The Joy Division Transit Van is a bargain if it goes for 300 quid.

It was curious to me at the time that The Boat That Rocked! – set in the 60s and all about pop music had a complete absence of Beatles music. 1983’s Lets Dance at the end perhaps hints at a timewarp/portal […]

None more oblique* I would suggest than the Beatles references from Depeche Mode. New Life adopts the Twist and Shout vocals at the end.
The single Love, In Itself has a brief Lennon-esque “love love love” bac […]

I recall them doing “I’ve got your number” by The Jags, which is either power pop or post punk – but in the hands of the Crackerjack team – utter, utter shit.

I saw a comedian getting attacked (pushed over) on stage because of this joke:

“I talked to this young woman today who lives quite near me – she lives in a house that backs onto mine. I saw her at the bus […]

I have been to the odd corporate function where a singer is doing his/her best to complete indifference from the refreshed regional sales managers and the like. It’s a circle of hell.

I saw Eddie Izzard in an Auckland theatre in the early 2000s. A drunk heckler quite near the stage (but quite high up) kept shouting “Suit(s) You, Sir!” at him as he was talking. Then the heckler’s female […]

But back to the video in the OP…the drum machine handclaps! Oh dear.

Good to see Taffy and Ben Volpierre-Peirrot and Nick Kamen . Shame that The Reynolds Girls and Sonya hadn’t quite hit the charts yet, […]

Hmmm…Hale and Pace. Sort of considered alternative due to their Friday Night Live stints alongside Ben Elton and Harry Enfield…but also they could easily be in panto with Duncan Norvelle and Joe Pasquale. I […]

I thought you meant staples…the little metal bendy wire things you propel with a stapler, and that there are “store cupboard” staples.

Yeah…Bowie was rubbish until Nile Rogers did the guitar riff for Let’s Dance.

Saturday morning childrens TV comedians Trevor and Simon recorded a single with Donovan, who announced (without consulting T&S) that all the proceeds were going to Shelter. The song didn’t really do that well […]

I think it was Bill Bryson who made the observation about Britain’s great academics, entrepreneurs and inventors. An awful lot of them were CofE vicars. These gentlemen were paid well, provided with a house and, […]

Let’s say you hated Britain and you wanted to damage it (her?).

You would create widespread conflict among the people, causing political chaos. Then you’d seek opportunities to make a killing from its most […]

That’s the kind of thing I was getting at with my post about The Afterword if advertised in 1976. This style of ad has totally died.

I think having them do a whole song as a witty response to California Girls is quite a tribute. Probably oblique to that lot out there, y’know, civilians…

I sometimes wonder if backbench Remain MPs could form a temporary single-issue political party, gain a House majority, vote to withdraw Article 50, and then disband the political party the next day. This […]

The grated love of all
Edam! I wish I was your lover
Baby(bel) I love your whey

Some politician attempting to be witty said that about NZ PM Jacinda Ardern. It came across very badly and boy did he have to apologise. You can probably say it about a bill in parliament that has just had an […]

By baselines I mean of course the Wimbledon tennis baselines that were sponsored by GG in the 60s.