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Friday 15 April 2022

Keep On Truckin'

Leeds in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a hotbed of post-punk and gothic rock. Well we call it that now. At the time my late grandmother called it a dreadful racket, because there were no proper tunes and it was all just bang, bang, bang.  

One of the many bands to emerge from the fetid swamps of the Leeds scene were Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, who had a string of hits on the NME indie charts between 1982 and 1989. I can't claim to have been one of their most devoted fans but they had their moments. Here are two of them.

"Walking On Your Hands" - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

"Hollow Eyes" - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Special prize for the first person to identify the link to the video.


In unrelated news, earlier in the week we went to the delayed launch party for Bas Jan's "Baby U Know" album, which I have raved about here before. It was an excellent show and if you get the chance to see them I would recommend it. And you should buy the album of course.

 

Happy Easter, folks. Go easy on the eggs.

15 comments:

  1. I talk to the trees is from the film Paint Your Wagon. A wagon is used to transport things, as is a lorry. ON a different note, Port Vale fans used to have a chant that used the tune of Wandering Star from Paint Your Wagon

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    1. No, but you started off on the right lines

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    2. Rangers had a song based on that one too.A bigoted one of course

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  2. Good to see that your Gran kept her eye on the Leeds post punk and gothic rock scene.Did she like the Melons?

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    1. She wasn't keen on anything I played. She did once say she liked Ten Pole Tudor when he was on TOTP but I think that was because she mistakenly thought 'Wunderbar' was a cover of the song of the same name from 'Kiss Me Kate'

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  3. Talk About The Weather is their first album (a copy of which is upstairs, not played for over 30 years)

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  4. I'd have to cheat as I only have that album

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    1. so I cannot claim the prize. But I have given two completely valid connections and I think that does deserve two consolation prizes. They were hardly tenuous links after all.

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    2. For the first one maybe, not the second one. How is you owning one of their albums a connection between the band and the video? Unless you're trying to claim it on the grounds there is weather in the video

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    3. Sorry, that was not clear. I meant that "talk" was the link, from the CLint Eastwood song and from the first Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album

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    4. OK. I accept two half connections. If nobody else gets the actual right answer before I next post on Monday you'll be the winner. No idea what the prize will be though. A new goat blanket?

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  5. I love Bas Jan. Thanks for turning me on.

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