Tbf, at least he wasn’t the one who was accused of being a wrong un, which would have been bad. Did seem like a bit of a weird insertion in the article though.
I can’t remember the exact origin of it, but I think it was someone coming on to DiS the night after they’d seen him go into an ATP gig on the guest list ahead of the queue, and therefore going completely off at him for some reason.
I think it was just a bit like he was an inside man. Mixed with us plebs but had some job with them which gave him access to mark e smith being a prick or something so could give some juicy scoops. Then he got a bit more serious about it all. Or something i dunno, i could be making this all up!
Hookworms were meant to be one of the main acts at Jabberwocky, and ended up having to help put on a night at the 100 Club with other bands who were stuck in London to cover their costs.
Fuck, he clearly suffered enough then!
I think @marckee is probably to the truth with his recollection than mine tbf
Ah, sorry! Should have checked that.
If it happened today with twitter etc the backlash would have been a lot worse. They got away mildly really.
Think the poor guy had to explain on here why people were being asked to pay via for tickets via Barry’s personal paypal account at one point.
Yeah, that’s crossing a line.
I always sing his name though which makes up for it, in the style of this graham coxon banger
cor, forgot how much i like that.
Only real memory of Jamie on here is when he got stuck having to justify the time they booked Slayer to headline at IBYM in 2012 (which turned out to be the only day of that weekend that actually sold remotely well).
He was the first person on the boards to spot the talent of Taylor Swift, too.
All i can remember is it being well chill and everyone sat on the floor having a nice time so that everybody could see and get over their hang overs and then me and my mate falling on people and knocking tables over when van persies winner went in.
Frozen pizza that you could only cook if someone wasn’t having a shower at the same time because the chalets were so shit they could only run one appliance at a time.
Sorry, hadn’t read down far enough…
Always had a lot of time for him - just seemed to have been put in an impossible situation by his boss.
another irksome thing about the knives out/dancing on grave narrative is that I think generally people bent over backwards to give ATP the benefit of the doubt in light of loads of red flags (distinctly remember being called a ‘mitherer’ on here a lot of being critical of them for various things). My issue with them wasnt so much about the mistakes, it was their attitude, complete lack of humility, often making announcements that impact upon festival goers and then acting people shouldnt have a problem with it
i’m sorry but this has done me
Vice isn’t it? They love a bit of drugs. Makes them feel well cool.
Imagine being a young person trying to care/make sense of all this
