Saint Anthony – Saint Anthony
Please come around.
Something is lost that can’t be found
Talk to me of Albion Anderton and art
The Arndale
Alan Turin
Acid House
Alexandra Park
Bez the Buzzcocks bouncing bombs
The beautiful Busby Babes
Curtis
Cancer Christies Catholicism
Crack and Curt Cocaine
Talk to me of all these things and one thing is for certain
I’ll see the face I’ll hear the voice of Anthony H Wilson
Dance Design Devotto Durrutti
Development of an industrial dirty Northern City
De La Salle
Dignity
And how in the end you hated the pity
Elvis Engels ecstasy
A girl called Emmeline
The hours I spent watching you on my black and white TV.
From So It Goes To Sunday Roast
Enchanting
Endearing
Extreme
Elephants washed by dwarves on 70’s TV
Factory fame financial fuck ups
Poetic Form
The Fall
4/6/76 at the lesser Free Trade hall
Talk to me
Talk to me
Of Gretton God Granada
Hooky and Hannett
And how the fighting just got harder
Hamlet Ibsen The IRA
Jesus Mary and Keith Joseph
Joy Division
Judaism
The importance of the moment
Liam
London
Lust for Life
Louis Louis
Linnaeus Banks
Manchester
Music
Marijuana
Majesty
And Karl Marx
Night Clubs new bands New Order Oppenheimer
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
Topical Late night intellectual chat shows like
The other side of midnight and After Dark
Talk to me of all these things and one thing is for certain
I’ll hear the Salford Cambridge TONES of Anthony H Wilson
Talk to me of Peterloo of praxis police and pride
Talk to me of Pontius Pilot of Power Corruption and lies
The Queen the queers the quiet ones all shy and self and effacing
Like Morrissey but not Mark E Smith or Shaun Ryder when he’s been free basing
Johnny Rotten
Regeneration
Richard and Judy
Vinnie Reilly
The stupid yellow circular face now known simply as a smiley
Righteous rebellious red ridiculous
Rochdale and Regent road
I want to hear the sound of the Salford soft boy moan and moan
Tony Talk to me in the sacristy of a Salford De La Salle
Of preachers and poets, professors and philosophers
Tony talk or you’ll leave me sad
Saville
Shaw the Smiths Stone Roses
That smile so smug the swagger
I want to hear it from the mouth of an honest hardworking Blagger
Talk to me of Sex pistols Substance
The streets the sounds
The sniffed and snorted stolen swigged multi million pounds
Tony talk to me of the greatest ever Man United team
Was it
Greg
Burns
Jones
Taylor
Robson
Roy Keane
Best
Law
Charlton
Stiles
Eric Cantona
Unknown Pleasures of the Treble
Incantation from the stars
Talk to me half pissed
Talk to me half stoned
Talk to me as a boy when I’m sat in my Fallowfield council home
Talk to me on the telly
Talk to me on the radio
Talk to me at the opening of some arty Farty show
Talk of vision virgin victory and violence
Don’t leave me sat in the Hidden Gem listening to the buzz of silence
Talk to me of Warsaw
Drug wars and trendy flats within warehouses
But when it comes to footy Tony – don’t talk to me about the scousers
X Ray Spex
X Ray tests
X Ray therapy
X wife chats on XFM
The best youth worker I’ve ever seen
Yin and Yang
Your master plan of an independent North scene
Yoric Yonkers
Youth club banter
Yeats – come and talk to me
Tony Talk to Me
Zeitgeist talk to me
Wilson talk to me