Good for Ed! I like him now.

The other one I recall is Wet Wet Wet sponsoring Clydebank but perhaps they should have sponsored SwanSEA.

I’m still reeling over someone on the radio saying “hartle-pool” rather than “hart-lee-pool”.

This reminds me of a joke :

A man hears a tiny knocking sound on his door. He opens it – nobody there. He looks down and sees a snail. He picks it up and throws it as far as he can.

Six years later – another […]

That’s about right re OMD. After Dazzle Ships the albums become less imaginative. And they’re back back back in the 2010s with some excellent stuff.

According to Wikipedia he had a pretty good run of hit singles in Italy for about 4 years, including 2 number ones. Enough to justify a greatest hits package for the Kamenieri (made up word just now for Italian Nick K fans.)

Fellas…fellas… actually you’re BOTH right ! – verse 1 and 2 directly references war-torn Cambodia but as we move past the middle 8, the singer obliquely draws parallels with the predicament faced by the C […]

I had an Undertones compilation called “Cher o’ Bowlies” .

I went to that MK concert and I agree, it wasn’t great. There was at least six hours of sitting in a field with no shade on a boiling hot day before he cane on. Icehouse and The Beat came on for an hour each i […]

Thanks for posting the video. I think he’s still got it. Lots to enjoy there. There are parts of the show where you feel sorry for him, particularly when his main prepared item is undermined in a very u […]

Oh, I don’t think so – not in her case. Very much a family unit and the days of having media people controlling Kim’s publicity are long gone I’d have thought.

You made me look that up on the internet. I laughed to begin with…but it wasn’t beyond the realms that Le Bon would have penned a song called Rwanda. The lyric would still be some tosh about dancing in the r […]

A woman I work with has her father over in India in hospital, right now, with COVID. He had a vaccine several weeks ago and was about to take second booster jab when he fell ill.

From what she’s told me, he i […]

I think there is a humanitarian case for specific government-chartered flights to travel to and from India to bring back citizens and permanent residents. Perhaps that could be a AUS/NZ joint effort?

Talking of ‘Tap, this BCR album cover was very much up their street.
“Strangers in the Wind”.

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I’m differing. He’s a great comic character that is now at the right age.

That was an astonishing performance. Up to that point I had considered her the epitome of ice-cold severe diva-ness and there she his with a hula hoop and smiling warmly throughout.

The next act was Siouxsie […]

Superb research there @chiz .
Just to really make your day – an annoying arsehole from NZ wonders whether it is possible that “the 821” might have been a bus number rather than the time of a train?

Rugby player Martin Offiah was known as “Chariots”.

Window cleaner in Brookside was nicknamed “Sinbad” due to his hurried technique of window cleaning. A quick circular wipe as if attending to a porthole on a ship.

I think it’s an astonishing achievement; that song. Written for Dads Army to sound like a genuine wartime song – and helped greatly by getting Bud Flanagan to sing it.

Great idea for a thread. I bashed down this list as they were significant songs when I have been away somewhere and when they come on I go back to that place and time:

No Scrubs, TLC – Auckland, NZ – […]