Uncle Wheaty

Public Service Broadcasting at the Proms

27/07/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 15 Comments

Very nice!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000715z

The Afterword Official Glastonbury Thread – tell all here

28/06/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 166 Comments

Just watched Sheryl Crow.

I loved her back in the 1990s but haven’t heard many of these songs for over 20 years but she was excellent and I need to go back and dig out the Best Of Cd from the loft.

I think this will not be the first ‘ joy of re-discovery’ this weekend!

Tory Hustings

20/06/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 1 Comment

This could be Boris over the next few weeks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-mMcFRjeBM

If the Tory Leadership Candidates were a song they would be…

11/06/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 25 Comments

Matt Hancock.

Get Em Out By Friday will be his epitaph this week, along with a few others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-TwWnn0dk

The greateast B-side is…

29/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 108 Comments

The Smiths Back to the Old House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXRVc-ott4A

Stewart Lee – great recent interview here giving insight into his way of working

23/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 4 Comments

He is clearly looking to be a Santa this year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfnCpH4-Oo

Debut albums that defined a new genre or type of rock/pop.

22/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 31 Comments

Van Halen introduced us to the widdlly diddly rock guitar.

A fine album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7XiJgt0vY

Are you voting tomorrow?

22/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 29 Comments

Lib Dem for me.

Bollocks to Brexit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgzrv2Ycs4s

I think I heard it here. So the top 6 all time Prog bands are King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull and ELP.

20/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 43 Comments

Correct?

I might struggle to argue with that list.

HP sauce. The choice of the AW Massive.

19/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 12 Comments

Good choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXITx9tnSE

Danny Baker’s Sausage Sandwich Game. Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all. What would you choose?

17/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 76 Comments

Brown sauce every time for me

Twitter is just an “echo chamber and cage fighting App”. A comment I posted on the Aggers thread. Am I right?

16/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 28 Comments

Maybe

XTC – just been on a binge of their back catalogue…wow! Please share the love here.

02/05/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 61 Comments

A truly great English band!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuEDByvC3o

Man City…boring boring boring.Come on Watford and Liverpool!

24/04/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 122 Comments

Soljaer will be sacked in the morning!

Derry Girls

17/04/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 6 Comments

This is marvellous.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/derry-girls

The greatest song ever written is…

07/04/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 58 Comments

We may have discussed this before.

The answer is… The Stone Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU7oVz0Uq0

Mays view on he negoiation with Corbyn

05/04/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 2 Comments

mmm…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHh0V7UjVXI

UFO A great band, Schenker as a uber guitarist and 1970s sexism all in one place…enjoy..or not!

29/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 9 Comments

Wow did we really used to live like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCudBalUMxo

England Is Mine – A Morrissey based Netflix film exploring his life up to the point of forming The Smiths

28/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 14 Comments

Anyone else here watched this?

Interesting background if not the greatest ever acting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5cZ-oLVJzY

Joined up writing…why?

25/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 28 Comments

My Kids (8 and 10) are made to do this.

Any primary school teachers on the blog please let me know why.

In the current digital world it is weird that at every business meeting I attend everyone has a pen and a A4 book to jot down what happens in the meeting and all of the follow-up is via email etc. We clearly still need to write but what is the obsession with joined up writing about?

Black Tie events

19/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 35 Comments

I am attending one of these tomorrow.

It is based on the great work done in joint working between the NHS and the healthcare industry in all its forms. And there a many great examples on show that have improves the healthcare of many people.

BUT…it is a black tie event on a Wednesday evening!

Dinner with Rush

08/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 6 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjbvZJaxcbw

Rush – what a band. Share your favourites here

08/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 18 Comments

Xanadu from 1981…marvellous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuHS-gjMiVw

The great lost AOR albums of the early 1980s in the UK

05/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 5 Comments

Aldo Nova’s debut album and Quarterflash were completely ignored by a New Romantic obsessed UK public.

Their loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeKV2UYq1QVideo can’t be loaded: Quarterflash – Harden My Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeKV2UYq1Q)

As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of NWOBHM what are the classic metal albums

01/03/2019 by Uncle Wheaty 35 Comments

I would suggest Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden as an opener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9oVideo can’t be loaded: Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name (Studio Version) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o)

Beat that!

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