Music that makes you think of OTFers

[Patrick Thistle]

Just heard Why does it Always Rain On Me on the radio and thought of Balderdasha because she used to live in their house.

[MsD]

You can guess this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHF6ZOeI8Xc

[Balderdasha]

Funnily enough, I'd never watched the video for "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" (I never lived in a house with sky TV so never watched any channels like MTV. I've seen very few music videos. Watching some music videos with the kids on YouTube has been quite eye opening). I just watched it today. Pleasantly Scottish with a hint of surrealism.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I always thought Travis were deadly dull, but would be great value on a night out. No idea why.

[Satchmo Distel]

Vive Le Rock was played over here on radio shows commemorating the anniversary of Live Aid and I was wondering about MsD's memories of that performance.

[MsD]

Haha. Well ... do you really want to know? I think Adam was shafted by Geldof. The funniest thing for me is that Marco sold it to Chris (bassist) as “some charity gig Adam wants to do on Saturday, no dosh but might be a laugh”, so Chris still has the diary with “charity gig?” scrawled on the Saturday.

[Patrick Thistle]

You can guess this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHF6ZOeI8Xc

Yes. For so many reasons.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

[G-Man]

Haha. Well ... do you really want to know? I think Adam was shafted by Geldof. The funniest thing for me is that Marco sold it to Chris (bassist) as “some charity gig Adam wants to do on Saturday, no dosh but might be a laugh”, so Chris still has the diary with “charity gig?” scrawled on the Saturday.

What a great bit of background. But how was he shafted?

Talking of Mr Goddard, he used to come to a restaurant in Chelsea where I worked in 1985/86. I think he used to come with his dad. I wasn't particularly impressed by celebrity, because we used to get many of them. I was always surprised by how shy some of the most flamboyant performers were. And when in conversation I recall hat observation, Adam Ant is my go-to example. Not much of a dandy highwayman, he didn't look flash, nor did he grab my attention. He was shy and polite and utterly unremarkable. It's how we liked our celebs, tbh.

[MsD]

Adam expected to be able to do three songs, I believe, if he’d known it would be one they might have done something other than VLR. All bands have their ideas for the arc of a set, even short sets, so are wrong-footed by having to cut it short.

[Jah Womble]

Yes, he's often pulled up for performing Vive le Rock at Live Aid. (Rather unfairly, it must be said.)

Guess the punters just wanted a whistlestop 'Adam-on-45'-kinda thang.

[MsD]

Also Chris is still beating himself up for wearing double denim to the “charity gig”; if he’d known he’d have dressed up.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Yes, he's often pulled up for performing Vive le Rock at Live Aid. (Rather unfairly, it must be said.)

Guess the punters just wanted a whistlestop 'Adam-on-45'-kinda thang.

Live Aid has been covered on a couple of podcasts recently, with it being the anniversary, so I'm not sure who said it but it was pointed out that he certainly wasn't the only artist to do new material (also some did album tracks, some even unreleased album tracks) but is always the one pulled up for it (mainly because it was his only track of course).

[Various Artist]

I've learned something today – I've always heard how he got a kicking for it, but never knew until right now that it was the only song he got to do. Certainly paints things in a different light if he was expecting to, er, stand and deliver the hits afterwards.

Though I'm not sure whether "Your money or your life" would've been a highly appropriate or highly inappropriate refrain that day, had he got to that one.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Not as bad as the kicking Duran Duran got for their mangling of "View to a Kill".

[Various Artist]

Ah yes, the Bum Note Heard Round The World. Poor old Simon.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Yes, he's often pulled up for performing Vive le Rock at Live Aid. (Rather unfairly, it must be said.)

Guess the punters just wanted a whistlestop 'Adam-on-45'-kinda thang.

If I remember correctly, Elvis Costello only got one song as well. He picked a rather more appropriate one (All You Need is Love).

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Ah yes, the Bum Note Heard Round The World. Poor old Simon.

I think was when he had his breakdown and tried to sail his yacht to Rio and got about as far as Falmouth before it sank. I might be misrembering this.

[Satchmo Distel]

If I remember correctly, Elvis Costello only got one song as well. He picked a rather more appropriate one (All You Need is Love).

Performed on acoustic guitar.

[G-Man]

One of the highlights of the day.

[pebblethefish]

I've just realised that I've got a complete false memory of watching Live Aid. I was playing cricket, got out to a slower ball for 49, and came back into the pavilion where the rest of the team were watching the concert. Except that that was a team I joined in 1987, so it couldn't be true. Now I'm going to have to rack my brains to figure out a) where did I actually watch Live Aid, and b) was there another charity Wembley gig in the late 80s that I'm confusing it with?

[Various Artist]

Could a.) be related to the 10th anniversary reshowing they did on the BBC? I'm too young to remember the original Live Aid broadcast, but I distinctly recall what it was like seeing the all-day rebroadcast of it in 1995.

And b.) probably, yes. Live Aid helped spark a whole rash of these things, didn't it?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

There was a big event at Wembley around Easter 1992 for AIDS after Freddie Mercury died but I can't remember if it was an all day thing or just in the evening.

[Various Artist]

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, which raised money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust for AIDS research. It was an evening thing, as far as I recall, as it was 'only' a few hours long – I have clear memories of watching it on a black-and-white TV, of all things. Which makes it seem like it must've been about 1976, but I was 12, my parents were watching other stuff in the living room and even in 1992 that was the only alternative we had in the spare bedroom.

[Jah Womble]

I think was when he had his breakdown and tried to sail his yacht to Rio and got about as far as Falmouth before it sank. I might be misrembering this.

He certainly talked about something similar once in an embarrassing, sweary, coked-up interview on Saturday Superstore (ie, kids' TV) with Mike Read.

There was a big event at Wembley around Easter 1992 for AIDS after Freddie Mercury died but I can't remember if it was an all day thing or just in the evening.

Depends which invitation you got?