Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

FC, do you have to be London based? There are a few designers living here in SW, smaller and bigger names....I understand there is one in new village too (and wanted our house). Now that your kids are almost ready to embark on adult life can you too think about where else you could work/still be close enough?

Big Congrats to Sues son......must be a great feeling for him. I remember earning my first £££ at aged 14 in the greengrocers (in the olden days we could work from aged 12 we wanted to). It was exhausting too for £4.50 per day.

Happy 10th CT.

I heard a bit of gossip about a designer working for P Smith....apparently he lives in some remote smallholding and lives quite a wild life. I did wonder if he was the one who did the multi stripe as the colour blend is so clever...esp when it was launched a few years back.

Things can be influenced by how you feel at the time though we then adapt the product to the market and target customer demographic. I found a load of samples made last summer that didn't go into production....now I can see why. They were dark, stark and very harsh.....just how I felt at the time.:D They were subtly erotic too but I haven't a clue where that feeling came from.:rotfl:

The strapping we did the over the last couple of years, a look that evolved and still sells really well, was very much a style that developed from how I felt at the time.

We'll see how life pans out over the next 2 years or so....always seems the unexpected happens. I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that one year on from closing the shop I would doing what I am doing now.

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

Please don't take this the wrong way fc, but do you think that there's a bit of her in you? Whether you realise it or not, you always come across on here as one of the practical ones among us. Lir and wageslave are dreamers, Sue is practicality incarnate (which is why her brother has been so reliant of late), but you you're really practical in an arty way (says someone who doesn't know you in rl)...

Seriously, what you've gone through with the shop and stuff, you've always struck me as someone who, to use a worn out phrase, when life deals them lemons, goes and makes lemonade. You've got every right to be upset at times, you've spent the last year in a total state of upheaval, from schooling, to shops, to moves, to big contracts, to fabric not being delivered... Even the strongest among us cry at times, do you know what, I bet that includes your mum too.

Not taken in the wrong way at all........we were raised to 'get on with things' and the 'always someone worse off than thou'' mantra.....which is usually true.
Worse, I think I have raised mine the same.:o When they have a moan about something or face a challenge, I am reminding them about close relatives (cousins on OH side) who are 'worse' off or am 'on' at them to face it and deal with it as best they can.

I don't have anything to moan about really...but here in this little dark corner of Internetland, I indulge myself now and again.

All the changes...man...how many wierd things happened during that last 12 months? I think I had a bit of shock at being back again.

It's the sea I really really miss....esp today. Woodland isn't the same.

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

Speaking of Glasto and stuff, anyone gone to Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park this weekend? I went to Jamiroquai's warm up gig to 700 people in some grotty old club made from railway arches on Thursday night, but my god he was good. It was a real, old school concert, hot, sweaty, standing. Wonderful. Wanted to hear how it transmitted to the big stage.

Now that is how a gig should be!

lemonjelly

SingleSue wrote: »

Think my days of going to rock festivals are over although in my day, it was only really Donnington and Monsters of Rock I went to. I did go to lots of gigs though, Iron Maiden, ACDC, Queensryche etc until the boys were born.

Now we stick to local gigs and even then, it has only really been in the last year or so and at events where children are welcome and it is outdoors so the boys are not so stressed.

<sidles over & adopts best Leslie Philips voice> Well Hello!;)

Seriously sue, excellent tastes.

I LOVE AC/DC :cool:

SingleSue

So does my youngest son! I was never impressed with ACDC on record (there, really showing my age now) but live was a completely different thing, they are absolutely amazing live.

I have also seen - Guns & Roses, Metallica, Megadeath, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Tina Turner (my first ever gig at the age of 12 I think it was), Saxon and goodness knows who else...oh and I have also seen Nik Kershaw - my 2nd ever gig and a month after Tina Turner, I did a deal with my dad, he would come with me to see Nik Kershaw if I went with him to see Tina Turner....we both preferred Tina Turner.

In my younger days, we were forever off to gigs at the weekend on top of watching local bands play but it all stopped when eldest was born. The most amazing one for me was my very first Monsters of Rock, I was 18 and the ticket cost £17.50. I got two tickets and swapped one of the tickets for a bikers leather jacket and transport to Donnington on the back of my friends bike.

