A number of people have asked me about the Dublin show referred to by Stuart in Issue 11 (page 11), where the band supposedly played songs that they had never played live before, or since. Well I do have a tape of the show, but it doesn't contain any of the "extra" tracks - presumably whoever was bootlegging the show didn't take enough tape !
It was announced on 14 November that Stuart had been beaten into second place by Radio One's Nicky Campbell for the honorary position of Rector of St Andrews University, Edinburgh. Third place was Viz comic's Billy the Fish !
"Beautiful People" did manage an entry into a BBC Top 40 after all. on 6 December it stood at no. 36 on the Heavy Metal/Rock chart, as announced on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show amongst such luminaries as Metallica, Nirvana et al ...
Some of you may remember that in an previous issue of "WSNS" I made mention of a racehorse called "Big Country". Well, John Turner from Pontefract, who works in a bookmakers, has sent me details of a greyhound with the same name as your favourite band.
Ox 4-55 450 M 11TH
1 BIG COUNTRY
2 SPIRAL BENNY
3 GOBBINSTOWN FOX
4 GREENANE YANK
5 BOLD RELATIVE
6 BEARAS SWIFT
John says ... " ...I can report that our favourite hound ran absolutely nowhere, a bit like Big Country singles these days really !"
A huge "thank you" to the brainless cretin who decided it would be a good idea to "gob" on Stuart midway through the set at Redcar Coatham Bowl on 26 october. Stuart was furious, stopping the song and berating the individual concerned, suggesting that he would be better off in the gutter where he belonged.
Some of you may have noticed Tony's lethal looking scar on his torso when the band stripped for action at the end of some of the hotter gigs on the recent tour. Well, it's not a knife wound, it apparently dates back to when he was a kid, an appendectomy I'm told and the scar has grown with him.
As Bruce put it ... "it's a fucking lethal scar, but he still doesn't pick up the chicks, does he "
