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I just got through watching the 317 or whatever it's called DVD where they performed in 1998. Barney was singing Temptation and towards the end during the "oh it's the last time" verse, he was going "Oh it's the last time, Oh it's the last time, Oh it's the laaaaaast FUCKING time!" 
That threw me TOTOALLY off guard and cought me by surprise! What are some other examples of songs where Barney unexpectedly blurted out a profane word during the song? That was hilarious as fuck.
Age of Consent from BBC's shoddy Glastonbury 1987 CD springs to mind:
"Im not the kind that likes to tell you Just what the f*ck you want me too"
Or Blue Monday from PFD with Barneys rant at the lighting crew. I forget the exact term but its got the "C" word in it. Perhaps someone else can enlighten you?
There is an utterly shocking version of 'Krafty' performed somewhere in Italy,I think,last year where Barney shouts the whole thing like a radjed nutter,which is pretty funny..
The pottymouth is usually kept under control. That control word again, sorry. Usually may be stretching it a bit :)
Skullcrusher springs to mind. Great version where he's pissed off at whoever's in charge of the sound.
BM & Temptation from BBC Saturday live '84 is probably the best televised pottymouth incident,altho' the whole thing is quality for Bernards' foul temper that day.It's pretty much kept under control these days as Tim says,but most of the boots' from the '80's include some sort of gem.It was the norm back then! He leaves it to Hooky these days 
Not part of a song but I loved that 'This song is about when Hooky met Phil in prison' dialogue before BLT at Roskide 2002.
We were In Oxford on Sunday and it reminded me of the boot of 86 gig there when Barney called the audience cunts amongst many other things.
Who gives a fuck?
(That's not a comment on the thread, it's something Barney says in the middle of a song at some gig or other. £40 to the first one to name the gig, song and colour of t-shirt Al was wearing on the night.)
BIGINOIL wrote: Who gives a fuck?
(That's not a comment on the thread, it's something Barney says in the middle of a song at some gig or other. £40 to the first one to name the gig, song and colour of t-shirt Al was wearing on the night.)
Wasn't that the Cleveland , Ohio gig 05/07/89 ?
edit: during Mr Disco ?
Johnny wrote:
BIGINOIL wrote: Who gives a fuck?
(That's not a comment on the thread, it's something Barney says in the middle of a song at some gig or other. £40 to the first one to name the gig, song and colour of t-shirt Al was wearing on the night.)
Wasn't that the Cleveland , Ohio gig 05/07/89 ?
edit: during Mr Disco ?
Ceremony, Ohio or California '89.
That's why I hate the tard-0-prompter. Back in the day, when he forgot his lines, his brain booted to it's default "swear mode" and off he went.
"gonna do a bit of improvisational singing now, fuck fuck fuck fuck, basically" Woolwich, I believe.
Johnny wrote: We were In Oxford on Sunday and it reminded me of the boot of 86 gig there when Barney called the audience cunts amongst many other things.
That's probably because Oxford is full of cnuts...
An ex-Oxford resident xxx
ermmm before WIM at Reading 98.
After Keith Allen walked on:
B : 'Give the fucker a microphone' K : 'And Chris Evans is still a ginger cnut' B : 'No he's not' K : Yes he fookin is.
Boatraceface wrote: There is an utterly shocking version of 'Krafty' performed somewhere in Italy,I think,last year where Barney shouts the whole thing like a radjed nutter,which is pretty funny..
that was in lisbon in 2005
at the super bock festival
i was at the side of the stage.. just thinking.. what.the.fuck.????
Bootleg of NYC05.....somebody's dad sings SLC in a monty python "pepperpot" voice. Fuckin classic. Gone from sanitized version, along with Barney's hilarious "you all worship Ian for killing himself, but don't give a fuck about my sore foot" routine.
Spotnick wrote: But the question is... does the autocue have those words?
Aside from THAT [classic quote there, Nico, SIR!], my faves include...
During 'Ceremony' - 24 April '83, Rosehill Hotel Kilkenny, Ireland And Barney's like, 'Straight from Top Of The Pops, we have New Order! On my left, we have Peter Hook. On my right, we have Gillian Gilbert. Behind me, we have Ian Curtis.'
