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Digital Mike Binoche wrote: Mick and Juliette have picked the lottery numbers;
3, 7, 34, 35, 46, 48
cheers DigiMiK , next wednesdays bacon butty fer Juliette , sans HP ,yet with a smattering of Dijon ... too continental or frying in the face of fashion as Julie Cope would have us believe ?
I gotta say those are some of the best band/fan photos around, on so many levels ... million dollar smile indeed
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm assuming you're involved at the school in some way.....not that teacher who was drooling on the BBC NW report are you? poor sod looked like his head was about to go POP! :)
Sorry to admit it but yes that was me doing the dance ohhhh nooooooooo
And it was brilliant i was about 5 feet from Bernie
NOPAUL wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm assuming you're involved at the school in some way.....not that teacher who was drooling on the BBC NW report are you? poor sod looked like his head was about to go POP! :)
Sorry to admit it but yes that was me doing the dance ohhhh nooooooooo
And it was brilliant i was about 5 feet from Bernie
LOL, man you got it bad...Mr Jarvis will have to be petitioned on the subject of a badge for you for "conspicuous services to the order on a regional television show" (albeit a regional telly show that ever NOOLer with Sky watched.)
Did they make any new fans among the sproglets? I'm guessing the sheer noise of Hooky's bass and Phil's keyboard full of one touch wonders (for BM) would score big.
I miraculously had a word with Brian earlier, and he said he's be extra nice to any salfordian school people who got in touch :)
I knew about this gig about 5 weeks ago through a friend whose wife works for Salford Council. I knew the exact school but not the date. At 1.30pm last Friday whilst we were enjoying a lunchtime pint at the Bury Beer Festival he announced that the gig was taking place that afternoon but security would be so tight there would be no chance of getting anywhere near. Coincidentally, The Bury Beer Fesitival was taking place in the Derby Hall in Bury, scene of the Joy Division riot in 1980 shortly before Ians abduction by aliens.
Shug wrote:
Hat's off to the band, a brilliant jesture, this is why we all love em, I thought they would only play three or four songs, but they outdid themselves. Magic
Can't concur more :)
I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but BBC Manchester have a page on this here?
New Order perform school hall gig
Music legends New Order helped a school celebrate a good Ofsted report by holding a lunchtime concert there. The band - two of whom are from Salford - played at the city's Oakwood High School after being inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame on Wednesday.
The school, which caters for pupils with complex learning difficulties, was praised as "a very good school" by inspectors from Ofsted.
Singer Bernard Sumner said he hoped the gig made the pupils "feel special".
"I come from this town and it can be a very rough place at times and if you've got some sort of disability or problem, you can times that by many times growing up here," he added.
"We wanted to come to make these kids feel special, not special needs, but special, and to try and raise their self-esteem.
"When they all got up after the second song spontaneously it was fantastic and you couldn't want a better litmus test than playing to a bunch of kids who probably don't know you're stuff.
"I don't know if we made them feel special but they made us feel special."
Headteacher Janis Triska said the gig was to help the children celebrate the school's Ofsted report.
"It seemed sensible to bring a Salford band to give a concert to the children," she said.
"Fortunately Bernard came to visit the school and was so pleased with it he said they'd give a concert.
"A lot of them probably won't have known the band but after today they're enthralled."
Nick King wrote:
"We wanted to come to make these kids feel special, not special needs, but special, and to try and raise their self-esteem.
Bernard, eloquent as usual. 
Doctor Clayhead wrote: They really are the best band in the world, aren't they?
YES!
also: "The school's brush with fame is not over yet. Sumner will be back on Monday to teach art lessons, and will bring the artist Damien Hirst and the actor Keith Allen with him."
Dirty Harry wrote:
Nick King wrote:
"We wanted to come to make these kids feel special, not special needs, but special, and to try and raise their self-esteem.
Bernard, eloquent as usual.
I think your wrong, it's perhaps your unfamiliarity with the terminology of special needs but Barneys comment is quite succinct.
James Thomas wrote:
Dirty Harry wrote:
Nick King wrote:
"We wanted to come to make these kids feel special, not special needs, but special, and to try and raise their self-esteem.
Bernard, eloquent as usual.
I think your wrong, it's perhaps your unfamiliarity with the terminology of special needs but Barneys comment is quite succinct.
Good point JT, special needs refers to both 'lower' & more able (GAT) children.
Succinct is a damn fine word tho 
