Talk:The Adverts

Brennende Langeweile

There has been a German 1979 movie Brennende Langeweile - Bored Teenagers featuring The Adverts as themselves: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139083/fullcredits. Any native speaker please add this tidbit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.226.221.85 (talk) 17:50, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Gaye Advert: What's in a name?

Before recent edits, Gaye Adverts' birth name was given as 'Gaye Balsden'. However, Dave Thompson, author of a biography on her husband TV Smith (are they still married?), says her name was 'Gaye Black'. Obviously this is not an issue of burning importance, but can anyone shed any light on the issue? Yozzer66 17:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I believe she was born Balsden, initially used Black as her stage name, but was constantly referred to and eventually used Gaye Advert as her career progressed. However, and here is the rub, I do not have a reference for this. Equally, I do not know her present married status.

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:22, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'm going in search of a reference. If anyone finds one before me, please amend the article accordingly. Yozzer66 (talk) 23:15, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

According to various articles - [1] (2007), [2] (2004), [3] (2000) - she works as Gaye Black in social services in Hammersmith and Fulham. According to this - [4] - they're still together. But who and why was Gaye Atlas ? Ghmyrtle (talk) 00:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Good question! Perhaps Gaye Atlas was another disguarded stage name. Who knows? Unfortunately, still no reference for the Balsden connection. Also, I don't know about you but I found it heartening to read that the couple are still together. Unlike the Buzzcocks, the Adverts' lyrics were rarely about relationships but, clearly, this wasn't due to any lack of expertise on the subject!! Yozzer66 (talk) 15:31, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

The definite article, and the capitalization thereof

I reverted User:Rothorpe's edit that rendered all midsentence mentions of The Adverts as the Adverts (plus one of "the Damned") (diff). Rothorpe has in turn reverted my edit (diff), quoting Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters#Use of "The" mid-sentence. Reading that, it seems to justify my edit - 1) as an "idiomatic exception" i.e. a proper name, and 2) by "following the sources" which commonly refer to The Adverts. I hate to get into edit wars, so I will ask an admin to pop in and take a look. Wwwhatsup (talk) 07:21, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I do see there is a lengthy discussion of the topic here with a consensus on the vs The in running text, with an emphasis on consistency in articles. While my sense that the proper name of this group is, and always was, The Adverts I have to admit after doing a Google Book search on "The Adverts" + punk that the lower case use does predominate in running prose. Wwwhatsup (talk) 07:59, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

You're right that the word's part of the band name in this case, but Rothorpe is correct to lower-case it in running prose, per our MoS. In addition to the MoS link Rothorpe provided, see our Music MoS on this specific point). PL290 (talk) 09:25, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Dempsey

The article states that manager Michael Dempsey (who apparently also edited Sniffin' Glue) died of electrocution - and goes to the trouble of linking electrocution - but according to The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars (ISBN 1556527543) he "fell down a flight of stairs while changing a light bulb, and died of internal bleeding the next day". But it's possible that he fell because the light bulb electrocuted him; which is the case? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 16:15, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

A truly shocking question !?! Either way, if the source is correct (and I have no alternative) it was internal bleeding, not electrocution, that killed him. Put it another way, it does not take a day for electrocution to kill someone.

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:35, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Gaye Advert article

I've recreated the Gaye Advert article. Please feel free to add to it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

The Adverts know one chord

The text below from the article doesn't seem right, you would hear chords, not see them? As the reference is from a book I don't have I can't argue that it's incorrect.

The tour poster read: "The Adverts know one chord, the Damned know three. See all four at..."[9]

The poster shown in the link below would appear to have a more accurate quote but I'm unsure of the copyright status so hope one of the experienced editors will decide if it should be used instead of (or in addition to) the quote that points to reference 9

http://www.southendpunk.com/html/damnadv.html

KFCSpike (talk) 17:33, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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