Did you ever wonder how soul-crushingly destroying it must be to be a backing singer?
Obviously you can sing far better than the vast majority of people, perhaps even better than the person you’re backing, but due to lack of ‘star quality’ or ugliness or poor ambition, you end up as the one who has to stand behind some halfwit whose career won’t last pissing time going ‘ooh’, ‘waah’, ‘yeah’ or ‘doo wap’.
It must be like being a third division footballer.
Was it Sheryl Crow who was a backing singer for Michael Jackson? And all you heard about for ages was the fact she had been a backing singer, like somehow she had managed to crawl out of the pits of despair to actually be a ‘real’ singer.
It’s the ones ‘carrying’ the ‘star’ I feel sorry for… watch any ‘live’ Whitney Houston from recent months.
3rd Division? You’re showing your age.
heh, this is true.
I have seen Whitney in years, Conan.
In my experience,backing singers get paid quite alot and usually end up having much longer and stable careers than the cunts they make sound good..
Singing radio/tv jingles and ads though..
“How was work today love”
“I did 240 takes of “Shopping machines Live longer with Calgon!”so it was sould destroying pet”
“Although I don’t think we’ll be hiring Axl Rose as a producer again..”
Calgon, haha.
Whoever sang ‘wardrobe elegance’ needs to be crucified.
I’m sure you haven’t, but it looks/sounds like backing singers’ hell. I’d say they have to sound very like her so that it seems as if she is singing the lead when she patently can’t. Fill makes a good point about career longevity.
There’s nothing wrong with third division footballers – just ask Man United!
Ah, but they’re Division 2, which is now League 1.
But they’re third flight
I was sure I brought in a couple of green viscounts this a.m.
shite
p.s. una, the lady who writes for the turbine – the only decent sunday paper- is kosher, slightly off topic but i can’t be arsed reversing out. if she’s reading I have one question; was she at the gig of the decade (and the guy in road records agrees with me) The Jesus Lizard?
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ludd
Pic post Fail Itchy!!
yep…that’s me Ludd comment; I shall try gain later…btw; nice pints over xmas; you’re alright, considering you’ve only half a head.
Most made-up girl and boy bands are just groups of backing singers.
Fill3rup. I’ll have that Calgon jingle in my head all day now until someone says B-b-b-b banana phoooone.
Famous backing singers of the past include Tori Amos…
Yeah,its the good half though Itchy..
Famous backing singers of the past include Tori Amos…
…and Siedah Garrett
itchybollix- jesus lizard in sept? best fun ive ever had standing up!!
Is Axel Rose a deliberate anagram of oral sex ? I throw it out now and then, but no one believes me.
Sniffle, does nobody ever point out that it’s not?
Wasn’t he called W Axl Rose?
Wax Loser?
Sow Relax?
Are X owls?
There’s nothing wrong with being a League 2 footballer! Backing singers may lack requisite something. Ambition, perhaps? Certainly not talent.
My careers as a backing singer ended abruptly when I was sent off for foul and abusive language in front of the Nativity.
Worse than that, imagine being Jim Corr of The Corrs, being in a band with three lovely girls, who are your sisters, no wonder he went mad.
And why he went out with a girl who was the image of his most singingest sister.
Cubo – better that than a two-footed coutertenor in the National Concert Hall.
Fill – is it you considering giving up the fags ?
Giving up smoking ‘raises diabetes risk’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8439440.stm
( Public service announcement Twenty )
imagine being Jim Corr of The Corrs, being in a band with three lovely girls, who are your sisters
Not a problem when you are from Dundalk surely ?
Yes Maggot..
But im not a fat cunt and never will be,I gave them up for a year and a half before and I never got the munchies..
I gave them up for a year and a half before
Pervert and traitor.
Pepsi and Shirley….that’s all I have to say…
Well obviously that worked a treat..so i find myself having to give them up again after 4 years back on them..
Then you have the shagging-the-lead-singer massively untalented backing singers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmh-OpJxnc8
My grandmother told me about a Tina Charles, who was apparently a big star in the 70s, she sang dicoey songs. She was a backing singer on “Video killed the Radio star” and millions of other hits.
She sang the Disco track “I love to Love (But my Baby he just wants to dance)
Correct, Fill.
