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NITEFLY

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in the mid to late 80's we had a celebrity fan named frank sidebottom (basically some twat with a squeaky voice and a paper mache head who penned such greats as "oh blimey it's christmas" amongst others and also presented via key 103 a spoof radio show called "radio timperley") at the same time the genius city faithful took to taking inflatable bananas to matches, a craze that soon found mirrored on terraces up & down the country!!! (not bananas though, other stuff) :roll:
 
actually the guy under the mask was quite a hip songster before adopting the frank persona - though age has obscured my memory of who he was.

is that you little frank?
 
stephen said:
actually the guy under the mask was quite a hip songster before adopting the frank persona - though age has obscured my memory of who he was.

is that you little frank?
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he did countless pre-match entertainment slots at Maine Road, with little frank too, one of the best was a hopelessly rigged penalty shoot out with some local kids prior to a derby one season...obviously city won it but 2 of the man u kids started crying, cue lots of booing from the red end and frank probably embarrased under the mask trying to cheer the kids up with some "comedy" diving.
 
here we go.....mymemory has been re'freshed'

Frank Sidebottom: Nothing more than Chris Sievey wearing a paper maché head. He was created by Sievey as the Freshies' number one fan (well, The Freshies' only fan), and managed to get a career out of being the band's only fan. Ironic that the Freshies' fan would be more famous than the Freshies themselves.

i think i once saw them at the lamplight in chorlton
 
stephen said:
here we go.....mymemory has been re'freshed'

Frank Sidebottom: Nothing more than Chris Sievey wearing a paper maché head. He was created by Sievey as the Freshies' number one fan (well, The Freshies' only fan), and managed to get a career out of being the band's only fan. Ironic that the Freshies' fan would be more famous than the Freshies themselves.

i think i once saw them at the lamplight in chorlton
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In some shadowy area of my memory I remember them as some kind of punk band, but not too serious? a bit like "half man half biscuit" but I would be a liar if I aid I could recall any of their stuff. I think my older brother went to see them at the apollo once? well actually he went to see the buzzcocks but they were supporting....I think?
 
my wifey was a big buzzcocks fan - but only until howard devoto left. would you like her to tell you the story of how she once walked home from manchester to kersal with john cooper clarke??
 
stephen said:
my wifey was a big buzzcocks fan - but only until howard devoto left. would you like her to tell you the story of how she once walked home from manchester to kersal with john cooper clarke??
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would I ever?? :)
my brother had one record by him and it was in see through green vinyl called "i married an alien from outer space" (or something like that) I did go and see him once along with lem sissay and one or two other mancunian poets including sean ryder at a reading at the northern college of music, it was recorded for tv and presented by old anthony "h". I was sat next to a "pre mark & lard" marc riley, who I think was still with " the creepers" or was it the chameleons? anway....I digress :oops:
 
I've still got two big yellow bananas in my cupboard at home!

We bought them for the '99 Wembley play-off final against the mighty Gillingham. Yes, the excitement got the better of us in for the walk up towards the stadium, we dressed them up in retro City shirts and as it was such a warm day, put John Lennon-esque sunglasses on them so they looked like Noel and Liam Gallagher. Quite a few people took our photographs, although that was probably out of pity.

However some tanked up Gill decided to get into a fight with said bananas and ended up knocking the sunglasses off one of them, shattering.

Prior to Dickov's goal, we deflated them and then suddenly...
 
Clara said:
I've still got two big yellow bananas in my cupboard at home!

We bought them for the '99 Wembley play-off final against the mighty Gillingham. Yes, the excitement got the better of us in for the walk up towards the stadium, we dressed them up in retro City shirts and as it was such a warm day, put John Lennon-esque sunglasses on them so they looked like Noel and Liam Gallagher. Quite a few people took our photographs, although that was probably out of pity.

However some tanked up Gill decided to get into a fight with said bananas and ended up knocking the sunglasses off one of them, shattering.

Prior to Dickov's goal, we deflated them and then suddenly...
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what......I know all pandemonium broke loose after arguably city's most important goal in the last 10 years
 
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jjinit said:
is that it?!!!!:roll: :lol:
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I was an emotional cripple, throwing up outside the tube station. And I hadn't even been drinking.

Let's hope Dickov can recreate the magic, eh?
 
Clara said:
I was an emotional cripple, throwing up outside the tube station. And I hadn't even been drinking.

Let's hope Dickov can recreate the magic, eh?
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It was a roller coaster, I was suicidal with 3 mins on the clock....you cant do that to people :evil:

Re dickov....let's hope so eh? ;)
 
jjinit said:
It was a roller coaster, I was suicidal with 3 mins on the clock....you cant do that to people :evil:

Re dickov....let's hope so eh? ;)
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Just imagine how the Gilligham fans must have felt that day :?

Anyway, speaking of Frank Sidebottom, Liam Gallagher dedicated Rock n' Roll Star to him, last year at Oasis' City of Manchester gig :lol: :lol:
 
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