One of the surprising number of musicians with connections to chemistry (of the non-illegal type): Alexander Borodin, Thomas Beecham, Francis Poulenc.
14 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
I enjoyed some of his earlier work with Cluster and our friend Conny Plank. However after trying to read A Year With Swollen Bollocks, his constant name-dropping became tedious to say the least.
14 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
Well fan my brow. The top restaurant in cold Dundalk is Enos.
15 October 2014
jedenáct československých ligových titulů
Amusing video clip. How fitting that in this of all weeks, one of the items on their shopping list is offal…
19 October 2014
This leaden paul
The restaurant in Dundalk styles itself as “Eno’ Bar & Grill”. Website surprisingly non-committal as to whether “the boys” are “back in town”, though.
28 October 2014
EXXO
Eno’ ? As in ‘Enoteca’? Haha painfully pretentious – can you imagine the kind of divvies who go there?
28 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
Collaborating with Jon Snow.this evening. “To a man with a hammer everything is a nail” he stated. Now did he nick that off Mark Twain?
2 December 2015
Dr desperate
Reports attributing the quote to Mark Twain would appear to have been exaggerated. Its first recorded use is by Abraham Kaplan in 1964: “I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” It’s also known as Maslow’s hammer, popularly phrased as “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” (The Psychology of Science, Abraham Maslow, 1966). To a man with a mallet, on the other hand, everything in Millets…
(With apologies to Brumbiscuit et al, use of the term ‘Brummagem screwdriver’ to mean a hammer predates both Kaplan and Maslow by at least a century.)
3 December 2015
Brumbiscuit
Being a pseudo-Brummie (I was born in Solihull, then in Warwickshire) and now living in Warwick, I shall forgive you. Solihull is not really a very HMHB location; Warwick less so. I did, though, live in Brum for a good while in Handsworth, Gravelly Hill and the remarkably named Acock’s Green.
I do, however, confess to owning several Brummagem screwdrivers and indeed used one just last week where a real screwdriver would have been the much more appropriate tool, but I couldn’t be arsed to get hold of one.
3 December 2015
Peter Mcornithologist
Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting. Dear Mr. Eno ,I do not see the need to listen it.
Excellent! Another priest mentioned, though not seen, in the Father Ted episode ‘Song For Europe’ (q v) was Fr Benny Cake, who under a false name “recorded a song that went to number one in England… anyway, I think the song was called ‘Vienna’.”
26 July 2016
Cream cheese and chives
I stumbled across someone on Radio 4 talking to Toyah Wilcox this morning. I genuinely don’t know what the gist of the programme was but in the few minutes I heard, Ms Wilcox (Mrs Eno?) sounded a fairly down to earth type-on the Radio 4 arts programme scale that is-but the interviewer? Her closing sentence was along the lines of, ‘I sometimes need to just do things and not cerebralise about them.’ As I cussed and swore blind that there is no such word, the announcer informed me that the additional music was by Brian Eno. Is this a nepotENOistic collaboration?
7 March 2018
Eric t’viking
I think Toyah is married to Robert Fripp, not Mr Eno, though could be wrong. Remember seeing her at Preston in what seems like a lifetime ago…
7 March 2018
dr desperate
That interviewer was Jane Garvey, ex-wife of Adrian Chiles. Ms Willcox remains married to whippet-botherer Fripp, who has had his own Eno collaborations (including the album (No Pussyfooting)).
7 March 2018
Cream cheese and chives
Fripp and Eno. There was no one with names like that in my school. I have always had a tendency to mix them up. But ’twas not Jane Garvey. I hold her in such esteem that I never get her mixed up with anyone! The interviewer was…Alice Lowe. I found this out when I looked her up on the Radio 4 schedule. Toyah does not look the same now as when I sat next to her on the set of some Saturday morning BBC programme that my mate’s dad (BBC security guard) got us into. The Jam and Toyah on the same bill. Heady days. Am I right in thinking that an anagram of Fripp Eno is Finer Pop? An anagram generator tells me that by adding Toyah to the mix you can produce FEAR HIPPO TONY or 53579 others.
7 March 2018
peter mcornothologist
The Eno are Native Americans living in North Carolina.