She used to wear hot pants so tight you could tell what she had for breakfast, and she looked like a sausage about to burst out of it’s casing.
Or so I’m told!
Twenty snogging Tina – according to morgor
Twenty looks like Willie Wonka.
Bet I’m not the first to make that comparison!
As me ma used to say … theres always a need for ditch diggers
Imagining your son or daughter being a background singer … would you forever be telling people ..shes just earning the fees for college to do medicine
I think people in every walk of life know that there will always be someone better than they are …
But key thing is …your job shouldnt dictate your own standing in life … jobs are just there to get money to live a life.
What about say man united … how do you manage the fucking massive egos of the strikers with the workhorse nature of the defenders …
KEY is strong management .. you have a hard fucking manager who has respect from all and who meats out respect to all .. all he knows is its all about the team and no individual is greater than the sum of all parts … for me growing up on the street I saw first hand what teamwork is all about … and to this day in whatever I do I focus on my contribution to the team
* by the way im not a manu supporter ..just taking that as an example
“She was a backing singer on “Video killed the Radio star” and millions of other hits.”
It was a lot more than that surely?
She was quite prolific.
I’m getting one of me ‘Feynman’ moments.
You know what it’s like, you just sit there motionless for a minute or so, constantly repeating ‘What the fuck is he on about?’ in your head.
I fucking love encountering people that are better at what I do than me …
Theres a measure of what I need to do to get to that point. I mean trying and failing and trying again builds tremendous character.
But then again I notice from an early age in Ireland that this was not the normal view of things …
twas like “look at that fucker working so hard ..who the fuck does he think he is..trying to show us up”
Thats mainly the reason why I set sail for Asia at the age of 20 …
Ah Feynman,you are so all over Fergie’s cock..heh
You make a good point though..
Thats mainly the reason why I set sail for Asia at the age of 20 …
You didn’t Gad(d) off to Thailand then ?
Mr Git
:) good god man … when I post on the blog Im usually trying to be as normal as possible …haha even me trying to be normal is a FAIL (Where the fuck does that FAIL nonsense come from)
Maybe backing singers have longer careers than the singer they are in the shadow of. Similar to many session musicians; who also make more money than those attempting to make a career out of becoming the next chart-toppers.
And I remember working Saturdays and Sundays and trying to keep it quiet from other people ..for fear there would fucking isolate me …
I mean twas madness … thats why I went to asia … much more meritocratic ..you dont work you dont eat …and by fuck did the china men make me work … and im glad of it
Oh I forgot to mention
Maurice Pratt is my hero
Cmon you fucker … those barry tea wont stack themselves
Pepsi and Shirley Were they two blokes or two birds or a bird and a bloke and why do I think Pepsi was on Coke?
They were Whams backing singers,and I hope to christ they were female…
Quite often it’s the star who has the shorter flash in the pan career. When a stars light has waned, the backing singers and session players move on, staying on top of their game, because they have to. That degree of dedication to your art is more than just about working, or staying in work. It’s also about developing your skills in a very fast moving and bullshit filled industry. Because you have to. And you love it!
The ones I enjoy the most are the backing singers who step up to take their brief moment in the spotlight-and then steal the show. Lisa Fischer doing her thing on ‘Gimme Shelter’ live with the Rolling Stones being a classic example.
Live In Paris (Lisa Fischer) 1997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY13Qpo532Q
Everyone has fucked off home because of the snow. Every fucking one them lives within a 15 walk or a Luas trip. Lazy bastards.
You have snow ? It’s positively Mediterranean under the Blues Skies of Northern Ireland!
Blue Skies all day here today…
Frosty in the Robinson household tonight, tee hee.
“Lucky” – not really a great nick name for the poor sod.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8444245.stm
“Lisa Fischer doing her thing on ‘Gimme Shelter’ live with the Rolling Stones being a classic example.
Good call Mowl, good call.
In my opinion the backing singers are invariably better than the lead singer.
Especially when we’re talking pop.
Fuckers I tell you Holemaster, the guys here did the same, I had to stay because “I live nearby” That’s 10 min in a BUS that never arrived. So unlike the rest of them fuckers who got into their cosy cars at 3 pm and slowly rolled home, I walked in snow for an hour.
And they asked me if I can get to the office early in case if the rest can’t…
razzer Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
itchybollix- jesus lizard in sept? best fun ive ever had standing up!!
