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CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:01 pm

audiobot202 wrote: That being said...what are they like as guys on the street, that is?

They're Mancunians, so they probably wear big coats and walk funny...

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:03 pm

CypherOne wrote:
audiobot202 wrote: That being said...what are they like as guys on the street, that is?
They're Mancunians, so they probably wear big coats and walk funny...

your right you know,what is it about mancs that makes them that way?
this is the reason i moved here to study them in their natural habitat,innit!

audiobot202 · Post by **audiobot202** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:04 pm

Glassback wrote:BTW, just to clarify.
I'm not disputing that MP left, I'm just stating that at one time, GM also left and wouldn't even be in the same room as the rest, let alone on the same radio show.

fair enough. Like I said...what we hear officially and what you might hear as a mate is different. So, that's interesting.
I was always a bit disappointed that MP left the group. Even with Graham still there, they did seem to lose some sparkle. Hard to quantify really I think.
MC Tunes...geez you know...I always tho8ght hat album was BS...but listening to it again years later, it has some nice edge to it and is unmistakably 808 in style. A mate of mine used to go absolutely mental over it !
Annoyingly so. Even down to copying Tunes' dance moves !! *ouch*

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:04 pm

Dunno, I just remember Ian Brown (one of my heroes) being asked if Liam Gallagher stole his style and he said "I dunno, we all walk like that round here..."

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:08 pm

CypherOne wrote:Dunno, I just remember Ian Brown (one of my heroes) being asked if Liam Gallagher stole his style and he said "I dunno, we all walk like that round here..."

its true tho,and bizzarrely the smaller the manc the more exxagerrated the walk.
i may try and video some of the plebs round here one day,but i may need some protection or me camera will get nicked

audiobot202 · Post by **audiobot202** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:08 pm

I live many miles away in Adelaide, Australia so my vision is kinda filtered through a rose lens probably...even though I was born in the North of England and come from good Yorkshire and Lancs stock...I've never been back there. Would love to go and have a desire to see Mcr...as dreary and grey as it most likely is !!
It's all that 24 hour party people and Fac records and 808 acid being shoved down my throat for so long that probably coloured the lenses !!

Steve

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:09 pm

audiobot202 wrote: Would love to go and have a desire to see Mcr...as dreary and grey as it most likely is !!

Steve

its a shit hole and i to be honest cant wait till i can afford to get out of manc

waveriderarts · Post by **waveriderarts** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:18 pm

Lunatique wrote:
I think 808 State is probably one of the most sophisticated techno (it was called techno back then. Now it's probably called something else) band ever.

Yes you are right, I saw them live in 93 or 94, very very good music and sounds, using machines live... I taught of them also recently being at some Dj labtop concert: boy 808state was a lot better.

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:39 pm

audiobot202 wrote:what are they like as guys on the street, that is?

At first I was surprised cos they weren't what I was expecting, being 'superstars' and all.

No pretentions though, a love of music and beer, wicked humour... basically just LADS, know what I mean?
Beer swilling, womanising, music loving lads but with that sense of what's right and what's not.
Don't know how better to describe them than that really.
Not over-egotistical 'stars', just... lads.

(Except Tunes, who IS over-egotistical but is really an old washed-up has been that just won't accept it and still thinks all women should fall at his feet and all DJ's have got something to learn from him.

)

In fact they went out of their way to help out occassionally, for instance by getting people like Rowetta from the Mondays to come and do some radio jingles for us.

Also, just to name names, I'm pretty friendly with Graham Lambert (Carpets) who has a REALLY quiet voice and is really difficult to produce on the radio for exactly that reason, and have had dealings with Gilly - also from the Carpets.

In fact, thinking about it, it was actually Gilly who set us up with Rowetta.

* Took a bit of digging out from hundreds of mini-discs, but here ya go:
Stoned Love 1
Stoned Love 2
Hopefully, these'll work. *

mute · Post by **mute** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:51 pm

I'm still sticking to what I said earlier though, don't really care if you've talked chummy with them or not. There is no 808 State without Graham.

But anyways! Nice u mentioned the carpets,.. they get almost 0 recognition in the states anymore. I havent checked into them for awhile, might have to go see what they're up to. I was just listenin to devil hopping the other day..

mute · Post by **mute** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:55 pm

gah .. this reminds me of my lost Cool As F*** cassette =[[[[[ wonder how hard it is to pick that up nowdays.

Jbravo · Post by **Jbravo** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:23 pm

CypherOne wrote:I loved 'In Your Face' though, and still do...

oh yes! their finest choon - "bangin'" etc. etc

griels · Post by **griels** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:49 pm

What about Kubik:Elektronik? Brings back many fond memories

And of course Pacific 707

I rather liked 'Lopez' with James Dean Bradford too

Wonder what happened to Altern-8 now you mention it...

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:55 pm

griels wrote:
Wonder what happened to Altern-8 now you come to it...

They played at Leeds West Indian Centre a couple of years ago, f**king mental!

griels · Post by **griels** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:57 pm

donkey tugger wrote:
griels wrote:
Wonder what happened to Altern-8 now you come to it...
They played at Leeds West Indian Centre a couple of years ago, f**king mental!

Still wearing the same appareil? Was the Vicks Vaporub on hand?

Fans of 808 State?