Fact of the Day: John Cooper Clarke's Gimmix featured session musician Stephen Morris on drums
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Text: Stephen Morris Record Play Pause autobiography https://t.co/xZ985BwFfz
Wow, amazing to see our first ever show as The League of Gentlemen was 30 years ago today. Happy Pearl anniversary @dysonjeremy@Markgatiss & Reece Shearsmitz🦪
Anyone looking for a good music autobiography I recommend this. It’s a really enjoyable read; funny, warm, and revealing. Morris comes across as not only a very down to earth, nice guy, but as a really big music fan. He goes pretty in-depth into the music he grew up with and what inspired him. And like with the books by his fellow Joy Division members, he makes it seem surprisingly fun being in the band, until it tragically wasn’t. Looking forward to part 2.
22nd September 1989 - The Horse & Groom, Great Portland Street
The Manics’ first London gig: no roadies, amps dragged upstairs, and homemade shirts sprayed with car paint. One of the first shows with Richey, and the first time they remember being properly applauded.
As Nicky put it: “a magical time - felt like the start of something beautiful.”
Anyone there that night?
In the orchards of England it is lore that at the end of each harvest the last apple should be left on the tree for the Apple Tree Man. He is the spirit who lives in the oldest tree and bestows fertility on the orchard. #FairyTaleTuesday#autumn#Fall
@nee_massey All human life is equal.
The lives that *seem* to be worth less are those in places others don’t care so much about. Either because it’s a long way away, or we somehow blame the people there for the events that brought the suffering. There’s a bit of the latter with Palestine.