Leonard Smalls

Arf McSnigger-Chuckle!

I saw 'em in the 80s... He never said owt daft, but his band were absolutely kicking! Great gig.

Usually it's Bootsy. But as someone has already mentioned the funkiest mutha ever, I'll go for Mr Trujillo - especially in Suicidals and Infectious Grooves days:

Annoyances for me are: -folks who noddle away loudly at rehearsals, oblivious to the fact that the rest of the band are actually trying to work out the song structure - guitarists who can only get "their sound" by having their distortion pedals set to full gain on everything, so when they aren't playing the amplified system-noise is almost as loud as when they are! Our guitarist does this, and now the whole band turn to him and say "this wouldn't happen if you had a Helix!". And the guitar man would usually say "I can't get my sound with one of them, it's digital" (he hadn't tried one). So at our album recording recently the engineer mentioned his noisy pedals, so we tried my Helix which gave him better tones with absolute silence in between. Hopefully he'll buy one!

I remember seeing an early Coldplay supporting Muse at London Astoria (shows how long ago it was). They were a complete snoozefest! Still, each to their own!

Always a floorfiller when I was one of them DJs...

You know how it is when you nip off to the bathroom to drop the kids off at the pool? Then no-one apart from you can go back in there because of the stench of death? Well I've rolled mine in both glitter and hundreds and thousands plus 3 coats of varnish and 1 of clear resin, and I can still barely listen to the whole thing! You guys are going to enjoy this!

Or joint 5th, depending on how you count it 😝 Still, I'm aiming for nul points next time at best, or at worst, instant disqualification and a lifetime ban 🤘

You should never have given me hippos. You knows how dangerous they are!!! All I'm saying is, Be Afraid... Be Very Afraid!

I don't think Turner and Drinkstable are necessarily comparable - Turner was far more impressionist and Constibule more idealised. Neither of which apply to Mrs Moloko. Dali, however, was surrealist in a "that's fookin' mad, that!" sort of way, whereas Ms. Murphy was only surreal in the same way that someone might say "that's surreal" when actually they meant something else entirely. In her case, the sort of art I'd compare her to is this amazing restoration:

I attempted to watch Raisin Murpy's set earlier... Despite all the positive comments here I found it a bit painful. It was like, faking the funk - a reasonable backing band playing funk-by-numbers; they were all hiding at the back of the stage somewhere while Ms Burpy strode about in a completely out of time fashion, occasionally doing some sort of "dance move" which was even more out of time and generally a bit bizarre. Then she strapped on a weird green thing, strode about a bit more in her big trousers and somebody started with a horrible electronic cymbal thing which just pecked at me 'ed. So I turned it off and watched Bootsy Live At North Sea Jazz Festival dvd instead.

Whodafugisthat?

Obvs! I'm all about The Folk, The Whole Folk And Nothing But The Folk... Don't Fake the Folk!

Make it something wild and crazy, and above all, funky as feck!

Aye! As The Doors sang long ago "De doo de doo de, doo de da doodoodoo, doo de da doodoodoo, Some People Are Tw@ts"...

👌🤘 More importantly, who's going to get the next photo sorted? You won before Mr. Soup? If not I vote you choose!

Aye, but I meant Dub Band or LKJ era...

I'd have liked to play in Dennis Bovell's band...

You'd be most welcome. While they were funky as, I don't think I'd have liked the constant fines for missing a note!

I think it may have been considerably more than that!

Bootsy, in the Parliament rather than James Brown, days. It was just about Funkin' For Fun! And obviously shedloads of drugs, which of course would make it very difficult to stand up on those platform boots.

But it's not their job to be as confused as him! 😁

Just watched 'em... What a glorious racket! There was, after all, some Good Stuff at the fest!

This is my favourite Crass thing...

It's a fix, I tell ya! Still, pub tonight...