Alan Erasmus Quotes in 24 Hour Party People (2002)

[watching Vini Reilly of Durutti Column performing "You've Heard It Before"]

Ryan Letts: Got to stop him singing, Tony.

Tony Wilson: It's avant-garde, you wouldn't understand it.

Ryan Letts: It's very poor. Very poor.

Tony Wilson: It's provocative.

Ryan Letts: Provocatively poor. Appallingly poor. They're not calling you the new George Epstein, you know.

Tony Wilson: [getting annoyed] ... It's Brian Epstein.

Ryan Letts: George Epstein, Beatles manager.

Tony Wilson: That's Brian Epstein, you dickhead. It's fucking Brian Epstein.

Ryan Letts: [overlapping] George Epstein. It's Brian Martin.

Tony Wilson: It's *George* Martin, you knob.

Ryan Letts: Brian Martin the producer, George Epstein the, er... manager.

Alan Erasmus: Tony, tell him to fuck off.

Lindsay: Come on, let's sit down...

Tony Wilson: [to Letts] You're just fucking *wrong.*