Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Aug 2, 2010 13:32:15 GMT
The funeral of Alex Higgins has led some to arrive at the conclusion that the 'true age' of the hellraiser is past. Ann-Marie Hourihane comments..
..'Now the only hellraisers we have left are Liam Gallagher – who is designing clothes for his own label and hasn’t so much as punched a photographer in years – and perhaps Gazza, floating into view at the edge of the Raoul Moat manhunt, wanting to help. Gazza is regarded with affection, but no one can deny that his life is a misery....
I'm not exactly sure what you have to do to be a genuine hellraiser. Being famous obviously helps enormously, otherwise you are nothing more than a drunken bum.
Ann-Marie Hourihane goes onto suggest that the genuine hellraiser..
followed all the rules that define the hellraiser: be extraordinarily talented; be extraordinarily angry; buy a Rolls Royce; destroy yourself. Never complain.
Like when Frank Skinner claimed that proper football hooliganism was a thing of the past, the all seater stadiums giving rise to the prawn sandwich brigade, 'designer Arsenal fans', and hooliganism was now the recreation of the middle classes in disguise who didn't know how to fight properly and organised handbags at dawn events from mobile phones.
Rock stars used to throw television sets out of hotel bedroom windows. Now we have Chris Martin and Coldplay, Sting, and Bono, (the latter two being the products of when hell raising was already dying).
So I've narrowed it down. To be a true Hellraiser, you need to be Welsh or Irish; working class; actor, footballer, snooker player, author, poet. Born in the 30's or 40's...at a push the fifties.
Otherwise forget it. The most you'll raise is a few eyebrows.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0802/1224276041969.html
..'Now the only hellraisers we have left are Liam Gallagher – who is designing clothes for his own label and hasn’t so much as punched a photographer in years – and perhaps Gazza, floating into view at the edge of the Raoul Moat manhunt, wanting to help. Gazza is regarded with affection, but no one can deny that his life is a misery....
I'm not exactly sure what you have to do to be a genuine hellraiser. Being famous obviously helps enormously, otherwise you are nothing more than a drunken bum.
Ann-Marie Hourihane goes onto suggest that the genuine hellraiser..
followed all the rules that define the hellraiser: be extraordinarily talented; be extraordinarily angry; buy a Rolls Royce; destroy yourself. Never complain.
Like when Frank Skinner claimed that proper football hooliganism was a thing of the past, the all seater stadiums giving rise to the prawn sandwich brigade, 'designer Arsenal fans', and hooliganism was now the recreation of the middle classes in disguise who didn't know how to fight properly and organised handbags at dawn events from mobile phones.
Rock stars used to throw television sets out of hotel bedroom windows. Now we have Chris Martin and Coldplay, Sting, and Bono, (the latter two being the products of when hell raising was already dying).
So I've narrowed it down. To be a true Hellraiser, you need to be Welsh or Irish; working class; actor, footballer, snooker player, author, poet. Born in the 30's or 40's...at a push the fifties.
Otherwise forget it. The most you'll raise is a few eyebrows.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0802/1224276041969.html
You are a dark horse. 
