timo Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Tony and Damon, Amrik Rai was indeed an NME journalist. He famously reviewed a gig [can't remember who] at a venue in Derby and witnesses wrote in to say that he had never strayed from the bar and thus never actually saw the band playing. He was also 'chinned' by ClockDVA leader Adi Newton [Gary Coates] after he savaged a performance by 'the white souls in black suits'. For a while he managed Chakk, before getting involved in FON, alongside my old friend, Alan Fisch. Rai is now a radical Sikh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_fcs Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Originally posted by melthebell ... just had a look in my record collector price bible ..... not sure what it is then... but while you're in the record collector bible, look up pulp: if their tapes are in there, there's a compilation tape from 1986 with pulp and my old band the f... city sh...ers worth a tenner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_fcs Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Originally posted by timo Tony and Damon, Amrik Rai was indeed an NME journalist. He famously reviewed a gig [can't remember who] at a venue in Derby and witnesses wrote in to say that he had never strayed from the bar and thus never actually saw the band playing. He was also 'chinned' by ClockDVA leader Adi Newton [Gary Coates] after he savaged a performance by 'the white souls in black suits'. For a while he managed Chakk, before getting involved in FON, alongside my old friend, Alan Fisch. Rai is now a radical Sikh. is this the same amrik who was involved in setting up the republic club in the late nineties? if so a fellow-band-member of the time threw a pint of beer over him in the rutland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timo Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Pete, It may well be the same Amrik, but I don't know for sure. He always seemed to have some project or other up his sleeve when I briefly knew him. I played in Chakk rivals, Workforce for a while [sax, percussion, keys, tapes]. Rai interviewed us for NME after our first Peel Session and single, but the NME interview mysteriously never saw the light. I put it down to the fact that he was also the manager of Chakk, and didn't want similar [although more experimental] bands such as Workforce and Hula to steal Chakk's thunder. The Amrik Rai I knew was dating a very cute part-Polish blonde girl called Barbara [mid to late 1980s]. He was known for developing sudden, intense passions for new hobbies. I recall him [rather improbably] once announcing a great passion for coarse fishing, and he vowed to catch a Pike after witnessing one savage a duck. Strange days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_fcs Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 timo it sounds like the same person... i have a press cutting with his photo on, sort of wavy brown hair, not very tall, always looked a bit serious, never one to belly-laugh but a nice chap i thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manorlad1973 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 hi we used to go there most weekends paddling in the pool and messing abpout on them silly paddle boats we always ended up argueing over which way to go at millhouses park in the early eighties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mummyjac Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 you would have found me in the WAPENTAKE and REBELS Me too Jon even though I was underage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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