Hello All in Mad land
The Ian Dury list mambers are organising an Ian Dury night at the Dublin
Castle on 24th March and would like to know if any of you nutters would like
to attend.
The evening will consist of a Ian Dury and The Blockheads tribute band and
Dj spinning dury all night long with some madness etc.
The date will be confirmed as long as there is enough support, money raised
from the event will go to Cancerbacup fund.
If you wish to attend please give a big yes and we will get things underway
Boonster
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 12:52 AM
Subject: [total-madness] Re: Total Madness Digest V2000 #563
>
> Dear List Members,
>
> Before the band got a record deal I was working in a Petrochemical Co in
> Paddington..CJB in Eastbourne terrace.
> My headmaster had pulled me over the coals in his office and said " Smyth
> pull up your socks or you will find yourself being asked to leave the
school.
>
> I looked him in the eye and told him ( as I felt I had been working harder
> recently so as to get into the sixth form) that no problem I would leave
now
> and enjoyed the look of shock on his face as I walked out of that office
and
> the school for the last time.
>
> My Father was an engineer and had had a long career in Petrochemicals
around
> the world for some years. He gave me some background on the Petrochemical
> Industry and got me comfortable with six terms which would show at least
> enough knowledge to blag my way through my first every job interview.
>
> He then took me to Burtons high street mens clothes shop..pulled a
reasonably
> priced blue pinstripe suit of the ready to wear rack, got a shirt and some
> boring shoes and when three days after departing the school I had secured
my
> first interview he sent me off by saying now Son, shake his hand with a
firm
> grip,whilst looking him in the eye and speak clearly.
>
> I could'nt believe at the end of the interview I was offered a position in
> the company and I had got the job..It was as a time analysis clerk and w
> transpired when I met my english teacher a week later on Tottenham Court
Rd I
> was now earning more weekly than my teachers.
> Stick that in your pipe mate!
>
> To cut a long story short....every morning I joined the rush hour tube
> commotion, and journeyed each morning for an hour from Muswell Hill by bus
to
> Highgate tube, to Paddington Station via a change over in the middlefrom
the
> Northern Line to the Circle line.. you know every one avoiding eye contact
> etc...when one morning a guy in a suit like mine in i guess his late
forties
> early fifties was dragged off the tube train with what was obviously a
heart
> attack he was lying on the platform and two staff members of the
underground
> station endeavoured to give him mouth to mouth....I stayed watching saying
> some prayer's till it was apparent that he was dead..most were walking
past
> him and avoiding looking at the situation.
>
> At this time in my life and I think I was 16 I had seen my Father have a
> heart attack, mild yes but a heart attack none the less.
> The first occured when I was thirteen and his job had taken us to Iran.
> Pretty frightening for a teenager.
>
> For the record my Father passed away on the 22 of June in 1995 and a year
> later on the 22 of June 1996 I played a song " Your're Wonderful" which I
> dedicated to his memory and which was about being in the band and missing
> those who had passed from this mortal coil..... in particular Cathal
Patrick
> Smyth my Dada.
>
> I miss him dearly and confronted the fact that I dont have that Man in my
> life who gave me so much of my charachter and always a good ear and sound
> advice.
>
> That is why I wanted You're Wonderful on the Album Wonderful.
>
> I hope this has cleared up this topic
>
> Absent friends...
>
> And in his immortal words " There are those of us who are and those of us
who
> are'nt and those of us who are must stick together"
>
> I often repeat these words and in me and in my son Cathal Caspar Smyth my
> Father lives on .......
>
> By us by the way he meant those with " Charachter "
>
> good night all and travel well
>
> Mr Smash.
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