OUCH! 
Another classic [and personal fave Barney quip, not singing]--
'Would you please turn yer fookin' bass down?'
[Of course, that's to Hooky, and we all know how HE reacts to that! ]
And, my personal favorite Barney singing quip: During 'Your Silent Face' - 28 April '89, Universal Amphitheater, LA [USA] --'Sound formed in a vacuum may seem a waste of time, It's always been just the same: No lyrics, no songs, No meaning, no nothing--just fuck-ups!!'
Class, Barno. Class.
Snorrimon wrote:
Johnny wrote: We were In Oxford on Sunday and it reminded me of the boot of 86 gig there when Barney called the audience cunts amongst many other things.
That's probably because Oxford is full of cnuts...
An ex-Oxford resident xxx
I did think about adding that myself , yes
:D barney always trips me out...i would like to have seen that bock festival one, where he's yelling the song...anyone have a video link, if one exists?
If it wasn't for your big penis i would be a hevenly person today. Not sure what gig thing it was finsbury park 2004. Do you think he was trying to say something??
What do you think
"Oh it's the last time, Oh it's the last time, Oh it's the laaaaaast FUCKING time!"
Thats a common one innit? Must be, when I'm fooked at a NO gig giving it some its how I always sing along.
jake atkinson wrote: "Oh it's the last time, Oh it's the last time, Oh it's the laaaaaast FUCKING time!"
Thats a common one innit? Must be, when I'm fooked at a NO gig giving it some its how I always sing along.
Yes you are no wrong. Both him and us do that basically when we are trashed
Face Up from G-MEX '86 I think,can't remember exactly what he says,but it's during the breakdown bit & something like 'I can't hear it any fucking more' & I think there's a cnut in there too
tits are for sucking her cnut is for fucking.
confussion i believe..
now that weve grown up were all taking drugs together.
The Tokyo '85 bootleg (night either before or after Pumped Full Of Drugs performance) Barney addresses the audience as "OK you motherfookers" during either Thieves Like Us or The Perfect Kiss. I seem to recall that boot having a lot of potty mouth.
There's hardly a gig between 83 and 87 where he didn't swear in at least one song, or between songs. Also quite a few select outbursts between 1980-82. Hardly big news, but there you go. Think we did have a thread about this before, including the full transcript of the Face Up debut, possibly the biggest outbreak of pottymouth yet known.
NO Regret wrote:
Or Blue Monday from PFD with Barneys rant at the lighting crew. I forget the exact term but its got the "C" word in it. Perhaps someone else can enlighten you?
During the little break in between the verses, just before the explosion sounds, Bernard yells out at one of the lighting crew to:
"Turn that light off you c*nt"
He was being blinded by the lights,
J-Bob wrote:
He was being blinded by the lights,
Should have asked them to turn the heater on! Boo boom TSH!
Haha, yeah there's loads...
"How does it feel when your cock grows stiff/bollocks grow large".
As oldmonkey said though the original Face Up takes some beating "I prefer fur hats to hairy twats".....And of course who can forget I've Got a Cock Like The M1!
fookit it's oldmonkey again wrote: There's hardly a gig between 83 and 87 where he didn't swear in at least one song, or between songs. Also quite a few select outbursts between 1980-82. Hardly big news, but there you go. Think we did have a thread about this before, including the full transcript of the Face Up debut, possibly the biggest outbreak of pottymouth yet known.
Okay, that's it. I wanna see that, Tim! ASAP even!!
OK check out these and while you are there the rest of the site. I really like the gigography there.
[got spirit, lost feeling ~ 'sunshine'] wrote:
fookit it's oldmonkey again wrote: There's hardly a gig between 83 and 87 where he didn't swear in at least one song, or between songs. Also quite a few select outbursts between 1980-82. Hardly big news, but there you go. Think we did have a thread about this before, including the full transcript of the Face Up debut, possibly the biggest outbreak of pottymouth yet known.
