The Voltarol Years

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Christie Malry: if I recall the BS Johnson novel correctly, that’s a gloriously inappropriate pseudonym for a clergyman. Ferenc (post 159): I was a skinny indie kid of 12 when Rovers clinched the title – most of my matchday memories are pretty vague, although I do recall the victory celebrations after the Chatteris game with a little more clarity. Great photo halfway down this old article: https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/haverhill/sport/donning-the-all-red-kit-once-more-9069704/

It’s standard industry practice to have a ‘lead single,’ and now that they have a distribution deal it’s that company – Proper – who have released the ‘single.’ Sure enough the first 2 albums are riddled with them but by the 5th or 6th album there is an alarming decline. Only one ‘Renfield’ on Hedge. Wikipedia’s list of towns (not subdivisions of larger conurbations) in England without a railway station has Haverhill at 14th. Let’s face it, though, even Big in Japan weren’t ever big in Japan. But their singer was number one when ‘Big in Japan’ was number two. Neither ‘Big in Japan’ nor Big in Japan ever played live, or was ever played live, in Japan. It looks like the band are not only illegally parked, but have assumed that the narrow path belongs to them. How about I just walk in the road? You stay as you are, and I’ll just walk in the road.I might have known that not only would I be disagreed with, I’d also be put right! Just to add to my pain, I drive past No 3 on the list every day… Assuming that Manchester happens and that CDs will be available, I would hope that a fair few people on here who want to get the maximum dosh to the band will be asking other people going to the gig to get them off the stall for them. It’s fairly straightforward for me this song. I just thought that everyone when they were hanging around when they were 16 or 17, they had one mate who – he was OK, he was alright, but he was just slightly…might have been into karate or something (we weren’t, we were just into football and that) – he would have been into slightly different things. When I was writing it, it was “Christine Payne” not “Paine”. And it’s “Urbex Sean”, as in urban exploration, which I think is fascinating – although I’d never do it because I’d get my head spiked on something, like barbed wire. I look at stuff about it on You Tube quite a lot. If, for example, it was the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, an urban explorer would go down the parts that you weren’t supposed to go down, and he’d explore disused railways and so on. I do think it’s fascinating, and it’s the sort of thing that someone like “Sean” would do.

OK Sue, got a feeling it could be a Birkonian landmark or somewhere within a 50 mile radius but…all will be revealed in just 6 weeks!It’s a very bitty song, with a lot of different elements in – just to get a joke in about a monkey in Knowsley Safari Park! I’ve also submitted an early stab at Rogation Sunday. There is nothing better in life than deciphering the lyrics to new HMHB songs.

It’s a happy coincidence, but, weirdly, I do like William Barnes. No is the answer, but I do like him. With “privations” there’s a bit of double entendre going on, as in “privates”– I could be torturing him, perhaps. I’m not saying I am, though. In the event of nobody winning outright, the placename closest (on Google Maps) to one mentioned wins.”My first thought on hearing the album title was that it could be a play on The Monsanto Years by Neil Young. Haven’t seen them since the 90s in the city with beautiful sparkling healthy spa waters…..in BANES now unfortunately. Well Excited!!