Conference marvin::uk_music

     I sorry to say that I haven't got any Bay City Rollers records , but I
    do have a rather fetching pair of Tartan trousers and a couple of
    scarves which you could tie round your wrists and look very trendy .

    thanks but no thanks.Colin must have some as i have been
    told he is a great fan of them
    
    Audrey

    Audrey,I have the single sham a sham and i am also the proud owner of a 
    white jumper with a tartan front which Alan Longmuir and Les McEwan
    both touched....If you are interested i will sell you both for 3 Zonks.

    Thanks
    Colin Iwill only be to glad to buy it
    
    Audrey
    

    Oh what a shame. I only recently had to throw away my BSR tea towel
    which was worn paper thin.  I think I cleaned my shoes with it in the
    end.  I didnt know it would be a valuable item one day.....
    
    
    diana

    I got a copy of Nick Lowe's song he tried to get out of his contract
    with, called "Roller Show":
    
    Gotta see the Rollers....
    Got a thing for the Bay City Rollers....
    
    Gad, what a song.....
    
    Puke....
    
    Jay Tashjian
    

    
    
    
    The GAY City Strollers :-) I had a crush on them when I was 13...
    almost like my daughter is now with the Old Kids on the Block :-)
    I have to admit I would be curious as to know the where abouts of
    some of the members.. I mean I heard that Les was GAY, and that Eric
    had tried to commit Suicide, and my heart throb at the time... was Alan
    is it Longmier????? I mean it was just something about a man pushing 30
    wearing nickers :-) and high top sneakers :-)... although over here in
    the states last summer People magazine had an article on old teaner
    boopers and what they are doing these days.. and has a small picture of
    Eric and said that he used to be a drug addict... Those NICKERS will do
    it to you ALL the time :-) Maybe he had them pulled up too high, and
    just couldn't take the pressure any longer :-) :-) :-)  Anyway, if
    anyone has any info.. then come forward..... Its ok to come out of the
    closet now alright :-)
    

re .l

Congratulations!


You have won the Don Casey award for the most smilies in a single note.

Paul

    I just thought I'd add this...

    

    ~~Shang-a-lang-a-wamma-bam-shooby-do-wey!~~~

    HOT NEWS!! (Speculation Specialist dept.)
    ==========
    
    Midge Oo-er to reform sub-Rollers weenybop outfit 'Slik' following demise 
    of pomp-synth dinosaurs 'Ultravox'???
    
    - Bob

    ...you've been drinking again bob haven't you ??...

    Not that anyone's really interested...

    The Bay City Rollers have reformed (again).

    I know this because they were on Jim'll Fix-It, someone actually wrote in
    after all this time and asked to meet Les McKeown. As they played a medley
    of their greatest hits, she stood there swaying from side to side with a
    tartan scarf above her head.

    D���

    Yep, - Tim, you are right, but it's the only way to cope with rock+roll
    stardom.
    
    I believe the re-formed Rollers have been around for a while, and have
    been doing great things in the USA. Perhaps one of our Transatlantic
    correspondents can confirm/elaborate.
    
    Bob
    
    p.s. What chance of Pilot re-forming?

	>> p.s. What chance of Pilot re-forming?

	I saw them live at Bristol's Colston Hall  once upon a time .....
	they were supporting Cockney Rebel if memory serves me correctly ....

	"January" ,  "A glass of champagne"   how could we ever forget 
	such classic ditties as these ??  ^;)

		Paul


 			

>>	"January" ,  "A glass of champagne"   how could we ever forget 
>>	such classic ditties as these ??  :^)
    
    Dunno, but Glass of Champagne was Sailor wasn't it?
    
    Mark
    
    PS I think comparing Pilot with BCR is a BIT unfair. After all they did
    write their own material (whatever you think of it) and could play
    their instruments. Also they didn't wear tartan troosers!
    
    

    Glass of Champagne was indeed Sailor. Now why do I remember these
    things???
    
    Bob

and when Sailor dis-banded...
a chap by the name of Kajanus went on to form another band by the name of
DATA with a lass called Frankie. Remember tracks called "Fallout" and "Stop"?

Their last LP "Elegant Machinery" was really good especially track "Paint Me
In Blue"



Peter

   And most of Pilot went on to become most of The Alan Parsons Project, so
   they were definitely in a different league to the BCR...

   �Paul�

    Hey! We're  all forgetting the ground-breaking Rubettes and their aaah... 
    seminal wax cutting (blah blah) "Where It's 'At"...sigh! I remember my
    first `real' girlfriend had that. And she was French (!) Good news
    travels fast in Europe. Sigh...now if only they'd reform for 1992...

    - A Fan Writes
    

    RE: The Rubettes
    >...now if only they'd reform for 1992...
    
    Well they would have to disband first.  They are doing some dates with
    Mud.  Sweet are still going too.
    
    TP

    Hey, Tim! Your girlfriend wasn't from Dole, in N. France, was she? The
    reason I'm asking is that many years ago, a French girl arrived on my
    doorstep having travelled from Dole to Welwyn; she was looking for the
    Rubettes, and was convinced our house was where the singer's mother
    lived.
    
    Bob

    She wuz from Paris Bobeth. She wuz a "...young Parisienne..." (cue Adam
    Ant vocals and trouser-dance...). And she was `chouette'!

    - A Fan Writhes
    

    >>Dunno, but Glass of Champagne was Sailor wasn't it?