17 September 2018
Phyllis Triggs
Was in conversation today along with Brian Cox on 6music. Keaveny actually asked him for his thoughts on collaboration… (Go on – play it, play it, play it – but he didn’t)
There’s an argument to be made (one day) that if Brian Eno had not nurtured Devo, Attempted Moustache would not have sounded like they did, and that without them, and elements of that sound, HMHB would not necessarily have got off the ground
11 December 2019
dr desperate
And in December 1970, if Eno hadn’t got into the same carriage on the Northern Line as Andy Mackay he wouldn’t have been asked to bring his tape recorder to an early Roxy Music session where he played a synthesiser for the first time. In his 1995 diary ‘A Year with Swollen Appendices’ claimed that “all the world’s problems can be solved with either oyster sauce or backing vocals”. Anagram of ‘Brain One’. First word in ‘The Book of Los’, 1795 by William Blake (him again), name of the agèd Mother, glossed as an anagram of ‘eon’.
11 December 2019
EXXO
Probably a corruption of Hainault, or similar Huguenot name. Father’s line can trace the name back in Tractor Boy territory for centuries.
Eno was voted above the Suffolk Punch and John Constablein a Shennan-style poll to find the “icon of Suffolk”. He was only beaten by a pint of Adnams, a swimming pool that was the subject of a Restoration-type campaign, and runaway winner, Danni Filth (as in rhmes with “Wilf”).
And when you look at Brian in those early 70s pre-Berlin picks, a pale waif with long golden hair and ghoulish make-up, you see his Belgian mother in a forced labour camp building planes for the Luftwaffe. Well I do.
11 December 2019
peter mcornithologist
Launched a scathing attack upon Mr.Cave ,( q.v.) with regard to his decision to play live in Israel . Ooooh Brian ,release the Warm Jets.
1 October 2020
parsfan
Well, who or whatever he collaborates with next, it won’t be any of that non-fungible bollocks.
22 December 2021
FEATURELESS TV PRODUCER STEVE
Filing this one under How To Tell HMHB Has Completely Saturated Your Brain:
I was doing the New York Times crossword puzzle today, and the clue was “One may get in the way of a collaboration.” The answer was three letters long, and I’d sussed out the first and third letters, leaving me with E_O. Clearly the answer was Eno, but I couldn’t understand the clue – Eno doesn’t get in the way of a collaboration, he causes the collaboration. Hell, he IS the collaboration, sure as night follows day. Did the clue mean “One whom you may get with in the way of a collaboration?” Maybe, but that’s not what it said. I read it over and over, and couldn’t figure out how Eno would “get in the way” of your collaboration with him. Very frustrating.
7 November 2022
dr desperate
One up for collaboration? (Eno, rev. Down clue, obvs.)
7 November 2022
dr desperate
Norwich resident, may be spotted in the crowd on Friday.
7 November 2022
Woodnoggin
“One may get in the way of a collaboration.”
I think there’s an intentional double meaning. “Get in the way of” can mean “obstruct”. Or you could have “get” meaning “obtain” or “result in” plus “in the way of a collaboration” meaning “in the style of” or “something of a collaboration”.
Something like: One = some form of collaboration
The clue is a bit looser than I prefer but that’s my best guess at making sense of it.
8 November 2022
dr desperate
Possibly, but I think it’s just that NYT (and American in general) crosswords don’t have the definition/wordplay cryptic format that we’re used to on this side of the Atlantic.
8 November 2022
dr desperate
If he still owns a Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition, it probably goes thus (with a ringtone which he created from measures 13–16 of Francisco Tárrega’s ‘Gran Vals’). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7610kXRXOlM
10 November 2022
eric t’viking
Our Brian had a small part on Radio 4’s Add to Playlist on Friday 3 March, talking about the effect hearing ‘I Feel Love’ by Donna Summer for the first time had on him. Cerys Matthews is a co-presenter of the programme, which for me (totally musically illiterate), is an equal mixture of the fascinating and the baffling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jldr
acidic regulator
One of the surprising number of musicians with connections to chemistry (of the non-illegal type): Alexander Borodin, Thomas Beecham, Francis Poulenc.
