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Also the bass player wrote and played on “Queens Park Rangers” by The Loftus Roadrunners, as well as the superior b-side “Drive Me Down To QPR”
Most of Elvis’ records around that time were recorded in QPR territory, either at Eden Studios which was on Beaumont Road near South Acton tube, or another recording studio in Willesden that I can’t remember the name of.
I was also going to post Elvis Costello as my favourite artist. You're a man of taste, Izlington Hoop. The song you chose was number 14 on this list I did a few years ago.
So seeing as Elvis has already been done, here's another of my favourite groups. Just like Elvis Costello, the very distinctive vocal style won't be for everyone, but I've followed Tindersticks since the very first record. This live version of Show Me Everything is probably my favourite song of theirs.
Regardless of his playing ability (and he’s been nowhere near as bad as some have claimed) he’s a top man. My mate’s kids are pupils at the same school he went to (in Willesden) and they tell me that he’s over there quite a lot, whenever they have an award presentation or similar he’s there. Great role model, professional attitude at all times, hope he prospers at whichever club he goes to.
I always park at the Morrisons (postcode CV6 4GB) It’s a 15-20 minute walk away but it’s very cheap conpared to any of the other parking options around there. (You can book a space using the Your Parking Space app or website.)
Where's the "so fücking stressful, so glad it's over" option.
See you at Coventry everyone.
I'm absolutely bloody delighted to be going to that game & knowing that the result doesn't matter. My dad & most of my family are Coventry supporters. Tomorrow he will be in the home end with my brother, several cousins & nephews.
My son & me will be in the away end & we'll got to meet them all in the pub afterwards.
Ever since the fixtures were announced last July, I've been hoping & praying for a nice relaxing afternoon at the Ricoh on 4th May.
I'm so happy that (thanks to the win against Leeds) we're going to this match not really that bothered about the result, *BUT* let's not get carried away.
This season has, for the most part, been as fücking depressing as almost any other I can remember in nearly 50 years of supporting QPR.
There were many times during the season when I thought we were very comfortably a worse team than the one that last got relegated from this division (2000/2001, another incredibly depressing season)
I'm still not convinced by this squad, and I think that Marti has somehow got a very below par group of players to perform way way WAY above the level they would normally be capable of.
There was a thread on this board recently asking are we capable of going up next season. I've said several times on this forum that my biggest concern about staying up is that survival this season will somehow convince the owners that the squad we currently have is good enough to continue with next year. Rather than give it the complete overhaul it needs.
In my opinion, we are one of very few English clubs with hoops on our home kit which gives us a strong visual identity, so it doesn't make sense to me to NOT have some kind of hoops on the away kit as well.
Errea seem to get this. The only non-hooped away kit we've had since we've been with them is this one, which seems to be a callback to the 1982 Cup Final shirt.
Before that we've had quite a lot of non-hooped away shirts, including various horrors in the Nike / Lotto period.
1 non-hooped away kit I've got a massive soft spot for is this one. In fact I might dig mine out to wear at Coventry next week.
Heard a few people suggesting we all wear them in the away end at Coventry.
Anyone know where to buy them? Me & my son are up for buying a couple. If Wednesday or Birmingham lose this weekend & we're safe then I think that's a brilliant idea to wear one & celebrate. If not, it might be helpful to hide behind rather than watch the match!!
Every now and again, one of the tech giants gets found out for doing something dodgy around listening in to our conversations or selling off private information about us.
When these companies get caught, they apologise and say all the right things. Then everyone seems to forget that it ever happened and go back to staring at their phones again.
We all know people who have stories like yours about their phone or tablet showing them an advert for something they've discussed aloud but never typed in. So of course these devices are listening.
Amazon were literally giving away Alexas for a while. Why the hell would they do that unless they had some pretty lucrative ways of profiting from them? They're not a charity.
These companies have demonstrated over and over again that they will skirt round legal issues or just downright break the law in order to collect as much data about everyone as they possibly can. Because they can make unimaginably enormous amounts of money by sharing that information with advertisers / governments / whoever's interested & has the means to buy it.
These tech giants didn't get to be tech giants by being nice cosy and helpfful. If you were running the company, why on earth would you NOT be storing all the data being collected from all the various devices we carry round with us, put in our houses and wear on our wrists. The only reason NOT to do it is because it's ethically wrong, but these companies have shown us repeatedly that they don't care about that.
So yes, OF COURSE your Alexa is listening to you all the time, so is your phone. Your movements are being tracked by Google Maps / Strava / sat nav and are being uploaded to a mega-database somewhere. That video camera on your doorbell is sharing what it can see all the time and that little camera facing you on your phone is recording you when you're wȧnking.