	Ooops ... thanks for pointing out my memory loss Mark

	It WAS Bristol and it WAS Cockney Rebel though .....  I think !

		Paul

    
    Hey. You lot are really missing out.
    
    Over the past couple of months here in Ayr (Scotland) we have
    had....
    
    Suzi Quatro
    
    The Rubettes
    
    Mud
    
    AND the Bay City Rollers all playing at a local nitespot. The Rubettes
    actually had a girl singing lead vocals. Mud have not changed at all
    and were great live, and as for Suzi Quatro..well what can I say..!!!
    
    Billy.

    
    Re .24
    
    Sounds neat...
    
    sounds neat, i really love your...
    
    Oh no! :^)
    
    Mark

    
    
    Ok, I was the one who put in .8 and asked for some GOSSIP :-), and 15
    notes later... NOTHING :-)... Nada.... lets make some up :-), Actually
    I think it would be a blast from the past to go to a night club and 
    relive the Roller days :-), but a few notes back, someone mentioned a
    TV show with a girl who was waving her scarf :-) that is a riot... I
    wouldn't go that far.. but after a few drinks in me, I might start
    screaming :-)
    
    And re: .9 with my :-) marks.... I'm just a happy person what can I
    say? the Rollers do it to me :-) actually I have to cover my BUTT and
    make sure that people know that I'm only joking in my replies :-)
    
    
    Kelly

    
    
    I'll name that tune in 1 !!
    
    OK. Maybe they weren't so great, but I knew most of what they were
    playing. It's not until you hear groups like this play live that you
    realise just how many hits they had and how big they really were at the
    time.
    
    But Suzi Q was fantastic! ;^}
    
    
    Billy.

    >>  .... I'm just a happy person what can I say? the Rollers do
    >>  it to me :-)

    You ought to be ashamed of yourself kelly...(---> -;)

    >>  OK...in .8 (I) asked for some GOSSIP :-), and 15
    >>  notes later... NOTHING :-)... Nada.... lets make some up :-)...

    What would you like to hear ? I've also heard the story about one of
    the Roller boys overdosing on smt on other and waking up with a crowd
    around him.

    Les McKeown is now part-owner in a skittles alley in Putney holding
    down a house, a wife and four children (but not necessarily in that order).
    Woody emigrated to L.A. in the early 80's where he teamed up
    with ex-Monkees Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith to form an acceppalla
    outfit that's toured the Southern States to much praise for many years
    now...blah blah...

    And all Roller members regularly jet back to Scotland to tour the small
    parish halls that dot the coastline and where time has stood still and
    in every lassie's heart it's still summer '74 and we're all just godfrey
    about `summer love sensation'....and we ran with the gang...(Oh shut up!!
    - Ed)...

    - Tim
    
    

    
    
    
    Uh Oh...
    
    
    Sounds like Psychorollermania to me, all this "Pussy footin' and a
    puttin' it round...." stuff.
    
    .........who wants a dance? :-)
    
    
    B.

    
    
    
    	Les McKeown sang the theme song to a TV series soap type thing
    	about horse racing, here in Germany last year (or was it the
    	year before). It was released as a single, the song was terrible
    	but the video was quite good. Don't know if it was released
    	anywhere else though.
    
    	Tim.

    
    re .30
    
    Tim,
    I'll bet #20 each way that nobody listened to the song furlong (for
    long)!!!
    
    Sorry.
    
    
    B.

    
    
    Ok, when I said that the Rollers do it to me... I didn't mean it in
    that sence of the word :-), I mean Sh*T! that would be BEYOND desperate
    ;-) and even though I'm still single, I haven't hit that yet!  I think
    I was thinking back of when I was 13 :-).
    
    
    Anyway, back to the cheap gossip :-) I wanted something on the 2
    brothers Alan and Derek, they seemed to be the only normal ones at the
    time, I mean their hair didn't stick up :-), and I think their pant
    legs were a tad bit longer then the others :-).
    
    Actually the only really nice descent popular song they sang that was a
    hit over here in the states was "The Way I feel tonigh" Remember that
    one?  Then after that they faded away... almost like Twin Peaks did :-)
    Maybe they killed Laura Palmer? Or maybe LEBOB is an angry X-Roller
    fan...... We could go places with this one....

    >>  ...the...only decent song they sang that was a hit over here in the
    >>  states was "The Way I feel tonigh" Remember that one? 
                                   ^^^^^^
    Is this somebody's name ?? I tell you these boys really were seminal.

    >> I wanted something on the 2 brothers Alan and Derek... 

    They were 28 when they found out that they were twins all along.
    Happy ? Actually I think they gave "A Tonic To the Troops" during the
    Falklands scrap. Whaddya mean `did they sing' ??

    - Tim

    
    Some late news just in....
    
    The BCR have reformed with a new lead singer,some female called kaz
    who is married (I think) to Woody,Derek and Alan Longmuir are still
    with them and Pat McGinlay (remember him,he only lasted a couple of
    months with the rollers when they 1st started out) and they  are
    playing at night clubs through out Scotland.   
    
     	f you have any sense...don't go and see them  :-)
    
      SQF Jambo #1
    

    Colin
          Just because you went to see them and didn't like them....
    doesn't meen that other eejits wouldn't enjoy the show...

    Sidney.....
    
    
    Can I borrow you BCR scarf and tartan shirt....??
    
    Ill let you borrow my Bros scarf for the night...!!