14 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
I enjoyed some of his earlier work with Cluster and our friend Conny Plank. However after trying to read A Year With Swollen Bollocks, his constant name-dropping became tedious to say the least.
14 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
Well fan my brow. The top restaurant in cold Dundalk is Enos.
15 October 2014
jedenáct československých ligových titulů
Amusing video clip. How fitting that in this of all weeks, one of the items on their shopping list is offal…
19 October 2014
This leaden paul
The restaurant in Dundalk styles itself as “Eno’ Bar & Grill”. Website surprisingly non-committal as to whether “the boys” are “back in town”, though.
28 October 2014
EXXO
Eno’ ? As in ‘Enoteca’? Haha painfully pretentious – can you imagine the kind of divvies who go there?
28 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
Collaborating with Jon Snow.this evening. “To a man with a hammer everything is a nail” he stated. Now did he nick that off Mark Twain?
2 December 2015
Dr desperate
Reports attributing the quote to Mark Twain would appear to have been exaggerated. Its first recorded use is by Abraham Kaplan in 1964: “I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”
It’s also known as Maslow’s hammer, popularly phrased as “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” (The Psychology of Science, Abraham Maslow, 1966).
To a man with a mallet, on the other hand, everything in Millets…
(With apologies to Brumbiscuit et al, use of the term ‘Brummagem screwdriver’ to mean a hammer predates both Kaplan and Maslow by at least a century.)
3 December 2015
Brumbiscuit
Being a pseudo-Brummie (I was born in Solihull, then in Warwickshire) and now living in Warwick, I shall forgive you. Solihull is not really a very HMHB location; Warwick less so. I did, though, live in Brum for a good while in Handsworth, Gravelly Hill and the remarkably named Acock’s Green.
I do, however, confess to owning several Brummagem screwdrivers and indeed used one just last week where a real screwdriver would have been the much more appropriate tool, but I couldn’t be arsed to get hold of one.
3 December 2015
Peter Mcornithologist
Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting. Dear Mr. Eno ,I do not see the need to listen it.
25 July 2016
Peter Mcornithologist
Appeared in an episode of Father Ted, as Father Brian Eno.
26 July 2016
dr desperate
Excellent! Another priest mentioned, though not seen, in the Father Ted episode ‘Song For Europe’ (q v) was Fr Benny Cake, who under a false name “recorded a song that went to number one in England… anyway, I think the song was called ‘Vienna’.”
26 July 2016
Cream cheese and chives
I stumbled across someone on Radio 4 talking to Toyah Wilcox this morning. I genuinely don’t know what the gist of the programme was but in the few minutes I heard, Ms Wilcox (Mrs Eno?) sounded a fairly down to earth type-on the Radio 4 arts programme scale that is-but the interviewer? Her closing sentence was along the lines of,
‘I sometimes need to just do things and not cerebralise about them.’
As I cussed and swore blind that there is no such word, the announcer informed me that the additional music was by Brian Eno. Is this a nepotENOistic collaboration?
7 March 2018
Eric t’viking
I think Toyah is married to Robert Fripp, not Mr Eno, though could be wrong. Remember seeing her at Preston in what seems like a lifetime ago…
7 March 2018
dr desperate
That interviewer was Jane Garvey, ex-wife of Adrian Chiles. Ms Willcox remains married to whippet-botherer Fripp, who has had his own Eno collaborations (including the album (No Pussyfooting)).
7 March 2018
Cream cheese and chives
Fripp and Eno. There was no one with names like that in my school. I have always had a tendency to mix them up. But ’twas not Jane Garvey. I hold her in such esteem that I never get her mixed up with anyone! The interviewer was…Alice Lowe. I found this out when I looked her up on the Radio 4 schedule. Toyah does not look the same now as when I sat next to her on the set of some Saturday morning BBC programme that my mate’s dad (BBC security guard) got us into. The Jam and Toyah on the same bill. Heady days.
Am I right in thinking that an anagram of Fripp Eno is Finer Pop? An anagram generator tells me that by adding Toyah to the mix you can produce FEAR HIPPO TONY or 53579 others.
7 March 2018
peter mcornothologist
The Eno are Native Americans living in North Carolina.
