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#28 · April-May 2009 parental guidance: bad words inside Thank you for 43 years of service Sorry you’re leaving us It won’t be the same Without you joe dempsie / ade edmondson / screen room dh lawrence: the naughty tram / nottingham events listings guide LeftLion Magazine Issue 28 contents April - May 2009 editorial On the afternoon of April 15, 1989, I was trapped in a lift at the Co-Op in Broadmarsh Centre. I had the worst Saturday job ever, which involved sitting in the goods lift and being made to take an endless stream of fat Mams who couldn’t The mighty beSelectadisc, arsed to use the stairs up to the top floor every thirty seconds. I was even more pissed off than usual that day, as one of the bestForest were playing Liverpool in the FA Cup and I couldn’t independentget record any kind ofshops reception off my Walkman radio. in the country,At about is nofive pastmore. three, the security guard who looked like Dennis Weaver (the bloke in Duel and McCloud) dropped Former employeeby. “Have Steve y‘eard? Game’s been stopped. Fookin’ Scaahsers McLay paysare tribute kicking off to again”. We both did that Nana-ish facial expression that all true Nottinghamians do to register Nottingham'sdisapproval favourite - tilt head back, raise eyebrows, form mouth like cat’s arsehole, tut - and I cracked open my book and shop... waited for the next fat Mam to summon me. And waited. And waited. And waited. 08 10 16 After thirty minutes, confused as to why no-one was mashing my button, I ventured onto the shop floor. The place 04 May Contain Notts 11 Live Ade 19 The Littlest Big Screen was deserted. And then I noticed the telly department, The news diary that licks mushy peas Adrian Edmondson on his new band, We take you inside the Screen Room with half of Broado crowded round it, watching 96 people . off your sister whilst dressed as Alvin his old mate, and a disturbingWhen a talecondition of is terminal,(but there’s only nothing twenty more of you daunting at a time, than the die on Grandstand in total silence. Everyone there knew at Stardust pork pie abuse inevitable. Usually in such cases,obviously) the sadness is offset slightly by the least one person at the ground. Nobody knew what was knowledge that any pain and suffering would at least cease. On 27 happening to them. February 2009, as I sat surfing the Nottingham Evening Post’s website, LeftEyeOn King Skins there was Joined-Up no such relief. Thinking And then, when Bob Wilson announced that it was 05 A delightful smattering of 12 Joe Dempsie phones home to talk 20 The return of Dot To Dot the Liverpool end who was involved, the weirdest Nottinghamian pictorial whatnot aboutThe Chris title alone Miles was enoughand Theto sink Damned my heart from its jovial Friday With a reputation that spread across the Atlantic, the customers were transformation; from unbearable tension to sheer relief to Unitedhigh to a sullen low; Selectadisc In Nottingham Is Set To Close. far more colourful than the ones in your local branch of Greggs. Metallers Comments on local forums, industry websites and blogs would chime Nottinghamwould hassle Simon Events Tilton, mums-with-listsListings would comically mispronounceoverwhelming sadness, all in the space of two seconds. with the phrases ‘credit crunch’ and ‘death to digital’ as people 21praised the names of angst-ridden bands, spectrum-coloured, middle-aged men would Hillsborough a 43-year-old legacy that started with a few books and records on a Eightcling weeks to the counter of stuff for conversation to do when and weekend you’re warriors wouldLater buy tickets that to day, the bus home drove past Forest supporters 06 The story of a national tragedy, Kestermarket stall. Aspden not workingthe latest Tribal or Gathering. sleeping All this set in a scene of poster-clad wallson where their Basil way back from Hillsborough. You couldn’t bring 14 beavered around with his clipboard, Jim marshalled everyone while clutching recounted from the other side of the As Themourners author came to oflay keyboard-typedthe most important wreaths to this ‘legendary another pile of obscure train journey DVDs, and Sue’s Barnsley cackleyourself broke to look them in the face, or imagine what they’d stadium independent’,book they you’ll spoke readof the rarities this they’d year uncovered, talks the bands they’d seen through even the deepest dub bassline. seen. hunched playing in front of the counter and the piles of vinyl they’d escorted from Write Lion the premises‘Yorkshire into their own. Noir’ People were mourning Selectadisc’s passing like26 the For those who cared to look - or those that already knew - the walls and pillars behind fall of an empire that had once