Friday, March 23, 2007

"Wyatting"

From his wikipedia entry:

Recently the verb "Wyatting", named obviously after Robert Wyatt, appeared in some blogs and music magazines to describe the practice of using weird tracks from a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers. The name was coined by Carl Neville, a 36-year-old English teacher from London, because one of the favourites LPs for this effect is Dondestan.

Robert Wyatt was quoted in The Guardian: as saying "I think it's really funny," and "I'm very honoured at the idea of becoming a verb."[1] However, when asked if he would ever try it himself, he said "Oh no. I don't really like disconcerting people. Although often when I try to be normal I disconcert anyway."

Advanced western capitalist society is divided into two groups: those of us who recognise the brilliance of Robert Wyatt's voice, and the rest of you fuckers who will insist in selecting five Rolling Stones tracks on the pub jukebox.

2 comments:

Lisa Rullsenberg said...

Grrr. Stupid new betabloggerbollix.

I was trying to say I agree with the passion for Wyatt.

Hump. All feels a bit leaden now after getting booted out of Blogger to write this comment!

Reidski said...

Stalin Wasn't Stalling does it for me every time too Darren ;-)

Btw, agree with lisa there as I think beta blogger is a load of old bollocks and does nothing to improve blogging whatsoever.