Aero's Ken Calder on a Life in Leather

[Sloan1874]

Ken was on BBC Radio Scotland today, chatting about Aero's Freddie Mercury jacket in the new Bohemian Rhapsody film, but also much, much more...
(Listen from 1hr 23minutes)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000wx1

 

[jonesy86]

Ken was on BBC Radio Scotland today, chatting about Aero's Freddie Mercury jacket in the new Bohemian Rhapsody film, but also much, much more...
(Listen from 1hr 23minutes)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000wx1

Thanks Sloan that was fun. Ken sure must have some stories to tell.

 

[robrinay]

Ta I’ve downloaded it.

 

[Lukasz69]

https://planetradio.co.uk/borders/l...ry-biopic-bohemian-rhapsody-opens-at-cinemas/
Here's some more in written form, including a handy tip on how to skip the eight-week waiting list: just tell Aero you're making a movie, they'll make you a jacket in 48 hours

 

[Peacoat]

Thanks, Sloan.

Most of those Scots on the program are fairly easy to understand, but I have heard some that were most difficult. A friend of ours is Scottish through and through. She is easy to understand, but then she has been in this country for over 40 years.

Her parents come to visit once a year for a couple of weeks. Her father is totally indecipherable. Neither my wife nor I can understand a word he says. Our friend can understand him, or at least she pretends to. Her mother doesn't even try to make herself understood.

 

[Downunder G Man]

"Iffen ye cannae unnerstaun' thin yer jist no listenin' right !"

If you can't understand then your listening skills need correctional action on your part !

 

[Benny Holiday]

Thanks for posting mate!

I grew up next door to Scots from Edinburgh and two of my closest friends over the years have been Scots, one whose family emigrated from Glasgow and the other from Aberdeen. Oh, and my wife's ancestry is clan Gunn, highlanders. The accent ( or accents, given regional variations) flow beautifully in my ears!

 

[Sloan1874]

Thanks, Sloan.

Most of those Scots on the program are fairly easy to understand, but I have heard some that were most difficult. A friend of ours is Scottish through and through. She is easy to understand, but then she has been in this country for over 40 years.

Her parents come to visit once a year for a couple of weeks. Her father is totally indecipherable. Neither my wife nor I can understand a word he says. Our friend can understand him, or at least she pretends to. Her mother doesn't even try to make herself understood.

If we're talking indecipherable, try this:

 

[Peacoat]

That's it exactly. That's the way her father talked.

 

[Edward]

Ken Calder, in his own, quiet way is probably one of the most rock and roll people I've ever encountered. I really, really wish he'd write an autobiography, it'd be utterly captivating. I discovered a while back that Ken's really quite knowledgeable on punk rock (as well as a bit of a Clash fan as I recall) - apparently back in the Thrift Store days, if the shop filled up with people who were obviously only there waiting for the bus on a wet day, he used to crack out the PIstols and crank the volume to clear the shop.

https://planetradio.co.uk/borders/l...ry-biopic-bohemian-rhapsody-opens-at-cinemas/
Here's some more in written form, including a handy tip on how to skip the eight-week waiting list: just tell Aero you're making a movie, they'll make you a jacket in 48 hours

Well, depending on how persuasive you are, that might work once.... (I hear a lot of footwear companies threaten to make only one shoe of a pair as a sample if they think someone is just trying to get a cheap pair of custom shoes! ).

 

[rocketeer]

A nice link Thanks Craig.