YES ! (x 2 please)!!
Cheers,
Nicola & John
----- Original Message -----
From: "boone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 20 January 2001 06:47
Subject: Re: [total-madness] Re: Ian Dury Bash
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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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