Lynyrd Skynyrd Hat

UK biker slang

A stetson, cowboy hat.

from the hats worn at various times by members of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hey, like the Lynyrd Skynyrd Hat mate.
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Swindon

A dump of a town in the English county of Wiltshire founded by the Great Weston Railway in 1830. renowned for it's lack of good coffee, good football or good anything.
Swindon is as Swindon does.
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uke

Northern English Slang - Ukelele a stringed musical instrument popularised in the 1930's by the comedian George Formby
"I've got a uke, uke, ukelele in me 'and"
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wallace and grommit

Stars of three short award winning animations from the Aardman Studio's in Bristol. Featuring the adventures of Wallace, a crazed inventor (voiced by actor Peter Sallis) and his hyper integent dog Grommit. A full lenght feature film is currently in production.
'Grommit, It's the wrong trousers and they've gone wrong...'
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NWOBHM

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

A movement in British rock. To get the full picture you have to understand that the 1976/77 punk explosion drove a lot of mainstream rock bands underground, many of them didn't survive. However the fanbase remained and in pubs and clubs in working class areas such as East London, Newcastle on Tyne and the West Midlands new bands started to form taking on the musician ship of the older 'dinosaur' rock outfits, but using the new punk method of doing things; brash attitudes, agressive sounds, self management / control etc.

The punk movement in the UK started to run out of steam as a mainstream musical form in the summer of 1979 and the new metal bands started to emerge from the pubs and clubs. Early examples were Saxon, Magnum and Raven. They were joined in 1980 by acts that were to become household names - Iron Maiden, Def Leppard etc.

NWOBHM was a very broad church that embrassed art rock (Pallas / Haze), glam (Wrathchild / Tygertailz), Early death and proto-thrash (Venom / Warfare) etc, as well as countless denim and leather bands. (Angelwitch / Demon)

The excepted period for NWOBHM is summer 1979 to autumn 1985. After this point NWOBHM became a tag to refer to bands in the Iron Maiden / Judas Preist vien (Marshall Law / Strangeways / Idol Rich)

The style has since influenced most modern forms of rock and metal.
The term was originally coined by Malcome Dome in the April '79 issue of 'Sounds' magazine.
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wonderwall

An object of facination. Term originates from the title of an obscure 1960's British arthouse film about a guy who becomes obsessed with the young couple he can see making love through a small hole in his bedroom wall. More recently the term has been revived thanks to a song of the same name by brit poppers Oasis
Wonderwall (the song) was also a hit for spoof UK easy listerning band 'The Mike Flowers Pops'
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Blue Oyster Cult

NYC rock band formed in 1970 by rock svengalli Sandy Pearlman from the ashes of two other NY bands 'Soft White Under Belly' and 'The Stalk Forest Group' Have released some rather good intelligent rock albums including 'Tyranny and Mutation' (1972)
'Cultosaurus Erectus' (1979) and 'Imaginos' (1989) but are best remembered for their 1976 album 'Agents of Fortune' and its international hit single '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'
Eric Bloom is the lead singer for Blue Oyster Cult
by Black Flag February 04, 2004
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