Anybody fancy a weekend in Mogadishu?

Cambodia is amazing one of the best places on earth with incredibly friendly people though your coatings are off me and the family went 2019 3 weeks cost us about a grand but I’m used to independent travel

 

Maybe Peachy wasn't being sarcastic? I haven't been to Cambodia but met many people who have on my travels. 20k for two weeks, do you sleep in the Prince's Quarters?

 

Khmer Rouge underground lair?

 

One of the best @Stephen Dawson posts of all time.

 

I was being a bit sarcastic. I certainly don't have a £20k budget for a holiday. I have about a £30k budget to keep alive & I appreciate not everyone has that.

It was a musical reference.

Anyone who spends £20k on a holiday & has not heard of the Dead Kennedys has clearly not lived.

 

I was in the womb when the Dead Kennedys split!

 

The Amansara was the royal palace in Siem Reap. So the Prince's Quarters is a possibility.

 

The Dead Kennedys reformed in 2001 without Jello Biafra and continue to tour but haven't recorded any new material since 1986.

 

I popped out in March 1987. Having said that, I love The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order and they all came out before i was born, so this band passed me by. Obviously I'd heard of them though. Just listened to Holiday in Cambodia, now it all makes sense! It's a good tune too.

I recently discovered this band from 1989, any fans of Senseless Things on here? @John Peachy?

 

Hi, yes quite an underrated band, very much influenced by first wave punk bands like the Ramones & the Buzzcocks. I caught them live once. You might want to check out the Replacements & Husker Du, if you like that type of thing. (Apologies if you are already aware of them). They were two of the best second wave punk inspired outfits in my book.

 

Keeping with the theme of the music I thought of this:

 

Cheers Peachy, I've heard of both Replacements and Husker Du but apart from the odd song on 6music that I can't recall I haven't properly looked into them, but I will! Senseless Things looked and sounded great live (even just from YouTube clips I can tell, though not the same obviously).

As a big fan of Pete Doherty/The Libertines I first came across Senseless Things unwittingly; on a YouTube clip Doherty was performing with a band called 'Deadcuts', which was formed by Mark Keds. I then discovered he was the Lead Singer with Senseless Things and, a further Doherty connection, he is also credited as a co-writer on The Libertines' Can't Stand Me Now (credited as 'Mark Hammerton'). He seemed like a really nice bloke and died last year, aged 50.

 

I wasn't aware of the songwriting link to the Libertines. That's one of their biggest tracks too.. I play that a lot at weddings!

 

As a Libertines freak I remember seeing the name on the back of the single at the time it came out, but that was before the internet really kicked in so i never looked into it further.

Finally got to meet Pete at a book signing a couple of months ago in Dalston. Told him he was a hero of mine growing up and I slipped a few 7' for him to sign

 

This was on Jonathan Ross in 2004 just before they split - 'have we enough to keep it together?' This was Pete's Sid Vicious phase.

 

+1 for the Replacements and Husker Du (and Sugar who was Bob Mould after HD) - who along with early REM, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Butthole Surfers and others who led to The Pixies, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Lots of great music in the 80s.

 

Woolwich, London!
If you know, then you know

 

Saw most of those bands. Not the Minutemen, but did see Firehose. The gig was sold out at the Duchess in Leeds & Mike Watt put us on the guest list.

 

Their version of Daniel Johnson's "Walking the Cow" is sublime...



Not everyone's taste admittedly.

 

My first introduction to a lot of that scene was Mike Watt's 'Contemplating the Engine Room', which a friend of mine always insisted on playing at the back end of parties. It's an unorthodox starter, I guess, but I still love it!