SATURDAY NIGHT MANIC STREET PREACHERS, LIVING COLOUR, ROBERT PALMER, FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS.

Probably the best Welsh band ever, Manic Street Preachers seemed to emerge out of nowhere in 1992 with the smash hit Motorcycle Emptiness. An alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, they had been around though since 1986. Members to this day are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). A fourth member, Richey Edwards, mysteriously disappeared on February 1st, 1995.





Living Colour is Living Proof (well... perhaps not anymore) that black bands can make great rock. Nothingness, from the 1993 album Stain. Trivial fact: the singer, Corey Glover, had a B-role in Oliver Stoned's Vietnam movie Platoon.





Then a number from the Gentleman Rocker, Robert Palmer. Johnny and Mary, from the 1980 album Clues.





Finally We have all the time in the world, the marvellous Fun Lovin Criminals version from the 1996 album Come find yourself. The original is by Louis Armstrong. This number brings back melancholic memories from a time long past when I used to sit, on saturday night evenings in summer, on a bar stool in my favorite pub, De Drei Deurkisj (Flemish slang for The Three Little Doors), enjoying the Holy Trinity: a Cigarette, a Coffee, and a Humo magazine. And somehow expecting the quintessential female to walk in and surrender herself to me.





At some point I had to forget romantic stuff like that. But no way I was going to surrender. I invaded Poland instead.


Nite all.


MFBB.