fifty quid a feel

Hey, 6 Radio fans are trying for a RATM/Simon Cowell stunt by encouraging everyone to buy Half Man Half Buscuit’s Joy Division Oven Gloves. 

This would also be a much better tribute to Ian Curtis than naming a bridge over Princess Parkway after him, though not as good as my idea to have a giant inflatable Ian Curtis clinging to the town hall clock tower. 

 And from the MEN piece: 

Hook told the M.E.N. he thought it was a 'fantastic idea'. He said: "I think it's very fitting for him to cross Princess Parkway on a road that leads to the Hacienda. "It's right next to TJ Davidson's rehearsal rooms, the same road as where the Boardwalk club was and where Tony Wilson's flat still is." 

Hook added there should be a sign on the bridge saying 'This Way to Unknown Pleasures' - a reference to Joy Division's debut album. 

Oh, fuck off Hooky: It doesn’t go anywhere near the Hacienda. It connects the University to Chorlton. And the Boardwalk was on Whitworth Street in town. Peter Hook is becoming a complete embarrassment. If he’s really so keen to turn a profit on his dead bandmate he should go on tour with his skull, fifty quid a feel, and get out of everybody’s way. 

Well, that’s my brief foray into the geography of popular culture over for today. Nice cup of tea? Yes, that’s right...

Comments

[Alex]

Princess Parkway would, however, be a cracking band name.

[Chris Williams]

"clinging to"? Surely "hanging from"?