Ged writes:
PowerSolo are a wild and crazy Danish nouveau-punk duo. They mostly tour around Europe, not the UK. My old friend Pinball Geoff put me onto them recently – they are even more mad than his band, the Bikini Beach Band. Short story.
During the first twenty seconds of the video for Powersolo’s song, Frantic, one of the Danish duo is gratuitously roused from his slumbers with the use of a cricket bat. To add to the confusion, Clint Eastwood sort-of introduces the video. It’s all a bit cog-dis, especially the cricket bat bit.
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September 22, 2017 at 12:32 pm
First four day Tests, then this.
September 22, 2017 at 1:13 pm
https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/a-spider-being-conspicuously-indifferent-to-cricket/2017/09/20/#comment-252973
Excellent comment by Ged on the four-day Test malarkey a couple of posts back.
September 22, 2017 at 1:52 pm
https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/a-cricket-bat-in-a-danish-nouveau-punk-duos-video/2017/09/22/#comment-252986
I particularly enjoyed this complimentary remark by Bail-out on the quality of Ged’s comment on the four-day Test malarkey. Top appealing, guys.
September 22, 2017 at 4:22 pm
In other news, TRJ’s back! As in, he has a stress facture in his L5 vertebra, he’s not going to return to the Middlesex side at Taunton on Monday to try and secure his county’s mathematical safety and send Somerset into Division 2 or anything.
September 23, 2017 at 1:14 pm
I blame Sam.
September 22, 2017 at 6:48 pm
Thanks for introducing me to PowerSolo, potty as parrots but terrific stuff.
September 23, 2017 at 4:23 pm
Glad you like.
Personally I like this one best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGJoNkOiI0
I don’t think it will make you revise your assessment of PowerSolo’s pottiness-level.
September 23, 2017 at 4:31 pm
Pinball Geoff’s mob, the Bikini Beach Band, are fairly high up the potty scale too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuHXDSuEjY
Enjoy.
September 23, 2017 at 7:58 pm
Yes, agreed. I forwarded your KC youtube video to Dom who has worked for me last couple of years. He has sloped off to Uni now. He described it as a Banging Tune so so you are obviously down with the youth, Ged.
September 23, 2017 at 4:43 pm
Is “potty as parrots” another saying?
I can never work out whether you have an extraordinary talent for words and turns of phrase, or you are exposing us all to regional/historical expressions of which I was previously oblivious.
September 23, 2017 at 9:14 pm
Fair enough, Bail-Out, but excuse me if the following appear in future posts:
Dim as a Toc H lamp
Potty as a parrot
He is a lifelong person
Spanish archered
Bums rush
Fusterlarian
Hard as bell metal
Fling it over a rainbow
I bet the cornflakes creep out of his bowl
Fleet of shit boxes
Back in the frozen to death
More chance of rowing to the moon
Two horns, strong smell of sulphur
Face like a torn target
Stony as Chesil Beach
Rudderless tossycock
Gusset in a bind
Desperate prawn
Gnaw your vitals
An angel has peed in his beer
If brains were dynamite he wouldn’t have enough to blow his hat off
Riding on the back of a pig
Mad as a hat full of pixies
Commonplace? Or perhaps that’s why I’m Edwardian.
September 23, 2017 at 10:02 pm
That is brilliant.
(I’ve always liked the Toc H lamp one, but never deployed it in real life because I worried whether anyone would understand me if I did. Or if they did understand me, they’d wonder why I understood it.)
September 23, 2017 at 3:46 pm
Aargh, how did I miss this?
Japan women beat South Korea women by 9 runs in the East Asia Cup.
Japan 110/8 (Miho Kanno 22, Mai Yanagida 21, Mina Baek 4-0-9-2, Jiyeon Park 3-0-12-2)
South Korea 101/8 (Jiyeon Park 27, Taerang Kim 21, Etsuko Kobayashi 4-0-24-4, Shizuka Miyaji 4-0-9-2)
September 23, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Sadly no sixes in the South Korea match – I’d love to hear a commentator screech “maximum…Park hits the ball out of the park”.
This might make the interweb explode, but here is a link to a little cross-reference with links piece I have written on Ogblog to celebrate the publication of this piece and the spidery one:
http://ianlouisharris.com/2016/10/17/powersolo-cricket-bat-king-cricket-piece-17-october-2016/
September 24, 2017 at 11:25 pm
Anderson was in the commentary box today and at one point he said, “I thought they bowled pretty well as a … on the whole.”
September 25, 2017 at 8:19 am
Now there’s self-awareness/control. Good man, Jimmy.