parksey, your opinion

[Northern Star]

Ive heard him play shite ive heard him play good, problem is you just dont know what ur gonna get with him and that puts me off going to see him tbh

(he was a proper miserable gimp tho at hazy lol)

[pauly p]

Originally Posted by Northern Star

(he was a proper miserable gimp tho at hazy lol)

Yep, Proper Twat that night!

I remember when hearing he was booked for Hazy thinking oh dear its a bad move. He played more or less the same set of "washboard Garage" from 12 or so years earlier and had still the same shit attitude from when people were wearing leather pants and tartan trousers trying to look like D-ream.
Proper dismal

[Northern Star]

Originally Posted by pauly p

Yep, Proper Twat that night!

I remember when hearing he was booked for Hazy thinking oh dear its a bad move. He played more or less the same set of "washboard Garage" from 12 or so years earlier and had still the same shit attitude from when people were wearing leather pants and tartan trousers trying to look like D-ream.
Proper dismal

He just didnt get the hazy vibe or what it was all about! now ali whitehead n marshal jefferson both knew the crack and not a sniff of an arsey attitude

[bexleydurden]

Parky @ Nude was something to behold. Beyond that I found him a tad dull.

A bit like the Hac to be honest. Nude in '89 was something to behold, by 1990 I'd wandered off to Konspiracy to listen to the Jam MC's as they continued to innovate with an eclectic mix of sounds. Plus the place wasn't full of posuers like the Hac had sunk to.

[Mr Radish]

Originally Posted by bexleydurden

Parky @ Nude was something to behold. Beyond that I found him a tad dull.

A bit like the Hac to be honest. Nude in '89 was something to behold, by 1990 I'd wandered off to Konspiracy to listen to the Jam MC's as they continued to innovate with an eclectic mix of sounds. Plus the place wasn't full of posuers like the Hac had sunk to.

Russ Marland & Mike Pickering on Friday (Shine) nights were much better than Parky in my opinion.

The crowd on Friday's was also better as it was a little "rougher" and were not worried about getting their new expensive clothes dirty!


On the Subject of Parky, I think he was very good at a certain point in time and I liked the kind of sound he was playing. However, he was as mentioned unpredictable in what he would play and would not always play to a venue. . . .it's my way or the highway, kinda thing.

I know on here he gets murdered due to "That Night" at Hazy that I never went to and from the sounds of it quite rightly so, but it does seem to colour people's attitudes on here to a long and much wider career on the scene.

[Shooms]

Originally Posted by Mr Radish

I know on here he gets murdered due to "That Night" at Hazy that I never went to and from the sounds of it quite rightly so, but it does seem to colour people's attitudes on here to a long and much wider career on the scene.

I just don't like him coz he's Scottish

[bexleydurden]

The crowd on Friday's was also better as it was a little "rougher" and were not worried about getting their new expensive clothes dirty!

ha ha ha, remember those days? When you dressed to sweat with the knowledge you'd probably be diving through some warehouse window at some point in the evening. Generally getting home looking like you'd been in a car crash then dragged through a hedge backwards as punishment. Happy days!

[Noel]

Originally Posted by Mr Radish

I know on here he gets murdered due to "That Night" at Hazy that I never went to and from the sounds of it quite rightly so, but it does seem to colour people's attitudes on here to a long and much wider career on the scene.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by blue jammer

Never heard him play back then so I can't comment. My opinion of him is based on when I have heard him play out in recent years (Hac re-unions or other places like Hazy etc)

An example was the NYE Hacienda night with P&P on back to back... Pickering would play some cracking stuff and Park would come on and play Robin S and a load of Garagey boring poncey shite and clear the floor - his arrogance levels are through the roof and he was more interested in making a decent recording for his radio show than acknowledging the crowd.

A complete bell end

I never heard him play out in 88/89 either but base my opinions on the sets from then that I have (I would've thought that you had a few?) and not from re-union gigs. Funnily enough though the only time I have seen him at a re-union do, in Brum a few weeks back, I only heard him play 3 tracks from the 90's... I reckon you would've enjoyed the night (especially with Jon DaSilva playing loads of acid late on).