You're going on after Crispy Ambulance

I used to have Crispy Amulance's 'The Plateau Phase' - an early LP if not their first. It was not good!!

Nigel

Fuckin' Hell it's crispy ambulance



SJB

I've returned to today's new CDs - Altan, Grada and Sweeney's Men much much better IMHO.

Well, I have to stand up for Crispy Ambulance, as their days at Factory and Factory Benelux were good.

'Live on a Hot August night' is a good piece of drone - space rock

Thier recent resurgence has not brought forward any new great moments unfortunately.

I wonder if Ambulance (I am a Star, I am an Angel) are inspired by them?

DS

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Originally posted by ROTF:
When on Running Order Squabble (This Leaden Pall), Nigel sung "You're going on after Crispy Ambulance", I thought it was a joke.

However I now discover, courtsey of a friend, that there is indeed a group called Crispy Ambulance and they have their own web site too and have been around for some 30 years.

To avoid any future confusion caused by HMHB obscure references (such as 'Svarc rejects new layer terms') see:

http://www.hmhb.co.uk/

Jim Smith (the Bald Eagle) signed Bobby Svarc (b 8th Feb 1946 in Leicester) for Colchester United in the early seventies for £6,000. He was a forward, he played 28 matchee for the [B]Layer Road[B] club and scored 21 goals. However at the end of th season he couldn't agree terms and followed Jim Smith to second division Blackburn Rovers, where he was top scorer in 76/7. His career was halted by a serious injury. He went on to become a Jehovah's Witness.

The HMHB site is excellent and Geoff Davis does a great job at Probe Plus.

Anyway next time I'm at wedding and they play that same old collection of 60/70s dance tracks, I'm going to wait for the DJ to ask for requests and ask for Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis or perhaps some John Downland.

I was reading an Odin Solskjaer article (16 March 2004) in the Manchester Night & Day about Evil Gazebo

Evil Gazebo could write jingles for products that haven’t been marketed yet. We come to a chorus with a refrain almost exactly like Motorhead’s “Killed by Death” only it sounds like he’s shouting “Nordic Steel!” And an apt tribute it indeed would make to a Scandinavian ferrous compound with its brutish big rock riffs reminiscent not surprisingly of erm…Motorhead and possibly ACDC. The idea of a heavy metal band that exclusively peddles songs for adverts has now infected my grey matter. The next song may have started but I’m begging at each of the song’s changes for another chant of “Nordic Steel!” If there was such a product I’d be compelled to buy steel products that I didn’t even need. No such luck! Although Evil Gazebo are at least capable of a fairly catchy little refrain.

We are truly in the land of comedy rock. Jack Black is present at the register and we laugh…for a little while. Evil Gazebo’s equally portly front man certainly reinforces the stereotype possessing a pretty awesome hard rock growl. As with the majority of musical comedy acts the novelty rubs off. The first of rhyming “Stockport” with “Rockport” (Why hadn’t I thought of that one before?) in an ode to a scally cesspool is amusing the first time but sadly it deserves no repeat. But bugger that! You’re calling awaits in a land across the North Sea. Just think of the possibilities - cutlery, ball bearings, even girders. Damn it! I want some of that Nordic Steel!

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Originally posted by David Slater:
Well, I have to stand up for Crispy Ambulance, as their days at Factory and Factory Benelux were good.

'Live on a Hot August night' is a good piece of drone - space rock

Thier recent resurgence has not brought forward any new great moments unfortunately.

I wonder if Ambulance (I am a Star, I am an Angel) are inspired by them?

DS

I agree, DS. "The plateau Phase" is a fine work, and "Concorde Square" from the "Live On A Hot August Night" is a masterpiece. But you're right - everything they did after 1984 was rubbish.

I remember going to see them at the Venue in Victoria, London, playing in front of about 16 people - they were magnificent! I taped it - I must dig the cassette up sometime...

K