That’s the one razzer
this was on the door
http://tinypic.com/r/2zrkg3k/6
this was the 1st song
http://www.youtube.com/user/HandJobFilms#p/c/8A15BAE8CEA7CF9B/6/bcwbnC6fTDU
hope these links work..
check out what happens when you fuck with their geetar gear (towards the end.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw9u5XxLx6w
i fucked home in my car JJ and it took me 3 hours(driving in the buslanes). will be getting up at 6 a.m. tomorrow for a snowball fight
the pixies doolittle on loop for 3 hours has got me going gaga
bollix
You should bring more than 1 cassette with you, Itchy
Twenty Major Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
You should bring more than 1 cassette with you, Itchy
heh..funny fucker. Yopu’re closer to the truth than you might imagine.
http://tinypic.com/r/4zz0ol/6
off topic because he’s a genius, George Lucas is on The Jon Stewart Show in 1/2 hour. Channel More 4
Thank me later, Itchy
http://www.zxspectrum.net/
oh my fucking good god. thank you
Horace!
ARCADIA! With that cool shooting noise…bwipfh,bwipfh
fuck
Maurice Pratt and George Lucas mentioned in the same comments page, hmmmm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgni9ymVKA
Janet Jackson was Paula Abdul’s backing singer (or possibly dancer). She seems to be doing all right…
OK, which one of you is it ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8444134.stm
i’d like to hear more “doo wap”s in the charts
That’d be me Maggot.
Though I did read about my american cousin in Private Eye this week too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/rodell-vereens-sex-with-h_n_345740.html
Maggot..any truth to the rumour Tiger Woods was scoring with Iris Robinson too?
Iris is still a fine looking woman!
I making a list of possibilities
Tiger Woods
Gerry Adams
Cardinal Cathal Daly
Martina Navratilova
Mary-Lou McDonald
Well. A wish list.
Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near the stable where the horse’s owner caught him and held him for authorities at shotgun point over the summer. He apologized to the woman and to himself after admitting to buggery at the Horry County courthouse.
He should have apologised to the bloody horse!
Like the shotgun – in Ireland they would have been marched to the altar!
I forgot. Maybe Irish was having an affair with Sugar the horse?
or maybe a Shergar connection?
Roddell – ”He apologized to the woman and to himself after admitting to buggery”
How and why would you apologise to yourself?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/rodell-vereens-sex-with-h_n_345740.html
I hope Una reads this thread – who says Irish Blogging is dead?
It doesn’t say it in The Huff Post article but in the report I’m reading in Private Eye, lifted from the German Magazine “Bild” he said to Kenley upon getting caught “standing in the stable on a stool, buggering Sugar – I am deeply in love with Sugar”
And now I keep thinking of Iris Robinson with Shergar..the Protestant DUP and the Cathlic IRA Horse
just in case anybody I know is reading this, and you know who you are; this is in jest, I am not into beastiality..look…I don’t think I can even spell it, I just find it funny. Anyway, maggot started it.
The truth will out itchy – and besides, morgor has shown me the pictures!
Maggot started it?
He’s a durty cunt, so he is.
I hate horses. Even more cuntish than owls.
The Horse Felcherer..
Handsome devil!
Town’s mayor caught on camera stealing women’s underwear
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6931396/Towns-mayor-caught-on-camera-stealing-womens-underwear.html
holy shit; he looks like a dodgy Joe Lieberman or
*cough
I’ll try again
http://i45.tinypic.com/dfx34p.jpg
described on the radio as looking like a cross between John Mortimer and an anus!
I’m writing the script filler; you can play the lead role. Maggot, toronto stipes are free agents for this one
Handsome devil!
Fucking hell, you can tell he’s a deviant straight off.
Like when you look at that Danny Foley fella from listowel you would think “Rapist”
post those pictures of Itchy and the horse and I’ll send you a case of vixcounts morgor!
look closer at his hairline on his forehead – is it a fist giving the finger or a little dick and balls ?
One for Twenty
Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece
oh there sooo cute
Hello lickle dolphin ..oh look hes trying to wave
aggggggggg bang bang bang ..ssssssssseeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee sqqqqqqqeeeeeeeeeeeeekkk sqqqqqqq….
yee fucking bastards …