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Conference napalm::heavy_metal

Title:	HEAVY_METAL - Talent Round-Up DayDay
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Created:	Wed May 04 1988
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1238
Total number of notes:	65616

988.0. "the Macc Lads" by RAYON::CONNORR (All the lads are cheering, get the f* beers in) Fri Dec 24 1993 02:57

    Anyone heard of The Macc Lads?????
    
    Generally, they're just a bunch of lads from Macclesfield (Northern
    England) who sing about going out with the lads on a Friday night for a
    few beers and then off to pull some lass. A lot of their material is
    original, but sometimes they may use a tune and put their own lyrics to
    it, ie christmas songs, Jingle Bells etc
    
    Albums so far:
    	The Beer Necessities
    	From Beer to Eternity
    	Beer, Sex, Chips and Gravy
    	Live at Leeds
    	Bitter, Fit, Crack
    	20 Golden Crates (Greatest hits album)
    
    Song titles include:
    
    	Sweaty Betty
    	2 Stroke Eddy
        Lady Muck
    	Uncle Knobby
    	Dan's underpants
    	Alcohol
    	Barrels Round
    	Beer, Sex, Chips and Gravy (My fave)
    	and many, many more...
    I've also seen them in concert a couple of times. They're usually a
    riot. Basically anything goes. when your pint gets near the bottom,
    just lob it at the lads. They get gobbed on as well and he even tastes
    it sometimes. Disgusting or what! Theres usually a good couple of punch
    ups as well to get everyone going. 
    You guys stateside have probably never heard of them so to give you a
    little taste heres a verse out of one of their songs:
    
    	`Cleaned me teeth, put on me best clobber
    	The nights the night I'm going to knob her
    	Vauxhall Viva's covered in rust, but you can't f* your bird on 29
    	bus, 1, 2, 1 2 3 4 Beer and sex and chips and gravy, is all a macc
    	lad wants'
    
    	Clobber means clothes, Vauxhall Viva is an old English car from the
    	70's.
    
    		Rich

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
988.1		KURMA::IGOLDIE	Bite the hand that feeds you...!	`Fri Dec 24 1993 03:10`	8
	I got as loan of one of their cd's from a guy here in SQF.Basically,they're sexist,racist and purile and then again some of it's really funny too! 8)On one of their songs "lady muck" they steal the riff to "a whole lotta love". ian
988.2	Same old song and joke	SSMPRD::SREGAN	Are there any monsters under my bed tonight?	`Fri Dec 31 1993 05:21`	29
	The Macc Lads were funny on their first album Beer & Sex & Chips and Gravy and the "Ehh Up! Macc Lads" 12" (where they did a cover of The Monkees "Hey Hey We're The Monkees" and a brilliant version of Beer & Sex.... using kazoos!) but since then they've just been rehashing the same old stuff. Admitedly they have had their moments since the first album - Uncle Knobby, Fat B@stard, Ben Nevis, Apprentice Dentist and Gordon's Revenge spring readily to mind but there's only so many times you can hear the same joke and still find it funny. Saw them at that sweat pit called the Edinburgh Venue on the Live at Leeds tour and they attracted quite a variety of people - metalheads, punks, skins, goths and trendies and there were the inevitable fights between them. I thought the funniest thing about the Macc Lads was that their first album was funded by a government grant scheme that was around at the time to set-up people in their own businesses. As they say "questions were asked in the house" and various tory MPs demanded that the money be repaid! I can just see the grant application form - We want money from you southern p*ofs so we can make a sexist, racist, anti-gay, and everything-else-ist record. Thank You. The Bishop
988.3	ex	POWDML::BUCKLEY	Raptor -- Rules the Skies!	`Fri Dec 31 1993 10:35`	2
	The Macc Lads will make ya.. JUMP! JUMP!
988.4		RAYON::CONNORR	All the lads are cheering, get the f* beers in	`Wed Jan 05 1994 04:23`	9
	Another album released last year, about march - april, called An Orifice and a Genital. Basically contains a few oldies and other previously unreleased on album, although they were released on EP. songs like Baggy Anne, Knutsford and a few others. Not bad. Knutsford is a cover of Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits. Anybody know if they are still going? I've not heard anything from them for ages. Rich
988.5	the end of an era :(	WELSWS::HEDLEY	Lager Lout	`Tue Jan 11 1994 06:50`	11
	The Lads are one of my fave bands, but unfortunately they're no more. They split up a couple of years ago, though Mutley and Al O'Peesha continued gigging as `The Macc Lad' until Mutley got bottled at a gig in Wales (claiming to be brain damaged, but this may be a typical exaggeration) They have another LP waiting to come out sometime, `Ale House Rock', and their back catalogue is being released on CD by Dojo Records, so that'll keep me going for a while, but there'll be no more tours :( Chris.
988.6		SUBURB::COOKS	Half Man,Half Biscuit	`Wed Jan 12 1994 10:40`	8
	One of them recently got married to a fairly famous actress...whose name totally escapes me know. So I would guess that`s the end of that. Your street wise cred probably goes a bit,singing about shagging birds and drinking 20 pints of Newcastle Brown when you have to stay in with the missus and pay the mortgage.