Western Promise return with a new song in January 2014, "Here comes a revolution". Its typical piece of reggae tinged scouse angst from this vastly under rated and oft overlooked band and a worthy choice for our first song of the month for 2014. Well in lads.
Friday, 3 January 2014
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Joe Symes and the Loving kind
Another Liverpool Musician / Band that have so far
gone unmentioned on The End’s hallowed pages are Joe Symes and The Loving
Kind.
They have an album out called, Joe Symes and the
Loving Kind which you can buy from their website or download via I-tunes.
They are unashamedly proud of their 60’s tinged retro roots and have already caught the attention of Noel Gallagher (and were
invited to play at one of Noel’s infamous after show parties) and have been invited
to support ex Ocean Colour Scene front man Steve Craddock on his upcoming tour.
However more importantly they are supporting the Blockheads at Eric’s (Liverpool)
this Friday, 14th December and they will be on the Billy Butler show
(Radio Merseyside) the same day at 2.30pm
AND they will be playing the Bandstand in Queens Square (Liverpool) on
Friday December 20th.
Here’s a song to whet your appetite, "Where do I belong"
You can her more songs on their web site and listen
to an album taster and read album reviews interviews and more.
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
peter coyle hijacked - christmas in liverpool
Have a listen (and a watch) to this excellent song from ex “Lotus Eaters” founder Peter Coyle.
The song is called “Christmas in Liverpool” by “Peter Coyle Hijacked”.
I was quite a fan of the Lotus Eaters (The Fist Picture of you) and he has had two solo albums released in the past including the brilliantly titled “I'd Sacrifice Eight Orgasms with Shirley MacLaine Just to Be There”.
This is going up on our page as our song for Christmas (unless you demand another Liverpool flavoured Christmas song).
Find out what Peter has been up to over the last few years here
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Thomas McConnell "Penny (won't help me now) - Free download single - 16th December
The multi talented Thomas McConnell releases his excellent first single, "Penny (Won't Help Me Now)". It will be released as a FREE download from Monday, December 16th at www.thomasmcconnellmusic.b
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
TECHNIQUE- Great night in store on Saturday 19th October
Great night promised for Saturday 19th October!
Saturday, 28 September 2013
September 13 Ins & Outs
Ins
Your arse is on your head,
your arse is on your head, you arse is on your head (bring back bald footy
players and refs)
Cantinas
Saspirella
Knowing someone who has
shagged a tomato
Tony Bellows Big gash
Pete shelleys muzzy
Padding out your lunchbox/package
with rice pudding
Oxtail soup toasties
Sucking hard on an oxo
Placing a plaice in yer
mates hood
Smoking rice crispys in a
doobie
Putting a rice
crispy in your bosses top pocket
D.L.T perms
the D.L.T IS INNOCENT campaign.
Being suspicious,
Pork flavoured custard
smoking fresh air,
sly kicks at pets,
knowing what blind scouse is,
snitchin on snitches,
reading echo obituaries before your mar has,
not understanding family etiqutte,
still enjoying pub quizs
not knowing any hard cases at all and enjoying that fact
remembering Kojaks watch
Coal
Bartering with butter
Putting hot dogs in your mates ma’s central heating cupboard
Dicing with Dench
Giving your nan a butt plug for chrimbo
Providing an example to Example…before hastily flinging him off the 14th
Floor
Coffee butties
Curried cotton
Playing cricket on your own
Dreadlock’d pubes
The Systematics
Punching a pygmy
Slapping slid
Chinning Chris Malone
Giving yer boss a
cheeky kiss on his bald head when you’re clocking off
Wearing footy socks
over yer jeans
Eating yer mates
daughters chicken nuggets while yer mates on the phone
“size of a mammoth”
Loitering in Leeds
Dogging in Dagenham
Smirking in Smedley
Rioting in Rhyl
Diarrhea in Derby
Wearing your
aunties thong
Massaging your
bosses lego
OUTs
Ian fucking Ayre and his
harley
Knee length testies
Mark Lawrenson
Manager of the month curse
Knowing someone who sends
champagne over to people they know
That mad manc firm at the
buzzcocks gig (50 yr olds in sheepie’s in a mosh pit isn’t a great look)
Scousers on those magaluf
tv programmes
Rimming a rhino
Lushwives
“Hurr hurrr hurrr” laughs
BRodgers self portrait
You STILL wearing
hoodies? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
wearing your lads north face
jimmy saville rinses,
talking about lines all the fuckin time
saying totally agree mate, when you’re thinking get me away from this
boring fuck
being stressed,
stressing out,
stressing over xmas menus
the word stress,
not being stressed out
not recognising stress,
stress related cardigans
refuting things
having a cat as a mate,
whistling soft porn tunes,
remembering,
concentrating ,
the word bugle,
having a cousin who’s a loon
shouting medication time on the train
robbin’ rembrandts.
