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Author Topic: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits  (Read 126351 times)

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #600 on: January 27, 2022, 06:20:43 PM »
I was referring to the Italian thing  :wave

To be honest, I thought John was pretty harsh on Italy in his book, though he has a point that it was a different country back then. But any country was a different country half a century ago, nothing new here. Russia was a completely different country even 20 years ago, so you have to take that into account. The journalist also has a point, so it's a fair game to me.

She's not acting like a journalist, but as a mafia bully. She's not asking questions regarding what he wrote about Italy, she is attacking him about it.
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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #601 on: January 27, 2022, 06:21:44 PM »
Kudos to John for not telling this horribly annoying journalist to fuck off!  What a bunch of bad questions, and how rude of her to doubt him. He isn't offending anybody, he is telling what he saw. Phil Palmer writes about the SanRemo fastival too, and I don't doubt they are telling the truth.
I can't believe how bad this journalist is, it is some of the worst I've read!...And this probably is NOT the worst one he has met.. :disbelief

He is offending me, saying Scotland couldn't pay its bills, that all we have to offer is "whiskey" (sic) and that we have a language that no one can understand!

The way she attacks John, I don't believe a single word that she wrote, maybe she made all up or exagerated to make him looks like an assole, when she was the assole clearly.
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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #602 on: January 27, 2022, 07:16:45 PM »
Crikey she sounds like a right charmer.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #603 on: January 28, 2022, 04:07:50 AM »
Generally a terrible interview, but those were some tough questions, and the journalist just kept hammering them. Pretty disrespectful actually. I'm surprised John agreed to have it published.


As for the Scottish speaking a language no one can understand, I'm sure that was said jokingly. Obviously jokes (irony) don't come across well in writing. That said, Scottish is difficult to understand for foreigners who are not accustomed to the accent. I remember first time I was in Scotland. I took a taxi from Glasgow airport to Greenock. I had to ask the driver to repeat himself constantly LOL Good times.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #604 on: January 28, 2022, 08:38:31 AM »
Generally a terrible interview, but those were some tough questions, and the journalist just kept hammering them. Pretty disrespectful actually. I'm surprised John agreed to have it published.


As for the Scottish speaking a language no one can understand, I'm sure that was said jokingly. Obviously jokes (irony) don't come across well in writing. That said, Scottish is difficult to understand for foreigners who are not accustomed to the accent. I remember first time I was in Scotland. I took a taxi from Glasgow airport to Greenock. I had to ask the driver to repeat himself constantly LOL Good times.

I agree it was a terrible interview - an interrogation actually!

Regarding accents, the Glasgow accent is something apart from other Scottish accents.   Sometimes it is almost impossible to understand and needs subtitles, a bit like the Liverpudlian accent, which even myself, a Liverpudlian, finds difficult to understand at times in dramas on TV!   :)  I think John was talking about Scottish Gaelic, though, when he said it was "a language nobody can understand".
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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #605 on: January 28, 2022, 09:07:06 AM »
Generally a terrible interview, but those were some tough questions, and the journalist just kept hammering them. Pretty disrespectful actually. I'm surprised John agreed to have it published.


As for the Scottish speaking a language no one can understand, I'm sure that was said jokingly. Obviously jokes (irony) don't come across well in writing. That said, Scottish is difficult to understand for foreigners who are not accustomed to the accent. I remember first time I was in Scotland. I took a taxi from Glasgow airport to Greenock. I had to ask the driver to repeat himself constantly LOL Good times.

I agree it was a terrible interview - an interrogation actually!

Regarding accents, the Glasgow accent is something apart from other Scottish accents.   Sometimes it is almost impossible to understand and needs subtitles, a bit like the Liverpudlian accent, which even myself, a Liverpudlian, finds difficult to understand at times in dramas on TV!   :)  I think John was talking about Scottish Gaelic, though, when he said it was "a language nobody can understand".


True, Glaswegian is a lot harder to comprehend compared to the Edinburgh accent or up in the Highlands.


As for English accents, I find people from Leeds rather difficult to understand.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #606 on: January 28, 2022, 09:15:49 AM »


As for English accents, I find people from Leeds rather difficult to understand.