Genuinely not a single player that I'm that bothered about keeping. If we get reasonable offers for any of the players under contract, then sell them. The various players who are out of contract at the end of the season, thanks and a handshake. There's the door, bye.
My biggest fear if we stay up is that we won't have the major reset that this playing squad so desperately needs.
I love him but yes, if we can get any kind of decent fee for him then sell him this summer. I'm surprised we've managed to keep him this long really. I guess it's the legal case that has stopped others coming in for him.
As far as I'm concerned every player is for sale, after the last couple of seasons we need a major reset. My biggest concern about staying up is that if we do, we'll just carry on with a lot of the same players which I think would be a massive mistake.
I remember it very well. Les actually missed a really good chance early on in that game too, he should've scored 4!
I was taken by my family to various QPR games from 1981 onwards, but 1989-90 was when I first started going by myself. Had a season ticket all the way through the 90s. The first half of that decade, Wow!! What a time to be a QPR fan!!
Probably my favourite match in all of that was a midweek game when we beat Leeds 4-1 (the same season they were champions) Their midfield at the time are justifiably revered (Strachan, Speed, McAllister, Batty, all really good players) But in that game Super Ray made them all look like absolute chumps. I was right at the front of the Loft, pretty much next to where Bradley Allen scores his goal from. Great days!!
That song was definitely very audible from P block, just after the goal, when he took the throwin in front of the Stan Bowles stand shortly after, and again after the final whistle. Amazing moment, one we'll be talking about for years.
That game when Man Utd knocked us out of the FA Cup & we all sung how Paul Ince is a wánker, I rushed back to London to see Tindersticks play a gig with an orchestra at the Bloomsbury Theatre. That gig was released as a live album, and in my opinion it's one of the greatest live albums of all time.
Another away game disappointment, the Coventry game when Eoin fücking Jess scored the only goal of his Coventry career & pretty much relegated us, I rushed back to London again because I had tickets for Natalie Merchant at Shepherds Bush Empire.
About 10 years ago, a pretty forgettable home win v Cardiff (we won with a late Ashley Richards own goal) then a load of us headed to the 100 Club for an evening of Thames Estuary garage mod-punk in the company of Graham Day & The Gaolers & the modtastic Len Price 3.
I don't live in London these days, so whenever I come down for a home game I always have a good look at what gigs are on. Hoping to get to the home game on 20th April, and then go to see Omni at Moth Club afterwards.
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Still furious even now!
Dickie, Dunne and Dieng simultaneously having the worst game I've ever seen from them. All 3 playing like absolute divs. Aaron Drewe looking like a child who'd wandered onto the pitch by mistake. Most of the rest of the team just completely worthless and anonymous. Every time someone posts on here about maybe getting Iroegbunam back, I inwardly fume as I remember his "couldn't give a single fück" performance that evening.
Adomah coming over towards the away fans at the end with conciliatory hand gestures, good for him I suppose. But his facial expression was reminiscent of Guy Goma when he realises just how deep the shit he's stuck in is.
On my way out of the ground, I saw Clive staring forwards with the thousand yard stare of a traumatised Vietnam vet. I usually say hello when I see him but on this occasion I didn't dare!
I was also at that Shepherds Bush Empire gig. Saw World Party quite a few times in the 90s too. They were great every time. He had a brain aneurysm about 20 years ago, so the touring has been minimal since then. But he did a short UK tour in 2013 and I saw a great gig at RNCM in Manchester where I took this photo. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIagHg8XQAEt5VT?format=jpg
He was a very talented fella & always came across as very unassuming and unpretentious onstage.
Here's a favourite of mine, as it has turned out it's the final track from his final album 😔
I've seen QPR away at 76 of the 92 current League clubs That includes all the grounds in London with the exception of Sutton United who I don't think we've ever played. So I have seen us play at Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Palace, Charlton, Millwall, Ch**sea, Wimbledon, Brentford, Fulham, Orient, Barnet.
And I have never seen us win at any of those places!!! You can even include pseudo-London clubs like Luton and Watford if you like, never seen us win at those places either!
EDIT: Actually I’ve just remembered that I’ve seen us win at Spurs. Last game of the season, Trevor Sinclair scored twice. I’m sure I’ve also seen us win at Brentford, but not sure that counts because it was a pre-season friendly. Back then, we used to turn up at Griffin Park as a favour to our lower League neighbours, give em a chance to see a crowd & a proper football team. 😆
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