threatened to invade the Market Square, before being The thelatest counter literary may have musings seemed littered with promo posters and stickersTwenty for albums years and later, we’ve talked to a few people who were A Canadian In New Basford pinned back for its last stand under the shadow of the Theatre Royal. gigs, but closer inspection would reveal an endless montage of images doctored with 08 drawn-on glasses, beards (for Bell), big noses (for James) and catchphrasesthere (regularsin an andattempt to piece together the Nottingham side Our Rob gets tret to a slap-up meal As when my DH Gran Lawrence died, it’ll take me the years Naughty to walk past Selectadisc, Engine like it did with staff alike). The wall of media from musicians advertising for like-mindedof the fellows story, might and that article – along with an interview with at top-notch sophisticated dining her 16 house, without A Tramtastic having my heart tale strings for snapped all the at, familylike the bass – asfrom a Reviewshave chronicled the history of the customers, but those till-side highlighted the endless Washington hardcore band resonating from the shop’s doors. Here was a place that28 An all-Nottscharacteristics selection and traits of peopleof the as crispiestmischievous as an Oasis-obsessedthe writerMoony or aof coiled a book about institutionalised racism and the experience, er, Hooters provided some oflong the most as enchanting,they don’t passionate, mind comical references and heart-warming to moments punk soul like Dickie. final word on the closing of Selectadisc – means that this that post-war Nottinghamvomit andhas hosted. public A two-way sexual theatre intercourse where the cast and punters cobs for your lyrical snap tin would interchange depending on what side of the counter they were stood and who was Even when you left, you never truly escaped the reaches of the Selectadiscissue family.is pretty Ten years heavy manners. And we make no apologies taking the spotlight. Having worked there, it was also the place that helped shape my life; after I worked there, I'd still receive invites to the Christmas party (my Dad even got invited once The Vinyl Salute my career as a journalist, the sounds on my stereo and some of the greatest friends I have. when Sue rang my parents' house) and I still to this day refer to it foras 'The that; Shop'. there’sSelectadisc wasno apoint relentlessly banging on about how 10 Why the demise of Selectadisc is Artist Profiles Nottsliving Trumps and breathing community, where friends would drop in to spontaneouslymint Notts organise is if you don’t highlight the shittier elements. One Saturday18 at the age of seventeen, I turned up on Market Street, rather fuzzily-eyed 30after a Plusafter-work Horrorscopes, pints, talk music, The talk Arthole football, swap and shit jokes and buy a few tunes while constantly such a blow to the city, by a former night of dancing awayJon at the Rouston, Marcus Garvey Debra Centre, Swann,for my first dayHarriet as a Saturday lad. Rather influencing (often subliminally) those that stepped within. Were it not for Selectadisc's existence, than, as I had hoped, being quizzed about Guided By Voices singles or Jeff Mills aliases I was LeftLionthere would Abroad be a completely different list of names in my phone, myBut personal fear career not, as a dear reader; we also take the time to have employee instead given three things;Startin a mop, and a shopping Sam listClift and a pile of CDs to put back in the racks. journalist might not have been so open-eared and eyed and my list of hangovers would doubtless After two weeks of burning the candle at both ends and exhibiting somewhat lethargic be a lot shorter. More so than school, college or anywhere else I’vea worked, natter the shop with was theAdrian biggest Edmondson (and were delighted to behaviour the next day I had earned the nickname ‘Lightning’. social influence of my life. Now, it’s gone. discover that our older readers might have scoffed a pork I wasn’t the only one; Gary X-Ray, Tommy Teapot, Thrash, Matt Tatt, Nail, Bell, Urn, Tubs, Schmo, All good things don't have to come to an end, and there's hope thatpie Selectadisc made will by rise Vyvyan again, under out the Young Ones over a quarter of a Fish, Goose, Monkey, K-9, Panther, Waino, Detail, Metal Ed. .even the innocuous-sounding Basil Jim's guidance, at a smaller location. And while the beat of the heart,century passion and ago), diverse have quality a will nose round the Screen Room, and send (so-called because of having a tendency for returning records for being ‘faulty’) all lent doubtless remain the same, there'll be elements that are lost forever (Little Ben's stomach-churning themselves to a bizarre list of aliases.