My so-called Life
I love wierd, fabulous coincidences.
But this wasn't fabulous, at least not for me...I'm so pleased for all those it was fabulous for...I am.
A wet Sunday a while ago Emma and I were up in our tiny office on Brewer Street which is situated above the Raymond Revue Bar (sorry, I'm never going to stop calling it that). It's an interesting location for number-crunching, filing and such mundanities, especially as early evening rolls around. That is when the "entertainment" begins, often in the form of band showcases, where you mostly hear (and then never hear again), bands giving their all to lukewarm applause. Then a lull again, and if you're particularly behind on your VAT returns, one of the clubnights cranks into action....Trannyshack for example, where you'll hear happy/euro/house mixes of your favourite chart hits and much whooping will ooze through the brickwork.
But I digress, on this particular damp Sunday I found myself humming along while gathering petty cash receipts (it has to be said Emma wasn't humming in the slightest in fact if I remember she said something like "This couldn't be much worse could it?"..definately not her bag...), as a song was being played again and again "hmmmm hmmmm nowhere...." Then like a lightning bolt I had the terribly exciting realisation that this was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds!!!! And they were filming their video right under our feet!!!! Now, I went hot and cold several times, especially since I suddenly remembered that Ima Doll had told me she had a part in his new video a few days ago! Emma said I had a look of "how can I get in there???!!!" in my eyes, which then dissolved as I looked at the paperwork before us.....
I am a huge fan of Nick Cave. In fact I'm listening to the Murder Ballads as I write this. And I think the new Bad Seeds album is incredible. I also find Nick Cave desperately attractive, especially now, receding and droopy moustache.....he's HOT from where I'm sitting, not since his junkie days with black black quiff, white white skin and huge blue eyes has he looked so perfect. Or imperfect.
But Ima Doll shared a dressing room with him, not me. Ima couldn't be less bothered to have been naked in front of him while he stood in his pants changing from one pair of trousers into another. Nervous Steven sat in the audience, not me, while they played "More News From Nowhere" again and again....I notice Will Self, Tim Noble and Sue Webster nonchalently making cameos.....oh god, and I was upstairs doing a VAT return......and sometimes life isn't fair.
But here is the video anyway. Ima is the pole dancer in red underwear....and then she took it off....in front of Nick Cave......I could cry....
Madame x
But this wasn't fabulous, at least not for me...I'm so pleased for all those it was fabulous for...I am.
A wet Sunday a while ago Emma and I were up in our tiny office on Brewer Street which is situated above the Raymond Revue Bar (sorry, I'm never going to stop calling it that). It's an interesting location for number-crunching, filing and such mundanities, especially as early evening rolls around. That is when the "entertainment" begins, often in the form of band showcases, where you mostly hear (and then never hear again), bands giving their all to lukewarm applause. Then a lull again, and if you're particularly behind on your VAT returns, one of the clubnights cranks into action....Trannyshack for example, where you'll hear happy/euro/house mixes of your favourite chart hits and much whooping will ooze through the brickwork.
But I digress, on this particular damp Sunday I found myself humming along while gathering petty cash receipts (it has to be said Emma wasn't humming in the slightest in fact if I remember she said something like "This couldn't be much worse could it?"..definately not her bag...), as a song was being played again and again "hmmmm hmmmm nowhere...." Then like a lightning bolt I had the terribly exciting realisation that this was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds!!!! And they were filming their video right under our feet!!!! Now, I went hot and cold several times, especially since I suddenly remembered that Ima Doll had told me she had a part in his new video a few days ago! Emma said I had a look of "how can I get in there???!!!" in my eyes, which then dissolved as I looked at the paperwork before us.....
I am a huge fan of Nick Cave. In fact I'm listening to the Murder Ballads as I write this. And I think the new Bad Seeds album is incredible. I also find Nick Cave desperately attractive, especially now, receding and droopy moustache.....he's HOT from where I'm sitting, not since his junkie days with black black quiff, white white skin and huge blue eyes has he looked so perfect. Or imperfect.
But Ima Doll shared a dressing room with him, not me. Ima couldn't be less bothered to have been naked in front of him while he stood in his pants changing from one pair of trousers into another. Nervous Steven sat in the audience, not me, while they played "More News From Nowhere" again and again....I notice Will Self, Tim Noble and Sue Webster nonchalently making cameos.....oh god, and I was upstairs doing a VAT return......and sometimes life isn't fair.
But here is the video anyway. Ima is the pole dancer in red underwear....and then she took it off....in front of Nick Cave......I could cry....
Madame x
Labels: Dig Lazarus Dig, Ima Doll, Murder Ballads, Nervous Steven, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
6 Comments:
The opening notes of this video were enough to fill me with the horror of the remaining 8 minutes of this track. Oh SO HORRIBLE.
What more could I ask for? Watching one of my ex's watch a fellow Aussie dancing around like Pee Wee Herman in a St Kilda Beach t-shirt. I definitely prefer Trannyshack.
Oh and you failed to mention Peaches Geldof crying her eyes out in the loo's.
Oh yes...but I wasn't as excited about her. She's probably the most instantly recogniseable. And I just realised yesterday lovely Beth Orton is the lady who knocks over the glass...
Watch out for us making absolute arses of ourselves dancing front of house at the Bad Seeds BBC Sessions' gig (being screened on July 4). One BBC blogger said of our dancing and touchy-feeliness with NC: "Let's hope they are edited kindly." Uh-oh.
Oh christ...can't wait for that!!!! Text me on the day PLEASE!!!!!! My most embarassing caught-on-film dancing moment (apart from being snogged then dropped off stage by Sheila Tequila on the Kinky Gerlinky video) was as an extra whooping it up in the audience of a Jimmy Nail (yes) video at the Cafe de Paris. I was paid the princely sum of £15 (times were hard) and the track went to NUMBER ONE!!!! Ugh....
hmmm, you've changed your tune, pippa brooks... a few months ago you were saying JIMMY NAIL was your FAVOURITE EVER singer and what a crush you had on him, and now you're all nick cave this and nick cave that... so fickle... next thing you'll develope an interest in joe dallesandro or somesuch
Very funny, Abrahams!
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