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Title: FC on R4....well almost Post by: steve-n on June 27, 2010, 12:58:04 AM In respose to an item on this morning's Saturday Live on Radio 4 which suggested that countries with the shakiest economies had the most complex national anthems, one Simon Nicol of "rock supergroup" Fairport Convention e-mailed the programme with the perspective of the touring musician - the strongest economies tend to provide the softest toilet paper.
(The chaps also got a namecheck a couple of minutes later when the programme turned its attention to Glastonbury.) Alternatively I could have imagined the whole thing.... Steve Title: Re: FC on R4....well almost Post by: issy on June 27, 2010, 09:56:39 AM Yeh, I heard it as well! Quite amusing ;D
Title: Re: FC on R4....well almost Post by: Big Dave on June 27, 2010, 09:16:38 PM Must be a true e-mail and not a spoof, just the sort of wise statement that only our Mr Nicol could put into meaningful words (Nice one Simon! ;))
Title: Re: FC on R4....well almost Post by: Polly Oxford (Andie) on June 28, 2010, 01:40:50 PM Having a Saturday morning 'sit 'n think' -Did double take - then grinned -maybe we aren't in such an economic crisis yet after all...
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