I wonder if Fanny Dubes might not be a spoof/goof name. Lucky Dube was a successful reggae artist from SA. Blowing smoke up your ass is American slang for extreme flattery.
I don’t know, it seems unlikely that Faber would have a writer with a spoof name as one of their guest editors in 1987. They were very establishment. And Fanny was a real old-fashioned British name. I figured
… oops … figured she was someone who just didn’t stick around for long so never made an imprint once the internet got going. My band from the 1980s had zero mentions anywhere on the internet until I mentioned them and we were played on John Peel and supported a band in the charts. Like Fanny Dubes, we bubbled briefly to the surface, then sank.
Doobie is American variant for a joint, the band Doobie Bros were popular in the 70s. When I heard of Lucky Dube, a Rasta and marijuana enthusiast, I assumed he changed his real name to fit his career. Research showed his father was named Dube, pronounced Dubay, so French I guess.
Surely Ian Dury would have appreciated this kind of irreverent spoof. Re Fanny, they were the first authentic all girl band in the US to have chart success. Not saying that entered into the Fanny Dubes name, just a synchronicity. Then there's the Victorian porn novel Fanny... Lots of smoke. Might be fire.
What was your bubble band's name - Crib Death? (wink)
That explains so much about the music of the Doobie Brothers! (A band one of my brothers loved).
Sure Ian Dury would have loved a spoof but I don't see how Tom Paulin would have allowed it. So I did a bit more digging and found out Fanny Dubes is real. She is Fanny Dubes Arbuthnott, a photographer and critic, who took a famous pic of James Baldwin. I found her via a pic she took of Grace Nicholls, who lives locally to me. Here's some info, copy-pasted.
"Photographer and editor, Fanny Dubes Arbuthnott has connected to USA and the Caribbean .She should be proud of her photograph of James Baldwin and her involvement in the iconic poetry anthologies Hard Lines."
I wonder if Fanny Dubes might not be a spoof/goof name. Lucky Dube was a successful reggae artist from SA. Blowing smoke up your ass is American slang for extreme flattery.
I don’t know, it seems unlikely that Faber would have a writer with a spoof name as one of their guest editors in 1987. They were very establishment. And Fanny was a real old-fashioned British name. I figured
… oops … figured she was someone who just didn’t stick around for long so never made an imprint once the internet got going. My band from the 1980s had zero mentions anywhere on the internet until I mentioned them and we were played on John Peel and supported a band in the charts. Like Fanny Dubes, we bubbled briefly to the surface, then sank.
Doobie is American variant for a joint, the band Doobie Bros were popular in the 70s. When I heard of Lucky Dube, a Rasta and marijuana enthusiast, I assumed he changed his real name to fit his career. Research showed his father was named Dube, pronounced Dubay, so French I guess.
Surely Ian Dury would have appreciated this kind of irreverent spoof. Re Fanny, they were the first authentic all girl band in the US to have chart success. Not saying that entered into the Fanny Dubes name, just a synchronicity. Then there's the Victorian porn novel Fanny... Lots of smoke. Might be fire.
What was your bubble band's name - Crib Death? (wink)
That explains so much about the music of the Doobie Brothers! (A band one of my brothers loved).
Sure Ian Dury would have loved a spoof but I don't see how Tom Paulin would have allowed it. So I did a bit more digging and found out Fanny Dubes is real. She is Fanny Dubes Arbuthnott, a photographer and critic, who took a famous pic of James Baldwin. I found her via a pic she took of Grace Nicholls, who lives locally to me. Here's some info, copy-pasted.
"Photographer and editor, Fanny Dubes Arbuthnott has connected to USA and the Caribbean .She should be proud of her photograph of James Baldwin and her involvement in the iconic poetry anthologies Hard Lines."
https://www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk/oxford-indie-book-fair-magazine/oibf-magazine-issue-5/fanny-dubes/
Haha no, we were smooth Carmel/Sade-style jazz-pop with a lyrical bite and our name was The Honey Guide.