17 September 2018
Phyllis Triggs
Was in conversation today along with Brian Cox on 6music. Keaveny actually asked him for his thoughts on collaboration… (Go on – play it, play it, play it – but he didn’t)
26 December 2018
IDIOT SAUL
Eno’s latest collaboration seems to be with Jeremy Corbyn:
https://youtu.be/PPY0rW6Paqo
10 December 2019
EXXO
There’s an argument to be made (one day) that if Brian Eno had not nurtured Devo, Attempted Moustache would not have sounded like they did, and that without them, and elements of that sound, HMHB would not necessarily have got off the ground
11 December 2019
dr desperate
And in December 1970, if Eno hadn’t got into the same carriage on the Northern Line as Andy Mackay he wouldn’t have been asked to bring his tape recorder to an early Roxy Music session where he played a synthesiser for the first time.
In his 1995 diary ‘A Year with Swollen Appendices’ claimed that “all the world’s problems can be solved with either oyster sauce or backing vocals”.
Anagram of ‘Brain One’.
First word in ‘The Book of Los’, 1795 by William Blake (him again), name of the agèd Mother, glossed as an anagram of ‘eon’.
11 December 2019
EXXO
Probably a corruption of Hainault, or similar Huguenot name. Father’s line can trace the name back in Tractor Boy territory for centuries.
Eno was voted above the Suffolk Punch and John Constablein a Shennan-style poll to find the “icon of Suffolk”. He was only beaten by a pint of Adnams, a swimming pool that was the subject of a Restoration-type campaign, and runaway winner, Danni Filth (as in rhmes with “Wilf”).
And when you look at Brian in those early 70s pre-Berlin picks, a pale waif with long golden hair and ghoulish make-up, you see his Belgian mother in a forced labour camp building planes for the Luftwaffe. Well I do.
11 December 2019
peter mcornithologist
Launched a scathing attack upon Mr.Cave ,( q.v.) with regard to his decision to play live in Israel . Ooooh Brian ,release the Warm Jets.
1 October 2020
parsfan
Well, who or whatever he collaborates with next, it won’t be any of that non-fungible bollocks.
22 December 2021
FEATURELESS TV PRODUCER STEVE
Filing this one under How To Tell HMHB Has Completely Saturated Your Brain:
I was doing the New York Times crossword puzzle today, and the clue was “One may get in the way of a collaboration.” The answer was three letters long, and I’d sussed out the first and third letters, leaving me with E_O. Clearly the answer was Eno, but I couldn’t understand the clue – Eno doesn’t get in the way of a collaboration, he causes the collaboration. Hell, he IS the collaboration, sure as night follows day. Did the clue mean “One whom you may get with in the way of a collaboration?” Maybe, but that’s not what it said. I read it over and over, and couldn’t figure out how Eno would “get in the way” of your collaboration with him. Very frustrating.
7 November 2022
dr desperate
One up for collaboration? (Eno, rev. Down clue, obvs.)
7 November 2022
dr desperate
Norwich resident, may be spotted in the crowd on Friday.
7 November 2022
Woodnoggin
“One may get in the way of a collaboration.”
I think there’s an intentional double meaning. “Get in the way of” can mean “obstruct”. Or you could have “get” meaning “obtain” or “result in” plus “in the way of a collaboration” meaning “in the style of” or “something of a collaboration”.
Something like: One = some form of collaboration
The clue is a bit looser than I prefer but that’s my best guess at making sense of it.
8 November 2022
dr desperate
Possibly, but I think it’s just that NYT (and American in general) crosswords don’t have the definition/wordplay cryptic format that we’re used to on this side of the Atlantic.
8 November 2022
dr desperate
If he still owns a Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition, it probably goes thus (with a ringtone which he created from measures 13–16 of Francisco Tárrega’s ‘Gran Vals’).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7610kXRXOlM
10 November 2022
eric t’viking
Our Brian had a small part on Radio 4’s Add to Playlist on Friday 3 March, talking about the effect hearing ‘I Feel Love’ by Donna Summer for the first time had on him. Cerys Matthews is a co-presenter of the programme, which for me (totally musically illiterate), is an equal mixture of the fascinating and the baffling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jldr
5 March 2023