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Saturday, February 07, 2004 |
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| Topics for Saturday, February 07, 2004 1. Football violence - do they mean us?!! - rob.a32 2. leaping to the defence of BRMC - Stephen.Whyte @ lpc.tv 3. Mark King on BBC1 - James Watkins 4. We Took The Village By Suprise... - dean.osborn 5. Sport - dean.osborn |
| 1. Football violence - do they mean us?!! |
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| From: | rob.a32 <rob.a32 @ ntlworld.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:19:33 -0000 |
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| Lot of guff spouted (again - yawn!) about football/soccer violence here in the UK. Not a mention yet about the scenes in Boston after the 'Pats' Superbowl win on Sunday. Sure I saw cars burned, overturned and didn't someone die in the carnage? Kettle, pot, black etc. I think. | ||
| 2. leaping to the defence of BRMC |
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| From: | Stephen.Whyte @ lpc.tv <Stephen.Whyte @ lpc.tv> |
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| Date: | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:07:28 +0000 |
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AG wrote: >Hard to argue with that, frankly. See if they'll go >and see someone like, say, Black Rebel Motorcycle >Club. Atrocious band, but think of the reputation. Oh, come on now. That's low... >Personally, I don't see why people have such an issue >with number 2. Other people are almost invariably a >pain in the backside at gigs - in fact in life in >general. But if you insist on not going alone, then I >will agree to be there on condition you a) buy me a >ticket b) find a way to convince me to go to London >(quite a tricky one this) and c) promise that we'll >dislike each other once we do meet. I've been to a couple of gigs on my own before. The most recent gig I went to on my own was to see Mike perform at The Goose pub towards the end of last year. Thing is though, some sort of company is nice before the gig, between bands and then to discuss it with afterwards. But to answer your three conditions, i have to say the following: a) sing for it, b) i know your feelings on this fine city, so it'd be like drawing blood from a stone, (or getting responses from MK for the Q&A section of L42.com), and c) what do you mean "once we do meet..."? Just in case though, i'll be sure to wear my BRMC t-shirt, get miraculously drunk and stand right in front of you at the gig. Steve *************************************************************************** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or its associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail it.support @ fremantlemedia.com if you require further assistance. *************************************************************************** | ||
| 3. Mark King on BBC1 |
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| From: | James Watkins <james @ bpbaxter.co.uk> |
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| Date: | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:24:17 -0000 |
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| 4. We Took The Village By Suprise... |
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| From: | dean.osborn <dean.osborn @ bt.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:31:14 -0000 |
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| From A.G on Weds... >>Had it been an inadvertent exposure, I'd agree with >>you; but it was the calculated nature of this sleazy, >>nasty little stunt that I suspect has caused such >>offence. It wasn't even as if it fitted thematically >>at the end of a particularly raunchy routine - had >>that been the case then although it would still have >>been ill-judged and in poor taste given the time of >>the event, at least there would have been some >>'artistic' justification for it. But within the >>context in which it occurred, it was needlessly >>gratuitous and, without wanting to come on too Mary >>Whitehouse about it, dangerously close to a depiction >>of sexual molestation in the name of entertainment. Andrew, I know that you don't follow the NFL, but for those like me that do, I'm finding the whole attitude of the American media and NFL themselves smacks of complete hypocrisy over this. The League knows that sex sells, and dresses it's cheerleaders in very skimpy and suggestive uniforms with extremely suggestive dance routines, and let's not be coy here, they know that men at football games ogle them and use their imagination. So for the NFL to parade women in that fashion and then throw their arms up in disgust at JJ's breast is gross hypocrisy - what are they saying ? Suggestion is fine but revelation is out of bounds ? For that matter, the NFL has it's own TV channel where their own people talk about the points spread on the game, yet the league shuns betting completely - more hypocrisy ! They have beer sponsers and let you drink at the staduims yet pour scorn on the players who have one too many. They talk about the protection of children yet play (repeatedly) a song by a convicted peodaphile (Gary Glitter's ROCK N ROLL) over the stadium P.A - Gross hypocrisy at it's worst. Let's not even go into the subjects sung by the half time music artists , and they say this is family entertainment... My point ? - all of this stuff happens week after week in the NFL and no-one bats an eyelid, so why the big deal now ? Perhaps one of the American digesters can provide an insight for us into the Psyche of the U.S media, because i'm baffled ? Dean | ||
| 5. Sport |
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| From: | dean.osborn <dean.osborn @ bt.com> |
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| Date: | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:48:16 -0000 |
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| Not to take anything away from Loz or AG, but I feel I must apologise somewhat as it was my original post backing the Panthers for the Superbowl that started this whole sports thing - then again - it does seem to have kick started the digest again to something akin to the old days so maybe it was a good thing. Anyway - great to see so many original characters back again, AG, Loz, Andre, Colin etc.....now all we need is a new Level 42 album...hmm Dean |
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