80s Christian synth pop band who had a minor hit with One Rule For You. It fits in perfectly with the subject matter of the song. .
Dec 12th, 2009
Daryl
Thanks for the info on After the Fire, John. I never knew that.
“The rural dean lay inert, In his John 3:16 shirt”
Has always been one of my favourite lines. Simply wonderful.
Dec 13th, 2009
Matt
Don’t know if you’ve checked it or not but – after playing the song backwards – I can confirm that the lyrics given here for the backwards bit are correct.
Aug 9th, 2010
Dave Wiggins
NB57 may well have been at the seminal Christian Rock concert in Hoylake, circa August 1978, featuring Wirral God-Botherers ‘Pieces of Glass’. They were friends with Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark, as I recall, and featured a lead singer who ranted from the Book of Revelation (yes) whilst an unlistenable guitar racket played around him.
Aug 8th, 2011
Charles Exford
Brilliant info’ that Dave. If genuine (you can never be too sure round these parts) I would have definitely seen that band during my own short-lived phase of god-bothering earlier in 1978.
Uh-oh, three coments in a row and I suppose I’m out.
Aug 8th, 2011
Dave Wiggins
Totally genuine, Mr E. They were introduced as “one of the best bands on the Wirral Christian scene”. The drummer was a lad called Andy Dowden, who you may or may not have known.
Aug 9th, 2011
Dave Wiggins
Just remembered postscript. In an issue of local (Merseyside) fanzine ‘Breakout’ – or, possibly, ‘Merseysound’ – circa 1981/2, ‘Pieces of Glass’ described themselves as being, ahem, “melodic pop with a dance beat”. I think I am right in recalling that I laughed. Coincidentally, it was in the very same mag that Half Man Half Biscuit (then, presumably, just a concept) received their first press, with an alleged demo being a work-in-progress and containing ‘Supercalafragalistic Borussia Moenchengladbach’ and ‘Bet Lynch is Big Titty’.
Aug 12th, 2011
Dave Wiggins
Thinking about this, the magazine must have been at least 1982, given that ‘John Wayne is Big Leggy’ (of which ‘Bet Lynch …..’ was clearly a pastiche) was a hit in the Spring / Summer of that very year.
Aug 12th, 2011
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