Re: Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel (1985)

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:29 pm

Baba O-Reilly-ish ending.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:29 pm

Track 8 - White City Fighting.

by Guest Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:30 pm

Title track.

by Guest Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:30 pm

Is this Runrig?

by Guest Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:31 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:Too expensive for us types. We can't even afford to look at it.

What, White City?

My point exactly.

You've never been to White City.

Have you ever been to Fagley?

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:31 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Incidentally, I'm betting none of you have ever actually been to White City before.
I've been through it, on a coach.

I'm not sure how that makes any sense.

Unless it was a t*pless tour bus with a person on a microphone saying "and, on the left you will see the world famous Springbok pub"...

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:33 pm

Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:Too expensive for us types. We can't even afford to look at it.

What, White City?

My point exactly.

You've never been to White City.

Have you ever be to Fagley?

Is there an ambitious, over-produced, mid-'80s concept album by a major rock star written about it and called "Fagley"?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:33 pm

Ending is better than the song.

by Guest Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:34 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Incidentally, I'm betting none of you have ever actually been to White City before.
I've been through it, on a coach.

I'm not sure how that makes any sense.

Unless it was a t*pless tour bus with a person on a microphone saying "and, on the left you will see the world famous Springbok pub"...

You're getting insufferable again.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:34 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Incidentally, I'm betting none of you have ever actually been to White City before.
I've been through it, on a coach.

I'm not sure how that makes any sense.

Unless it was a t*pless tour bus with a person on a microphone saying "and, on the left you will see the world famous Springbok pub"...

Isn't it next to where the BBC used to live?

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:34 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:Too expensive for us types. We can't even afford to look at it.

What, White City?

My point exactly.

You've never been to White City.

Have you ever be to Fagley?

Is there an ambitious, over-produced, mid-'80s concept album by a major rock star written about it and called "Fagley"?

This is starting to look like a Subreddit. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:34 pm

Last track - Come to Mama.

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:35 pm

Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Incidentally, I'm betting none of you have ever actually been to White City before.
I've been through it, on a coach.

I'm not sure how that makes any sense.

Unless it was a t*pless tour bus with a person on a microphone saying "and, on the left you will see the world famous Springbok pub"...

You're getting insufferable again.

You never weren't.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:36 pm

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:37 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Incidentally, I'm betting none of you have ever actually been to White City before.
I've been through it, on a coach.

I'm not sure how that makes any sense.

Unless it was a t*pless tour bus with a person on a microphone saying "and, on the left you will see the world famous Springbok pub"...
Isn't it next to where the BBC used to live?

You must've come down Wood Lane towards Shepherds Bush.

Or the other way, fleeing back up North.

Either way, you would've passed it.

So, I'll let you off.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:39 pm

It is over.

It was competent but uninspired, with a cold edge that left one feeling excluded.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:40 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:40 pm

Blinking Ada!

This is what it looked like when the exhibition was on. gasp

Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel (1985) - Page 6 White-city-london-7b4a8162-9d7b-4422-ac09-4eb1de6d96c-resize-750

I don't think I've ever seen it depicted like that.

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:43 pm

Anyway, I suppose my pedantry about the White City Estate is indicative of how disinterested with the album I became after the, really brill, opening track.

I think that it was almost a repeat of how I experienced the gig back in the '80s.

A sense of looming alienation from and with disenchantment with that whole crowd. sad yes

by Nightjar Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:46 pm

Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:You're getting insufferable again.

I was joking.

Really.

sigh

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