The noise as we entered the place was awesome, just like hearing the crowd on telly but you was actually there. We managed to find some friends up by the big tyre and spent the day with them...one of them, a singer in one of the local bands, and his girlfriend decided to get down to the front in time for Maiden coming on but the crush was horrendous (this was the day I went off David Lee Roth - people were being crushed down the front and someone was trying to tell him to warn people not to push, he told them to get the F off his stage) and they had to be rescued from the melee and the mud...they really thought their time had come.

On the way home, we stopped at Leicester service station and I rang home only for mum to burst into tears...apparently they had been worried as people had been killed whilst G&R were on stage. We then set off for home proper and I was so blooming knackered I fell asleep on the back of the bike! God knows how I didn't fall off but we reached home safely (my hands felt like they were welded to the bike supports - my friend had to move my fingers so I could get off!) and just 2 hours later, I had to go to work.

My work colleague then had to spend all day throwing pennies at me to keep me awake....for ten hours!

Oh happy days......

lemonjelly

Great post Sue!

Amazing how you can learn stuff on here all the time. Never had you down as a rock chick.;) I'll have to practise that Leslie Philips voice a bit more :rotfl:.

My first ever gig was Dio. AC/DC were right up there (Bon Scott!) Saxon :eek: never thought I'd discuss them on MSE. I used to go to a phenomenal amount of gigs - I kept almost all my tickets, they are in a photo album to help me recall them. I now also put theatre tickets & the like in there.

Little Angels, remember them putting on some great live shows. The Almighty & Wildhearts on a joint tour. Therapy. Magnum. Saxon. Nine Inch Nails. Metallica.

I always hated Megadeth, with a passion.

I went to Donnington in 1994 - the first year they had 2 stages. Aerosmith headlined. Quite an intense bill, with Extreme as special guests. I have never, evr in my life seen so many bottles of a certain yellow bodily fluid be thrown about. (There's another reason not to go to festivals misskool!:eek:). The people in the crowd, oh did I feel sorry for them.

SingleSue

Ahh, I forgot about Magnum and Little Angels......

Saxon used to tour with a band called Excalibur as support, a Bradford band and thoroughly nice people....we got to know them all through all the local gigs they did and even got a Happy Wedding day card off them...the boys now like Excalibur too even though they have split as I still have a demo CD of them.

My first Donnington was 1988, my second and last, 1992 (or was it 1991?)...just checked, it was 1991.

I am a complete and utter rock fan as are the boys but I also like classical music (my ballet background) and trance.

lemonjelly

SingleSue wrote: »

Ahh, I forgot about Magnum and Little Angels......

Saxon used to tour with a band called Excalibur as support, a Bradford band and thoroughly nice people....we got to know them all through all the local gigs they did and even got a Happy Wedding day card off them...the boys now like Excalibur too even though they have split as I still have a demo CD of them.

My first Donnington was 1988, my second and last, 1992 (or was it 1991?)...just checked, it was 1991.

I am a complete and utter rock fan as are the boys but I also like classical music (my ballet background) and trance.

Saxon were always fun at least.

Little Angels were the band who really got me into live music, & also collecting records. I have virtually everything they ever released - took me ages to track down one particular single, which I would like to find on cd single if ever possible...

From the late 80's onwards I was regularly off gigging. Initially it was pretty much only rock music. As time passes, I think/hope you grow & realise that there is good & bad in most forms of music (with the obvious exception of country & western - it is all poo) & my tastes have widened. I have loved gigs since by bands as diverse as son of dave, underworld, leftfield, james and so many more.

The experience of a gig really is something...

SingleSue

It was Iron Maiden that did it for me..up until that point, I had been listening to Culture Club and Haircut 100!

My gigging also started late 80's (apart from Tina Turner and Nik Kershaw in the early 80's) and it has only really been rock music.

Another memory, Queensryche at the Albert Hall....husband diabetic and needed somewhere to do his jab as he was becoming ill, so they let us in to use the medical room prior to the doors opening. Walking down the corridor and these blokes stop and say hi to us and ask us how we are......it took us until they had walked on to realise it was the members of the band, we had been too preoccupied by hubby and his seesaw blood sugars to really take it in.

I do admit to bopping to the Spice Girls in the kitchen with a very young middle son on my hip though! :rotfl:

lemonjelly

Iron Maiden, seventh son, Birmingham NEC, Eddie, twin guitars, feet on monitors...




Oh I feel young again.

Sue, if you like trance, can I recommend Northern Exposure 1 mixed by sasha & digweed.