Marc Heal

X: I've got some work for you. $100 per hour. Me: I'll do it. X: Don't you want to know what it is? Me: Not really.

@brydoncheyney 😂

@Marc_Heal I need your clothes, your boots, and a *fucking good* lawyer

Worst Terminator ever.

I would mind less paying the insane cost of insurance were it not for the certainty that should anything unfortunate happen they won’t pay out a dime.

Every platform is now stuffed with people talking bollocks. Finance, health, politics… it doesn’t matter. All you need is a camera and the nerve to start blathering hot takes. It’s no wonder the culture is trashed. We’ve given every pub bore in the world their own TV station.

@CAA_Official “He claimed my career”? I guess when you really, really need a cigarette, you’ll submit to any humiliation.

@Marc_Heal He never said your name, but claimed your career, that is so weird, he knew Leslie Rankin, Meg Lee Chin, Steve White, Raymond, Reza, Martin Atkins, weirdest thing ever

I just met @Marc_Heal at Reading festival, nice guy, owes me a cig 😂😂😂

@CAA_Official I am indeed that dude. But the last time I went to the Reading Festival was 2003? 2004? And btw I quit smoking many years ago. Someone is fooling you. How weird.

@Marc_Heal Were you not in Cubanate, Pigface and C-Tec? Is it another Marc Heal?

@piersmorgan Happy birthday, Piers!

One of my favourite birthday gifts.. turns out this was No1 when I was born 60yrs ago. Lyric: ‘It’s not unusual to be loved by everyone…’ 🤣🤣🤣 (Thanks Dickie W)

Am I the last person alive who believes that occasionally in the universe, stuff happens that isn’t a sinister plot by people whose politics I disagree with?

@The_Rad_Zone 🙏

In business, Californians get uncomfortable unless there are 6 or 7 minutes of chilled small talk before anyone raises the matter of money, whereas New Yorkers regard anything beyond the word “Hi” as pointless frivolity.

When I told my wife that I hoped that I died before her, which I though was darkly romantic, she said, “Forget it. You’re not going to get out of paying college fees that easy.”

@industrial_book Yes. On reflection, I’d say that Dylan etc also drank from the same well - Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac. The Beat Generation. But let’s be honest, what really happened in the 90s is that smart rebellious people lost faith in pop music to deliver. They moved on to the internet.

@industrial_book I’m going with the fading influence of Bowie / Burroughs. During the 70s and 80s, it was fashionable to use variations of cut-up techniques. (Look at Numan or Duran’s lyric sheets). But hip hop and grunge stressed authenticity. The Naked Lunch style looked over-ripe by the 90s.

Normally we get a sliced sourdough but last week I thought I’d mix things up so I bought a French stick. When I unpacked the shopping my wife stared at it, then said, “Just who do you think you are?”#Costoflivingcrisis

@MarkLawrence33 The classic lineup. Thanks for sharing!

@Marc_Heal I have this memory of you in a white coat singing "In the future" by Sparks in one sketch

⁦@Marc_Heal⁩ my niece found this the other day going through all my parents photos. Mid-Sussex Times 1975 or thereabouts.

Surely the teachers can see through that one.

@idie_youdie No, I think the four albums between 82-86 (Assassin, Warriors, Beserker, Fury) all have some merit. From then on, things get harder to defend. But you just can’t imagine the poison in the media at the time. When we supported in ‘87 there was a siege mentality.

Okay, Numanoids: what's the last truly defensible pre-"Sacrifice" LP? (Twitter only allows four options, so if you're feeling provocative and want to go earlier/later, mention it in the replies.)

@Apopcalyptic Thank you for the lovely words!

It occurs to me that it's almost exactly 25 years since I discovered the music of @Marc_Heal. An instrumental version of Autonomy appeared on a trailer for the original Gran Turismo and absolutely blew me away. 4 tracks appeared on the EU release of the game, all instrumentals.