Rozi Plain live footage

Here's footage we shot of Rozi Plain behind closed doors before her recent Hangover Lounge gig. We did dim the lights and provide her with a chair for the actual performance.

Bobby Moore: Bob Stanely and Monster Bobby this week

Bob Stanley returns to captain the Hangover Lounge decks this Sunday AND Monster Bobby from the Pippettes is bringing his 'A Little Orchestra' ("a small chamber orchestra in the classical style, of indeterminate size and instrumentation, taking inspiration from such groups as Steve Reich and Musicians, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, the Scratch Orchestra, the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and the Fluxus movement") to play some soothing sounds live.

The World Cup Final will be shown live on the big screen after you've feasted on the many musical pleasures.

NB: the flyer does not show Bob Stanley, Bobby Moore or Monster Bobby, but does feature, I am reliably assured, an actual footballer relaxing with a nerve-settling pre-match beverage.

Tracks of my tears

Last Sunday we watched the England match at the Lexington - turns out it's a pretty good place to watch the football, although there was some kind of witchy magic going on where the screen cut out from time to time, and when it came back on, England had lost the ball. Hmmm...

It fell to me to play some records immediately after the game, and my set took on an impromptu theme. I'm not much of a one for themed sets but I thought I'd share this one with you - partly for the fun, and partly to remind you to look out for the Hangover Lounge World Cup Final Day party. Also, I was quite pleased with it!

Anyway, here goes:

Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
Tracks of My Tears - Linda Ronstadt
I Just Can't Help Believing - Ronnie Milsap
You're Going To Wake Up Wiser - Bettye LaVette
$1000 Wedding - Gram Parsons ("supposed to be a funeral if you're gonna act that way...")
You Brought It All On Yourself - Tommie Young
Drink Wine - The Techniques
She Don't Have To See You (To See Through You) - Bobby Patterson
I'm Not a Patriot, But - McCarthy
Busy Doing Nothing - The Beach Boys
The Same Mistakes - Vic Godard
Parlez-vous Anglais? - Katerine
Bitter Club - Pipas
Going Home To Georgia - Johnny Gilliam
Goin' Back - Dusty Springfield
Sweetest In The Land - Whalebone Polly
Man Out Of Time - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
I Never Did Like Planes - Robbie Fulks
Cry Your Love Away - Adventures In Stereo
Such Is Life - Lord Creator
I Left Some Dreams Back There - Freda Payne
Ain't That Always The Way - Paul Quinn
All Goin' Down Together - Hues Corporation
I Will Drink The Wine - Frank Sinatra

Budget Busting Food and Booze

This Sunday - 4th Of July Special!
Hot dogs only £5 and Blue Moon 2 for 1 all day!





Deal Two: 10% Discount Card!
From the 1st of July the 10% discount card will be back in action! If you don't have a discount card you need to sign up to the Lexington's mailing list. If you're already on it sign up again at the bar, get your card and use it right away - don't worry you won't get two mail-outs!

Dinosaur Planet takes over the Hangover Lounge

This Sunday, July 4, MJ Hibbett's Dinosaur Planet is back - new and improved - at the Hangover Lounge for a free preview before they conquer Edinburgh Festival. The famously publicity-shy MJ broke his silence to talk about Dinosaur Planet.








Hello!
Good afternoon! Alternatively, good morning.

Didn’t you do Dinosaur Planet last year?
Yes, very much so. I always wanted to do it as a Gigantic Full-Cast Rock Opera but couldn't work out a way to do that on my own, so last year instead of acting things out I stood and told the story of what WOULD happen in a Gigantic Full-Cast Rock Opera.

THIS year I realised that a way to do a Gigantic Full-Cast Rock Opera would be to get a) a cast b) some costumes. The name of the full-cast is Mr Steven Hewitt, we have bought various HATS and we are ready to ROCK!

(I've also written a batch of new songs, delicately crafted Proper Dialogue, and we've abandoned a cunning scheme to introduce the world's first ever 2D Spectacles to the live theatre. That'll have to wait until another time.)

Hmm. We have never seen this Steve Hewitt in the same photograph as Slipknot bassist Paul Gray. Can you assure our hungover clientele that Mr Gray didn’t fake his own death so he could don a new mask and join you in taking over the world?
I'm PRETTY sure they're not one and the same - Steve is a LOT more rock and roll than any member of Slipknot could HOPE to be - although, now you mention it, he DOES wear a mask in the show. I'll keep an eye on him.

As your worldwide smash Hey Hey 16K might be more popular with computer programmers – men, who don’t know any gurls - is this Hewitt something for all the laydeez in the house?
Absolutely. Last year he patrolled the Royal Mile dressed as a space dinosaur and, as you can see from this video footage, ladies of all genders were soon throwing off their clothes.

Some would say he was just using the disguise as an excuse to go and talk to GURLS. This, of course, would be RIDICULOUS.

We’re trying to improve our SEO. Can you compare your musical extravaganza to the SEX GANG CHILDREN?
We are very much like SEX GANG CHILDREN, not least because most people would have to look us up on Wikipedia (hem hem) to see who on earth we are. Also I believe "Dinosaur Planet" was an early name for Bow Wow Wow, Culture Club, which is a nice coincidence, as well as, of course, Will Young.

I'd like to help out further, but I have a NAKED LESBIAN KYLIE hankering after some FREE DOWNLOADS which is taking up a heckload of time.

It’s theatre sandals again this year. Will you start a trend?
In this new world of Theatre and Musicals I am very MUCH a tourist on brief sabbatical from the sunny uplands of ROCK, so am doing my best to blend in. I'm encouraging Steve to do HIS bit sporting a cravat and indulging in a wave of homosexual affairs, it's the LEAST he can do.

Festival goers can see Dinosaur Planet at The GRV, 37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh 5-14 August.

Tender Trap shoot video at the Lounge

Tender Trap filmed much of the video for their new single Do You Want A Boyfriend? at London's Trendy Hangover Lounge^TM. You will see HL hearthrob John "Form An Orderly Queue, Laydeez" Jervis turn down the wanton advances of songstrel Amelia Fletcher from the 15 second mark. To be fair, she probably misread his "Shrag" t-shirt, but you can't blame the girl for trying. She's only human.

The first Denim interview

"Driving a Mercedes out of the factory gates, that's what Denim's about."
A little something in anticipation of the Felt fanzine launch tomorrow. From Melody Maker, January 19, 1991.