John Otway - 2014

- and here's how he was in 1977. Really Free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkYOZyNocrw&list=PLNFjszFEzvAoUsR9HIARmgV0iOK86iKXz

Great to see nothing changes!

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not even in the betting

I liked the totp clip where, when the camera zoomed back in on him,he wasn't 'quite ready' to continue, and the fact hat the audience didnt quite know hat to make of the duo.

headbutts was a classic.

Went to see him and Wild Willy Barrett a couple of months ago.

A good night out. Before, during the break and after the shows they're both in the bar, having a beer and a chat with the punters. Barrett is a very good musician as it goes.

I'd love to see him live, Roger.

Tony Broke, I was trying to find the clip of where he fell off whatever he was standing on on one rendition of Really Free.
It may have been at the end of that TOTP broadcast but they didn't show it.
I can remember watching it at the time it happened and I couldn't stop laughing!

TT - I swear that's on youtube somewhere as a mate of mine told me to watch it about 6 months ago (I'd never even heard of the geezer before) - it was worth a watch but it wasn't exactly hilarious.

Persevere squire because it's there (or it WAS) - if I find it I'll post the link but I can't be arsed wasting 20 minutes of my shítty existence

i remember that 'falling off' - dont think willy was amused either!!

I had the single with beware of the flowers on b side.

It was on the Old Grey Whistle Test where he fell off the amp singing Cheryl`s Going Home.

Enjoy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8C-BwAbAdc&list=RD0lnRJuUGEvI&index=2

does it after 3:43 minutes

Excellent, Percy Filth!

I thought it was TOGWT that he did it on - and that was where I looked on YouTube the other night - but of Really Free.

However, I think there's a more spectacular fall by him on some other performance where he falls off the amp and really comes down with a crash that sends everything haywire.
It might be just my imagination, but that's how I remember it.

Percy - that's the one I saw a while ago...you've made Tommy's day

Read his autobiography (I Did It Otway)- he used to damn near kill himself and or his roadie some of the onstage stunts he'd pull

Never heard of the bloke and looking at footage of him on youtube I won't be rushing to see him.

Definitely an acquired taste

Fair enough roger. It would appear that his stories are better than his songs.

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I'd rather listen to John Otway than the Carpenters or Spandau Boring Ballet anyday!

I heard also that Wild Willy barrett once cancelled a live gig because he was watching the world cup on tv!

My mate went to see John Otway a few weeks ago expecting a gig and he gave a power point presentation on him being the most unsuccessful/useless man in rock music. Said it was very funny.

I can imagine. He's a very funny man.

Time to have another listen to his latest - 'OK Father Christmas'.

It really gets into your head!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqY9izDIwk&feature=player_detailpage

Apparently , he showed a video of his mum saying that he had no discernible talent for music when he was younger and failed to get in the school choir so she was quite surprised with his career choice of becoming a rock star.

hahaha!

mates wife booked him last year for husbands 50th(big fan).came down with roadie who doubled as bass player and driver,pub was packed.he stayed until early hours drinking with mate.very good value.

I am on the verge of advertising this song via the medium of facebook.  Not because the song is good, but because it isnt x factor.  However he does look like a total n.nce.  Has he ever been a friend of jimmy saville?  He certainly looks like he could have been.

Too late i have already posted it by total accident, meant to post SL2.  Seriously he does look like a wrongun, and he is from the era.  Regardless the song is growing on me.

Rob, he's always looked pretty crackers. Never even considered him being a wrong un though.

It's a cracking song when you've listened to it a few times. I keep having to have a fix of it every few hours!

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He's an Aylesbury bloke and there's never been a hint of anything to do with Savilry about him.

Plenty of other stories of his lunacy, but Savilry - never.

seen him a few times always puts on a good show, remember him launching himself off a speaker and doing a forward roll from about 5ft high, daft as a brush but very funny.

anyone remember an American  rocker called g.g allin or sumthing similar,i may be imaginginig this but sure i  saw  a small clip of footage of one of his gigs long ago  and he was singing in the mic and holding  a bottle of spirits vodka/whiskey and there was a hells angel type standing near him ,alin sauntered over and and while singing in the mic hit the rocker over the nut with the bottle ,started a fookin riot !

ive seen footage of allin, absolute madman, no one even comes close

yeah got to be the same fella ,like I said he was singing away in the mic ,the hells angel type was just chillin and out of the blue alin cracks him across the napper with the bottle !a few rockers/singers have gimmicks to remember em by morrisey the tree branch etc but alins party trick took it to another level ! his shows  must have been "interesting " !

haha! GG Allin sounds quite an act!

tommy there is lots of footage of gg and his his charmingly named backing band the murder junkies on youtoob ,just type in gg allin and the stuff comes up ! even a mock x factor audition !

