Theory - please prove me right / wrong Posted Mon Aug 14 17:30:58 BST 2000 by NotGazTop

Hello people.

In the pub the other night, we were discussing the theory that if you know who Kevin Eldon is, then you probably know who The Delagados are and what the difference between a +2 and a +3 Spectrum is.

Well... hmmm?

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Posted By NotGazTop on Mon Aug 14 17:32:55 BST 2000:

I meant "The Delgados" of course, before you hairy pedants jump on me and crush me like in that film.

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Posted By Richard on Mon Aug 14 18:00:36 BST 2000:

>if you know who Kevin Eldon is
I don't actually!
>then you probably know who The Delagados are
I've heard of them - couldn't name anything they've done though.
>and what the difference between a +2 and a +3 Spectrum is.

A +2 had a built in tape drive, a +3 had a disk drive. +3 had I think 128K RAM - not sure about the +2.

Wasn't there a game for the speccy called mailstorm or something where you were this postman?

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Posted By A. Nonymous on Mon Aug 14 18:15:56 BST 2000:

+2 did have 128K memory. My personal favourite speccy was the plain +, which also had 128K.

I also adore Kevin Eldon's work and know who the Delgados are.

And on the subject of Mr Eldon, does anyone know if Channel 5 or Paramount Comedy will be repeating Comedy Network soon, with the "Kevin Pork" monologue that Eldon did for one show?

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Posted By Mogwai on Mon Aug 14 23:04:00 BST 2000:

You might be heartened to know that I'm too young either to be familiar with the work of popular beat combo 'The Delgados' or to know anything more about the Spectrum than that it was what your mate's brother spent all day typing long lines of programming into and then swearing at.

Also, until a couple of years ago, the fact that I'd only seen Kevin Eldon squawk about in Lee & Herring's stuff didn't really give me a chance to appreciate how good he really is. I'm there now though.

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Posted By Suiii on Tue Aug 15 00:12:06 BST 2000:

I know who Kevin Eldon is, but as for the other stuff-niet.

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 09:07:10 BST 2000:

The Delgados are not much older than you Mogwai. They released their 3rd album this year.

Ther plain Spectrum+ had 48k RAM, actually.

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Posted By PJ on Tue Aug 15 12:33:43 BST 2000:

The new delagados album, the great eastern, has just been nominated as one of the best album of the past year by the Mercury music award

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 12:40:20 BST 2000:

Re: Mercury Prize

I reckon the classical music guy will win this year. I mean, they can't just keep failing forever can they?

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Posted By Tetsell on Tue Aug 15 13:19:29 BST 2000:

Kevin Eldon - the Kevin Bacon of modern comedy?

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Posted By Jon on Tue Aug 15 13:28:43 BST 2000:

Kevin Bacon - the Kevin Eldon of modern Hollywood?

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Posted By Tetsell on Tue Aug 15 14:08:52 BST 2000:

Will Mellor - the Kevin the Gerbil of modern Hollyoaks?

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Posted By Aslef Napkyn on Tue Aug 15 14:14:07 BST 2000:

Eldon Bacon - the kevin of modern Kevins?

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Posted By TJ on Tue Aug 15 14:19:09 BST 2000:

Recently, someone bought my music'n'comedy fanzine. He was called Kevin, and lives in Eldon Street. Coincidence?

Yes, I know it's not a real coincidence of any kind...

And yes, I do know about Spectrum +2 and +3, and have all the Delgados albums.

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Posted By Sam D on Thu Aug 24 14:05:01 BST 2000:

Good Lord.

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Posted By Joe4SOTCAA on Fri Sep 1 23:00:53 BST 2000:

The Delgados aren't as good as The Time.

http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~frogger/corpses/thetime.ram

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