Live report November 27th, Stade Couvert, Liévin FR
Nov 27, 2022 18:25:21 GMT 1
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Ever heard the saying, “All quiet on the Western front”?
Well it wasn’t always the case for the town of Liévin who, firmly situated on the aforementioned front, were embroiled in what has become known as The Battle Of The Loos.
Sparked by a seemingly flippant comment by the mayor’s wife who had got properly fed up with her husband leaving the seat up fighting ensued for 2 weeks in 1915 between the “uppies” & the “downies”. The battle escalated when the dual flush infantry entered the fray, desperate to rid the region of the handle battalion’s tyrannical domination of cistern mechanisms.
Hostilities petered out by the 8th of October that year with a few small skirmishes here & there over which way the toilet roll should go on the holder. Thankfully sanity prevailed with the “overs” silencing the “unders” although there are still, to this day, “under” stalwarts who will never admit defeat & instead protest peacefully in the privacy of their own WC.
With standards for the smallest room in the house finally agreed the locals returned to what they loved to do the best. Coal mining. However with silicosis & assorted catastrophes they decided to wind all that up in the mid 70’s.
But mining was always in the Liévin blood since the mid nineteenth century. When the pits started closing (first time round) Franck Lefebvre decided he had to be thousands of metres underground getting coal dust in his lungs & ruining his perfectly manicured nails & settled in Iowa to show those Americans just how mining should be done. Having sold the rights to his patented mining technique to Disney, he sent the money he made to his family back home in France so that they could come & join him. They embarked at Southampton on April 10th 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic where Mrs Lefebvre spent 5 days avoiding Leonardo DiCaprio who increasingly wanted to draw her like another one of his French girls.
After a gruelling 5 days having to listen to Celine Dion warble endlessly, not to mention Bill Paxton’s doom-mongering, the family’s plight ended somewhat abruptly when Bernard Hill crashed the ship into a load of ice cubes in the middle of the night miles from anywhere.
With no spare wardrobe doors to float to safety on, Franck’s daughter, the ever optimistic Mathilde, quickly penned a message, shoved it a bottle & tossed it into the freezing Atlantic waters….where it sunk without a trace. So tragic was the loss of this message in a bottle that some cheeky Canadian decided re-create that happy missive & pretended to find it on the beach in the Bay of Fundy in 2017. What a guy.
Having a much less perilous trip today will be ghost , faith & bloodflowers78 before having their fill of Potjevleesch and Ambre des Flandres. Let’s wish them all a terrific time
It’s a simple red & white affair today.
Soundcheck: via @robertmalice on the twitters
Pictures Of You
Shake Dog Shake
The Figurehead
Alone
Mainset:
Alone
Pictures Of You
Closedown
A Night Like This
Lovesong
And Nothing Is Forever
39
Shake Dog Shake
A Fragile Thing
Cold
Burn
Charlotte Sometimes
Push
Primary
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Endsong
Encore 1:
I Can Never Say Goodbye
At Night
M
Play For Today
A Forest
Encore 2:
Lullaby
The Walk
Friday I'm In Love
Close To Me
Inbetween Days
Just Like Heaven
Boys Don't Cry
As usual. If you stumble across a stream, you should be able to embed it in your post using the </> button on the tool bar. If you can’t then just post the link so those of us who can’t be there can at least share in the experience with those that can
Well it wasn’t always the case for the town of Liévin who, firmly situated on the aforementioned front, were embroiled in what has become known as The Battle Of The Loos.
Sparked by a seemingly flippant comment by the mayor’s wife who had got properly fed up with her husband leaving the seat up fighting ensued for 2 weeks in 1915 between the “uppies” & the “downies”. The battle escalated when the dual flush infantry entered the fray, desperate to rid the region of the handle battalion’s tyrannical domination of cistern mechanisms.
Hostilities petered out by the 8th of October that year with a few small skirmishes here & there over which way the toilet roll should go on the holder. Thankfully sanity prevailed with the “overs” silencing the “unders” although there are still, to this day, “under” stalwarts who will never admit defeat & instead protest peacefully in the privacy of their own WC.
With standards for the smallest room in the house finally agreed the locals returned to what they loved to do the best. Coal mining. However with silicosis & assorted catastrophes they decided to wind all that up in the mid 70’s.
But mining was always in the Liévin blood since the mid nineteenth century. When the pits started closing (first time round) Franck Lefebvre decided he had to be thousands of metres underground getting coal dust in his lungs & ruining his perfectly manicured nails & settled in Iowa to show those Americans just how mining should be done. Having sold the rights to his patented mining technique to Disney, he sent the money he made to his family back home in France so that they could come & join him. They embarked at Southampton on April 10th 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic where Mrs Lefebvre spent 5 days avoiding Leonardo DiCaprio who increasingly wanted to draw her like another one of his French girls.
After a gruelling 5 days having to listen to Celine Dion warble endlessly, not to mention Bill Paxton’s doom-mongering, the family’s plight ended somewhat abruptly when Bernard Hill crashed the ship into a load of ice cubes in the middle of the night miles from anywhere.
With no spare wardrobe doors to float to safety on, Franck’s daughter, the ever optimistic Mathilde, quickly penned a message, shoved it a bottle & tossed it into the freezing Atlantic waters….where it sunk without a trace. So tragic was the loss of this message in a bottle that some cheeky Canadian decided re-create that happy missive & pretended to find it on the beach in the Bay of Fundy in 2017. What a guy.
Having a much less perilous trip today will be ghost , faith & bloodflowers78 before having their fill of Potjevleesch and Ambre des Flandres. Let’s wish them all a terrific time
It’s a simple red & white affair today.
Soundcheck: via @robertmalice on the twitters
Pictures Of You
Shake Dog Shake
The Figurehead
Alone
Mainset:
Alone
Pictures Of You
Closedown
A Night Like This
Lovesong
And Nothing Is Forever
39
Shake Dog Shake
A Fragile Thing
Cold
Burn
Charlotte Sometimes
Push
Primary
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Endsong
Encore 1:
I Can Never Say Goodbye
At Night
M
Play For Today
A Forest
Encore 2:
Lullaby
The Walk
Friday I'm In Love
Close To Me
Inbetween Days
Just Like Heaven
Boys Don't Cry
As usual. If you stumble across a stream, you should be able to embed it in your post using the </> button on the tool bar. If you can’t then just post the link so those of us who can’t be there can at least share in the experience with those that can