I'll see if I can find it out. It's a classic. And if you promise to be really good, I will stick the MP3 up as well
Here you go duck ;)
Face Up - Bradford Caesar's Palace 19/3/84
There's me and you, just we two just the two of us , Alone on our own it's always been the same I've known you since you were sixteen Between your legs I've always been
I prefer fur hats to hairy twats But your hairy twat is like a fur twat
Oh how I cannot bear the thought of you
Being like we used to be Alone on our own just the two us Now you left me all alone To survive on my very own
Oh how I cannot bear the thought of you Leaving me all on my own Just the one of me Just be me for the rest of my life
We've done all this for a few times now I like shagging you but I also think You are a fucking fat cow You've got spots
I go to someone else I know But even though I love you I can't leave you alone like I know I should You've got a brain like a piece of wood
And oh how I cannot bear the thought of you Loving you like I used to do We were always meant for each other Someone who was like my brother
Oh you're gone such a long time now
It's been such a long time now It's been such a long time now
For two long years I've seen your face It's caused me very much disgrace You look like the Elephant Man That's just talking so I can
Oh how I cannot bear the thought of you Seeing you like I used to do I never knew it would come to this It all started from the perfect kiss! The perfect kiss! The perfect kiss!
Oh how I cannot bear the thought of you Oh how I cannot bear the thought of you, ooh
Oh how I cannot bear the thought of you Seeing you...
W-o-o-o-w! Yeah, 'Face Up' sure got a good get-up with the lyrics for its debut!
Can't wait to hear it, Tim. Thank 'ee Sir!
This has just dawned on me for the first time. And may I be chuffed to podge for not noticing it earlier!
J-Bob wrote:
NO Regret wrote:
Or Blue Monday from PFD with Barneys rant at the lighting crew. I forget the exact term but its got the "C" word in it. Perhaps someone else can enlighten you?
During the little break in between the verses, just before the explosion sounds, Bernard yells out at one of the lighting crew to:
"Turn that light off you c*nt"
He was being blinded by the lights,
OMFG. I swear, the shit you notice when you've only been awake for 23 hours straight.
A few months back I downloaded the Warren Lapham mix of BM, and at a particular point [3:31 into the song] he said something sorta odd. I wasn't sure what he was saying at first, something about a light.
It turns out it's the very line you posted.
I can now safely say I know exactly how it feels/to treat me like a--
--wait, WTF AM I THINKING!? 
It's amazing the stuff Novello Award winners can come up with when pissed! Tolstoy and shopping lists springs to mind......
fookit it's oldmonkey again wrote: It's amazing the stuff Novello Award winners can come up with when pissed! Tolstoy and shopping lists springs to mind......
correct me if i'm wrong... but i'm almost sure that bernard said exactly the same thing (oh its the f...ing last time) when singing temptation in the buenos aires' gig last year...
has anyone also been there to check that??
david ball wrote: the village
our love is like.. earth rhyming with afterbirth. can't remember which concert
Kilkenny 83 and I think also one of the 82 shows.
The Him wrote: correct me if i'm wrong... but i'm almost sure that bernard said exactly the same thing (oh its the f...ing last time) when singing temptation in the buenos aires' gig last year...
has anyone also been there to check that??
He's done this maybe 150 times over the last 25 years, it's not exactly uncommon.
It's one of the things which made them unpredictable in the past. You never knew if Barney especially was going to go into one in the direction of the crew, the audience or occasionally someone he just fancied having a pop at.
The Kilkenny gig is a belter. At one point he asks for requests and several people manage to find unison to shout "Everything's Gone Green" so they play it right there and then! The Curtis thing is quite unexpected too.
Never forget that Hooky can dish it out too: listening to the Liverpool Big Day Out gig from a while back and he's giving loads to one of the stewards for pushing the crowd around. Whilst I think both of them are handy verbally, I definitely fear Hooky more - the bloke looks like he means it and he swings a mean bass! I mean would you tangle with him?!
Ps Moot point maybe but I wonder if Gillian ever disliked Barney's use of the C word especially. I dare say she got used to it but women aren't generally keen for that word to be used publically.
I remember some very old-fashioned looks being exchanged when Barney elaborated on the nature of refreshments that would be enjoyed during the break before the encore at MEN 98.
I was pumped full of Lemsip