Stealing steak
Nicking Nike
Pickpocketing Police
Talking teak
Getting a tit nudge off yer nan
Young pups passing on wisdom to you
Having a spat with China,
Kicking fuck out of a sausage
Ball bag beards
“Dickcember”( leave your dick hanging out your zipper for the entire month
of December for charity)
Polishing your elbows
Frying a frozen fritter on a Friday
Diced soup.
Collecting grass
Townies
Getting yer mates daughter to hold yer ciggy while you eat her chicken
nuggets
Breaking your nipple
Felching in Fulham
Bumming in brum
Massaging your bosses ego
Remembering Scottie Road
Snarling at a sweaty growler
D. wing
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Ahead of Tomorow's Liverpool Man u game, here's an excellent read from thenfieldwrap / Karl Coppack
Ahead of Tomorow's Liverpool Man u game, here's an excellent read from thenfieldwrap / Karl Coppack
Our Friends in the North
Our Friends in the North
WEDNESDAY night sees another Cup tie against ‘our friends from the other end of the M62′ (George Sephton, under P.R duress, April 1988) and the continuation of the Scouse-Manc bunfight. It’s the League Cup so no one should be ‘that’ arsed but if this were a testimonial for the oldest Old Trafford car park attendant we’d still fill our allocation and act like it’s St Etienne. These games matter even when they don’t.
In the pre-match ramble before the Manchester derby, Carra accepted the League significance of that game but still considered the Liverpool/United game to be the biggest game in the country. He’s right. Sorry Chelsea but they’re our rivals, not you. True, the derby is still up there and that march from the Albert across the park, usually in the rain, forms a pleasing high of the season, but the United game edges it. There can’t be many rivals who would swap an Anfield win for an Etihad one and similarly Goodison and Old Trafford wins are two very different things.
It’s not the fact that we’re now underdogs since their Sky age dominance, we never won there when we were hammering the giants of Europe, it’s more that it’s historical. We’ve hated each other for decades now and we’ve hated each other for purely fantastical reasons of little significance. Our mutual annoyance at each other’s existence is a start but there’s the accents, the fashion, the haircuts and the larger game of which is the better city. This last dates back into pre-Victorian age when the pride of Manchester cotton industry was met with sniffs from the inhabitants of the world’s greatest port. The Mersey beats the Irlam. I’m putting that on a banner.
Of course it gets overly nasty, of course some of it is hard to fathom and of course it goes over the top but there’s something welcoming about it too. In April 1988 when relations between the clubs were still of 1985 standard i.e. pretty bad, a decision was made to extend the hand of friendship and unite the footballing North West. For one game only United would run out to the Kop instead of to their own fans at the Anfield Road end and would charitably kick training balls into our end to mark this newfound bond.
Every single ball came back on the pitch.
Every single one.
I love that.
The Kop boisterously sang about Bryan Robson’s supposed susceptibility to certain venereal diseases. He waved a nonchalant hand in a gesture that fooled no one. He was to have his revenge two minutes into the game by which time we’d moved onto their other players. No one wanted a chummy relationship. We like hating them and they like hating us. If United didn’t exist we’d have to create them to make the match more interesting. After that game the two managers went for each other when Kenny told the press that they would get more sense out of his baby daughter Lauren than his ranting rival. We were then eleven points clear and were about to wrap up a title that Ferguson could only dream about at that point but we never let a second’s polemics pass without comment. Winning isn’t enough for those games. You have to craw about it for ages afterwards too.
If the main reason for the rivalry is geographical in nature why don’t we do the same for City? They had a decent side when the Liverpool/United thing first kicked off so why aren’t we ascribing STDs to Vincent Kompany? Well, it’s just not the same. United were glamorous back then. Best, Charlton and Law, nightclubs, massive crowds and media darlings. Liverpool were a ‘pint of mild and a bag of chips side’ by comparison and each was mistrustful of the other. ‘You can keep your image; we’d rather have the trophies’ was the credo and the ‘Glams’, despite relegation and the Tommy Doc scandal, were still the club the press wanted to talk about. Readers of a certain age will remember Gerald Sinstadt and later Elton Welsby effusing endless praise to them on ‘Kick Off’ despite the fact that they never came close to a League title. They weren’t true rivals in the footballing sense – just an irritating side we couldn’t beat. The party’s over, Gerald? Back then United weren’t even invited. You wouldn’t think it though. Lengthy discourses of Peter Barnes and Dennis Tueart ate into valuable Liverpool time each week.
City were never that annoying. They still aren’t in a way and if any such rivalry springs from their current success it will be on a par with Forest, Leeds and Chelsea.
To read the full article visit the following link;
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2013/09/our-friends-in-the-north/
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