Great song. And, if I remember correctly, overtaken in the fun forty by this equally top notch tune.

I was 12 in 1976, and as June came, I couldn’t wait for what was being forecast as the summer to outdo all summers. And then on the 19th, a Saturday, things went very wrong.
I was coming to the end of my first […]

I shall say this only once…

I was even worse on Going For Gold. I knew more about Rick Witter than his own mother, and then Henry Kelly just asked a load of questions about flags and shit.

For plenty of them, though, that brief period of low earnings is actually low risk speculation. That £84k per MP per annum gets multiplied multi times via the consultation gigs (aka lobbyist pay-offs) that […]

I was on a show called Brainchild in 1975, aged 11. It was presented by John Craven and filmed at BBC Bristol, and my ADHD (not that it existed back then) meant that noone else had a hope in hell during the buzzer […]

Lead singer with The Love Affair was Steve Ellis. A huge talent, revered/respected by folks far better known, as evidenced by this…

8 year old me had also seen him a couple of weeks previously on Lift Off With Ayshea, but that 4.30 ITV slot was always a bit cheap looking (The Arrows, Flintlock, Bay City Rollers and Moondogs had their low-rent […]

That’ll be the Canadian hairdresser.

Yeah, and you know how they fill the swimming pools? Mark Spitz.

A book on swimming from a female perspective? Man, that’s as unwoke as it gets right now. A therapist supervisee informed me the other day that she’d been shrieked at for wondering about swimming as an activity […]

And how come they know where he lives after taking his keys? Has he got a label attached, with his name and address? Is he some 9 year old evacuee, and is this 1942?

(i) Theme from The White Horses – Jacky. This, along with the Belle & Sebastian and Flashing Blade theme toons shone in the dark, barren land that was Summer Holiday kids’ TV. Not that I actually watched the […]

Excellent piece, yep. And the top comment is v moving, too.

Loving it, man. The flickering candle moment in those final scenes of episode 7 was as good as it gets (so far), the high jinks of the scam instantly drained of blood. The two, possibly three questions requiring […]

I had it done about 12 years ago, and I echo what paws and jaygee say. One thing, though: I think you need a stable prescription, ie not changing for a couple of years. Maybe it’s different, now.

Nothing pharmaceutical full time, and after a post-finger amputation adverse reaction to levofloxacilin (one of the fluoroquinolones, the napalm of antibiotics) I’m more wary than previously. My lower legs seized […]

Spot on. The finale/denouement if you will, with Peter Mullan also excelling is one of the most moving sequences of any drama, comedy or otherwise.

I vaguely recall being at that talk, too (I recall being at UKC back then a bit more clearly, but not that much). Was the American writer Cynthia Rose? Was Jon Savage one of the others? I’ve a hazy sense that […]

I was at Concorde2 last night, and loved it. The Martin chant along bits were a true joy. I vaguely recalled that he’d done a cover of Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, but I hadn’t known about the Roxy Music aspect […]