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Sturdy


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Just found a note someone sent me years ago with some tidbits about Captain Sleep, Pulp's mysterious keyboardist of late '86 / early '87. The main points (some of which some of you may already know) are:

 

- His first name was Terry

- He was in two bands around the same time as Pulp: The Bloods and another band that had the word 'Crocodile' in it (possibly Crocodile Parlour)

- He also jammed with members of a band called The Detail

- He wrote and presented some record reviews for Radio Sheffield's yoof programme ROTT

- He left Sheffield (probably to go to university) in mid 1987

 

Nothing terribly enlightening then, but it roughly quadruples the sum total of what we know about this shady individual!



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I've never really got the Captain Sleep thing. I always assumed it was a bit of an in joke. I mean, surely someone can't be in multiple bands yet no-one knows their real identity?!

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Calum,

As a chap who got through 50 different lineups of various bands, I have to say that you don't always give a thought to getting peoples' names down for posterity. For example, a drummer named 'Dan' who appeared in the April and May of '03 could just of easily have had a nickname that he went by, and thus had we become famous, it would have been a similar issue to 'Captain Sleep'!

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Speaking as someone who is just about old enough to remember internet use (and certainly social networking) not being widespread, I can confirm that it was perfectly easy to get through several months living on the same hall of residence corridor as someone and get to know them quite well without learning their surname.

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Exactly. Zuckerburg sucked the mystery from people's lives in 2003 and Captain Sleeps are now a rare breed.

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Sturdy, I was thinking of just the same earlier this morning actually. I've often wondered what became of friends and acquaintances from my first year at Uni, but as I never knew their surnames, I'll never be able to find out!

Interestingly, for younger readers, many of us older readers were born in a time before having both a surname and a first names were both compulsory. Hence, for example, the above correspondant Sturdy was both born and bred as just 'Sturdy' until the publishers of Truth and Beauty informed him that he had to have a full name to go on the cover of his book. He chose 'Mark' as his new first name in reference to his favourite Pulpster.

True story.

Probably a similar story for "Captain" Terry "Sleep" too.

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Sturdy wrote:

Speaking as someone who is just about old enough to remember internet use (and certainly social networking) not being widespread, I can confirm that it was perfectly easy to get through several months living on the same hall of residence corridor as someone and get to know them quite well without learning their surname.

 I find it almost unbelievable that we all managed to go to gigs and see our friends outside school without the use of the Internet!

 

I've never used the first name of a friend of mine, who will be forever called 'Chapman'.



-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Saturday 25th of May 2013 08:21:55 PM

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I guess I'll just never able to comprehend... partially because my first name and surname come as a package, which is weird. I often get referred to by my full name, people always remember it. I guess I'll never be the enigma I've always wanted to be. My fellow ex band members could never hope to forget me (unluckily for them).

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I was sharing a hall of residence with a bloke known as "Bungle" (from Rainbow) 12 years ago. I know he was called John but even to this day, I don't know his surname!

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Ian wrote:

I was sharing a hall of residence with a bloke known as "Bungle" (from Rainbow) 12 years ago. I know he was called John but even to this day, I don't know his surname!

 Just a shot in the dark here, but did you go to Huddersfield uni?



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No, Lancaster

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Surely every Uni has a 'Bungle'?

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True, and maybe a couple of "Zippies"

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Ian wrote:

True, and maybe a couple of "Zippies"

Our Bungle and Zippy was the same person, just with varying levels of drink inside him.

Lancaster Uni is a fine place. I left it 12 years ago - best dashed time of my life.



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I always assumed he was a heroin addict

(Captain Sleep that is - Zippy strikes me as a meth head)

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