I have lived in Leeds for 56 years and I have no problem, generally, except for some strange colloquialisms.  :)
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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #607 on: January 28, 2022, 10:06:15 AM »


As for English accents, I find people from Leeds rather difficult to understand.

I have lived in Leeds for 56 years and I have no problem, generally, except for some strange colloquialisms.  :)


Being British and having lived there for 56 years, might have helped you  ;D


English is not my native language, and as a foreigner I was mostly exposed to some variant of BBC English, or Standard American English.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #608 on: January 29, 2022, 12:03:32 PM »
Generally a terrible interview, but those were some tough questions, and the journalist just kept hammering them. Pretty disrespectful actually. I'm surprised John agreed to have it published.


As for the Scottish speaking a language no one can understand, I'm sure that was said jokingly. Obviously jokes (irony) don't come across well in writing. That said, Scottish is difficult to understand for foreigners who are not accustomed to the accent. I remember first time I was in Scotland. I took a taxi from Glasgow airport to Greenock. I had to ask the driver to repeat himself constantly LOL Good times.

I agree it was a terrible interview - an interrogation actually!

Regarding accents, the Glasgow accent is something apart from other Scottish accents.   Sometimes it is almost impossible to understand and needs subtitles, a bit like the Liverpudlian accent, which even myself, a Liverpudlian, finds difficult to understand at times in dramas on TV!   :)  I think John was talking about Scottish Gaelic, though, when he said it was "a language nobody can understand".


True, Glaswegian is a lot harder to comprehend compared to the Edinburgh accent or up in the Highlands.


As for English accents, I find people from Leeds rather difficult to understand.

Some accents up in parts of the highlands and islands are very strong.  In the Glasgow area you can travel 5 miles and hear a different accent.  Some Aberdonians have the strongest accents in Scotland.  Just hope big John isn't playing there any time soon!  :lol

I think it's nice to hear an accent because they're dying out now.  People are moving around the country a lot more, living in different places and the younger generation generally don't have strong local accents any more. 
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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #609 on: January 29, 2022, 11:13:59 PM »
What an awful interview! I'm surprised that John didn't get up and leave!

I haven't been to Scotland (yet), but I have been to parts of Nova Scotia, Canada where Scottish Gaelic is spoken in some regions. Road signs are in both English and Gaelic. I can't understand it much either, especially if they are speaking fast.
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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #610 on: May 07, 2023, 01:33:53 AM »
Aware I’m late to the party but I have just finished reading it. Took me a few weeks as I’m a slow reader and also find it hard to make time to stop and read (I’m a teacher so bring work home with me, plus my wife is 12 weeks pregnant and so has really struggled with tiredness recently.)

I did the thing of slowing down towards the end as I was enjoying it so much I didn’t want it to finish. I admire his honesty about the ups and downs and his mistakes. I wish there was more detail about the later shows and tours but, as he says, I guess all the shows merge when you’re doing that many of them. Much as I’d have loved more about MK as a character, I do appreciate they’re good mates and so John probably had to be careful about what he shared.

All in all, an interesting read…..and the teacher in me spotted a grammatical error or two.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #612 on: January 03, 2024, 04:17:56 PM »
It's taken me far too long, but I started reading John's book today. The first two-three chapters about John's childhood and family are, frankly speaking, tedious and could have been condensed a great deal. I'm now at where they have signed the deal with Phonogram. This part of the book I'm really enjoying. I know the story very well, but John (and the writer who helped him) has really managed to capture the atmosphere of that era and bring the story to life.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #613 on: January 03, 2024, 04:21:52 PM »
The first two-three chapters about John's childhood and family are, frankly speaking, tedious and could have been condensed a great deal.

I love biographies/autobiographies but this is the case with nearly every one I read.

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Re: SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits
« Reply #614 on: January 03, 2024, 05:13:09 PM »
Opening chapters about childhoods and neighbours are often sleeping pills.

I enjoyed the book, but the heart of it, and where John's heart is clearly in it, is the early years of the band. He deals with the mammoth OES tour in a few pages, giving much the same impression of that tour as a number of key players. A shame, though, considering the quality of the music and the length of the tour.

 

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