GG Allin There is a youtube clip of him (I'm not searching for it by the way, one viewing is quite enough) where during the gig, bollock naked of course, he has the most hideous bout of diarrhea on stage and duly rolls about in it getting completely caked in the process. He then runs off stage and tries to hail a yellow cab, as you do. The camera was still on him and one cab did pull over only to see the state of him and the driver made his excuses and left sharpish

I've just read the report on Palace against Stoke Tommy and seems like a draw was a fair result.

I've just tried to watch some stuff, Foyleswar, but every time I click on something YouTube is asking me to sign in as the content may be 'inappropriate for some users'!

I'm fed up with creating accounts here there and everywhere and entering passwords and trying to remember them - so I most certainly aren't going to do a YouTube one.

I'll just have to imagine him belting someone over the bonce with a spirits bottle. That's good enough for me!

Yes Slippy. I was listening to the match on local radio and the draw was a fair result.

yeah tommy his concerts looked "fun" just watched part of one and it must be in his "calm period " he is bollack naked smothered in his own  blood and is fighting with  a few fans  nothing too extreme just sticking the boot in and haymakers ,he actually rammed a mic in his own gob and lost 6 teeth whilst "performing live "

Dearie me! He sounds like that bloke in Oz that a film was made about -  was he name Chopper?
He was of a similar nature!

my son went to the palace match said the 1st half decent the 2nd half boring draw about right !

Yep, that's what I gleaned from listening to the match too.

Got to get Otway's new song on this page too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqY9izDIwk&feature=player_detailpage

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Brilliant - I've found another version of this musical masterpiece by Otway with an introduction (Darth Cowell!) and the lyrics on screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Rgovy4U7I#t=17

This song does grow on you, I do admit.  Would be cracking if the radio stations gave it a bit of publicity.

I had never heard of JonOtway before TT mentioned him.  The B side is better, it is on facebook, not sure about youtube.

Here you go...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkn1hV5-ZVI

He got the a and b sides the wrong way round.  Rocking with the Reindeer, and you can actually here his, quite pleasant, voice on this one.  And some decent guitar work too.

I dont want to appear too smart about someone I only heard of in the last week, but fk me he clearly deserves his reputation.  He finally makes a half decent song and the dozy tw.t puts it on the b side.  Rocking with the reindeer is infinitely better, at a push it is proper good and worthy of a christmas classic.  Either way I love the guy already.

Excellent work, Rob!
It's very good - but not mad enough for me.

I like my Otway puddled - and 'OK Father Christmas' fits the bill nicely!

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haha!
Take a look at his 'Really Free' hit, Rob.
When he announced himself on the scene with that one it was like a breath of fresh air. Total lunacy!

This was him  singing Really Free on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPi42fj78IM

Cannot believe that link has only got 2 comments Tommy.

It might be one of the songs that they keep removing until someone puts it up again, Rob.

It happens all the time on YouTube so it (wrongly) looks like few people have bothered to watch it or comment on it - but thousands have done in the past.

That was exactly my point.  Sort of.

Haha! Okay!

Lyrics:

Chorus(backwards)
"OK Santa your so nifty
OK Santa you're so nifty                                 
Fly her up, fly her down
Fly her over, Fly around

Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen Comet Cupid Donner Bliitzen
Here's a surprise
Santa went on eBay, put a winning bid on an old working
Sinclair C5

Carol singers change the words from Rudolph will you guide my sleigh to
Make this thing fly
Hark the Herald Angels singing OK Father Christmas you can
Take to the sky

Mummy won't be kissing Santa when she sees what he has gone and
Parked in her drive
Loved you when you had a sleigh but I'm not sure you really suit a
Sinclair C5"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Rgovy4U7I#t=17

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♫♫ Parked in her drive! ♫♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Rgovy4U7I#t=17