The Alternative Rock Factfile. It's Back for a Christmas Edition!

[Diablo]

"The Meters" were, and still are, the only certified metric band in the USA.

[yorks5stringer]

Despite 1988's Spirit of Eden being hailed a masterpiece, Talk Talk split up not long after. A chance meeting with a mobile phone wholesaler however opened up a lucrative new career for them.

[yorks5stringer]

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"The Meters" were, and still are, the only certified metric band in the USA.
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22.860 cm Nails are not happy either...

Edited December 12, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[Japhet]

1970's pop duo Peters and Lee were really England footballers Martin 'The Ghost' Peters and Francis 'Shortarse' Lee. The dark glasses were used to hide a nasty black eye Martin Peters received from Leeds Utd hard man Billy Bremner at Elland Road in the FA Cup. Bremner re-invented himself as Leftie Folk Shoutie Protest Bloke Billy Brag in 1981 when he was forced to retire with cartilage problems.

Edited December 12, 2014 by Japhet

[leschirons]

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Old Etonians Chas and Dave went under-cover and worked in a pie and mash shop in Hackney to cultivate the Norf London accents.
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Hackney is in East London. No wonder I couldn't understand them

[yorks5stringer]

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Hackney is in East London. No wonder I couldn't understand them
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Not many rabbits in either location.

[yorks5stringer]

Old slapper Mark King had a very different career marked out for him as a young man. He was in fact first in line to succeed Queen Elizabeth but gave it all up to play in a pop band. He wrote "Running in the Family" as a protest against non elected monarchs and "Chinese Way" after hearing remarks by his father Prince Philip about some visiting dignitaries." Lessons in Love" was in fact a song about brother Charles and Diana Spencer. He looked on with wry amusement as Kate and Will met the First Couple of the USA last week. He'd met Jay Zee and Beyoncé ages ago at a jam session.

[yorks5stringer]

When 10 piece band Brand X broke up for the final time in 1999, singer Russell Brand decided to branch out into comedy. Following moderate success he went on to become an author.

[leschirons]

The original line up of the Dead Kennedys never played a gig. In fact, none of them turned up to any rehearsals either.

[yorks5stringer]

Equally "Dead or Alive" spent so much time wondering, they never managed to record anything.

Edited December 13, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[Diablo]

Ed Sheeran was created by Jim Henson's Workshop. A rare true fact in this thread of ridiculousness.

[yorks5stringer]

Hanson were fed up of being called "pop puppets" so they dumped the music,changed their name back to the original name "Henson" and resumed their career making puppets and mannequins. With some left overs and an old Mick Hucknall wig they created an unlikely singer songwriter called Harry Shearer. When the actual Harry Shearer threatened legal action, they slightly changed his name and the rest, as they say, is history.

A rare ridiculous fact in this thread of truisms.

Edited December 14, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[yorks5stringer]

American vocal group The Inkspots were popular in the 30's and 40's but could see change coming and decided to diversify away from music. Hermann Rorschach the singer devised a personality test which revolutionised its field. The others band members became 2 French waiters serving red wine, 2 people pulling at a butterfly, and a girl wearing a tuxedo.

[Diablo]

The Macclesfield-based tribute band of hard-rock outfit "Rainbow" is made up of the following members:

Cilla Black
Jason Orange
Jack White
Jake & Elwood Blues
Al Green
James Brown
P!nk

They play an eclectic mix of Rainbow songs interspersed with the classic rock favourites from bands such as Blue Oyster Cult, The Silver Bullet Band, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day etc. Well worth going to see in my opinion.

[yorks5stringer]

"Toxic" Singer Britney Spears has just launched a Hair Care range at Lidl Supermarkets. Some commentators feel this slightly ironic given a few years ago she totally denuded her body of hair in an effort to stop any drug sampling via her hair analysis. In the end she was prosecuted anyway as in her haste to remove all her body hair, she forgot about the plug hole! As the arresting officer Sergeant Ferguson-Brown said, "It was like a soapy blonde Brillo Pad".

Edited December 14, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[DaveFry]

After smashing his favourite Precision on stage with the Clash , bassist Paul Simonon designed and built an unbreakable instrument known as The Simonon Stick .
It was used as a vital ingredient in the MacArthur Park cake mix .

[Mykesbass]

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BC member Dave Fry's brother Tristan played drums with BC favourite Herbie Flowers in a band sponsored by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It all fell apart when they realised they really wanted to work with the film composer John Williams, not the classical guitarist.

[yorks5stringer]

Following Buddy Holly's death, his backing band were always mystified that they could only book Tours with promoters in the Summer.

Edited December 14, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[yorks5stringer]

Both James Blunt and Rocky Sharp and the Razors have clauses in their touring contracts that prevent Promoters booking them on the same billing.

[yorks5stringer]

Both Fleet Foxes and The Ozark Mountain Dare-devils have clauses in their touring contracts that prevent Promoters booking them on the same billing.

[yorks5stringer]

In a shock announcement, Shakespeare's Sister have announced they are disbanding. Spokesperson Joan was heard to comment, " Despite us being Touring constantly since the 16th Century, audiences have started to dwindle. We can't compete with Rap and Hip-Hop and other genres of urban story-telling". Cynics have suggested this is much ado about nothing however.

[ras52]

Funkster Jake Hay and his as-yet unnamed band were staying at a Premier Inn when Jake was paralysed by choice at the breakfast bar: strawberry conserve, or an exotic fruit from New Zealand? Eventually one of the other diners grew impatient and called the manager, who duly demand of Mr Hay, what's it going to be? Jam, or Kiwi?

[yorks5stringer]

It is an oft repeated but unsubstantiated urban myth that the phrase "That's got the Monkey off my back" was originally said by moon-walking singer Michael Jackson upon waking up in his Mansion one morning.

[yorks5stringer]

Flame-haired Singer "I think we're alone now" Tiffany literally is "alone now" as The Band "Deep Blue Something " have moved out. Commented Band leader Todd Pipes," We only went there for Breakfast 30 years ago and she did a lovely grilled mushrooms and fried bread but once she started serving Muesli, we knew it was time to leave".

[yorks5stringer]

Benny and Bjorn from Abba were doing some studio production work back in the late 80's and the band next door were the Stone Roses. They got talking and offered to mix a number the Roses were working on. All was going fine until the Bassist kept on messing up his line on "She Bangs the Drums". This happened repeatedly and in exasperation Benny exclaimed "Mani, mani, mani"! The rest, as they say is history.