What should they be honoured with/as?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-62520915

Back home for me.

It has a nice long bridge.

Down with the Tories and up with Prog.

Other more politically related opinions are welcomed!

Nice discussion on a new book tracing this history of NWOBHM from a range of perspectives.

I think so.

Their greatest tune:

He was a great band member.

If you have read Mike Scott’s biography the way they re-connect after the 1980s triumph and then have another 21 years together is a thing of beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3WqNWcXo4

I discovered this over the last lockdown.

Great pathos with a Scottish twist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b072wv8z/two-doors-down

I love the 1980s New Model Army.

Nice doc here on how they kept on keeping on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5KWzPnImtI

I would take The Beatles, Supertramp. Blondie and The Waterboys.

I have never understood the appeal of Speedway.

Basketball is another sport II have never ever wanted to watch – pointless end to end scoring and nothing else.

But my favourite sporting event is a cricket test match, especially one that end with a result during third session of the last day, so I too may be open to criticism.

Happy days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQx7CNolRo

A great performance well worth off a n hour of your time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09qgb04/reading-and-leeds-festival-2021-blossoms

BBC4 are showing a few as I write.

I have no idea but would like to be educated as we return to some offices in June.

Better songs that the ‘common’ people know

Ahead of their time in 1979 and they never saw the Beast of NHS crap that was Matt Hancock.

Classic smooth music.

I love it.

No need to post a track but let me known about similar acts who were as good but ‘undiscovere’ in the 1970s

If you do too watch this.

I was at Bradford University 1883-87 on a four year sandwich course studying pharmacy.

Got an honourable 2:2 and had some the best hears of my life and a reasonable career to follow with a lot of further studying afterwards.

But being a student in the 1980s was cheap and affordable in Bradford- £9 a week rent in a shitty room in a crap hose with dodgy gas fittings and landlords where the curtains froze to the window in the winter. Happy days.

But the best bits where the music and the dodgy nightclubs…Pickwicks in my case.

After a year of lockdown and shit why not have a memory fest of the good old days.

Here is my go to song from that period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxl-t4hBAZM

Following the news today with the confirmation of the death of Sarah Everard and the subsequent tropes and memes and all the radio and social media coverage and the proposed vigil in Clapham…I had a thought. I was shocked but realised subconsciously in the 1980/90s this could have been me in attitude if not action.

I have never really considered a women’s viewpoint on this before in terms of how safe they feel on the street. I would always cross the road if walking behind a women going in the same directions as I has some awareness of this but that was about all.

I know my partner has experienced stuff like this since she was 14 and she is now 51.

Thoughts?

I have owned the following.

A six year old mark 1 Ford Fiesta 1.1 after I graduated in 1987. It had a choke (remember them?) that was awful to use to get it started in the cold winter of 1987/88 when I lived in Leeds.

Nine months later I was given a company car – also a 1.1 Fiesta but a mark 2 with a rear screen wiper and two wing mirrors, a parcel shelf )not available on the base model) and a radio/cassette player.

All enclosed in a flat blue colour with 54bhp .

Happy days!

More to follow.

Any you?

Interested.

It will obvious;y be 1970 based!

Enjoy,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMslesAfst4